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 , 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 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 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.Queensland Year Book, No.11 (1950), p.47.
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