Bateau Bay: Difference between revisions

The settlement was declared a [[village]], under the name "Village of Bateau Bay", by [[Minister for Lands and Property|Minister for Lands]] [[Ernest Buttenshaw]] on 13 August 1937.<ref>{{cite news |title=VILLAGE OF BATEAU BAY |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224748278 |work=[[Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales]] |date=13 August 1937}}</ref> It had been previously been called Boat Harbour,<ref>{{cite news |last=Random |first=John |date=3 July 1937 |title=The Two Million |work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/247221530}}</ref> and continued to be known as Boat Harbour locally. The name "Boat Harbour" was discontinued by the [[Geographical Names Board of New South Wales]] on 29 August 1975.<ref>{{cite news |title=GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT, 1966 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220190603 |work=[[Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales]] |date=29 August 1975}}</ref>

There is one school in Bateau Bay: Bateau Bay Public School was established in 1980 and has an enrolment of 739620 students in Kindergarten to Year 6. It was originally located in Brooke Avenue (within Killarney Vale) in demountable buildings before relocating. A school remained at Brooke Avenue due to housing development in the period of planning and construction.