Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Mt Magnet 18 March 1939–25 March 1950
- Contested West Perth 25 March 1950
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1947–1950
- Member Joint Printing Committee 1947–1950
- Member Select Committee on the Operations of the Australian Wheat Board at North Fremantle 1943
- Member Select Committee on Westralian Buffalo Club (Private) Bill 1949
Royal Commissions
- Member Hon Royal Commission inquiring into the Vermin Act 1944–1945
- Member Hon Royal Commission inquiring into the Development of the Outports of the State 1945–1946
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Personal Information |
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3 May 1961 |
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Wembley, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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Miner and union secretary |
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Miner at Baddera near Northampton from 1915, engine driver at Westonia 1920 and miner at Meekatharra by 1926 |
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Boulder Municipal Council 8 March 1933–December 1939 |
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Family had moved from New Zealand where father mining engineer on New Zealand reef near Durham, subsequently at Nullagine, Lawlers and Marble Bar
By 1914 farming at Isseka
Became active in the Australian Workers' Union 1932, secretary of mining division based in Boulder but defeated in 1939 ballot just prior to entering Parliament
As union advocate conducted the case in 1937 which resulted in the establishment of the 40 hour week for underground workers
Chairman of Lotteries Commission 1 January 1955–3 May 1961 |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 262.
West Australian, 22 February 1939, 4 May 1961. |
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