Lowood Shire Council

Lowood was originally sited on the boundaries of three shires – Walloon, Tarampa and Esk. The Lowood Shire was formed on 19 January 1912, Lowood Shire was created out of all three and parts of Laidley, with the first meeting held on Wednesday 27 March 1912.

The election of members was held in March 1912 and the first meeting was held  in Wednesday 27 March. The first members were Councillors Otto Theodore Sakrzewski, Ernest Cooper Nunn, August Feldahn for Division 1, Ernest Christian Frederick Beutel, Johann Kohler and Carl Frederick Truloff for for Division 2, and Frederick William Banff, Matthew Owen Kavanagh and Neils Jensen Linde for Division 3. Cr Kavanagh, who had been chairman of Walloon Shire since 1911, was elected on the motion of Crs. Kohler and Beutel.

Lowood Shire was abolished in 1916.

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