Town of Southport

The Town of Southport was a local government area in South East Queensland, Australia.

[10] A new town hall was in opened in 1935 and listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1998.

[11] On 9 December 1948, as part of a major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland, an Order in Council replacing ten former local government areas between the City of Brisbane and the New South Wales border with only four.

[12][13] The former ten were: The four resulting local government areas were: The Order came into effect on 10 June 1949, when the first elections were held.

Following Southport's change of status to a Town, Edward Hicks was elected its first mayor at a meeting on 11 May 1918.