City of Charters Towers

City of Charters Towers Charters Towers
Region	North Queensland

The City of Charters Towers was a

On 13 April 1909, Charters Towers was proclaimed a City.[4]^[5][6]

A separate

On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the City of Charters Towers amalgamated with the Shire of Dalrymple to form the Charters Towers Region.^[6][8]

Suburbs

The City of Charter Towers included the following settlements:

• Alabama Hill
• Columbia
• Grand Secret
• Lissner (later renamed Charters Towers City
  )
• Millchester
• Mosman Park
• Queenton
• Richmond Hill
• Toll
• Towers Hill

Population

Mayors

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2012)

In the early period of local government in Queensland, elections for aldermen were held annually and the mayor was elected from among the aldermen. Later the mayor became directly elected but still on an annual basis. Finally there was the move to three-year election cycles.^{[citation needed]}

• 1877–?: John McDonald^[9][10]
• 1894: Frederick Johnson^[11] (son of South Australian politician Thomas Johnson)
• 1897: Edward Miles 1897^[12]
• 1901: P. J. Allen
• 1903: Frederick Johnson^[11]
• 1908: David Rollston ^[13]
• 1908: William Grant Clark
• David (Dave) Missingham^[14]
• 1913–1914: Frederick Johnson ^[11]
• 1916: C. Watts ^[15]
• 1925: Thomas Chappe^[10]
• 1927: Charles Brownson ^[16]
• Bryan Beveridge^{[citation needed]}

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