Party: Local Government - Mackay. Mackay City Council, Gordon Street, Mackay, 4740
Summary
Mackay Municipality was established in 1869, became Mackay Town in 1903, and Mackay City in 1918.
STRONG ROOM
Cemetery register, ca. August 1873-February 1884, 1 vol., frail., February 1884-February 1896, 1 vol., frail., record held to present.
Minutes of Council Meetings, December 1869-present, complete.
Minutes of Meetings, Eungella-Mackay Track Committee (railway), November 1889-October 1890, 1 vol.
Minutes of Meetings, Mackay Joint Hospital Board, 1921-1946.
Minutes of Meetings, Mackay Fire Brigade Board, 1883-1898.
Advertisements for tenders, from 1910. Visitor's book, November 1919-present.
Cutting books, includes extracts from Daily Mercury regarding proclamation of the City of Mackay in 1918, Mackay Standard Christmas Supplement 1883, and additional commemorative publications including Mackay-Blair Athol Illustrated Record. Some early issues of the Mackay Standard are also held. Contract of the original Mackay sewerage scheme, 1943.
NESS STREET DEPOT
A collection of over 100 volumes are held in this store, dating from 1877; many items are badly water damaged. They include petty cash books, ledgers, journals, rate books, valuation registers, receipt books and wages records.
HISTORICAL COLLECTION
The Council holds an important historical collection, including diaries, manuscripts, printed works and photographs. A complete listing is not available, however the collection includes the following:
Diary of George Goode, an incontinuous record chiefly of pastoral life, 24 September 1863-ca. March 1870, 1 vol.
The Log of F.C. Mussett and T.C. Sillie, a true account of their voyage to Australia, to Sydney, 1892, 1 vol.
Mussett later settled in Queensland, probably near Mackay. Typescript, Plan of General Development for the City of Mackay by R.A. Mclnnis, [1934], foolscap, 1 folder.
Mclnnis, R.A., Plan of General Development of the City of Mackay, Brisbane, 1934, pp. 117, several copies held.
Photographs, an important historical collection dating from the nineteenth century, comprising 3 albums and numerous individual prints. Wall hanging, with a register of Chairmen who have served the Mackay Council.