The Town of Southport was a local government area in South East Queensland, Australia.
The Town of Southport was a local government area in South East Queensland, Australia.
On 11 November 1879, the Nerang and Coomera Divisions was created as two of 74 divisions within Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879. [1] [2]
On 6 July 1883, Southport Division was formed from part of subdivision No. 1 of Nerang Division and part of subdivision No. 1 of Coomera Division. [3] [4] [5] [6]
On 6 Feb 1889, part of Southport Division was separated to be a municipal Shire of Southport, [7] but this shire was abolished on 30 June 1892 and the original division was restored. [8]
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the entire Southport Division became the Shire of Southport on 31 March 1903. [9]
On 12 April 1918, the Shire of Southport became the Town of Southport on 12 Apr 1918. [10]
A new town hall was in opened in 1935 and listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1998. [11]
On 9 December 1948, as part of a major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland, an Order in Council replacing ten former local government areas between the City of Brisbane and the New South Wales border with only four. [12] [13] The former ten were:
The four resulting local government areas were:
The Order came into effect on 10 June 1949, when the first elections were held.
| Chairman | Term |
|---|---|
| Robert F. Johnston | 1883, 1900–1902 |
| William Charles Welsh | 1884–1889 |
| C. A. Beetham | 1890–1891 |
| George Andrews | 1892 |
| Thomas M. Kirk | 1893–1896 |
| W. Downs | 1897 |
| Edward Hicks | 1898 |
| Edward Proud | 1899 |
| Chairman | Term |
|---|---|
| Theodor Lenneberg | 1889 |
| William Lather | 1890–1891 |
| Edward Hicks | 1903, 1905, 1911 |
| Edward Fass | 1904, 1917 |
| C. A. Beetham | 1904* |
| Ernest Freeman | 1906, 1913–1916 |
| J. W. Proud | 1907 |
| H. Soegaard | 1908 |
| George Andrews | 1909, 1912 |
| John Siganto | 1910 |
Following Southport's change of status to a Town, Edward Hicks was elected its first mayor at a meeting on 11 May 1918. From then on, mayors were popularly elected at triennial elections.
| Mayor | Term | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Hicks | 1918–1921 | |
| Edward Fass | 1921–1924 | |
| Washington Waters [15] | 1924–1927 | |
| Joseph Hendry Grice | 1927–1930 | |
| C. H. Steadman | 1930–1933 | |
| Henry Wilson | 1933–1936 | |
| Joseph Wood Proud | 1936–1948 | [16] |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | J. W. Proud (elected) | 716 | |||
| Independent | J. R. Brown (elected) | 666 | |||
| Independent | M. T. Anderson (elected) | 568 | |||
| Independent | W. Waters (elected) | 511 | |||
| Independent | A. R. Andrews (elected) | 477 | |||
| Independent | E. H. Foreman (elected) | 476 | |||
| Independent | A. A. Ledbury | 475 | |||
| Independent | J. Shepard | 427 | |||
| Independent | V. H. Whelan | 423 | |||
| Independent | A. E. Reid | 398 | |||
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