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the rural areas. The council area had a total population of 1,062 persons in 1936. The earlier town hall was replaced by a new Civic Centre in 1968. Amongst the council's later projects was a 1980s-era collaboration with the South Australian Housing Trust to build a number of pensioner cottages in the town. The council ceased to exist on 1 May 1988 when it merged with the
39:. It reunited the whole cadastral Hundred of Booyoolie within the same district council, as had previously been the case when the Booyoolie council was first proclaimed in 1876. The Laura merger had occurred after a much broader 1931 merger proposal, which would have seen the Corporate Town of Laura, 54:
The council chambers were initially located in the Laura Town Hall, which had formerly been the Laura Institute. It was divided into six wards, each electing one councillor: East Laura, North Laura and West Laura Wards in Laura itself, and South (later Pine Creek), Stone Hut and Whyte Cliff Wards in
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merge into a drastically enlarged District Council of Booyoolie, was abandoned after meeting strong opposition from both the Laura and Gladstone communities.
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The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936
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Index

local government area
South Australia
Corporate Town of Laura
District Council of Booyoolie
District Council of Gladstone
Corporate Town of Gladstone
District Council of Caltowie
District Council of Georgetown
District Council of Gladstone
District Council of Rocky River


"A History of South Australian Councils to 1936"


The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936




"Laura"
"District Council Elections"
Laura Standard and Crystal Brook Courier
"Thursday, 27 August, 1987"





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