Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
1891 assisted in organising first Australian Labor elections in New South Wales
President Australian Labor Party Geraldton district |
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3 October 1911 |
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Geraldton |
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Electorates
- MLA Geraldton 3 October 1911–19 October 1913
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1913 |
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Personal Information |
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4 July 1867 |
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West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom |
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19 October 1913 |
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West Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1897 |
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James Roland, stonemason and storeman, and (Katherine) Ann Harkin |
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Married 16 June 1904, District Registry Office, Geraldton to Helen Watson (born circa 1881, Victoria), daughter of George Alfred and Elizabeth Mary Bloomfield
Children: two daughters |
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Catholic |
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Educated in Sydney, NSW
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Railway worker and carriage builder |
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1884 apprenticed as coach builder
Worked in outback areas of Australia and in New Zealand
Coachbuilder Railway Department Western Australia
Carriage and coach builder at Geraldton from 1903 |
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Geraldton Municipal Council 1910–1912 |
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1888 joined Sydney Coachbuilders’ Society
Member Sydney Socialist League
1898 foundation member and later life member WA branch Australian Society of Amalgamated Engineers
1901–1902 delegate to Trades and Labour Council
Organised Eight Hours demonstration
First president Victoria District General Workers’ Union
Founder Geraldton Cooperative Society
Member local Railway Ambulance Corps
President Railways Football Club
Prominent in Geraldton Dramatic Society |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2010, p. 66. |
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