Borough of Port Fairy

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Borough of Port Fairy
state = vic
region =
area = 22.72
est = 1856
seat = Port Fairy
pop = 2680 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49-52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

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image 7 = Old lgadot Port Fairy.png caption = Location in Victoria
county = Normanby
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The Borough of Port Fairy was a Local Government Area located about convert|290|km|mi|0 west-southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The borough covered an area of convert|22.72|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1856 until 1994. Its area was surrounded by the Shire of Belfast and the Southern Ocean.

History

Port Fairy was first incorporated as a the Belfast Municipal District on 1 July 1856, becoming a borough on 1 October 1863. On 27 May 1887 it was renamed Port Fairy.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=550 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 23 September 1994, the Borough was abolished, and merged with Tower Hill Reserve, the Shires of Belfast and Minhamite, most of Warrnambool and Mortlake and parts of Dundas and Mount Rouse into the Shire of Moyne. [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=2008-01-05]

The Borough of Port Fairy was not subdivided into wards, and the seven councillors represented the entire area.

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References