Parliamentary Service |
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MLC |
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Country Party
Member of party for 42 years |
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22 May 1965 |
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Lower Central |
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Electorates
- MLC Lower Central Province 22 May 1965–21 May 1977
Royal Commissions
- Member Hon Royal Commission inquiring into the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Dependants 30 May 1972–1 May 1973
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1977 |
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Personal Information |
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17 January 1914 |
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Collie, Western Australia |
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8 March 1998 |
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Collie Hospital, Western Australia |
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Darkan Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Charles Leonard Perry, farmer, and Lillian Cunningham Liddle |
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Married 19 March 1941, Methodist Church, Collie to Margaret Joan Trigwell, daughter of Walter James Ingwell and Annie Isabelle Stewart
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Uniting Church |
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Educated Bullading State School
Left school at the end of 1927
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Farmer |
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Worked with his father until 1939 then leased father’s sheep farm in Darkan
Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force 1 February 1942, invalided out circa August 1942
After his father’s death in 1948 in partnership with brother for two years then each farmed half the property |
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West Arthur Road Board April 1946–May 1965
President 1949–1958
Vice-president Great Southern Shire Council Association 1959–1965
Also six years as representative on Country Shire Councils Association of WA |
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Retired from Parliament following car accident
Son took over farming property
Member Darkan branch Farmers’ Union
Member Darkan Progress Association
Foundation chairman Darkan St John Ambulance Association 1958–1966, hon life member 8 February 1966
Justice of the Peace, 1959
Member Darkan Rifle Club for 57 years
Member of cricket, football and tennis clubs holding positions including secretary and captain |
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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. 209.
West Australian, 22 February 1965, 10 March 1998. |
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