The Shire of Barron is a former

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Far North Queensland Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns, Queensland, Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stret ...

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, Australia. It existed between 1890 and 1919.

History

Under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'', the

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, 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 Cairns (; ) is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. In the , Cairns had a population of 153,181 people. The city was founded in 1876 and named after William Cairns, Sir W ...

and Woothakata.

Chairmen

* 1903: C P Andersen * 1904: William Walter Mason * 1905: Robert W Warren"Barron Shire Council: Annual Election of Members"
''Morning Post'', 16 Jan 1907 * 1906: Dr.

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, Queensland, Caravonica near Cairns in north-easter ...

* 1907: Charles Strattman * 1908: William Walter Mason * 1909: William Walter Mason"Town and Country"
''Cairns Morning Post'', 9th Feb 1909

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barron Shire Former local government areas of Queensland 1890 establishments in Australia 1919 disestablishments in Australia