Members’ biographical register

Harold Millington

House

MLC MLA

Party

Labor Vice-president Eastern Goldfields Labour Federation 1912 Delegate Australian Labor Party (ALP) (WA Division) Member Fourth General Council (Tenth Labour Congress) 1919

Date first elected

21 March 1914

Year Retired/Resigned

1947

Electorate(s)

North-East Province
Leederville
Mount Hawthorn

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC North-East Province, 21 March 1914 (by-election)–21 May 1920
MLA Leederville, 22 March 1924–12 April 1930; Mount Hawthorn 12 April 1930–March 1947
Contested North-East Province, 8 May 1920; Leederville, 12 March 1921

Office

Minister without portfolio, 30 April–15 December 1927
Minister for Agriculture, 15 December 1927–23 April 1930; for Police 25 June 1928–23 April 1930; for Agriculture and North West, 24 April 1933–26 March 1935; for Police, Education and Water Supplies 26 March 1935–15 July 1936; for Public Works (Works from 20 August, 1936) and Water Supplies 15 July 1936–9 December 1943; for Employment 18 April 1939–9 December 1943

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

25 October 1951

Cause of death

Place of death

St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia. Wesleyan area, EA section, 0683 grave site

Arrived in WA

To WA 1894

Occupation

Miner and union secretary

Employment History

Underground miner, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie, 1900
First president, Amalgamated Surface Workers’ Union, 1912
Full-time secretary, Goldfields Council of Australian Labor Federation, 1914
Secretary and treasurer, Goldfields Carters and Drivers Industrial Union of Workers, 1913
Assistant secretary and secretary, State Executive of ALP, 1921(2)-1924
Assistant secretary, Trades Hall, 1926
Director, People’s Printing and Publishing Co
Chairman of stewards, Western Australian Trotting Association, 1947-1949

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Member, Filterpress and Cyanide Workers' Union On eastern goldfields, Wealth of Nations rush
Menzies and Yuella, 1895
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website records place of death as Mount Lawley

References

Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 139.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=21ecda8c-f41c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c2d3
West Australian, 23 March 1914, 24 March 1924 and 25 October 1951.

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Further Information