Shire of Tullaroop

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Tullaroop
state = vic
region =
area = 637.63
est = 1861
seat = Maryborough
pop = 2780 (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 = Talbot, Gladstone
near-nw = Bet Bet
near-n = Bet Bet
near-ne = Maldon
near-w = Avoca
near-e = Newstead
near-sw = Avoca
near-s = Talbot & Clunes
near-se = Newstead
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Tullaroop was a Local Government Area located about convert|170|km|mi|0 northwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, surrounding the regional centre of Maryborough. The shire covered an area of convert|637.63|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1861 until 1995. Maryborough itself was managed by a separate entity, ultimately known as the City of Maryborough. After a large-scale statewide amalgamation program by the Victorian Government in 1994, they were united under the Shire of Central Goldfields.

History

Tullaroop was first incorporated as a district on 18 January 1861, and became a shire on 24 January 1865.

On 1 October 1915, two boroughs were united with Tullaroop—Carisbrook Borough, established on 7 August 1857 with an area of convert|21.83|km2|sqmi|2, and Majorca Borough, established on 28 December 1864 with an area of convert|20.25|km2|sqmi|2, which had been known as Craigie Borough until 1876.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=861-862 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.] [Victorian Municipal Directory (1915), pp.298, 316.]

On 20 January 1995, the Shire was abolished, and merged with the City of Maryborough, most of the Shire of Bet Bet and surrounding districts into the Shire of Central Goldfields. The Laanecoorie Reservoir was transferred to the Shire of Loddon. [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=5,8|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Tullaroop was divided into four ridings , each of which elected three councillors:
* Carisbrook Riding
* Charlotte Plains Riding
* Norwood Riding
* Rodborough Riding

Towns and Localities

* Adelaide Lead
* Alma
* Bowenvale
* Carisbrook
* Craigie
* Eddington
* Havelock
* Majorca
* Moores Flat
* Moolort
* Moonlight Flat
* Rodborough
* Simson
* Wareek

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References