Shire of Central Goldfields

- 37.05143.73333333333Koordinaten: 37 ° 3 ' S, 143 ° 44' O The Central Goldfields Shire is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria. The area is 1550 km ² and has about 12,000 inhabitants.

Central Goldfields is located in the western half of Victoria about 190 kilometers northwest of the capital, Melbourne and includes the following towns a: Moliagul, Bealiba, Dunolly, Achdale Junction, Bromley, Bel Bel, Betley, Timor, Havelock, Wareek, Moonlight Flat, Amherst, Daisy Hill, Talbot, Majorca, Tullaroop reservoir, Cotswold, Adelaide lead, Carisbrook and Maryborough. The seat of the City Council is located in Maryborough in the center of the LGA, which has about 7,000 residents.

The name of the Shires goes back to the gold rush in the second half of the 19th century, when the area is quite been the center of one of Australia's richest goldfields. Numerous spectacular gold discoveries have shaped the history of the region. In Moliagul in the north of the Shire's largest gold nugget in the world was on February 5, 1869, the Welcome Stranger, found. He was 61 x 31 cm tall and weighed 72 kg ( 2316 troy ounces ).

Even though today still looking for individual gold mining in the region for gold, closed the last gold mine in 1918. Few years later, opened in Maryborough, which during the gold rush had up to 50,000 inhabitants, a knitting mill and today the city is a center of the textile industry.

Management

The Central Goldfields Shire Council has seven members who are elected by the residents of the four Wards. The one Councillor comes from the districts Flynn, Daisy Hill and Tullaroop, four come from the Maryborough Ward. From the circle of Councillor also the Mayor ( Mayor ) of the Council recruited.

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