Municipality of Granville#Mayors

The area was first incorporated on 20 January 1885, when the Governor of New South Wales, Lord Augustus Loftus, proclaimed the "Borough of Granville".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221623504 |title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=29 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=20 January 1885 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=631 |via=National Library of Australia}} Alban Gee was appointed the first returning officer for the council election on 18 March 1885, with nine aldermen elected at-large.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221625075 |title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=65 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 February 1885 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=1163 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221638194 |title=BOROUGH OF GRANVILLE. |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=147 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 April 1885 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=2509 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111179714 |title=Granville Municipal Elections. |newspaper=Evening News |issue=5570 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 March 1885 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The prominent conveyancer and local landowner behind Granville's incorporation, John Nobbs, was elected the first mayor, and John Southwood Beach was appointed first Town Clerk at the Council's first meeting on 27 March 1885. Although the first council was elected at-large, from 25 May 1887 the council was divided into three wards: East, North and West.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224296637 |title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=288 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 May 1887 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=3305 |via=National Library of Australia}} South Ward was added on 29 December 1891, bringing the number of aldermen to twelve.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219927915 |title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=827 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=31 December 1891 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=10149 |via=National Library of Australia}} Granville's central location for the railways meant that industrial development became more important to the area, with an 1888 profile of the borough noting "A very large number of important industries, employing in the aggregate quite an army of mechanics, exists in the borough."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28346150 |title=XXV.—GRANVILLE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=15,542 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 January 1888 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Effective 26 February 1906, a five square kilometre area south of Granville Road, bounded by Prospect and Sherwood to the west (the Southern Rail line) and Auburn to the east (Duck River), and south to the Sydney water supply pipeline forming the northern boundary of Bankstown, was added to the South Ward.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221601140 |title=NOTIFICATION |newspaper=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=138 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 October 1907 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=5936 |via=National Library of Australia}} From 28 December 1906, following the passing of the Local Government Act, 1906, the council was renamed as the "Municipality of Granville". On 3 May 1922, the ward system was abolished.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225141118 |title=LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1919. |newspaper=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=79 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 May 1922 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=2727 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Granville Borough Council first met in temporary premises, including at the 1884 Granville School of Arts on Good Street.{{cite web|title=State Heritage Register: Granville Town Hall|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5054689|website=Search for heritage|publisher=NSW Officer of Environment and Heritage|access-date=28 April 2018}} Soon however, a site in the Lea Estate facing Carlton Street was purchased for a Town Hall, with work commencing in 1888. Architect Charles Assinder Harding of Sydney designed the Town Hall, and Banks & Whitehurst were the contractors.{{cite web|title= Granville Town Hall|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2240098|website=Search for heritage|publisher=NSW Officer of Environment and Heritage|access-date=28 April 2018}}

The foundation stone was laid by John Nobbs on 5 September 1888 and was officially opened on 16 January 1889.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86267486 |title=The Granville Town Hall. |newspaper=The Cumberland Argus And Fruitgrowers Advocate |volume=II |issue=70 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 January 1889 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=2 (Supplement to the Cumberland Argus.) |via=National Library of Australia}} An auditorium was added to the Town Hall in 1900, designed by James Whitmore Hill of Parramatta, and officially opened on 18 December 1900 by the Secretary for Public Works, E. W. O'Sullivan.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14368025 |title=OPENING OF THE GRANVILLE TOWN HALL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=19,585 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 December 1900 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}

By the end of the Second World War, the NSW Government had realised that its ideas of infrastructure expansion could not be effected by the present system of the patchwork of small municipal councils across Sydney and the Minister for Local Government, Joseph Cahill, following the recommendations of the 1945–46 Clancy Royal Commission on Local Government Boundaries, passed a bill in 1948 that abolished a significant number of those councils.{{cite web|title=4895 Royal Commission on Local Government Boundaries|url=https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/agency/4895|website=State Records Archives Investigator|publisher=State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales|access-date=2 November 2017}} Under the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 (effective 1 January 1949), Granville Municipal Council merged with the municipalities of Parramatta, Ermington & Rydalmere and Dundas to form the new City of Parramatta.

The Granville municipality became "Granville Ward", returning six aldermen.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105744838 |title=ELECTION WAS "CALMEST" EVER |newspaper=The Cumberland Argus And Fruitgrowers Advocate |issue=3933 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 December 1948 |access-date=28 April 2018 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} The regular council meetings of the new Parramatta City were held at the Granville Town Hall from 1948 until 1958, when the new Parramatta administration centre opened. In 1995 a reorganisation of Parramatta's wards resulted in Granville Ward being renamed "Woodville Ward" after Woodville Road while the former Granville Municipality suburbs of Harris Park, Rosehill, Camellia, and northern sections of Granville and Clyde, were moved into the Elizabeth Macarthur Ward.{{citation|title=History of the Woodville Ward of the Parramatta City Council|publisher=Holroyd City Council Library Service|date=2016}} From 12 May 2016, the Woodville Ward became part of the new Cumberland Council.

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