The area of Annandale, bounded byWhites Creek andJohnstons Creek in the west and east respectively and byRozelle Bay andParramatta Road in the north and south respectively,[2] was first incorporated in 1871 when it was included as the East Ward within the Municipality of Leichhardt. However, the governing act in the Colony of New South Wales for local government, theMunicipalities Act 1867, provided for the division of an existing municipality if a petition was made to the Governor by at least two-thirds of residents or owners of rateable property in the area. As a consequence, a requisite petition of the electors of the East Ward, which argued that the East Ward benefited little from its inclusion in Leichhardt and proposed a separate Borough of Annandale, was published in theGovernment Gazette on 17 June 1893.[3]
The Borough of Annandale was subsequently proclaimed by GovernorSir Robert Duff on 29 December 1893 and was constituted on 1 February 1894.[4] The council first met in the Methodist School Hall on Trafalgar Street on 14 February 1894, with all three former East Ward aldermen having been returned the day before, including AldermanJohn Young, who was elected as the first Mayor of Annandale.[5][6] The first purpose-builtAnnandale Council Chambers, on Johnston Street, was completed at a cost of £1528 and was officially opened on 21 September 1899 by MayorAllen Taylor in the presence of the Member for Annandale,William Mahony.[7] From 28 December 1906, with the passing of theLocal Government Act, 1906, the council was renamed as the "Municipality of Annandale". In 1937 various minor boundary transfers around the Johnstons Creek area were made between Annandale andThe Glebe Council.[8] The longest serving alderman was Edward Hogan, who served 38 years as an alderman from 1906 to 1944 including several terms as mayor.
By the end of the Second World War, the NSW Government had come to the conclusion that its ideas of infrastructure expansion could not be realised by the present system of the mostly-poor inner-city municipal councils and the Minister for Local Government,Joseph Cahill, pushed through a bill in 1948 that abolished a significant number of those councils. Annandale was abolished and amalgamated with the Municipality of Leichhardt following the enactment of theLocal Government (Areas) Act 1948, which came into effect from 1 January 1949. The former Annandale Municipality became the first ward of the Leichhardt Municipal Council returning four aldermen.[8]
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