Municipality of Spring Bay

{{Short description|Local government area in Tasmania}}

The Municipality of Spring Bay was a local government area in Tasmania which existed from 1860 to 1993.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30105029 |title=SPRING BAY |newspaper=The Mercury |volume=CXLIII |issue=20,243 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=11 September 1935 |accessdate=31 August 2021 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} The council seat was at Triabunna.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12670522 |title=SPRING BAY. |newspaper=The Mercury |volume=LXXXIX |issue=11,800 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=11 January 1908 |accessdate=1 September 2021 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was proclaimed by Governor Charles Du Cane on 10 September 1860 as the Rural Municipality of Spring Bay. The first election was held on 19 October 1860 and elected six councillors, with George Rudd becoming the first warden.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39002115 |title=OFFICIAL NOTICES. |newspaper=Launceston Examiner |volume=XX |issue=2305 and 111 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=18 September 1860 |accessdate=1 September 2021 |page=3 (AFTERNOON) |via=National Library of Australia}}

It covered an area of 330,000 acres, with the main towns being Buckland, Orford, Swanston and Triabunna.{{cite news|date=6 January 1908|title=The Local Government Act|volume=LXXXIX|page=6|newspaper=The Mercury|issue=11,795|location=Tasmania, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12686330|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=31 August 2021}} {{cite book | url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2930318582/view?sectionId=nla.obj-2932112941&searchTerm=%22municipality+of+spring+bay%22&partId=nla.obj-2930420106#page/n333/mode/1up/search/%22municipality+of+spring+bay%22 | title=Walch's Tasmanian almanac for 1886 | publisher=J. Walch & Sons | pages=328}}

It was reconstituted as the Municipality of Spring Bay with effect from 2 January 1908 under the Local Government Act 1906, which abolished existing bodies as part of sweeping local government reform but established a municipality of the same name with similar boundaries. Its boundaries were then explained as: "[extending] from Richmond on the west, to the eastern shores of Maria Island, north to Little Swanport River or Glamorgan municipality, and southerly to the Sorell municipality". It was then divided into three wards.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9929412 |title=LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT. |newspaper=The Mercury |volume=LXXXVIII |issue=11,664 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=5 August 1907 |accessdate=1 September 2021 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The council built a new council chambers and community centre in the 1950s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222896870 |title=Opportunities for Business |newspaper=Construction |volume= |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 May 1953 |accessdate=1 September 2021 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It amalgamated with the Municipality of Glamorgan to form the Glamorgan–Spring Bay Council in April 1993.{{cite web | url=https://stors.tas.gov.au/AI/TA109 | title=Glamorgan Municipal Council | publisher=Tasmanian Archives | accessdate=31 August 2021}}