Remember when: Albert Shire’s boundaries were declared ‘crazy’ with couple sleeping in both

ALBERT Shire’s boundary problems were not just confined to the Gold Coast end of the Shire.

Gold Coast History: Gold Coast Bulletin 1969, July 29. Front page.

Gold Coast Bulletin, Tuesday July 29, 1969

ALBERT Shire’s boundary problems were not just confined to the Gold Coast end of the Shire.

The boundary was declared to be equally crazy, but in a different way, on the Brisbane end.

Cr C.H Holm told the last meeting the Albert Shire Council of an anomaly in Woodridge which meant a man slept in Albert Shire and his wife in Brisbane.

“As far as I know they are on perfectly good terms,” he said after the meeting.

“It’s just that the boundary between the shire and the city runs right through the place.

“There are a number of examples of this in the Woodridge area, where the boundary cuts right across allotments, instead of following watersheds as we think it should.

“But this is a totally different from the boundary controversy on the Gold Coast end of the shire where the canal estates are.

“There, I think it is just a matter of someone else wanting to take over a slab of the shire now that it has been attractively developed.

“They didn’t want it when it was a colony of mosquitos .”

The council debate was set off by Cr A.M. Craig who asked for an “expression of opinion” about possible boundary changes between the Gold Coast and Albert Shire.

He questioned the reply of the finance committee to a letter from the Albert Shire Ratepayers Association asking for opinions and suggestions.

The Albert Shire was ultimately scrapped in 1995 and amalgamated with the Gold Coast City Council.