The Municipality of Spring Bay was a
local government area in
Tasmania
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which existed from 1860 to 1993.
[ ] The council seat was at
Triabunna
Triabunna is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glamorgan–Spring Bay in the South-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the city of Hobart. The has a population of 905 for the stat ...
.
It was proclaimed by Governor
Charles Du Cane
Sir Charles Du Cane (5 December 1825 – 25 February 1889) was a British Conservative Party politician and colonial administrator who was a Member of Parliament between 1852 and 1854 and Governor of Tasmania from 1868 to 1874.
Du Cane was bor ...
on 10 September 1860 as the Rural Municipality of Spring Bay. The first election was held on 19 October 1860 and elected six councillors, with George Rudd becoming the first warden.
It covered an area of 330,000 acres, with the main towns being
Buckland,
Orford,
Swanston and Triabunna.
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It was reconstituted as the Municipality of Spring Bay with effect from 2 January 1908 under the ''Local Government Act 1906'', which abolished existing bodies as part of sweeping local government reform but established a municipality of the same name with similar boundaries.
Its boundaries were then explained as: "
xtendingfrom
Richmond
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on the west, to the eastern shores of
Maria Island
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, north to
Little Swanport River
The Little Swanport River is a perennial river located on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Course and features
The Little Swanport River forms a key part of the within Little Swanport
Little Swanport is a rural locality and an estu ...
or Glamorgan municipality, and southerly to the Sorell municipality". It was then divided into three wards.
The council built a new council chambers and community centre in the 1950s.
It amalgamated with the
Municipality of Glamorgan to form the
Glamorgan–Spring Bay Council
Glamorgan-Spring Bay Council is a local government body in Tasmania, situated on the central east coast of the state. Glamorgan-Spring Bay is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 4,528, the major towns of the reg ...
in April 1993.
Wardens
Wardens of Spring Bay included:
References
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Former local government areas of Tasmania