The District Council of Streaky Bay is a Local Government Area in South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula. The Council was established in 1887, at a time when there was a population 111 people.
Streaky Bay is the main population centre of about 1200 people serving an agricultural district based on farming wheat and other cereal crops, sheep, supplemented by fishing and tourism industries. The district covers an area of 6,251.1 square kilometres with a estimated district population of 2,181 people, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Read more about District Council Of Streaky Bay: Localities, Elected Members
Famous quotes containing the words district, council and/or bay:
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
—Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)