• Source: Shire of Cambooya

The Shire of Cambooya was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, immediately south of the regional city of Toowoomba. The shire, administered from the town of Greenmount, covered an area of 638.5 square kilometres (246.5 sq mi), and existed as a local government entity from 1914 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several other councils in the Toowoomba area to form the Toowoomba Region.
Its main pursuits included dairying and beef cattle, pig production, horse spelling and breeding, grain growing and vegetable production. The northern section, containing rural-residential suburbs such as Vale View and Hodgson Vale, are commuter districts within 12 kilometres (7 mi) of Toowoomba's urban core.




History


The Shire of Cambooya was created by severance from the Shire of Clifton. It absorbed part of the Tarampa Shire in 1915, and part of Drayton in 1949.
Cambooya had four divisions electing two councillors each, with a separately elected mayor.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the Shire of Cambooya merged with the City of Toowoomba and the Shires of Clifton, Crows Nest, Jondaryan, Millmerran, Pittsworth and Shire of Rosalie to form the Toowoomba Region.




Towns and localities


The Shire of Cambooya includes the following settlements:

Cambooya
East Greenmount
Finnie1
Greenmount
Hodgson Vale1
Mount Rascal1
Nobby2
Top Camp1
Vale View1
Westbrook
Wyreema3
1 - split with the former City of Toowoomba
2 - split with the former Shire of Clifton
3 - split with the former Shire of Jondaryan




Population



# The estimated 1947 population of the post-1949 area was 1,959.




Chairmen and mayors


The leaders of the Cambooya Shire Council were:




= Chairmen

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1914—1916: Arthur Hoey Davis, better known as the author Steele Rudd
1916: James Purcell
1916—1918: Edward Fitzgerald
1918—1919: Timothy O'Rourke
1919—1920: William Purcell
1920—1921: Malcolm Brodie
1921—1923: James Lemon
1924—1939: Edward Fitzgerald
1939—1943: Samuel John Gilmour
1943—1949: William Henry Lipp
1949—1966: Leslie Ashby Free
1966—1973: George Gordon Savage
1973—1976: George Hannaford
1976—1982: George Gordon Savage
1982—1985: William Archibald Woods
1985—1993: Thomas Stratford Newman




= Mayors

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1993-2000: Robert Leslie Free
2000-2004: John Gordon Savage
2004-2008: Carol Estelle Taylor




References






External links


University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Cambooya Shire
Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived February 23, 2008)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Shire of Cambooya
• Cambooya, Queensland
• Toowoomba Region
• Local government areas of Queensland
• Shire of Pittsworth
• Shire of Drayton
• Shire of Millmerran
• Shire of Pine Rivers
• Shire of Clifton
• Shire of Jondaryan