Shire of Flinders

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Flinders
state = vic
region = Mornington Peninsula
area = 324
est = 1858
seat = Rosebud
pop = 40,000 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


imagesize = 150
caption = Location in Melbourne
county = Mornington
near-nw = "Port Phillip"
near-n = Mornington
near-ne = Mornington
near-w = "Port Phillip"
near-e = Hastings
near-sw = "Bass Strait"
near-s = "Western Port"
near-se = "Western Port"
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Flinders was a Local Government Area located on the eastern Mornington Peninsula about convert|65|km|mi|0 south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|324|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1858 until 1994.

History

The Flinders Roads District was first created on 1 December 1858 and was renamed Flinders & Kangerong District on 14 October 1862. It became a Shire on 24 December 1874, and was renamed back to Flinders on 28 January 1914. On 19 October 1960 part of the Eastern Riding was transferred to the new Shire of Hastings, which had split from Frankston.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=673-674 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished and merged with the Shire of Hastings, the Shire of Mornington and a small part of the City of Frankston to become the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. [cite book|url=http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/76E601D6DB55E88ACA25722500049195/$File/12570_1994-95.pdf|title=Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=1 August 1995|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|page=10|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2007-12-16] "The Age" reported in July 1994 that the result had been supported by Hastings and Mornington councils from the beginning, but opposed by Flinders who wanted to merge with the southern coastal section of Hastings. [cite news|title=Crunch time for councils in south and south-east|last=Neales|first=Sue|date=27 July 1994|page=8|work=The Age]

Council formerly met at the Shire Offices at Boneo Road, Rosebud. The facility is still used today by the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.

Wards

The shire was divided into four ridings in May 1961, each of which elected three councillors:
* Matthew Riding
* Murray Riding
* Bowen Riding
* Collins Riding

uburbs and Localities

* Arthurs Seat
* Boneo
* Dromana
* Blairgowrie
* Cape Schanck
* Fingal
* Flinders
* Main Ridge
* McCrae
* Point Nepean
* Portsea
* Red Hill
* Rosebud
* Rosebud South
* Rosebud West
* Rye
* Safety Beach
* Shoreham (split with Shire of Hastings)
* Sorrento
* St Andrews Beach
* Tootgarook

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book. + Drop in population due to loss of part of eastern riding to the new Shire of Hastings in 1960.

References