Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Avon* 20 November 1943–15 March 1947
- New election ordered by Court of Disputed Returns 24 May 1944, re-elected 1 July 1944
- Contested Avon 15 March 1947
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Personal Information |
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21 August 1885 |
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Gawler, South Australia, Australia |
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25 August 1955 |
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St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Merredin Cemetery, WA |
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Arrived in the eastern wheatbelt with his father in 1910 |
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Son of George Wright Telfer, gardener, storekeeper and farmer, and Ruth Penna |
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Married 17 March 1913, Lake St Chapel, Perth (Church of Christ) to Ethel May Wisher, daughter of Frederick Wisher and Maria Henrietta Stewart
Children: three sons and one daughter
Widowed 15 August 1944 |
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Methodist |
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State schools in South Australia and Western Australia
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Storekeeper and farmer |
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Opened store in town, Telfer stores and agency
Also took up wheat farming
Retired after 1947 |
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Merredin Road Board 1936–1955; chairman from 1938
Member executive Road Board Association 1943–1950 |
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Member Commercial Travellers’ Association, Merredin and Kellerberrin Clubs
Secretary Merredin Agricultural Society for many years |
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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. 250–251.
Who's Who Australia (1947, 50) |
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