District Council of Port Germein

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The District Council of Port Germein was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Port Germein. It was gazetted on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887 and encompassed the hundreds of Baroota, Wongyarra, Booleroo, Telowie, Darling and Appila.{{cite web |url=http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/handle/2328/3465 |title=The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419 |publisher=Flinders University |date=1887 |page=90 |access-date=26 July 2017 |quote=DISTRICT OF PORT GERMEIN.–Comprising the Hundreds of Appila, Baroota, Booleroo, and Wongyarra, and the Hundred of Telowie, together with that portion of the Wirrabara Forest Reserve situate within the County of Frome.}} It replaced an abortive earlier municipality, the Corporate Town of Port Germein, which had been established on 15 September 1887 when residents, concerned about increased taxation and their interests being lost in a broader shire under the forthcoming reforms, decided to incorporate the town.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160761905 |title=FORMING A CORPORATION AT PORT GERMEIN. |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |date=28 May 1887 |access-date=13 November 2015 |page=30 |via=National Library of Australia}} The local residents reportedly regretted the decision, and when the Act passed late in the year creating the new District Council, state parliament agreed to amalgamate the Corporate Town into the new municipality.{{cite web | url=https://www.lga.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LGA-89938_-_2011_18_-_FINAL_History_of_SA_Councils.pdf | title=A History of South Australian Councils to 1936 | publisher=Local Government Association of South Australia | date=2012 | access-date=30 October 2015 | author=Marsden, Susan | pages=11}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92865090 |title=LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=10 December 1887 |access-date=13 November 2015 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160771423 |title=LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |date=10 December 1887 |access-date=13 November 2015 |page=38 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196753624 |title=The Turn of the Tide. |newspaper=The Port Augusta Dispatch, Newcastle and Flinders Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=20 February 1904 |access-date=13 November 2015 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95261889 |title=Port Germein District Council. |newspaper=Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail |location=SA |date=28 September 1904 |access-date=13 November 2015 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}

A section of the municipality separated on 16 February 1933, when it was merged with the District Council of Hammond and most of the District Council of Woolundunga as the recreated District Council of Wilmington. In 1936, the Official Civic Record of South Australia described Port Germein council as "one of the largest in South Australia", covering a reported area of 517,760 acres. It had a population estimated at 5,343, with 1,200 ratepayers.{{cite book | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-11350397/view#page/n826/mode/1up | title=The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936 | publisher=Universal Publicity Company | author=Hosking, P. | year=1936 | location=Adelaide | pages=824}} In 1954, it reportedly had a population of 3,371.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96165927 |title=DISTRICT COUNCIL POPULATIONS. |newspaper=The Recorder |location=Port Pirie, SA |date=18 October 1954 |access-date=13 November 2015 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1980, it merged with the District Council of Wilmington to form the District Council of Mount Remarkable.{{cite web | url=https://www.mtr.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/AnnRpt05.pdf | title=Annual Report 2004/2005 | publisher=District Council of Mount Remarkable | access-date=13 November 2015}}