The Shire of Cambooya was a local government area in the

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, Australia, immediately south of the regional city of

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. The shire, administered from the town of Greenmount, covered an area of , 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

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History

The Shire of Cambooya was created by severance from the

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. 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

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and the Shires of Clifton, Crows Nest, Jondaryan, Millmerran,

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to form the

Towns and localities

The Shire of Cambooya includes the following settlements: * Cambooya * East Greenmount *

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¹ * Greenmount * Hodgson Vale¹ * Mount Rascal¹ *

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² * Top Camp¹ * Vale View¹ * Westbrook * Wyreema³ ¹ - split with the former

² - split with the former

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

* 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

* 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
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cambooya Shire Former local government areas of Queensland Darling Downs Toowoomba Populated places established in 1914 2008 disestablishments in Australia Populated places disestablished in 2008