Shire of Mornington

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Hastings
state = vic
region = Mornington Peninsula
area = 304.6
est = 1893
seat = Mornington
pop = 32,800 (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 = "Port Phillip"
near-ne = Frankston
near-w = "Port Phillip"
near-e = Hastings
near-sw = Flinders
near-s = Flinders
near-se = Hastings
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Mornington was a Local Government Area located on the western Mornington Peninsula about convert|50|km|mi|0 south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|90.65|km2|sqmi|1 immediately to the south of Frankston, and existed from 1960 until 1994.

History

The Mornington Roads District (centred on Frankston) was first created on 6 November 1860 and became a Shire on 24 November 1871. On 31 May 1893 it was renamed Shire of Frankston and Hastings, while its western riding was severed and named New Mornington to avoid confusion with the previous entity. On 19 January 1894 it was renamed Shire of Mornington.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=769-770 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished and merged with the Shire of Flinders, the Shire of Hastings 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 Hall at Queen Street and Vancouver Street, Mornington. The facility is used today as a civic centre and library by the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.

Wards

The shire was divided into four ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
* Mornington North Riding
* Mornington South Riding
* Mount Eliza Riding
* Mount Martha Riding

uburbs and Localities

* Moorooduc (split with Shire of Hastings)
* Mornington
* Mount Eliza (split with City of Frankston
* Mount Martha

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References