Parliamentary Service |
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Member
Central Executive Primary Producers Association |
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22 May 1940 |
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South-East |
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Electorates
- MLC South-East Province (renamed South Province 1950), 22 May 1940–21 May 1960
Committees
- Chairman, Select Committee on the Negotiations for the Purchase and delivery of the ‘Landliner’ and ‘Cheetah’ omnibuses, 1947–1948
- Member, Select Committee on Standardisation of Railway Gauge Kalgoorlie to Fremantle, 1945–1946
- Member, Joint Select Committee inquiring into the Licensing Act, 1957–1958
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1960 |
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Personal Information |
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5 November 1893 |
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York, Western Australia |
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15 July 1962 |
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St Joseph's Hospital, Bicton, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA.
Roman Catholic area, lawn 3 section, 0102B grave site |
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Son of Hugh Henry Roche, engineer and farmer, and Maria Josephine Lockyer |
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Married 29 March 1944, St Mary's Church, West Perth to Mariane Florence Reid (born circa 1904 and died 21 October 1961), pharmaceutical chemist, daughter of William Henry Reid and Gertrude Mary McNamara
No children
Widowed 21 October 1961 |
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Church of England |
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York State School and Christian Brothers' College Perth
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Farmer |
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Enlisted Australian Imperial Forces, 11 January 1915
Served with 10th Light Horse and Australian Pay Corps; Extra Regiment Corporal from 1 September 1916; Sergeant, 1 February 1917; Extra Regiment Staff Sergeant, 1 September 1917; Warrant Office Class I, 15 November 1918
Returned to Australia after October 1919, discharged 14 February 1920
Employed as clerk for a time
Farmed at Narlingup, Kojonup, from the mid-1920s |
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Member, Kojonup Road Board, 10 April 1926–July 1940 |
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Member, WA Club and Commercial Travellers’ Association
Member, State Executive Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League of Australia
Lived with widowed mother, Subiaco |
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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. 227.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 12 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=6eaedd73-f71c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c4b9 |
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