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Electorates
- MLA Avon, 13 March 1962–30 March 1974
- MLC Central Province, 22 May 1974–21 May 1989
Office
- Country Party Whip 1969–1974
- Leader National Party in Legislative Council, 1988–1989
Committees
- Member, Printing Committee, 1974–1986
- Member, Standing Orders Committee, 1967–1971
- Member, Joint House Committee, 1971–1974, 1986–1988
- Member, Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 1987–1988
- Member, Select Committee inquiring into City Club (Private) Bill, 1965
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented Western Australian branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at General Conference, New Delhi, 1975
- Also participated in Study Tour, 1967
- Member Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Branch Executive
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Personal Information |
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12 August 1925 |
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Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom |
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15 July 2021 |
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Corrigin, Western Australia |
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Corrigin Cemetery, Corrigin, Western Australia |
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 Gayfer, Harry Walter, Condolence Motion, Assembly.pdf Gayfer, Harry Walter, Condolence Motion, Council.pdf |
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To Western Australia as a child |
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Son of Harry Walter Gayfer, farmer, housing developer and horse trader, and Sophia Edith Lydia Reading |
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Married 17 January 1948, St Matthew’s Church, Corrigin to Alice Mary Hewett, daughter of Charles Robert and Mary Ellen Smith
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated at Claremont Practising and Central School, and Scotch College, 1939–1942
Head prefect and captain, Scotch College, 1942
Represented Scotch College in cricket, football and rowing and Lieutenant in cadets
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Farmer |
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Wheat and sheep farmer
Farmer, Corrigin 1943 on Coongan Downs, property originally selected by his father in 1906 and subsequently enlarged
Company Director, grazier and shareholder, real estate in city
Chair, Cooperative Bulk Handling Limited, 1971 (director from 15 May 1959)–31 October 1996
Chair, Directors CBH Superannuation Fund, 1971–1996
Chair, Bulk Handling Authorities of Australia, 1988–1993
Part station owner, Meekatharra
Director, H W Gayfer Limited, Mami Development Pty Ltd and Coongan Downs Pty Ltd
Director, National Safety Council (Road Division), 1962–1971 |
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Corrigin Shire Council, 16 March 1955–26 May 1962
Deputy president, 1961–1962
Past chair, Great Eastern Ward Road Board Association |
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Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), 1991
Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 1997
Awarded Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal, 1977
Awarded Centenary of Federation Medal, 2003 |
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After parliament resided between ‘Dobroyd’, Corrigin and South Perth
Chair, International Grain Conference and fellow Australian Grains Institute, patron and awarded Fellowship in 1997
Justice of the Peace, 1984
Member, Western Australian Farmers Federation
Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary
Freeman, the Shire of Corrigin
Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Active Freemason, 23rd Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, 1993–1996
Chair, Matso’s Art Gallery and Broome Brewer, 1997
Member, Board of Governors Fairbridge Western Australia Inc. and Chairman of Fundraising Campaign
Life member, (and president) Corrigin Golf Club, Royal Perth Golf Club
Patron many agricultural societies
Office bearer, Corrigin sporting clubs including tennis (secretary), football (president and committee member), cricket (secretary) and golf (president 1958–1967 and then life member)
President, Western Australian Goland Rowing Club
Patron, South Perth Bowling Club
Member, Country Shire Councils Association, 1961–1962
Freeman of Municipality of Corrigin, 1990 |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume two, 1930-2010, Perth, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2011, p. 95-96. |
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