Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLC North-East Province 22 May 1938–1 May 1963
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1952–1953
- Chairman of Committees 11 August 1954–1 May 1963
- Member Joint House Committee 1947–1953 and thereafter as Chairman of Committees
- Member Select Committee inquiring into Third Party Risks under the Traffic Act 1940
- Member Select Committee inquiring into the Negotiations for the Purchase and Delivery of Landliner and Cheetah Omnibuses 1947
- First member of the Australian Labor Party to hold the post of Chairman of Committees (Deputy President) in Legislative Council
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Personal Information |
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3 May 1902 |
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Sister Veronica's Hospital, Boulder, Western Australia |
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1 May 1963 |
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St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Lucy Reaper, registered as son of George Henry Hall, greengrocer, and Caroline Emerson |
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Married 25 October 1922, St John’s Cathedral, Kalgoorlie to Dulcie Tangney (died 20 February 1992), daughter of Peter Tangney and Matilda Mary Conley (nee Floyd), widow
Children: two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated South and Central Kalgoorlie Schools
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Miner and union secretary |
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Miner at Boulder in early 1920s, connected with goldfields unions
Kalgoorlie tramways employee by 1926
Secretary Tramways Employees’ Union for ten years |
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Kalgoorlie Road Board 2 April 1933–April 1949
Chairman Kalgoorlie Road Board 1935–1949 |
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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. 106.
West Australian, 2 May 1963.
Kalgoorlie Miner, 6 May 1938, 2 May 1963. |
Bibliography |
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