Dalby Council Chambers, 1900

The first Council Chambers building in Dalby was located in Scarlet Street, and was destroyed by fire in 1889.

The second Council Chambers was built in 1900 and was also destroyed by fire in 1909. Newspaper reports from the time state that the fire started in a spare room containing Council documents. The Town Clerk, Mr. B. P. Walker, was found inside the burning building with a bullet wound, which he would die from that night, and which was later deemed to be an accident. The cause of the fire was unknown.

The fire also threatened the residence of the Manager of the Commercial Bank, and was only saved from the fire by the efforts of residents carting water by bucket from a water trough on the other side of the street.