AGY-2079 | Municipality of Nowra

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The Municipal Institutions Act 1858 allowed for the establishment of a Municipality if fifty or more residents of the ‘City, Town, Hamlet or Rural District’ petitioned the Governor requesting one to be established, provided that no counter petition was received by the Colonial Secretary within three months.(1) On 12 August 1871 the Colonial Secretary received a petition for the establishment of the Municipality of Nowra from sixty-four persons liable to be assessed for municipal taxes.(2) On 30 December 1871, the Municipality of Nowra was proclaimed.(3)

On 4 January 1872, the NSW Government Gazette published the name of the Municipality’s Returning Officer, Mr. James Waddington.(4) On 12 February 1872, an election was held for aldermen and auditors with the following being elected aldermen: Bernard Brown, Henry Moss, John M’Arthur, David Hyams, James M’Guire, and Jeremiah Green.(5) The auditors were Thomas Dillon and William Griffith. Henry Moss was subsequently elected Mayor on 20 February 1872.(6)

On 1 July 1948, the Municipality of Nowra merged with the Municipalities of Berry, Broughton’s Vale, Ulladulla, South Shoalhaven, and the shires of Cambewarra and Clyde to form the Shoalhaven Shire Council.(7)



FOOTNOTES
1. Municipal Institutions Act 1858 [Act No. 13, 1858], section 2.
2. NSW Government Gazette, 12 August 1871, p. 1773.
3. NSW Government Gazette, 30 December 1871, p. 2967.
4. NSW Government Gazette, 4 January 1872, p. 39.
5. When the election results were published in the NSW Government Gazette on 16 February 1872, Jeremiah Green’s surname was spelt Gruen. The election results were re-published in the Gazette on 15 March 1872.
6. NSW Government Gazette, 26 March 1872, p. 841.
7. NSW Government Gazette, 23 June, 1948, p. 1501.