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Electorates
- MLA Boulder 14 September 1951 (by-election)–31 March 1962 (electorate abolished in redistribution); Boulder–Eyre 31 March 1962–23 March 1968 (electorate abolished in redistribution); Boulder–Dundas 23 March 1968–20 February 1971
Office
- Minister for Mines and Chief Secretary (from 13 November 1958) 19 December 1957–2 April 1959
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1953–1956
- Chairman of Committees 7 August 1956–27 November 1957
- Member Select Committee on the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Racing Clubs Act Amendment (Private) Bill 1953
- Member Select Committee on the Uniformity of Liquid Fuel Prices 1956
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Personal Information |
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24 December 1900 |
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Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia |
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27 April 1984 |
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Black Rock, Melbourne, Victoria |
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Karrakatta Lawn Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Robert McAlister Moir, timber mill engine driver and miller, and Elizabeth Mill |
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Married 4 March 1933, Charles St, Methodist Church, Perth to Olive Augusta Lockett, daughter of Robert Arthur Lockett and Nellie Jean Lovelock
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Uniting Church |
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Educated Yarloop and Wellbungen
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Miner and union official |
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Worked in timber mills at Wellington Mills and then in Victoria and NSW in early 1920s
Wheat farming at North Bencubbin 1926–1937
Machine miner at Kalgoorlie 1937–1948, received underground supervisor’s certificate 1943
Organiser Mining Division Australian Workers Union (AWU) Kalgoorlie and Boulder section December 1948–1951 |
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Mt Marshall Road Board 29 November 1929–April 1936 |
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Spent childhood near Collie
Previously honorary president AWU
In younger days professional boxer at Old Melbourne Stadium and active in log chopping championships in south-west of WA |
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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. 184 |
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