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Cambooya Shire was created by severance from Clifton Shire on 4 June 1914. Part of Tarampa Shire was added in 1915 and part of Drayton Shire was added in 1949.

In 2004 Cambooya Shire included the towns of:

  • Cambooya
  • East Greenmount
  • Greenmount
  • Wyreema. 

It also included the localities of:

  • Ascot
  • Budgee
  • Felton
  • Finnie
  • Hirstglen
  • Hodgson Vale
  • Mt Rascal
  • Nobby
  • Preston
  • Ramsay
  • Top Camp
  • Vale View
  • West Haldon
  • Westbrook.

On 15 May 2008, the Cambooya Shire Council was amalgamated with seven other Councils to form Toowoomba Regional Council.

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1914 - 1915: Arthur Hoey Davis

1916: James Purcell

1916 - 1917: Edward Fitzgerald

1918: Timothy O'Rourke

1919: William Purcell

1920: Malcolm Brodie

1921 - 1923: James Lemon

1924 - 1939: Edward Fitzgerald

1939 - 1943: Samuel John Gilmour

1943 - 1949: William Henry Lipp

1949 - 1966: Leslie Ashby Free

1966 - 1973: George Gordon Savage

1973 - 1976: George Hannaford

1976 - 1982: George Gordon Savage

1982 - 1985: William Archibald Woods

1985 - 1993: Thomas Stratford Newman

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1993 - 2000: Robert Leslie Free

2000 - 2004: John Gordon Savage

2004 - 2008: Carol Estelle Taylor

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Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) (1868 - 1935)

Arthur Hoey Davis was chairman of Cambooya Shire Council from 1914 to 1915.

Arthur was well known for writing the Dad and Dave stories. He was raised on a farm near Emu Creek (south of Toowoomba). He left school at the age of 12 and starting working on properties in the area. In 1885 he moved to Brisbane where is began writing his comic stories and his stories were published in the Sydney Bulletin from 1895. The stories were collected in On Our Selection (1899) with assistance from A.G. Stephen Davis. These stories came to be known as Dad and Dave. He published more than 20 works of fiction and six plays.

Arthur moved to Sydney to pursue his writing career; however, due to financial pressures returned to a property on the Darling Downs. He died in Brisbane on 11 October 1935.