Tungamah Shire

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Tungamah is a rural town situated in the north-east of Melbourne.The township was gazetted in 1875. Situated in Yarrawonga Shire, Council meeting had been removed from Yarrawonga to Tungamah. Tungamah was the administrative centre of the Yarrawonga shire until 1891, when the Yarrawonga portion was made a separate shire. For two years they were called Yarrawonga and North Yarrawonga shires repectively until Tungamah shire was so named on 17 February 1893


This council was abolished on 18 November 1994 as part of a statewide program of local government reform enacted between 1993 and 1995. The reform process reduced the number of councils from 210 to 78. The Shire of Moira (VA 3705) has been appointed as the successor in law of the Shire of Tungamah and has assumed its rights, assets and liabilities.