The District Council of Grace was a local government area in South Australia from 1874 to 1935, seated at Mallala.
| District Council of Grace South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  District Council of Grace | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°26′16″S 138°30′27″E / 34.4379°S 138.5076°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1874 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1935 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Mallala | ||||||||||||||
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History
editThe council was proclaimed on 2 April 1874.[1][2] Its jurisdiction consisted of the north west two thirds of the Hundred of Grace as the portion of the hundred south of the River Light had already been incorporated into the District Council of Port Gawler in 1856. The inaugural councillors in 1874 were proclaimed as Thomas Sutton, William Bartlett, Samuel Chivell, George Marshman, and Bryan McHugh, the elder.[1]
On 1 May 1935, it was amalgamated with the district councils of Port Gawler (to the south) and Dublin (to the west) to create the District Council of Light. The new district council was subsequently renamed as the District Council of Mallala in 1937 and again as the Adelaide Plains Council in 2016.[3][4][5][6]
Chairmen
editThe following persons were elected to serve as chairman of the district council for the following terms:[7]
- W. Bartlett (1874)
- H.B. Moody (1874-75)
- B. McHugh (1875-76)
- G. Marshman (1876-79)
- N.J.W. Lindsay (1879-80)
- G. Marshman (1880-82)
- J. Jeffries (1882-83)
- J. Forbes (1883-85)
- G. Marshman (1885-86)
- R. Butler (1886-94)
- G. Marshman (1894-1913)
- J. Nairne (1913-20)
- A.H. Marshman (1920-29)
- P.J. Brady (1929-35)
References
edit- ^ a b "PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. District of Grace" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. 1874 (14 ed.). Government of South Australia: 529–530. 2 April 1874. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ^ Marsden, Susan (2012), A history of South Australian Councils to 1936 (PDF), Local Government Association of South Australia, p. 46
- ^ "ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES". The Chronicle. Vol. LXXVII, no. 40, 182. South Australia. 7 February 1935. p. 47. Retrieved 3 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Hosking, P. (1936), The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936, Universal Publicity Company, pp. 650–651, retrieved 16 November 2015
- ^ Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, pp. 305–306, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
- ^ "DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MALLALA, Council Name Change" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 3874. 24 September 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ Two Wells, Mallala and District History Book Committee (1985), Life around the Light : a history of the Mallala District Council area, Community Development Board of the Council District of Mallala, p. 49, ISBN 978-0-9588959-0-3