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Shire of Cambooya
Queensland
Shire of Cambooya; Queensland
	Location within Queensland
Population	5,652 (2006 census)
• Density	8.8520/km2 (22.927/sq mi)
Established	1914
Area	638.5 km2 (246.5 sq mi)
Council seat	Greenmount
Region	Darling Downs
Website	Shire of Cambooya
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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 edit

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.^[2]^[3]

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 edit

The Shire of Cambooya includes the following settlements:

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 edit

Year	Population
1933	2,047
1947	1,780 #
1954	1,848
1961	1,732
1966	1,617
1971	1,558
1976	1,676
1981	1,894
1986	2,477
1991	2,860
1996	4,079
2001	4,856
2006	5,652

# The estimated 1947 population of the post-1949 area was 1,959.^[4]

Chairmen and mayors edit

The leaders of the Cambooya Shire Council were:^[5]

Chairmen edit

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 edit

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

References edit

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Cambooya (S) (Local Government Area)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
^ Toowoomba Regional Council (2004). "A Brief History of Cambooya Shire". Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
^ "Untitled". Queensland Government Gazette. 17 March 1949. p. 172:981–985.
^ Queensland Year Book, No.11 (1950), p.47.
^ "Cambooya Shire Council Past Chairmen and Mayors". Toowoomba Regional Council. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.