Cr James Jnr. Barbour was a candidate for the Executive Committee of Local Authorities Association of Queensland. He was a grazier and connected with timber industry. He was a councillor for 15 years, chairman of the Finance Committee for nine years and acting Chairman of Council for six 6 months. He was a founding member of the Stanley District Memorial Hospital, Director of Esk Co-operative Dairy Co. and organiser of the West Moreton District exhibits at the Sydney Royal Show and Brisbane Exhibition.
He was elected as a councillor from August 1921 to March 1929 and again from April 1930 to 1940. He served as chairman from 1940 to July 1952.
He helped to organise the first Esk show and was president of the show society for more than 30 years. He was known as a shrewd, forthright and unsophisticated cattleman. He died in 1952 at the age of 74.
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