The District Council of Kanyaka was a
local government area
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in
South Australia
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that existed from 1888 to 1969.
History
The council was established on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the ''
District Councils Act 1887
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''. On creation, the council comprised the
hundreds of
Boolcunda,
Cudlamudla,
Kanyaka,
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and
Palmer
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, and parts of the hundreds of
Pichi Richi,
Yarrah and
Wyacca, east of the Middle Range and
Dutchman's Range ridge line, which together make up the eastern two thirds of the
County of Newcastle. The council area thus extended north and east from Pichi Richi Pass (about southwest of
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) to a point about due south of
Hawker.
The council was initially based out of the
Quorn Town Hall, but later was housed in an office converted from a house in Eighth Street, Quorn. Both buildings were actually not in the council area, being instead within the
Corporate Town of Quorn which was an enclave surrounded by Kanyaka council from 1888. Both the town hall and later office survive as of 2015; the latter building has reverted to residential use.
On 16 February 1933, the council gained a section of the abolished
District Council of Woolundunga, which became the new Mundallio Ward.
By 1936, the council had seven wards (Pichi Richi, Suburban, Palmer, Boolcunda, Kanyaka, Mundallio and Yarrah), was reported to have a population of approximately 1,000, and was said to be one of the northernmost councils in South Australia.
It merged with the Corporate Town of Quorn on 1 April 1969 to form the
District Council of Kanyaka-Quorn.
Chairmen
* C. Meincke (1888)
* W. H. Neal (1902-1904)
* G. H. Willis (1904-1905)
* David William Stanley Stokes (1932-1937)
* Francis William Hannan (1937-1942)
* David William Stanley Stokes (1942-1946)
* Francis William Hannan (1946-1947)
* James Francis Reid (1947-1956)
* Paul Oscar Eckert (1956-1958)
* Oliver McHugh (1958-1963)
* John Denton French (1963-1969)
References
{{Former local government areas in South Australia
Kanyaka