Party: Local Government - Ayr. Ayr Shire Council 145 Young Street Ayr, 4807
Summary
The Ayr Divisional Board was established in 1888, and became the Ayr Shire Council in 1903. The Shire includes Ayr, Home Hill and Giru, and extends west to the Leichhardt Range. A considerable quantity of records were destroyed by fire in 1920.
COUNCIL OFFICE
Cemetery register, Ayr and Home Hill, 1888-present, 6 volumes.
Minutes of Council meetings, October 1900-March, 1903, 1 volume, April 1903-December 1906, 1 volume, January 1907-December 1908, 1 volume, January 1909-December 1911, 1 volume, May 1929-present, 32 volumes.
Valuation and rate books from ca.1937, several volumes.
Land transfer files, 1931-present.
Clipping book, extracts from Queensland Government Gazette, regarding Council matters, 1888-1892, 1 volume.
Extracts from newspapers and papers of historical interest, miscellaneous collection.
Decree from Ayr Shire Council, forbidding the entry of motor vehicles upon the town roads, 10 April 1909, 1 sheet.
Ayr town plan, showing original street names, 1915, 1 sheet.
Photographs, a small collection includes portraits of Council Chairmen and Councillors from 1911, and scenes of the 1940 flood in Ayr.
STORE SHED A large collection of valuation and rate books, and cash books, from ca.1909.