Party: Local Government - Charters Towers. Dalrymple Shire Council, Mosman Street, Charters Towers. 4820
Summary
The Dalrymple Divisional Board was established in 1879; it became Dalrymple Shire in 1903. All 19th Century and some early 20th Century records have been destroyed. Some Ravenswood Shire records are held. Ravenswood Divisional Board was established in 1879, became Ravenswood Shire Council in 1903, was abolished, and included in Dalrymple Shire in 1929.
STRONG ROOM
Ravenswood cemetery register, January 1875-present, 1 vol.
Minutes of Council meetings, January 1902-January 1916, 1 vol, January 1933-May 1949, 1 vol, May 1949-March 1951, 1 vol, April 1951-present, 8 vols.
Minutes of meetings, Ravenswood Shire Council, March 1919-December 1929, 1 vol.
Minutes of meetings Charters Towers District Improvement Board, October 1931-April 1934, 1 vol.
Minutes of meetings, Stock Routes Improvement and Animal and Vegetable Pests Destruction Fund of the Shire of Dalrymple, March 1945-July 1945, 1 vol.
Councillors' attendance books, February 1909-September 1936, 1 vol, October 1936-October 1950, 1 vol., December 1950-June 1958, 1 vol., July 1958-June 1971, 1 vol., July 1971-present, 1 vol.
Newspaper cutting book, with extracts regarding Council matters, elections, works programmes, improvements, correspondence, ca.1910-1924, 1 vol.
Cash book, November 1931-ca.1962, 1 vol.
Cash books. Stock Routes Improvement and Animal and Vegetable Pests Destruction Trust Fund of the Shire of Dalrymple, January 1946-May 1957, 1 vol.
Cash book, Pentland Sanitary Service, ca. May 1918-June 1954, 1 vol.
Ledger, June 1940-June 1948, 1 vol.
Assessments received book, May 1934-March 1947, 1 vol.
Auditors' book, June 1919-June 1977, 1 vol.
Register of legal documents, ca. June 1916-1958, 1 vol.
Contract register, March 1916-June 1978, 1 vol.
Infectious diseases notification register, February 1916-October 1929, 1 vol.
February 1930-November 1948, 1 vol.
Register of Shire Stock watering facilities, recent records.
Register of dingo scalps delivered, Dalrymple Dingo Board, June 1921-March 1934, also domestic dog registrations, 1933-1934, 1 vol.
Register of poisons sold, August 1944-October 1951, 1 vol.
Assessment register, Dalrymple Divisional Board [?] December 1928-January 1931, 1 vol.
Assessment register, Stock Routes Improvement and Animal and Vegetable Pests Destruction Fund of the Shire of Dalrymple, October 1941-November 1958, 1 vol.
Assessment book, Dalrymple District Improvement Board, October 1934-June 1941, vol., contains details of land holdings, owner, stock numbers, rates, payments and arrears.
Rate and valuation registers, January 1937-present, almost continuous.
STORE ROOM
Letter books, December 1922-June 1926, 1 vol., February 1924-November 1927, 1 vol., November 1927-August 1930, 1 vol., August 1930-December 1933, 1 vol., October 1931-September 1936, 1 vol., December 1933-July 1937, 1 vol., April 1937-July 1941, 1 vol., May 1938-February 1946, 1 vol., June 1940-August 1945, 1 vol., August 1941-August 1946, 1 vol., August 1945-June 1948, 1 vol., April 1948-July 1949, 1 vol., June 1948-August 1949, 1 vol.
Register of inward letters, October 1952-January 1954, 1 vol., January 1954-February 1956, 1 vol., February 1956-October 1959, 1 vol.
General cash book, May 1934-December 1947, 1 vol.
Dingo scalp register, September 1934-December 1947, 1 vol.
COUNCIL MEETING ROOM
Photographs, 18 framed portraits of Shire Chairmen, 1880-present.
CHAIRMAN'S OFFICE
Photographs, Council groups 1933, 1970, 2 framed prints. All the above photographs have been copied for the Delamothe Collection of North Queensland History.
Plans, Charters Towers Stock Exchange, 2 items.
A centenary history of the Dalrymple Shire Council is currently underway, by a past graduate student in the Department of History, James Cook University.