Parliamentary Service |
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MLC |
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Labor |
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22 May 1946 |
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South |
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Electorates
- MLC South Province (South East Province from 1950) 22 May 1946–21 May 1965
- Contested North East Province 11 May 1940
Committees
- Member Joint Printing Committee 1953–65
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 Bennetts, George Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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1965 |
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Personal Information |
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11 April 1890 |
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Wallaroo Mines, South Australia, Australia |
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27 March 1980 |
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Craigwood convalescent home, Como, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Came to Western Australia 16 January 1896 |
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Son of George Bennetts, Engine Driver, and Julia Ann Pope |
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Married 30 January 1912, District Registry Office, Kalgoorlie, Alice Lillian King (born circa 1891), daughter of Fred and Alice Naomi Berry
Children: four sons and three daughters
Widowed 5 January 1977 |
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Methodist |
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Reverend Collick’s School 1896, Convent School on the Horseshoe Lease, and South Boulder School
Left school at 14 years
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Railway conductor |
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Started work as labourer with building contractor, then in bicycle trade
Pulled sandalwood (1906)
Joined Western Australian Government Railways (1911) as a porter, worked in Kalgoorlie and Boulder as acting conductor and ticket collector
Worked on Ivanhoe mine
From 1913 in Commonwealth Railways construction branch, then on trains, head conductor on first Trans-Australia train
Retired to Perth |
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Kalgoorlie Municipal Council 28 November 1935–November 1952 |
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For many years officer of Australian Workers Union, railways branch
Justice of the Peace
Superintendent St John’s Ambulance, Kalgoorlie
Raised money to buy Kalgoorlie’s first ambulance
Prime mover in construction of first Kalgoorlie swimming pool |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010 , p. 14.
Sunday Times, 28 January 1972.
West Australian, 28 March 1980.
Who's Who in Australia, 1962.
Dictionary of Western Australians, volume 5.
Transcript of oral interview, Battye Library, Perth. |
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