Special Council Meeting - City of Burnside

Special Council Meeting
Civic Centre | 14 August 2006
divided into fi ve wards for the same purpose of
‘ensuring fairness and economy in the expenditure
of the rates’. This was widely supported in the hills
and at Magill, which had something to gain from
being the centre of a council district, but the bigger
landowners and city-oriented men were for division.
Thus on 14 August 1856, the District Council of
Burnside was proclaimed by His Excellency Sir
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight,
Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of
Her Majesty’s Province of South Australia, and Vice-
Admiral of the same….
Reading of the Proclamation
WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the 26th day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and fi fty-three,
and published in the South Australian Government
Gazette of the 2nd June then next, the Lieutenant-
Governor of the said Province did designate and
constitute the District of East Torrens to be a district
within the meaning and for the purposes of “An Act
to appoint District Councils and to defi ne the powers
thereof”, and did defi ne the boundaries of such
district as follows, that is to say –
Bounded on the south by the Great Eastern Road,
commencing at the point of intersection of the north
side of said road with the south boundary of the
Park Lands, and continuing by the said road to the
southern corner of Section 1136; thence, northerly
Burnside Players read the Proclamation
along the southern boundaries of 1136 and 48 to the
east angle of Section 48; thence, by as direct a line
as practicable, to the south-east angle of Section
34; thence, by the east boundaries of 34 and 35,
to the northern angle of the latter Section; thence,
by as straight a line as practicable to the Stringybark
Trigonometrical Station; thence by Hundred
boundary between Talunga and Onkaparinga, to the
point of intersection with the River Torrens; thence
westerly by the centre of the River Torrens, to its
intersection with the eastern boundary of the Park
Lands; thence southerly by the eastern boundary
of the Park Lands, to their south-east angle; thence
westerly, by the south boundary of the Park Lands,
to the point of commencement, always excepting
Preliminary Sections 260, 261, 277, 276, and the
roads on their east and west sides, and Preliminary
Sections 289 and 290, which are not included in the
District of East Torrens:
And whereas certain ratepayers of the southwestern
portion of the said District of East Torrens,
did, on or about the tenth day of June last, present
a memorial to me the said Governor-in-Chief,
praying, amongst other things, that a portion of the
said District of East Torrens might be separated
therefrom and be proclaimed a district, to be called
the “District of Burnside”,
and by order of me the said Governor-in-Chief such
memorial was published in the South Australian
Government Gazette on the 12th, 19th, and 26th days
of the said month of June; and, upon reading the said
memorial, I, the said Governor-in-Chief, have been
pleased to grant the prayer of the said memorial:
Now, therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief aforesaid,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by the said
Act to appoint District Councils and to defi ne the
powers thereof, do order, direct, and proclaim, that
the following portion of the District of East Torrens,
heretofore forming part thereof, and hereunder
particularly described, shall, from the date hereof,
be severed therefrom:
And I do hereby proclaim, designate, constitute, and
declare that such severed portion shall, from the
publication hereof, form a district within the meaning
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