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State
Electorates
- MLC Metropolitan Province 8 May 1948 (by-election)–21 May 1968
- Contested Metropolitan Province 1 November 1941 (by-election—defeated by one vote)
Committees
- Member Standing Orders Committee 1955–1968
- Member committee to prepare case for Secession and of Delegation to Imperial Parliament 1934–1935
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Contested Fremantle (House of Representatives) 17 November 1928, 12 October 1929, 19 December 1931
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Personal Information |
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13 January 1973 |
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Charles Jenkins Hospital, Bentley, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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Storekeeper, accountant and manager |
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Telegraph messenger boy 1915
Worked in Tax Department from 1919
Set up in business as tax consultant and public accountant from 1922
Director Perth Building Society 1932–1971, chairman 1951–1971 |
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Knight (Kt) 1968 |
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According to the Sunday Times (Perth) 11 April 1948, p. 7, HK Watson was 'Keith to most people'
President WA Association of Permanent Building Societies 1951–1969
Chairman WA Thomas and Co flour millers, 1950–1963
Director WA Insurance Co Ltd, Western Press Ltd and George Weston Foods Ltd
Associate from 1929, and Fellow from 1946, Institute of Incorporated Secretaries
Strong advocate of secession—co-founder in 1930, honorary secretary then Chairman Dominion League during most of secession referendum campaign, subsequently honorary treasurer—member of delegation to United Kingdom 1934–1935 and remained with League until 1938
Member Board Kingswood College, University of Western Australia
Member Dalkeith Bowling Club, Nedlands Golf Club |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 271. |
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Colless, VH, Men of Western Australia, Perth, published by the author, p. 99.
Independent,14 January 1973.
Moore, Bryce, A Superior Kind of Savings Bank. Perth Building Society 1862-1987, Perth, Challenge Bank in association with the Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia.
Harry C. J. Phillips, 'Watson, Sir Henry Keith (1900–1973)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-sir-henry-keith-11977/text21469, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 12 January 2016.
Sunday Times, 14 January 1973.
Watt ED, Western Separatism: the history of the Secession Movement in Western Australia, MA thesis, University of WA, 1958.
West Australian, 28 May 1935, 28 January 1962, 1 January 1968, 15 January 1973.
Western Australian Parliamentary Debates, 5 August 1964, 10 August 1968. |