District Council of Belalie explained

Type:lga
District Council of Belalie
State:sa
Pop:1184
Pop Year:1923
Est:1875
Abolished:1935
Seat:Jamestown
Map Type:state
Coordinates:-33.2053°N 138.6019°W

The District Council of Belalie was a local government area in South Australia. It was proclaimed on 11 November 1875, and initially comprised most of the cadastral Hundred of Belalie, including its central town of Jamestown. Jamestown itself had originally been planned to be named Belalie when surveyed; while the town had been renamed, the Belalie name was retained for the council.[1] It was divided into five wards at its inception (Centre, North-West, North-East, South-West and South-East) with one councillor each, the first councillors for each being appointed by proclamation.[2] The South-East and South-West wards had been replaced by the Yarcowie and Yongala wards by 1893.[3]

On 25 July 1878, the town of Jamestown was severed from the Belalie council with the creation of the Corporate Town of Jamestown, leaving Belalie as an entirely rural municipality with no towns within its boundaries.[4] It gained the Hundred of Whyte and the remnant rural portions of the Hundred of Belalie under the District Councils Act 1887.[5] The council continued to be based in Jamestown, although it was no longer part of the municipality, and built new offices in Ayr Street in 1900.[6] [7]

In 1923, the council represented a pastoral and agricultural district of 124,629 acres, also including the Government Forest Reserve at Bundaleer North. In that year, it had a population of 1,184, 292 of them ratepayers, residing in 259 dwellings, with the capital value of ratable property being £455,560.[8] The municipality gained an area around Bundaleer Springs from the District Council of Gladstone on 16 July 1925.[9] The council ceased to exist on 21 March 1935: the vast majority of Belalie amalgamated with the District Council of Caltowie and the Hundred of Mannanarie from the abolished District Council of Yongala to form the new District Council of Jamestown, while a small section of Belalie merged into the District Council of Hallett.

Chairmen of the District Council of Belalie

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A History of South Australian Councils to 1936 . Local Government Association of South Australia . 2012 . 27 March 2016 . Marsden, Susan . 41.
  2. News: DISTRICT OF BELALIE. . . XXXII . 1780 . 13 November 1875 . 27 March 2016 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  3. News: DISTRICT COUNCIL NOMINATIONS. . . Adelaide . 20 June 1893 . 27 March 2016 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
  4. Web site: Search result(s) for Hundred of Belalie . Government of South Australia . Location SA Map Viewer . 27 March 2016.
  5. Web site: The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419 . Flinders University . 27 March 2015.
  6. Web site: Jamestown . Northern Areas Council . 26 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111933/http://www.nacouncil.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=190 . 5 March 2016 . dead .
  7. News: DISTRICT COUNCIL OF JAMESTOWN . . LVIII . 3695 . South Australia . 17 May 1935 . 26 March 2016 . 1 . National Library of Australia.
  8. Book: The Civic record of South Australia, 1921-1923 . Associated Publishing Service . 1924 . 271.
  9. News: DISTRICT COUNCIL OF GEORGETOWN. . . XLIX . 2998 . South Australia . 30 July 1926 . 28 March 2016 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  10. News: BELALIE DISTRICT COUNCIL. . . I . 2 . South Australia . 12 July 1889 . 27 March 2016 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
  11. News: BELALIE DISTRICT COUNCIL. . . V . 283 . South Australia . 9 May 1890 . 27 March 2016 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
  12. News: DEATH OF AN OLD COLONIST. . . XXXII . 9,492 . South Australia . 2 July 1895 . 27 March 2016 . 4 (SECOND EDITION) . National Library of Australia.
  13. News: THE BUNDALEER SCHEME. . . XXXV . 10,237 . South Australia . 10 December 1897 . 27 March 2016 . 4 (ONE O'CLOCK EDITION) . National Library of Australia.
  14. News: RETURNING SOLDIERS. . . LXV . 16,767 . 9 August 1900 . 27 March 2016 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
  15. News: DISTRICT COUNCILS. . . LVIII . 3,140 . 7 December 1901 . 27 March 2016 . 40 . National Library of Australia.
  16. News: DISTRICT COUNCILS. . . LXVII . 17,495 . Adelaide . 9 December 1902 . 27 March 2016 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  17. News: MEMORIAL TO THE LATE TPR. II. E. GOODES. . . LX . 3,216 . 23 May 1903 . 27 March 2016 . 1 (The Observer Country Supplement.) . National Library of Australia.
  18. News: DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM GLASSON. . . XLVI . 13,991 . Adelaide . 21 August 1903 . 27 March 2016 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  19. News: Belalie District Council. . . VII . 429 . South Australia . 8 September 1903 . 27 March 2016 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
  20. News: BELALIE. . . VII . 471 . South Australia . 5 July 1904 . 27 March 2016 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  21. News: Belalie District Council. . . VII . 537 . South Australia . 3 October 1905 . 27 March 2016 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  22. News: Belalie District Council. . . XVIII . 595 . South Australia . 6 November 1906 . 27 March 2016 . 1 . National Library of Australia.
  23. News: Mr. William Gilfillan. . . LXXVIII . 5851 . Adelaide . 19 March 1921 . 28 March 2016 . 31 . National Library of Australia.
  24. News: THE COUNTRY. . . LXXIX . 5,941 . Adelaide . 9 December 1922 . 28 March 2016 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
  25. News: JAMESTOWN . . 7,357 . South Australia . 10 July 1923 . 27 March 2016 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
  26. News: THE JAMESTOWN SHOW. . . LXVIII . 3,605 . Adelaide . 24 October 1925 . 28 March 2016 . 19 . National Library of Australia.
  27. News: NORTHERN BAPTISTS. . . XCI . 26,516 . Adelaide . 12 August 1926 . 28 March 2016 . 10 . National Library of Australia.

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