Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
Joined Australian Labor Party as young man |
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14 February 1953 |
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Gascoyne |
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Electorates
- MLA Gascoyne 14 February 1953–30 March 1974
- Contested Gascoyne 1951 (by-election)
Office
- Speaker 16 November 1971–30 March 1974
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1957–1959
- Chairman of Committees 20 July 1971–15 November 1971
- Member Library Committee 1968–1971
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented WA branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at General Conference, Canberra, 1959
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Personal Information |
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12 July 1905 |
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Wadhurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
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10 January 1992 |
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Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To Victoria 1913, Western Australia 1928 |
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Son of Daniel Simpson Norton, orchardist and Florence Amelia Dunston Haward |
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Married 14 June 1933, St Matthew’s Church, Guildford to Sheila Campbell Wilkes (known as Travers, born 1906), daughter of Cecil John and Georgina Campbell
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Tresco (near Swan Hill) State School and Ballarat Church of England Grammar School, Victoria
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Farmer |
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Worked for Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply on wheat farms and vineyards, 1921–1928, picked up trade as motor fitter
Various occupations including truck driver and wheat lumper, motor mechanic in Perth 1933, at Wubin until 1934, opened service station
Moved to Carnarvon 1934, re-opened general store, East Carnarvon
Salesman for International Harvester Company 1938–1941, covered area from Bruce Rock to Busselton
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 29 December 1941
Served in Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers—Staff Sergeant
Discharged 5 July 1944
Banana plantation owner at Carnarvon from circa 1945 |
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Member Australian Workers' Union, Carnarvon Banana Growers’ Association
Director and chairman (1950–1952) Gascoyne Co-operative
First chairman ‘Water Rights in Irrigation’, Carnarvon
St John Ambulance president and driver |
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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. 194.
Speakers Presidents.
Who's Who in Australia(1977) |
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