Party: Local Government - Georgetown. Etheridge Shire Council, ST. George Street, Georgetown, 4871
Summary
The Einasleigh Divisional Board was established in 1879, it became the Einasleigh Shire in 1903, and the name was changed to Etheridge Shire in 1919.
COUNCIL OFFICE
Georgetown cemetery register, 1888-1952, 1955-1967.
Georgetown cemetery register, applications for burial, 1917-June 1936.
Minutes of meetings, Board and Council, 1882-November 1916.
Minutes of Council meetings, 1917-1936.
Minutes of meetings, Shire Recruiting Committee, February 1916-May 1918, 1 vol.
Minutes of meetings, Georgetown Patriotic Society, September 1942-July 1946, 1 vol.
Letter book, January 1908-December 1912, 1 vol., August 1917-June 1918, 1 vol.
Miscellaneous papers, including Road Overseer's reports, 1883-1910, 1889-1906, also correspondence and reports regarding sanitation, 1902-1910.
Miscellaneous papers, including Shire Clerk's reports, 1916-1922.
Dingo assessment book, 1939-1945.
Rate books, 1882-1886, 1888-1889, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1908, 1921, 1934-1936, 1949-1951.
HISTORICAL COLLECTION
Petition, regarding Croydon-Georgetown railway October 1889.
Letter, Secretary, Forsayth to Georgetown Railway League, to the Chairman, Etheridge Shire Council, 22 April 1919, with enclosed circular.
Correspondence, regarding the arrival of the Railway Commission to the Etheridge, 1919. Correspondence regarding meetings and solicitations for evidence for the Railway Commission, May 1919.
Correspondence regarding 'Back to Etheridge Celebrations', 1957.
Correspondence regarding Georgetown Centenary, 1970.
Letter, T. McDonald, Cairns, to Mr. Webber, Georgetown, 22 May 1970.
Reprints, articles regarding Croydon to Forsayth railway, Cairns Post, 30 April 1919.
Newspaper extracts, correspondence columns, Cairns Post:
'Gulf Country', Cairns Post 30 January 1946.
'Gulf Country Roads', Cairns Post, 12 February 1946.
'Gulf Country Roads', Cairns Post, n.d., with letter 15 February 1946.
'Journey into the Past with Tom McDonald', n.d.
'Back to Etheridge Celebrations', n.d., ca. August 1957.
Commemorative publication, Georgetown Centenary, 1970.
Pamphlet, 'Pastoral', to celebrate the Georgetown centenary, 1970.
Pamphlet, 'Notes of Evidence of a Public Meeting held at Cairns under the auspices of the Cairns Chamber of Commerce to discuss matters relating to the Croydon-Forsayth Railway', 15 April 1919.
Pamphlet, 'The Etheridge Railway: Proposed Deviations from the Original Survey', by E.T. Green, ca. 1906.
Commemorative publication, History of the Etheridge Shire Council and of the Etheridge towns, including programme for Back to Etheridge celebrations, 14-18 August 1957.
Report on the Etheridge Gold Field by A.M. Quennel for B. Suirkins, 1962.
Survey forms, Interim Gazetteer of Queensland Place Names, Queensland Place Names Board, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, October 1963, filed by Shire Clerk.
Programme, Official Opening of the Etheridge River Bridge, 6 February 1969.