History
Carnarvon started as three entities
- the Carnarvon Municipality, which governed the town of Carnarvon and was constituted in 1891;
- the Lower Gascoyne Road District (1887)
- the Minilya Road District (1893).
In 1911, the two road districts merged to form the Gascoyne-Minilya Road District. On 1 July 1961, Carnarvon became a town and Gascoyne-Minilya a shire under the Local Government Act 1960. On 1 March 1965, the two entities merged to form the Shire of Carnarvon.
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