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236 Conclusion Conclusion The twin resources of soil fertility and water have Brisbane Valley in stimulating a rural residential crowned the success of the Brisbane Valley which lifestyle in harmony with the recreational and has the splendid advantage of proximity to tourism opportunities offered for the century Brisbane for future development. The vision of the ahead. pioneering pastoralists in the 1840s for a direct The attractive human picture of life in the Valley road over Mt Glorious will be achieved in 1988. has been achieved through the fruits of the Land use practises have revolved full circle in a dedication of long serving shire Councillors and in century and a half. The chief landed familes have their staff and community leaders moulding the maintained their position in the Valley for almost financial resources available. The enormous all that time. In the 1860s and 1870s immigrants subsidization of frugal committees by the use of selected farms along the river flats and followed up council plant and expertise of its engineers and the tributaries with their cattle to secure a shire clerks has created and maintained sporting, worthwhile future for their children. For them the health, and educational facilities. Local transport result justified the physical toil, exploitation of has been upgraded by the provision of innumerable women, children, Aborigines and animals, watercourse crossings in the Valley and road inseparable from the pioneering process. Their maintenance programmes since the 1920s, vision was to achieve the status of independent stabilizing the region's economy of small yeomen farmers in an egalitarian society. That landholders and attracting rural residents to the opportunity is being repeated for their shire. In the long quiet period of the thirties to the grandchildren's generation through the popularity seventies the human achievement of Councillors of land subdivisions which entice them to the same and their staff have created opportunities out of financial hurdles and demands as their ancestors apparent economic sameness. faced. Ipswich and Brisbane are still the focus of Co-operative efforts of townsmen and the today's generation of young commuters from the leadership of the Council have developed a Valley just as they were for the original settlers. Brisbane Valley community out of both the lush The fertility of the soil and access to markets fattening country on the river flats and the have sustained the wealth in the Brisbane Valley. unmalleable environment of the hill country, and Ultimately that wealth is measured in land and that the strong trait of permanence amongst the landed theme pervades Brisbane Valley history. The families is part of that process. Those landed estates contracted in the wake of the characteristics have been manifested nowhere nineteenth century economic development and more strongly than in the calculating response of twentieth century water resources developments. the Landholders' Committee to the Wivenhoe dam The northern and western sections of the shire development and the accumulation of new viable have prospered through their timber stands and the landholdings by the families descended from those opportunity for cattle grazing with ready access to who commenced the history of the Valley. The real Brisbane and southern markets. These industries issues moved back to where they always belonged for industry, lifestyles, the have all produced a certainty of success their - to the cattle rural and shrewd leaders. advantages of the adjacent capital city. The resulting economic diversification is pure proof of The region has remained largely rural in lifestyle. the theme of achievement while the recreational Whilst dairying and timber once promoted the opportunities of the Wivenhoe environment region through its multitude of factories and revolve on the traditional values and skills of rural sawmills, this has given way slowly to the life practised throughout the history of the lifestyle in advantages of modernity of commuting Brisbane Valley. to Brisbane, Ipswich, and Gatton. Wivenhoe Dam provides a gateway to the future economy of the 236 Esk Divisional Board and Shire Council Members 1880-1987 CHAIRMEN Cochrane, J. 2 1973-1976 Lord, Frederick Mar.1880-Dec.1885, Coleman, P.T. 3 May 1974-1979 Mar.1888-Feb.1889, Feb.1891-Feb.1893. Conroy, Andrew 2 Oct.1940-1946 McConnel, JamesHenry Jan.1886-Mar.1888, Conroy, Barry Malachie 1 1979-1982 Feb.1896-Feb.1899, Mar.1913-May 