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Town of Kalgoorlie#Mayors

{{Short description|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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4549979 |title=GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Western Australia |date=18 February 1895 |access-date=11 January 2020 |page=6 |via=Trove }} It was renamed the Town of Kalgoorlie on 1 July 1961.

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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90662346 |title=ITEMS OF NEWS. |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |location=Western Australia |date=12 December 1908 |access-date=11 January 2020 |page=4 |via=Trove }}{{cite web | url=https://www.ckb.wa.gov.au/CKB/media/Documents/Library%20and%20Heritage/Fact%20Sheets/HHU-Fact-Sheet-KTH-History-Final.pdf | title=Kalgoorlie Town Hall History | publisher=City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder | accessdate=11 January 2020}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33091314 |title=KALGOORLIE TOWN HALL. |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Western Argus |location=Western Australia |date=6 August 1907 |access-date=11 January 2020 |page=14 |via=Trove }}

It amalgamated with the Shire of Boulder to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder on 15 April 1989.{{cite web | url=https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/municipality-of-kalgoorlie-au-wa-a536 | title=Municipality of Kalgoorlie | publisher=State Records Office of Western Australia | accessdate=11 January 2020}}

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Mayors

The following people served as mayors of the Kalgoorlie council:{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260724218 |title=Early Day Kalgoorlie Mayors |newspaper=The Sun |volume= |issue=7245 |location=Western Australia |date=28 August 1927 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{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=2020-01-11 |archive-date=2020-03-25 |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 }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95610573 |title=Municipality of Kalgoorlie |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=51 |issue=13,470 |location=Western Australia |date=14 September 1945 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

  • John Wilson (1895-1896)
  • Harold George Parsons (1896-1897)
  • Robert Donald McKenzie (1897–1898)
  • John (Jack) William Fimister (1898–1900){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32531741 |title=The Late Mr. J. W. Fimister. |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XLVIL |issue=9,056 |location=Western Australia |date=4 July 1931 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Miles Staniforth Smith (1900–1901)
  • Sir Norbert Michael Keenan (1901–1905)
  • John Hurtle Cummins (1905–1907){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37772001 |title=Prominent Goldfields Man |newspaper=Western Mail |volume=51 |issue=2,614 |location=Western Australia |date=26 March 1936 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Mark Rosenberg (1907–1909){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149672058 |title=MR MARK ROSENBERG. |newspaper=Jewish Herald |volume=XLI |issue=1040 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 January 1920 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Sidney Edwin Hocking (1909–1911)
  • Charles Augustus Cutbush (1911–1914){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94027713 |title=Obituary |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=33 |issue=8522 |location=Western Australia |date=9 February 1927 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Henry Walter Davidson (1914–1917){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34400105 |title=Obituary |newspaper=Western Argus |volume=32 |issue=1691 |location=Western Australia |date=27 July 1926 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Bernard Patrick Leslie (1917–1920){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95021902 |title=Death of Mr. B. Leslie |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=39 |issue=9650 |location=Western Australia |date=11 February 1933 |accessdate=31 July 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Henry Walter Davidson (1920-1921){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34400105 |title=Obituary |newspaper=Western Argus |volume=32 |issue=1691 |location=Western Australia |date=27 July 1926 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • William Robert Burton (1921–1922){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87297672 |title=Death of Mr. William R. Burton |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=43 |issue=10,985 |location=Western Australia |date=9 August 1937 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Frederick William Allsop (1922–1927)
  • Bernard Patrick Leslie (1927–1933){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34612175 |title=Death of Mr. B. Leslie |newspaper=Western Argus |volume=40 |issue=2226 |location=Western Australia |date=14 February 1933 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Ernest Elisha Brimage (1933–1937){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87576009 |title=Death of Mr. E. E. Brimage in St. John of God Hospital |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=43 |issue=10,937 |location=Western Australia |date=14 June 1937 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Sir Richard Moore (1937–1966)
  • Lewis Arthur Alman (1966–1969){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263027052 |title=Perth jottings |newspaper=The Australian Jewish News |volume=XXXV |issue=31 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 April 1969 |accessdate=1 August 2023 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  • Herbert Alexander Hammond (1969–1976)
  • Maxwell Raymond Finlayson (1976–1989)

See also

  • {{section link|Town of Boulder|Mayors}}

References

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