Shire of Hastings

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Hastings
state = vic
region = Mornington Peninsula
area = 304.6
est = 1960
seat = Hastings
pop = 30,600 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


imagesize = 150
caption = Location in Melbourne
county = Mornington
near-nw = Frankston
near-n = Cranbourne
near-ne = Cranbourne
near-w = Mornington
near-e = "Western Port"
near-sw = Flinders
near-s = "Western Port"
near-se = "Western Port"
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Hastings was a Local Government Area located on the eastern Mornington Peninsula about convert|60|km|mi|0 south-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|304.6|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1960 until 1994.

History

The Mornington Roads District was first created on 6 November 1860 and became a Shire on 24 November 1871. On 31 May 1893 it was renamed Shire of Frankston and Hastings, and lost its western riding to the New Mornington Shire, which itself was later renamed Shire of Mornington.

On 19 October 1960 the Central and Eastern Ridings of the Shire were severed and, with part of the Eastern Riding of the Shire of Flinders, incorporated as the Shire of Hastings.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=377-378, 695 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 15 December 1994, the Shire was abolished and merged with the Shire of Flinders, the Shire of Mornington and a small part of the City of Frankston to become the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. [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=2007-12-16] "The Age" reported in July 1994 that the result had been supported by Hastings and Mornington councils from the beginning, but opposed by Flinders who wanted to merge with the southern coastal section of Hastings. [cite news|title=Crunch time for councils in south and south-east|last=Neales|first=Sue|date=27 July 1994|page=8|work=The Age]

Council formerly met at the Shire Offices at High Street and Marine Parade, Hastings. The facility is still used today by the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.

Wards

The shire was divided into four ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
* Balnarring Riding
* Bittern Riding
* Hastings Riding
* Somers Riding

uburbs and Localities

* Balnarring
* Balnarring Beach
* Baxter (split with City of Cranbourne and Shire of Hastings)
* Bittern
* Crib Point
* Hastings
* HMAS Cerberus
* Merricks
* Merricks Beach
* Merricks North
* Moorooduc (split with Shire of Mornington)
* Point Leo
* Red Hill South
* Shoreham (split with Shire of Flinders)
* Somers
* Somerville
* Tyabb

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References