Town of Kalgoorlie
Former local government area in Western Australia
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The Town of Kalgoorlie was a local government area in Western Australia, centred on the town of Kalgoorlie.
It was established as the Municipality of Kalgoorlie on 15 February 1895.[1] It was renamed the Town of Kalgoorlie on 1 July 1961.[2]
The municipality was responsible for the construction of the Kalgoorlie Town Hall as its new headquarters in 1907-09, which replaced earlier municipal chambers in Brookman Street.[3][4][5]
It amalgamated with the Shire of Boulder to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder on 15 April 1989.[2]
Graph of related authorities
Mayors
The following people served as mayors of the Kalgoorlie council:[6][7][8]
- John Wilson (1895-1896)
- Harold George Parsons (1896-1897)
- Robert Donald McKenzie (1897–1898)
- John (Jack) William Fimister (1898–1900)[9]
- Miles Staniforth Smith (1900–1901)
- Sir Norbert Michael Keenan (1901–1905)
- John Hurtle Cummins (1905–1907)[10]
- Mark Rosenberg (1907–1909)[11]
- Sidney Edwin Hocking (1909–1911)
- Charles Augustus Cutbush (1911–1914)[12]
- Henry Walter Davidson (1914–1917)[13]
- Bernard Patrick Leslie (1917–1920)[14]
- Henry Walter Davidson (1920-1921)[15]
- William Robert Burton (1921–1922)[16]
- Frederick William Allsop (1922–1927)
- Bernard Patrick Leslie (1927–1933)[17]
- Ernest Elisha Brimage (1933–1937)[18]
- Sir Richard Moore (1937–1966)
- Lewis Arthur Alman (1966–1969)[19]
- Herbert Alexander Hammond (1969–1976)
- Maxwell Raymond Finlayson (1976–1989)