Party: Local Government - Clermont. Belyando Shire Council Daintree Street Clermont, 4721
Summary
The Belyando Divisional Board was established in 1879, and became the Belyando Shire in 1903. Records were lost in the Clermont flood of 1916, and in a Council fire in 1955.
STRONG ROOM
Cemetery registers, Clermont, January 1867-present, 2 volumes, incontinuous record, gaps especially in 1880s.
Blair Athol, January, 1946-present, 1 volume, incontinuous record, gaps 1946-1954.
Minutes of Council meetings, October 1929-June 1940, 1 volume, July 1947-June 1954, 1 volume, July 1954-present, 15 volumes, these include special meetings. Missing minutes have been burnt.
Councillor's attendance books, recent records, several volumes.
COUNCIL MEETING ROOM
Photographs, framed prints from the Pullar Collection, including scenes of Copperfield township, early Clermont, and the transfer of buildings to the new site of Clermont following the flood of 1916. The photographs date from 1890.
MAIN OFFICE
Photographs, scenes of Clermont and district from the 1870s, comprising some 100 photographs, with duplicates. This collection has been copied for the Delamothe Collection of North Queensland History, James Cook University.
BASEMENT STORE
A collection of records dating from the nineteenth century, many items having been fire damaged:
Cash book, September, 1886-July, 1944, 1 volume.
Cash book, Commonwealth Aid Roads, June 1949-July 1954, 1 volume.
Cash books, miscellaneous, from 1954.
Contract ledger, February, 1929-February, 1965, 1 volume.
Register, Blair Athol sanitary and cleansing charges, 1936-1950, 1 volume.
Receipt book, July, 1947-June, 1954, 1 volume.
Trust fund record, from 1955.
Correspondence, vouchers etc., stored, ca.1955-present, a large quantity.