Photo 2023 from Town of East Fremantle website.
Back: Andrew McPhail, Andrew White, Jenny Harrington, Cliff Collinson, Mark Wilson, Tony Natale (deputy mayor).
Front: CEO Jonathon Throssell, Jim O'Neill (mayor), Kerry Donovan. Lucinda Maywood is absent.
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See also: Elections 2023, East Freo wards.
East Fremantle Council History
East Fremantle was originally established on 2 April 1897 as a municipality with a mayor and councillors under the Municipal Institutions Act 1876. With the passage of the Local Government Act 1960, all municipalities became Towns effective 1 July 1961. For electoral purposes East Fremantle is divided into four wards, each of which is represented by two councillors.
Hitchcock:
Before becoming a municipality, East Fremantle, like the Melville Road Board district, formed part of the Fremantle Road Board. It was anxious to become incorporated with the Fremantle municipality, but as overtures in that direction were repeatedly rejected by Fremantle, it constituted itself a separate municipality in 1897. Prior to becoming a municipality, East Fremantle possessed a separate Board of Health acting independently of the Fremantle Road Board. That was formed to enable the residents to cope with the nuisance arising from the old slaughterhouse* which was located in the centre of Plympton. Hitchcock: 94. [* The slaughterhouse, Herbert Baker's butchery, was where Glasson Park is now, on Hubble, George, and Glyde Streets.]
Mayors of the Municipality of East Fremantle
Matthew Moss 1897–1900
Francis McDonald 1900–1901 (or 1903?)
William Angwin 1903–1906
S. Thomson 1906–1909
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Joseph Francis Allen]] 1909–1914
Leonard Burlington Bolton 1914–1919
Harry Woodhouse 1919–1924
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]] Herbert John Locke 1924–1931
Joseph Francis Allen 1931–1933, died in office 23 May 1933
John Munro 1933–1934, elected at an extraordinary election 14 June 1933
Herbert John Locke 1934–1944
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William Wauhop]] (1887-1971, MBE) 1944–1961
Mayors of the Town of East Fremantle
William Wauhop 1961–1964
Victor Ulrich 1964–1974
Ian Gilbert Handcock 1974–1991
Andrew Bruce Smith 1991–1994
Timothy Martin Smith 1994–1997
Andrew Bruce Smith 1997–2001
Jim O'Neill2001–2007
Alan Ferris 2007–2013
Jim O'Neill 2013-present
Some Earlier Councils
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The council chamber in 2022.
References and Links
Battye, J.S. 1924, Western Australia: A History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Charlesworth, Helene 1997, Small but Strong: a Pictorial History of the Town of East Fremantle 1897-1997, Town of East Fremantle.
Ewers, John K. 1971, The Western Gateway: A History of Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, with UWAP, rev. ed. [1st ed. 1948].
Hitchcock, J.K. 1929, The History of Fremantle, The Front Gate of Australia 1829-1929, Fremantle City Council.
Lee, Jack 1979, This is East Fremantle (The story of a town and its people), East Fremantle Town Council. Photo from 1936, 1946, 1963, and 1966 above are from Lee's book.
See also: election 2017.
Current membership of EF Town Council (on their site)
East Fremantle in Freotopia (this site)
Wikipedia List of Governors of Western Australia
Wikipedia List of Mayors of Fremantle
Wikipedia List of Mayors of East Fremantle
Town of East Fremantle Council Elected Members and Staff 1897- (pdf)
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