Shire of Rodney

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Rodney
state = vic
region =
area = 1009.92
est = 1886
seat = Tatura
pop = 16110 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


caption = Location in Victoria
county = Rodney
near-nw = Deakin
near-n = Nathalia
near-ne = Shepparton
near-w = Deakin
near-e = Shepparton
near-sw = Waranga
near-s = Goulburn
near-se = Euroa
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Rodney was a Local Government Area located in the Goulburn Valley region about convert|170|km|mi|0 north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, between Kyabram and Shepparton. The shire covered an area of convert|1009.92|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1886 until 1994.

History

Rodney was initially part of the Waranga district, which incorporated in 1863 and became a shire two years later. The Shire of Rodney was severed and incorporated on 19 March 1886.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=817-818 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.] Following the secession of the town of Kyabram on 1 April 1954, the eastern part of the shire adjoining Shepparton, centred on Mooroopna which had became home to the Ardmona fruit cannery in 1922, unsuccessfully attempted to secede from Rodney, a move driven by the town's Chamber of Commerce. [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20030122124332/www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/mooroopna.html|title=Australian Places - Mooroopna|author=Monash University|year=1999|accessdate=2008-01-06]

On 18 November 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the City and Shire of Shepparton, along with some neighbouring districts into the City of Greater Shepparton. However the Kyabram hinterland and some land around Lake Waranga transferred into the Shire of Campaspe. [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=5,7|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Rodney was divided into three ridings on 1 October 1991, each of which elected three councillors:
* North Riding
* Central Riding
* South Riding

Towns and Localities

* Tatura
* Mooroopna
* Byrneside
* Coomboona
* Dhurringile
* Gillieston
* Girgarre East
* Harston
* Merrigum
* St Germains
* Toolamba
* Undera

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References