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.
Towns and localities
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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]
The leaders of the Cambooya Shire Council were:[5]
- 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
- 1993-2000: Robert Leslie Free
- 2000-2004: John Gordon Savage
- 2004-2008: Carol Estelle Taylor