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The District Council of Orroroo was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Orroroo. It was gazetted on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887 and included all the land defined by the hundreds of Black Rock Plain, Coomooroo, Erskine, Pekina, and Walloway in the County of Dalhousie.

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rdfs:comment	The District Council of Orroroo was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Orroroo. It was gazetted on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887 and included all the land defined by the hundreds of Black Rock Plain, Coomooroo, Erskine, Pekina, and Walloway in the County of Dalhousie. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Black Rock, South Australia County of Dalhousie (South Australia) Morchard, South Australia District Council of Caltowie District Council of Coglin District Council of Jamestown District Council of Port Germein District Councils Act 1887 Local government areas of South Australia John Travers (1867–1928) Hundred of Black Rock Plain Hundred of Coomooroo Hundred of Erskine Hundred of Pekina Hundred of Walloway 1997 disestablishments in Australia 1888 establishments in Australia District Council of Carrieton District Council of Mount Remarkable District Council of Orroroo Carrieton District Council of Peterborough Del-Mar-Va Council District Council of Yongala Arthur Addison South Australia Former local government areas of South Australia Orroroo, South Australia Yatina, South Australia Pekina, South Australia
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has abstract	The District Council of Orroroo was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Orroroo. It was gazetted on 5 January 1888 under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887 and included all the land defined by the hundreds of Black Rock Plain, Coomooroo, Erskine, Pekina, and Walloway in the County of Dalhousie. In 1898, it leased the new Orroroo Water District from the South Australian Government and became responsible for local water supply until 1963, when those responsibilities were transferred to the state Energy and Water Supply Department. It built its own powerhouse in 1923, and was responsible for electricity supply until 1962, when Orroroo was connected to the state grid. It had also undertaken a tree planting scheme at Orroroo, Pekina, Morchard, Yatina and Black Rock. In 1923, the municipality covered an area of 322,880 acres, approximately 500 square miles, and comprising the Hundreds of Black Rock Plains, Coomooroo, Erskine, Pekina and Walloway, each hundred having its own ward. It was responsible for 89½ miles of main roads and 530 miles of district roads. It began sealing town streets in 1930, and finished all streets in the town by 1982. In 1936 it was reported to have approximately 2,000 residents, 700 of them in Orroroo township. A community library, financed in tandem with the Education Department, was established at the Orroroo Area School in 1981. In 1987, the council published a book on their history, One Hundred Years of Local Government: A History of the District Council of Orroroo 1887–1987 by Gerald J. Kuerschner, June A. Chapman and Jonathan W. Oliver. The municipality to exist in March 1997, when it merged with the adjacent District Council of Carrieton to create the District Council of Orroroo Carrieton; the council seat remained in Orroroo. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	County of Dalhousie (South Australia) County of Granville Orroroo Walloway, South Australia District Councils Act 1887 Local government areas of South Australia John Travers (1867–1928) District Council of Carrieton District Council of Orroroo Carrieton Del-Mar-Va Council

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