Margaret Alice 'Meg' Wuth was Dalby's first female Mayor, appointed at the 1982 March elections of the Dalby Town Council, and served as Mayor until 1988.
Meg Wuth was born in Innisfail in 1936, and after her family moved to Toowoomba in 1941, she quickly became a local swimming champion, holding district records and attending carnivals around the region.
After finishing school, she studied pharmacy and worked in pharmacies on the Gold Coast which led to her marriage to Alfred 'Bruce' Wuth in 1958.
Around 1960, the Wuths had set up a chemist shop in Dalby with Meg greeting the customers, while Bruce processed the scripts out the back. For a time, Meg also ran the Dalby Garden Centre, adjacent to their Cunningham Street pharmacy.
In 1976, Meg Wuth decided to run for election as an Alderman, and in 1982 she was elected Mayor. Instantly likeable and a great communicator, Meg resoundingly defeated the incumbent, becoming was the town's first and only female Mayor.
Always well read on local issues and a good chairwoman, Meg Wuth loved Dalby and its people, enjoyed the support of staff, and was always open to listening to ways to improve the council's performance. One achievement was to put in place a strategy to be debt free by the year 2000. The goal was achieved in 1998, with the help of her successor Warwick Geisel.
Her views on town planning and affordable flood mitigation works were also innovative, and after being elected Mayor again in 1985, she set her sights on the Bicentenary in 1988 before retiring.
