May 28, 2012
Former Murgon Mayor Bill Roberts has been honoured with the official naming of a footbridge in Murgon on Friday.
The ceremony was attended by South Burnett councillors, SBRC CEO Ken McLoughlin, former Murgon Shire councillors, local business owners, friends, family and people who have worked with Bill over the years.
Mayor Wayne Kratzmann paid tribute to Mr Roberts and said the naming of the bridge was a small way of recognising his contribution to the former Murgon Shire.
Mr Roberts is an active and well-respected member of the Murgon community.
He has served on many committees and boards over the years, including the Murgon Fire Brigade Board, Ambulance Committee, Wide Bay-Burnett Area Consultative Committee and the Fraser Coast South Burnett Tourism Board.
In 1980 Mr Roberts was awarded the Order of the British Empire in the New Year’s Honours List for services to the community.
Mr Roberts joined the Air Force in 1944 and in 1946 met and married Mary Travis Cobb in Murgon.
After the war, he worked at his father’s legal practice as a law clerk and on his father’s retirement in 1967 commenced his own practice as a tax agent, which he still runs today.
Mr Roberts was Deputy Mayor of the then Murgon Shire Council from 1970 to 1972 and Mayor from 1972 to 2000.
