Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Foundation member and secretary Riverton branch Australian Labor Party |
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7 April 1956 |
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Canning |
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Electorates
- MLA Canning 7 April 1956–21 March 1959
Committees
- Member Select Committee on Five Day Working Week for Banks 1956
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Search for speeches by William Gaffy |
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1959 |
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Personal Information |
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8 June 1898 |
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Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia |
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8 August 1970 |
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Riverton, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To Western Australia when three years old |
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John (Peter) Gaffy, farmer, and Margaret Mary Flanagan |
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Married 7 August 1943, St Matthew’s Church, Geraldton (Church of England) to Ella Mavis Lance, daughter of Josiah Wasley Paul and Ella Kingsbury
No children |
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Catholic |
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Possibly attended school at York
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Fitter and turner |
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Worked for many years as fitter and turner at Wigmores Limited
Employed in munitions factory at Welshpool during World War II
After leaving Parliament, clerk with Water Supply Department 11 May 1959–1962, with State Housing 1962–1969 |
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Foundation member, trustee, secretary North Riverton Progress Association
Member East Fremantle Football Club and Western Australian Cricket 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. 93. |
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