that advocated cutting the number of municipalities in South Australia from 196 to 142, merging into the District Council of Tea Tree Gully and re-establishing the original council boundaries under the Tea Tree Gully name. Highercombe had been named in that process as one of 53 councils in the state with an annual revenue of less than £2,000, and so had been considered to be unviable as a separate municipality. The council ceased to exist on 1 May 1935. Chairmen Robert Milne (1853) J. Gollop (1874) H. Pitman (1886) W. H. Ind (1890) Charles Hill (1903–1907) N. Packer (1907–1909) J. W. Newman (1909) T. H. Possingham (1911) References Former local government areas of South Australia 1853 establishments in Australia 1935 disestablishments in Australia