Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Liberal until 1956, then Independent Liberal Labor from 1962 |
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17 February 1951 |
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Maylands |
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Electorates
- MLA Maylands 17 February 1951 (by-election)–7 April 1956; Mt Lawley 7 April 1956–31 March 1962; Maylands 31 March 1962–20 February 1965
- Contested Maylands 20 February 1965
Committees
- Member Select Committee on Native Welfare Conditions in the Laverton–Warburton Range area 1956
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1965 |
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Personal Information |
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23 August 1920 |
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Maylands, Western Australia |
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2 December 1990 |
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Noranda, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Ernest Henry Oldfield, commercial traveller, and Lena Eva Peate |
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Married 24 (or 23) November 1944, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Margaret Josephine Smith (died 10 February 2007), daughter of Alfred Bernard Smith and Josephine Mary Ryan
Children: two sons |
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Not stated |
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Educated Victoria Park State School and Perth Boys’ School
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Salesperson |
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Worked as truck driver in 1940
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 20 May 1940
With Head Quarters Company 2/16 Battalion in Egypt, Syria and New Guinea—Private
Discharged 1945
Commercial traveller with Wigmores till 1951
Self employed later, owned battery making plant for a time in 1950s and 1960s
Investor |
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Bayswater Road Board April 1949–April 1955 |
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Councillor WA Industrial Institute and Council for the Blind
President Maylands Returned Services League of Australia
Member Commercial Travellers' Association |
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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. 198. |
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