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Shire Of Barron
The Shire of Barron is a former local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1890 and 1919. History Under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'', the Cairns Division, Hinchinbrook Division and Woothakata Division were created on 11 November 1879. On 3 September 1881, parts of each of these three divisions were excised to create the new Tinaroo Division. In 1889, residents of the No. 3 subdivision of Tinnaroo Division began to agitate for an independent division. On 20 December 1890, part of the Tinaroo Division was excised to create the new Barron Division. With the passage of the ''Local Authorities Act 1902'', the Barron Division became the Shire of Barron on 31 March 1903. On 20 December 1919, the Shire of Barron was abolished and was split between the Shires of Cairns and Woothakata. Chairmen * 1903: C P Andersen * 1904: William Walter Mason * 1905: Robert W Warren [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barron Division, March 1902
Barron may refer to: Places *Barron County, Wisconsin, United States *Barron, Wisconsin, city, United States *Barron (town), Wisconsin, town, United States *Barrón, village, Spain *Barron Field, an airfield in Everman, Texas, U.S. *Barron, Queensland, a suburb of Cairns, Australia *Barron Gorge National Park in Queensland, Australia *Barron River (other), a name of several rivers People *Barron (surname), a Scottish surname *Barron Clan, a sept of the Scots Clan Rose *Barron Field (author) *Barron Hilton, American business magnate *Barron Trump, son of Donald Trump Other *Barron v. Baltimore, a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding states' rights *Barron's Educational Series, a U.S. publisher *Barron's (newspaper), a financial weekly *Barron (horse), an Olympic show jumping horse See also *Barron's (other) (also Barrons) *Baron (other) *Baranov (other) {{disambiguation, geo, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government In Australia
Local government is the third level of government in Australia, administered with limited autonomy under the states and territories of Australia, states and territories, and in turn beneath the Australian Government, federal government. Local government is not mentioned in the Constitution of Australia, and two referendums in 1974 Australian referendum (Local Government Bodies), 1974 and 1988 Australian referendum#Local_Government, 1988 to alter the Constitution relating to local government were unsuccessful. Every state/territory government recognises local government in state constitution (Australia), its own respective constitution. Unlike the two-tier local government system in local government in Canada, Canada or the local government in the United States, United States, there is only one tier of local government in each Australian state/territory, with no distinction between counties and cities. The Australian local government is generally run by a council, and its territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Far North Queensland
Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stretches north to the Torres Strait, and west to the Gulf Country. The waters of Torres Strait include the only international border in the area contiguous with the Australian mainland, between Australia and Papua New Guinea. The region is home to three World Heritage Sites, the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Riversleigh, Australia's largest fossil mammal site. Far North Queensland lays claim to over 70 national parks, including Mount Bartle Frere; with a peak of it is the highest peak in both Northern Australia and Queensland. The Far North region is the only region of Australia that is the indigenous country of both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. Far North Queensland supports a significant agricultural sector, a number of significant mines an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation of Australia, Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = Local government areas of Queensland, 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarchy of Australia, Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor of Queensland, Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier of Queensland, Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk (Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), AL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinchinbrook Division
#REDIRECT Shire of Hinchinbrook The Shire of Hinchinbrook is a local government area in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. The shire, administered from the town of Ingham, covers an area of , and has existed since its creation on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions ... Hinchinbrook Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woothakata Division
#REDIRECT Shire of Mareeba The Shire of Mareeba is a local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity fr ... Woothakata Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cairns Post
''The Cairns Post'' is a major News Corporation newspaper in Far North Queensland, Australia, that exclusively serves the Cairns area. It has daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and liftouts covering health, beauty, cars and lifestyle. ''The Cairns Post'' is published every weekday and a weekend edition which is called ''The Weekend Post'' which is published on Saturdays. It is the oldest business in Cairns and has been operating continuously for more than a century. In 2013, ''The Cairns Post'' won the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association (PANPA) Award for best regional Newspaper of the Year Dailies (5-6-7 days) circulation 10,000-25,000. In March 2015, Jennifer Spilsbury was appointed editor, becoming the first female editor in the paper's 132-year history. She replaced editor Andy Van Smeerdijk. History A prior newspaper that was also called ''The Cairns Post'' was first published on 10 May 1883. It was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Cairns
Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century. In some rural parts of Australia, a shire is a local government area; however, in Australia it is not synonymous with a "county", which is a lands administrative division. Etymology The word ''shire'' derives from the Old English , from the Proto-Germanic ( goh, sćira), denoting an 'official charge' a 'district under a governor', and a 'care'. In the UK, ''shire'' became synonymous with '' county'', an administrative term introduced to England through the Norman Conquest in the later part of the eleventh century. In contemporary British usage, the word ''counties'' also refers to shires, mainly in places such as Shire Hall. In region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Woothakata
The Shire of Mareeba is a local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several councils in the Atherton Tableland area to become the Tablelands Region. On 20 March 2013, Mareeba residents voted in favour of a proposal to reverse the amalgamation and to re-establish Mareeba Shire. The new Mareeba Shire was re-established on 1 January 2014. History The Woothakata Division, based in the mining town of Thornborough on the Hodgkinson goldfield, was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' with a population of 1836. Woothakata is a Wakaman and Kuku Djungan Aboriginal word which describes the way (the journey) they travelled to Ngarrabullgan/Mount Mulligan, an important meeting place. The name Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thomatis
David Thomatis (2 August 1851 – 14 December 1919) was an Italian born educator and agriculturalist. At the turn of the 19th to 20th century he developed in a plantation in today's Caravonica near Cairns in north-eastern Australia a strain of cotton named Caravonica Cotton which was marketed successfully around the world. For some years until 1909 he served as an alderman in the Barron Shire Council, where he was chairman in 1906. Life Dr David Thomatis was born at Maro Castello, which in the 1920s became a part (''frazione'') of Borgomaro in today's northwestern Italian province of Liguria. His father was a descendant of the branch of the Douglas family which elected to follow Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), aka "Bonnie Prince Charlie" or "The Young Pretender" to Italy, and thereby forfeited his estates in Scotland. He married into the Thomatis-Caravonica family, which originated from Greece. Dr. Thomatis was the youngest of his family, and was educated in English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
