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MLC |
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Country Party |
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22 May 1950 |
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Midland |
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Electorates
- MLC Midland Province 22 May 1950–21 May 1965; West Province 22 May 1965–3 September 1967
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1959–1967
- Member Joint House Committee 1955–1959, 1960–1963
- Member Select Committee on the Activities of Private Inquiry Agents 1952
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented WA branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at General Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, 1964
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Personal Information |
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18 January 1909 |
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Palmerston Street, Perth, Western Australia |
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3 September 1967 |
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Bethesda Hospital, Claremont, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Arthur Thomas, farmhand, railway construction worker, engine driver, butcher (at Pithara) and farmer, and Elizabeth Maude Jones |
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Married 24 February 1940, Congregational Church, North Perth to Mavis Mary Slater (born circa 1912), daughter of Henry Arthur and Euphemia Osborne
Children: two daughters
Widowed 24 February 1967 |
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Congregational |
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Farmer |
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Farmed on property, Mardella, in Miling district from 1930s, also at Bindoon |
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Moora Road Board 17 April 1948–April 1952 |
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First secretary Miling and District pasture improvement group
Living in Claremont at time of his death
In youth captained football team in Miling district
Member Moora, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton Clubs, Nedlands Golf Club and Claremont Bowling Club
Presented Ray Jones Shield for perpetual competition among teams in Moora Cricket Council |
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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. 137.
West Australian, 5 September 1967. |
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