Special Council Meeting - City of Burnside

Special Council Meeting
Civic Centre | 14 August 2006
shall be Signed by the Chairman, and one of the
Councillors.
PROPOSED by Mr. Ferguson and SECONDED
by Mr. Townsend That the present District of “East
Torrens” should be requested to divide the balance
of Funds in their hands amongst the three districts,
viz., East Torrens, Payneham and Burnside, in
proportion to their respective Assessments AND that
the landed property at Woodforde should be sold,
and the proceeds divided in the same manner.
20
C.R.Penfold,
CHAIRMAN, DISTRICT COUNCIL OF BURNSIDE.”
Reading from the book “The First 100 years”
Nine years after this fi rst meeting, there were only
215 houses in the district, and the inhabitants
numbered only 1,472 people. The housing centred
around small villages, with only scattered homes
and farmhouses between them, and the only means
of communication limited to comparatively few
roads. Later years saw the opening up of other
suburbs for house building – some of the oldest
being Frewville (1864), Kensington Park (1865),
Eastwood (1876), Victoria Park (1876), Upper
Kensington and Corryton (1877), Rose Park and
Rosslyn Park (1878),Knightsbridge (1879), Knoxville
and Woodley (1882).
Primary production was still being carried on by
the Prescotts at Rose Park, Fergussons at Toorak
Past and present Elected Members
Gardens, Rogers at Tusmore – all producing wheat.
Vines were grown by Penfolds at Magill, Martins at
Stonyfell, and Gilles at Glen Osmond - whilst olives
were produced by the Cromptons at Stonyfell and
Clelands at Beaumont.
Twenty fi ve years later after the fi rst meeting,
the following industries had been established:
Trewenack’s Pottery in Kensington Gardens;
Coopers Brewery at Upper Kensington (now
Leabrook), Bennetts Pottery at Magill, Dunstan’s
Pottery and Stone Crushing Plant at Stonyfell,
Koster and Reedy’s Pottery and Brickmaking Yard
at North Kensington, and Hill’s Slaughter Yard at
Glenunga. The number of houses within Burnside
Council had now increased more than fi ve-fold to
1,123 and the population had signifi cantly grown
to 6,185.
During these growth years, the Burnside Council
made a decision, no doubt frowned upon by some
rate payers, to use a little capital on housing itself.
Chairman George Soward offered to draw up plans
and specifi cations without charge and to supervise
the work. A tender of 187 pounds was accepted for
Council Chambers and 35 pounds for a stable. The
little building, now located next to St David’s Church
on Glynburn Road, served the Burnside Council
for the next sixty years – until 1928, when a new
Council building was completed and it is where we
stand here today.