The District Council of Kapunda was a local government area in South Australia from 1866 to 1996. The Kapunda town corporation was formed a year earlier in 1865 and ultimately amalgamated into the district council.
The Corporate Town of Kapunda was proclaimed on 13 July 1865. The inaugural mayor was Matthew Blood and councillors were John Mullen, Richard Rowett, Richard Day, James Crase, Joseph Tuckfield, Stephen Bennett, James Pearce and William Lewis.[1]
The following year on 5 July 1866 the District Council of Kapunda was established immediately north of the corporate town boundaries, bringing local governance to the remainder of the Hundred of Kapunda.[2] The inaugural district councillors were John Ford, William Oldham, Thomas Duell, James Stokes, and Henry Kelly.
^"Corporation of the Town of Kapunda" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (29 ed.). 1865: 623—624. 13 July 1865. Matthew Henry Smyth Blood, Esquire, J.P., shall be the first Mayor of the said Corporate township; that Messrs. John Mullen and Richard Rowett shall be the first Councillors for North Ward that Messrs. Richard John Day and James Crase shall be the first Councillors for East Ward; that Messrs Joseph Tuckfield and Stephen Bennett shall be the first Councillors for South Ward; and that Messrs. James Pearce and William Lewis shall be the first Councillors for West Ward, for the time being respectively.
^"District of Kapunda" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette (29 ed.). 1866: 635. 5 July 1866. Messrs. John Ford, William Oldham, J.P., Thomas Duell, James Stokes, and Henry Kelly, J.P., shall be the first District Councillors for the District of Kapunda, aforesaid.
^Hosking, P.; Universal Publicity Company. (1936), The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936, Universal Publicity Company, p. 284, retrieved 29 May 2019
October 19, 2023
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