Shire of Menzies Western Australia |
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Location in Western Australia |
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Population: | 250(2009)[1] | ||||||||||||
Area: | 124635 km² (48,121.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Mayor: | Stephen Tonkin | ||||||||||||
Council Seat: | Menzies | ||||||||||||
Region: | Goldfields-Esperance | ||||||||||||
State District: | Kalgoorlie | ||||||||||||
Federal Division: | O'Connor | ||||||||||||
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The Shire of Menzies is a Local Government Area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia located to the north of Kalgoorlie. The Shire covers an area of 124,635 square kilometres (48,122 sq mi), and its seat of government is the town of Menzies.
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The Menzies Municipal Council was gazetted in 1895. It was dissolved and included in the North Coolgardie Road Board in 1912, which was itself dissolved the same year to form the Menzies, Kookynie and Mount Malcolm Road Boards. In 1918, Kookynie was merged into Menzies, which on 1 July 1961 became a Shire Council following changes to the Local Government Act.[2]
The shire is divided into 3 wards: