Town of Boulder
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File:Boulder Town Hall, Western Australia.jpg
The Town of Boulder was a local government area in Western Australia, centred on the town of Boulder.
It was established as the Municipality of Boulder on 6 August 1897. It was given town status as the Town of Boulder on 1 July 1961.{{cite web | url=http://www.boundaries.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/documents//2003_municipal_boundary_amendments_register.pdf | title=Municipality Boundary Amendments Register | publisher=Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission | accessdate=11 January 2020}}
The municipality was responsible for the construction of the Boulder Town Hall as its new headquarters in 1907-08.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204562288 |title=BOULDER TOWN HALL |newspaper=The Evening Star |location=Western Australia |date=27 July 1907 |access-date=11 January 2020 |page=3 (SECOND EDITION) |via=Trove }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article210911867 |title=BOULDER TOWN HALL. |newspaper=Geraldton Express |location=Western Australia |date=24 June 1908 |access-date=11 January 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }}
It ceased to exist on 1 July 1969, when it was absorbed into the neighbouring Shire of Kalgoorlie, which was subsequently renamed the Shire of Boulder in November that year.
Mayors
The following people served as mayors of the Boulder council:{{Cite web |url=https://www.ckb.wa.gov.au/CKB/media/Documents/Library%20and%20Heritage/Documents/Weight-of-the-Chain.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 January 2020 |archive-date=25 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325193820/https://www.ckb.wa.gov.au/CKB/media/Documents/Library%20and%20Heritage/Documents/Weight-of-the-Chain.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- John Marquis Hopkins (1897-1900)
- James Albert Hopkins (1900-1902){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26214121 |title=Bankruptcy Court. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XXIV |issue=7,070 |location=Western Australia |date=20 November 1908 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- William Thomas Rabbish (1902-1905){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260299451 |title=Death of Mr. W. T. Rabbish. |newspaper=The Narrogin Observer |volume=XXVII |issue=1417 |location=Western Australia |date=3 September 1932 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- James Lyon Johnston (1905-1908){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article82541575 |title=Colonel Lyon Johnston dead |newspaper=The Daily News |volume=LV |issue=19,445 |location=Western Australia |date=20 July 1937 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=9 (City Final) |via=National Library of Australia}}
- John Mills Waddell (1908-1909){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148411855 |title=Leading Laborites. |newspaper=Westralian Worker |issue=246 |location=Western Australia |date=21 April 1911 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Charles Robert Davies OBE (1909-1912){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33602791 |title=Letter from Major Davies |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Western Argus |volume=21 |issue=4955 |location=Western Australia |date=14 March 1916 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Henry Glance (1912-1915){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148411414 |title=Reading Laborites. |newspaper=Westralian Worker |issue=237 |location=Western Australia |date=17 February 1911 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Stephen Beston (1915-1919){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34246752 |title=The Late Mr. S. Beston |newspaper=Western Argus |volume=23 |issue=5163 |location=Western Australia |date=7 November 1922 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=35 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- James Albert Rogers (1919-1922){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33359017 |title=Funeral. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XLVI |issue=8,778 |location=Western Australia |date=11 August 1930 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- George Henry Rainsford (1922-1928)
- Walter Forrester Coath (1928-1944){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34940403 |title=Boulder Nominations |newspaper=Western Argus |volume=41 |issue=2371 |location=Western Australia |date=26 November 1935 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95766104 |title=End of Long Civic Career |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=50 |issue=13,032 |location=Western Australia |date=15 April 1944 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44806470 |title=Mayor of Boulder Dead. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=60 |issue=18,023 |location=Western Australia |date=15 April 1944 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- John Denis Teahan (1944-1954)
- John Michael Adrenne Cunningham (1954-1955)
- Arthur Alexander James Gillespie (1955-1968)
- Adam Altham (1968-1969)
See also
References
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Category:Former local government areas of Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia