Shire of Woorayl

Shire of Woorayl Leongatha
Region	South Gippsland
County	Buln Buln
LGAs around Shire of Woorayl: Korumburra Warragul Mirboo Bass Shire of Woorayl South Gippsland Bass Strait Bass Strait South Gippsland

The Shire of Woorayl was a

, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,245.79 square kilometres (481.0 sq mi), and existed from 1888 until 1994.

Initially part of the Shire of Narracan, Woorayl was first incorporated as a shire on 25 May 1888. It annexed the South Riding of the Shire of Alberton on 14 March 1890, and the Mirboo Riding of the Shire of Traralgon on 1 May 1891. Over the next 20 years, various boundary changes occurred between Woorayl, Korumburra, Narracan, and South Gippsland.^[2]

On 2 December 1994, the Shire of Woorayl was abolished, and along with the Shires of Mirboo, South Gippsland and parts of the Shire of Korumburra, was merged into the new Shire of South Gippsland. The area around Inverloch was transferred into the newly created Shire of Bass Coast.^[3]

Woorayl was divided into four ridings in May 1975, each of which elected three councillors:

• North Riding
• Central Riding
• West Riding
• South Riding

• Dumbalk
• Hallston
• Inverloch
• Koonwarra
• Leongatha
  *
• Leongatha South
• Meeniyan
• Mount Eccles
• Nerrena
• Ruby
• Tarwin Lower
• Venus Bay

* Council seat.

Year	Population
1954	7,046
1958	7,820*
1961	8,784
1966	8,922
1971	9,145
1976	9,525
1981	9,854
1986	10,644
1991	11,003

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

External links

• Victorian Places - Woorayl Shire

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