1910 to 1919
1910		Many Chinese were now growing tobacco on a share farming basis.
		A telegraph messenger was employed by the post office.
		Rev Arthur Setchell, a missionary, sets up camp at Sevington Mission Station at Pindari.
1911		Ashford had a population 343. Ashford Shire population 2490.
		Coal mine had been opened.
		Presbyterian Manse was built and occupied by the Rev Albert Bates.
		A new school building is opened on Sevington with an enrolment of 10 girls and 15 boys. There were now 91 Aboriginal people in residence on the mission station.
	Jul 3	A branch of the Government Savings Bank was opened at the post office.
1912		A bridge was built over the Severn River at a place that was then called New's Crossing.
		The new shire council chambers was officially opened.
		A Bush Nursing Service began.
		The mails were now handled as follows: arrived from Inverell 6 days a week at midnight and despatched at 3am; arrived from Bonshaw 3 days a week, twice at 7pm and once at 1:30am and returned 3 days weekly at 3am; Hadley's mail arrived 9am Sunday and returned that day at 7pm; Pindari mail arrived twice weekly at 6pm and left at 3am; Rocky Creek mail left 7am and arrived 6pm
1913		The Roman Catholic Church building was opened as part of the Inverell Parish.	Empire Day 1913. Procession gathered in Martyn Street opposite the school.
1914		An American won prizes in the Chicago Exposition of 1914 with tobacco cured at 'Beaumont' by Mr Howell (Mr Howell later became the government tobacco expert in Queensland).
1915		Bush Nursing centre was built.
1916		A Parliamentary committee report was made on the feasibility of an Ashford rail link.
		Ashford Shire Office erected.
		Rev Setchell leaves Sevington mission station.
		Missionary teacher Miss Eva Hagan suggests Sevington be renamed as Noorcoorilma.
1917		New manager, Charles Burage arrives on Noocoorilma.
		H. A. Fraser appointed as Shire President.
		The Ashford Railway League was formed to try and secure the extension of the railway system from Inverell to Ashford.
1918		M. Sinclair appointed as Shire President.
	Sep	Miss Mary Egan takes up a position as assistant teacher.
1906		An effigy of the German Kaiser is burned in the main street in celebration of the end of World War I.
1919		Total Ashford Shire (550,000ha) population 2100. 300 people lived in the township.
		Tobacco growing ceased.
	Nov 8	The Bank of New South Wales opened a branch at Ashford