1914. Conroy, Christopher James 2 Nov.1981- Pryde, Thomas Feb.1889-Feb.1891. Conroy, Hugh 1 Jan.1890-Feb.1908 Taylor, George Charles Feb.1893-Feb.1894. Conroy, Patr3ck M. 2 1967-1979 Clifford, Patrick Feb.1894-Feb.1896. Conroy, Thomas 1 Feb.1908-1916 Francis, Walter Mar.1899-Feb.1901, Feb.1902-Feb.1905. Crombie, James 2 1979- Somerset, Henry Plantagenet Mar.1901-Jan.1902. Cross, I.H. 4 1952-1958 Smith, Alexander Mar.1905-Feb.1906, Feb.1909-Feb.1910, Cross, William Simpson 2 Feb.1927-1930 Feb.1911-Peb.1912, May 1914-Jul.1914, 2 Oct.1934-Aug.1936 Mar,1916-Feb.1917, Aug,1921-Apr.1930. Dargusch, Donald 2 1985-1986 Lord, C.S. Feb.1906-Feb.1907, Davis, H.E.M. 3 1952-1967 Seib, Frederick Feb.1907-Feb.1908. Dickens, Samuel 1 Feb.1898-Dec.1902 MacDonald, John Feb.1908-Feb.1909. Dumke, Paul H. 5 1943-1970 Handley, Charles G. Feb.1910-Feb.1911. Duncan, R,F. 2 Mar.1905-1908 Gardner, H.P. Jul.1914-Mar.1915. Fitzpatrick, JamesC, 5 May 1930-Nov.1937 McConnel, Eric Walter Mar.1915-Mar.1916. Francis, Walter 3 May 1896-1905 Bishop, George Feb.1917-Jan.1919. Frisby, JosephHenry 4 Jan.1919-1921 Butler, William Roy Jan.1919-Feb.1920. 4 May 1922-Oct.1932 Thompson, M. Frederick Feb.1920-Aug.1921. Gannon, James 4 Mar.1914-May 1919 Lewis, William Apr.1930-Aug.1940. Gardner, A.H. 3 1946-1952 Barbour, JamesJor. 1940-Jul.1952, Gardner, Herbert Prescott 3 Feb,1912-Mar.1915 Wells, William Sep.1952-1961. 2 Oct.1915-Mar.1916 McInnes, N.J. 1961-1967. 3 Mar,1916-1927 Haslindgden, Kenneth Edgar 1967-Sep.1983. Golinski, Darrel Lloyd 3 Dec.1981- Williams, Lester JosephOct. 1983-present. Gorrie, Eric A. 3 1952-1954 3 1967-1973 ELECTED MEMBERS AND COUNCILLORS Gorrie, William Morris 3 Apr.1930-1946 DIVISION DATES 3 1949-1952 Andersen, Lars 1 Feb.1912-1915 Graham, George Hamilton 2 May 1930-Sep.1934 1 Aug.1921-1930 Granzien, Daryl Graeme 3 1979- Barbour, JamesJnr. 2 Aug.1921-Mar.1929 Gray, James 4 Mar.1916-1919 2 Apr.1930-1940 4 Aug.1921-May 1922 Barbout, K.A. 2 1955-1964 Grummitt, George Alfred 4 Apr.1926-Oct.1927 Barram, D.T. 5 1982-1985 Grummitt, William Wilfred 4 Aug.1932-1946 Beaumont, J.C. 2 1970-1983 3 1946-1949 Bell, Roy W. 2 Mar.1929-1930 Handley, Charles George 1 Feb.1906-1916 Bishop, George 4 Mar.1914-1921 2 Feb.19ZO-1921 Bishop, John 4 Nov.1927-JUL1932 Haslingden, Kenneth E. 5 1961-1967 Blank, Carl 3 Oct.1899-1900 Hawken, Wilfred 2 1939-1961 Bolden, Lemuel 1 Mar.1880-1886 2 1964-1970 Bowman, Arthur M. 1 Feb.1886-Feb.1889 Hawkins, Thomas 4 May 1919-1921 Bowman, C,W.M. 1 Mar.1882-Mar.1885 Heap, AJfred James 2 Apr.1933-1939 Bowman, J.M. 1 Feb.1885--Feb.1890 Hebbel, John Heinrich 3 Oct.1883-1884 Bray, Jean S 1979- Hine, JamesFrancis 1 Mar.1916-1917 Brennan, Thomas 2 Feb.1891-1906 Jackwitz,L.A. 5 1958-1961 2 Feb.1909-1910 5 1970-1979 Brodie, W.H. 3 Mar.1882--1884 Jorgensen,M.J. 3 1973-May 1974 Brough, James 2 Sep.1936-1943 Josey,E.A. 4 1946-1949 2 1946-1964 Kavanagh, Matthew Owen 1 Feb.1917-1918 Brough, J. McG. 2 1986- 5 Jul.1918-1921 Brown, A.J. 3 1952-1955 Knowles, H.T. 4 1955-1967 Buchanan, Nigel G. 3 Mar.1916-1918 Kohn, H.M. 3 1961-Jan.1968 Butler, William Royston 2 Feb.1906-1916 Langton, Charles Steven 3 Feb.1900-1903 3 Mar.1916-1943 Launder, George 3 1943-1952 Campbell, A.D. I Feb.1881-Jan.1882 Leo, P. 4 Mar.1914-1916 Cannell, Ernest John 3 May 1927--1946 Lewis, William 5 Jul.1918-1933 3 1955-1961 Linde, F.N. 5 1939-1943 Carseldine, D.S. 4 1961-1964 Littleton, J.T. 3 Feb.1881-Feb.1884 CEfford, Patrick 1 Feb.1889-1890 Litzow, C. 5 May 1927-1930 1 1890-1898 Long, F.E. 2 Feb.1954-1955 2 Feb.1899-1905 Lord, Allan Simeon 4 Aug.1968- 237 History of the Shire of Esk Lord. A.W. 4 1949-Aug.1968 Stewart, Duncan 1 Apr.1885-Feb.1890 Lord, C.S. 3 Mar.1905-Dec.1909 Suchting, W.M. 1 Mar,1899-Aug.\900 Lord, Ernest Frederick 2 Mar.1916-1917 Tapsall, John 1 Feb.1917-1918 3 Apr.1898-May 1901 Taylor, G.C. 1 Mar.LSES-IS90 3 Feb.1910-1916 Thompson, Arthur Henry 3 Jan.1890-Apr.1896 Lord, Frederick 2 Mar.1880-1890 Thompson. Frederick 3 Ecb.L910-Feb.191Z 3 1890-1898 3 Apr.1915- 1916 McAlister, R.C. 2 1976-Nov.1981 2 Mar.1916-192\ McConnel, Eric Walter 2 Feb.1908-Feb.1909 Thomson. Peter 1 Mar.1880-jan.l881 2 Jul.1914-1920 Thorn, William 1 Mar.1882-Feb.1885 2 Aug.1921-1927 1 1890-Mar.1899 McConnel, JamesHenry 2 Mar.1880-Jan.1882 Thorne, C.E. 2 1961-1967 2 Apr.1883-1899 2 1970-1973 2 Feb.1911-Mayl914 Thorne, W.S, 3 Feb.1903-1906 MacDonald, John 1 Sep.1900-1909 Toms, Carol Ann 3 Oct.1983- 1 Jan.1913-1916 Varley, Frank 1 196¢-1979 McDonald, Edward 3 Mar.1897-1899 Varley, R.
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