Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The District Council of Woolundunga was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 5 January 1888 as the District Council of Davenport under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887, but was renamed Woolundunga on 8 June 1893 to avoid confusion with the adjacent Corporate Town of Davenport, a separate municipality. The principal township was Stirling North, and through its lifetime the area transitioned \"almost entirely\" from wheat to sheep farming. In 1936, it was reported as having had a population \"estimated at 472 persons\". The council constructed purpose-built chambers at Stirling North in 1894, and operated out of them for the remainder of their existence. On 28 April 1932, part of Woolundunga, along with the Corporate Town of Davenport and the Corporate Town of Port Augusta West, merged into the existing Corporate Town of Port Augusta. Most of the remaining sections of the municipality merged with the District Council of Hammond and part of the District Council of Port Germein as the recreated District Council of Wilmington on 16 February 1933; a section of Woolundunga was also merged into the District Council of Kanyaka as its Mundallio Ward."@en }
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- District_Council_of_Woolundunga abstract "The District Council of Woolundunga was a local government area in South Australia. It was created on 5 January 1888 as the District Council of Davenport under the provisions of the District Councils Act 1887, but was renamed Woolundunga on 8 June 1893 to avoid confusion with the adjacent Corporate Town of Davenport, a separate municipality. The principal township was Stirling North, and through its lifetime the area transitioned \"almost entirely\" from wheat to sheep farming. In 1936, it was reported as having had a population \"estimated at 472 persons\". The council constructed purpose-built chambers at Stirling North in 1894, and operated out of them for the remainder of their existence. On 28 April 1932, part of Woolundunga, along with the Corporate Town of Davenport and the Corporate Town of Port Augusta West, merged into the existing Corporate Town of Port Augusta. Most of the remaining sections of the municipality merged with the District Council of Hammond and part of the District Council of Port Germein as the recreated District Council of Wilmington on 16 February 1933; a section of Woolundunga was also merged into the District Council of Kanyaka as its Mundallio Ward.".