The Corporate Town of Quorn was a local government area in South Australia from 1883 to 1969, centred on the town of Quorn.
| Corporate Town of Quorn South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Quorn Town Hall was shared by Quorn and Kanyaka councils | |||||||||||||||
  Corporate Town of Quorn | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°20′44″S 138°02′30″E / 32.345428°S 138.041729°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1883 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1969 | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Quorn | ||||||||||||||
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It was incorporated on 25 October 1883, prior to the 1888 establishment of the rural District Council of Kanyaka, which surrounded the town for most of its history. It consisted of a 171 acre area in Quorn township itself, with parkland surrounding the town subsequently serving as the boundary with the Kanyaka council. It was divided into four wards: North, South, East and West, each represented by two councillors. It gained a small section of the cadastral Hundred of Pichi Richi on 18 April 1888.[1][2]
The council was based out of the Quorn Town Hall from the building's opening in 1891 until 1953, when it moved to a purpose-built standalone council chamber in Seventh Street. The council was responsible for water supply in Quorn from 1898 to 1943, and responsible for electricity supply from 1923 onwards; it generated its own electricity until 1959-60, and resold power purchased from the Electricity Trust of South Australia for the remainder of its existence. Its population in 1936 was reported to be 1,080.[3][2]
It merged with the District Council of Kanyaka on 1 April 1969 to form the District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn.[4] Both former council chambers survive, with both its successor councils (Kanyaka-Quorn and the Flinders Ranges Council) based out of the 1953 building, and the former town hall remaining as a heritage-listed public hall.[3][5]
Mayors of Quorn
edit- William Charles Barton (1883–1885)[3]
- Edward Manton (1885–1886)[3]
- James Mansom (1886–1888)[3]
- John Lord (1888–1890)[3]
- Richard Foster (1890–1892)[3]
- John Rock (1892–1894)[3]
- Robert Thompson (1894–1899)[3]
- H. Matthews (1899–1902)[3]
- Robert Thompson (1902–1910)[3]
- John C. Turner (1910–1914)[3]
- Robert Thompson (1914–1928)[3]
- S. C. Chennell (1928–1932)[3]
- David Hammond (1932–1936)[2]
- Leonard Blackwell Adams (1936–1943)[2]
- Clarence James Stephens (1943–1945)[2]
- Frederick Allan Smith (1945–1946)[2]
- Alfred Claude Thompson (1946–1949)[2]
- Andrew John Neville (1949–1951)[2]
- John Neales White (1951–1953)[2]
- Frank Wilford Roberts (1953–1958)[2]
- Archie Ronald Burden (1958–1961)[2]
- Frank Wilford Roberts (1961–1969)[2]
References
edit- ^ "Thursday, October 25, 1883" (PDF). The Government Gazette of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836–1986, Wakefield Press, pp. 234–239, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hosking, P. (1936). The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. p. 619.
- ^ Aitchison, D. L. J. (1975). Statistical Register of South Australia, 1972–73. p. 17.
- ^ "Quorn Historic Buildings Walk" (PDF). Flinders Rangers Visitor Information Centre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.