TheDistrict Council of Caltowie was alocal government area inSouth Australia, centred on the town ofCaltowie and surrounding cadastralHundred of Caltowie. It came into operation on 28 February 1878, with the first five councillors appointed by proclamation.[1][2] The town and hundred had both been laid out in 1872.[3] The council initially met in local hotels, leased private offices for a period, and met at Hornsdale Station for a year, before constructing purpose-built council offices in Charles Street, Caltowie, in 1896.[3]
The council was initially divided into four wards: Central, South-Western and North-Western, electing one councillor, and Eastern, electing two councillors.[1] It gained the previously unincorporatedHundred of Tarcowie under theDistrict Councils Act 1887, which resulted in a system of ten councillors representing as many wards. By 1904, this had been reduced to six councillors representing one ward each. The council was responsible for an area of nearly 200 square miles in that year.[3]
^abcdef"CALTOWIE".The Laura Standard. Vol. XV, no. 807. South Australia. 12 August 1904. p. 3. Retrieved27 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^"DISTRICT COUNCILS".Burra Record. Vol. XII, no. 1050. South Australia. 29 July 1891. p. 2. Retrieved27 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
