ThePialba Shire Council was alocal government inQueensland, Australia that existed from 1905 to 1917.[1]
The council's headquarters, thePialba Shire Hall, is now known as thePialba Memorial Hall, and is on theFraser Coast Local Heritage Register.[2]
The council had twodivisions which each elected threecouncillors. The six councillors thenelected theirchairman, the first of whom wasHans Fevre.[3]
In August 1905 the council appointed its first Shire Clerk,Nicholas Tooth, a former MP and Mayor of the neighboring Maryborough council.[4]
The later years of the council’s existence coincided with the construction of theUrangan Pier (1913-1917). The connection between the histories and legacies of the council and the Urangan Pier is the subject of the book Pialba and the Pier by Fraser Coast MayorGeorge Seymour.[5]
The final meeting of the Pialba Shire Council was held on 4 April 1917.[6] The area of the Pialba Shire Council was then grouped together with the area of the also abolished Howard Shire Council and part of the abolished Antigua Shire Council as well as part of the Maryborough City Council to form the new Burrum Shire Council (which covered a different area to the Burrum Shire Council that existed prior to 1905).[7]
