AGY-6102 | Lockhart Shire Council

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Lockhart was constituted as a shire on 7 March 1906, under the Local Government (Shires) Act, 1905. (1)

This Act provided for a Temporary Council of up to five members who, within six months, were obliged to make the necessary preparations for the election of the first Council.The first Temporary Councillors appointed were: Walter Day of Woodlea, Lockhart; William Douglas Drummond of Lockhart; Edward Lynch of Mount Pleasant, Milbrulong; John Beresford Martin of Lansdown, The Rock; and Charles Richmond Smith of Ravenswood, Mittagong, via Yerong Creek. (2)

The first Shire elections were held on 24 November 1906. (3)

The Shire Council dealt with matters such as: public works, subdivisions, housing, road and bridge maintenance, local business, sanitary and garbage concerns, and public recreational areas.

The Shire boundary ran from the south-east point of the Parish of Yerong, County of Mitchell, west along the southern boundaries of Counties Mitchell and Urana to the Parish of Faed. The boundary line then travelled north to the Parish of Mucra and Boree Creek, east to the Parish of Galore, and into the County of Mitchell, along the northern boundaries of the Parishes of Ashcroft, Tootool and Leitch. It then moved south along the eastern boundaries of the Parishes of Leitch, Burke, Cox and Yerong to the point of commencement. (4)

Endnotes
1. NSW Government Gazette, 7 March 1906, p.2982.
2. NSW Government Gazette, 16 May 1906, pp.2979-2985.
3. Bayley, William A., Land Galore: History of Lockhart Shire, 1979, p.100.
4. NSW Government Gazette, 7 March 1906, pp.1620-1621.