City of Port Adelaide
The City of Port Adelaide was a local government area of South Australia centred at the port of Adelaide from 1855 to 1996.
| City of Port Adelaide South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  City of Port Adelaide | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°50′46″S 138°30′11″E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 29,136 (1935)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 779.0/km2 (2,017.7/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1853 | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 37.4 km2 (14.4 sq mi)(1935) | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Port Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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Early years
The council was established on 27 December 1855 when the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was proclaimed as a new municipality centred on the township of the port of Adelaide, which had been opened some years prior in 1837.[2] From 1884 to 1900 the adjacent district councils of Portland Estate, Birkenhead, Queenstown and Alberton, and Rosewater, and the Corporate Town of Semaphore, were amalgamated with the Town of Port Adelaide, dramatically increasing its size.[2] On 23 May 1901, Port Adelaide was proclaimed a city by Governor Tennyson and became the City of Port Adelaide.[2]
From the late 1830s to 1945, the area surrounding Port Adelaide was subdivided into many small district areas as owners bought, subdivided and sold areas of land. As the areas became smaller, and more landowners named their own estates, the number of these early "suburbs" reached 90.
| Modern Name | Early Subdivision Name |
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| Alberton | Albert Town, Glebe |
| Birkenhead | Bridgetown, Bridgewater, Davies Town, Sandwell |
| Ethelton | Thornton |
| Exeter | Bath, Davies Town, Fisherville, Freshwater, Greenwich, Staplehurst, Waterville |
| Gillman | Newshaven, North Arm, Northarmton |
| Glanville | Port Bridge, Waterville |
| Largs Bay | Eastbourne, Ferryville, Guilford, Harveyton, Hastings, Newport, Shoreham, Ward Town, Margate |
| Largs North | London, Swansea, Largs Bay Estate |
| Osborne | Brooklyn, Mascotte, Midlunga, Blackpool, Austral-Brindisi Estate |
| Ottoway | Guildford Park, Hardwicke, Norbiton, Sassafras Estate, Whiteville |
| Outer Harbor | Eurimbla, Harbour Park, Portsmouth |
| Peterhead | Farnham, Gold Diggers Village, Hamley, Sandwell |
| Port Adelaide | Greytown, Moilong, Newhaven, Portland Estate, Portsea |
| Rosewater | Bayswater, Paddington, Dockville, Perth, Yatala,[3] Rosatala, Kingsnorth, Greytown, Kingston, Kingston East, Kelmscott, Rosewater East |
| Semaphore | Alderley, Clairville, Clifton, Freshwater, Kew, New Liverpool, Plymouth, Scarborough, Weymouth |
| Semaphore South | Saint Margaret's, Thornton, Whitby |
| Taperoo | Draper, Gedville Estate, Koolena, Kooraka, River View, Silicate, Silicate Beach |
| Wingfield | Brooklyn, Dundas, Hull, Millicent, Myrtlehome, Newark, Norahville, Rosslyn, Wicklow |
1940s to 1996
By the 1940s the number of suburbs was becoming a problem, so the Port Adelaide Council moved to reduce the number of local district areas to 18, in 1945. The boundaries and names of the suburbs were further stabilised when postcodes were introduced to Australia in 1967.[4]
In March 1996 the City of Port Adelaide merged with the City of Enfield to form the new City of Port Adelaide Enfield.[2]
Mayors of Port Adelaide
- Harry William Bray (1934–1937)[5]
- Ralph Wright (1937–1940)[5]
- Alfred Lowrie Good (1940–1943)[5]
- William Henry Gilbert (1943–1946)[5]
- George McBeth MacKay (1946–1949)[5]
- Harold Joseph Moore (1949–1955)[5]
- Percy William Whicker (1956–1964)[5]
- Anna Moira Rennie (1964–1969)[5]
- Harold Charles Roy Marten (1969–1987)[5]
- Ronald Bruse Hoskin (1987–1989)[6]
- Julie Barbara Dearing (1989–1991)[6]
- Robert Arthur Allen (1991–1995)[6]
- Johannes Gerardus Pieters (1995-1996)[6]
See also
- Port Adelaide, South Australia
Notes
- The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. 1936. pp. 115–116.
With a population of 29,136 people the rates for last year exceeded £37,000.
- "Our History: Enfield History". City of Port Adelaide Enfield. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. 1936. p. 32.
'Yatala' is preserved in the names of a suburb situated within the boundaries of the City of Port Adelaide of two districts—Yatala North and Yatala South—to the north of the City of Adelaide.
- Couper-Smartt, 2003:167
- Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, p. 461, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
- "Those Who Served:1853 – 2014" (PDF). City of Port Adelaide Enfield. pp. 16–26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.