Town of Coolangatta

Aldermen of the Coolangatta Town Council in 1933

The Town of Coolangatta was a local government area in South East Queensland, Australia, centred on Coolangatta. It existed from 1914 to 1949.

History

On 11 November 1879, the Nerang Division was created as one of 74 divisions within Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879.^[1] With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Nerang Division became the Shire of Nerang on 31 March 1903.^[2]

On 12 June 1914, subdivision 3 of Shire of Nerang was separated to create the Town of Coolangatta.^[3][4]

Amalgamations in 1948

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.^[5][6] The former ten were:

• Beaudesert
• Beenleigh
• Cleveland
• Coolangatta
• Coomera
• Nerang
• Southport
• Tamborine
• Tingalpa
• Waterford

The four resulting local government areas were:

• Town of South Coast, an amalgamation of the Towns of Coolangatta and Southport with the Burleigh Heads part of Nerang (which later became City of Gold Coast)
• the new Shire of Albert: a merger of Beenleigh, Coomera, Nerang (except for the Burleigh Heads area), the southern part of Tingalpa and the eastern part of Waterford^[7]
• an enlarged Shire of Beaudesert, an amalgamation of Beaudesert and Tamborine with the western part of Waterford
• the new Redland Shire, an amalgamation of Cleveland and the northern part of Tingalpa (which later became Redland City)

The Order came into effect on 10 June 1949, when the first elections were held.

Mayors

Mayor	Term
John Lanham	1914–1915
John Gardiner	1916
George L. Gordon	1917
Ralph G. Johnston	1918–1921
John Gardiner	1921–1924
John Thomas Matters[8]	1924–1927
R. C. Graham	1927–1933
S. W. (Bill) Winders	1933–1946
Len Peak	1946–1948

References

1. "Agency ID1447, Nerang Divisional Board". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
2. "Agency ID1448, Nerang Shire Council II". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
3. "Agency ID10376, Coolangatta Town Council". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
4. "NEW TOWN OF COOLANGATTA.". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 13 June 1914. p. 5. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
5. "New coast names.". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 10 December 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
6. "DETAILS OF SOUTH COAST SHIRES.". Queensland Times (DAILY ed.). Ipswich, Queensland: National Library of Australia. 10 December 1948. p. 1. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
7. "Agency ID290, Albert Shire Council". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
8. Pugh, Theophilus Parsons (1927). Pugh's Almanac for 1927. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

External links

• "Coolangatta". Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland.

Coordinates: 28°10′11″S 153°32′02″E / 28.1698°S 153.534°E