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MLC |
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Liberal
Joined Liberal Party in Carnarvon in the 1950s
Secretary and Treasurer in local branch |
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22 May 1968 |
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Lower North |
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Electorates
- MLC Lower North Province 22 May 1968–21 May 1980
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Berry, George William, Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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1980 |
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Personal Information |
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18 May 1913 |
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Maylands, Western Australia |
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4 April 1998 |
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Residence in Carnarvon |
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Son of George, handyman and Annie Adelaide Holding, and father-in-law of Ian James Laurance |
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Married 27 February 1943 at St Paul’s Church, Beaconsfield to Dorothy Isabel Straughair, daughter of William Jack and Isabel Rigby
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Beaconsfield, East Rockingham and Spearwood Primary Schools and Fremantle Boys’ School (commercial course) until May 1926
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Farmer |
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Prior to 1941 clerk employed by William Haughton and Co and Jandakot Wool Scouring Co
Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force 29 May 1941, Flight Sergeant
Discharged 2 November 1945
Master butcher at Spearwood 1945–1954
Banana farmer at Carnarvon 1954–1968 |
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Fremantle Districts (later Cockburn) Road Board circa 1946 –August 1952 |
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Secretary Carnarvon Banana Growers’ Federation before amalgamation
In pre-war year’s treasurer Spearwood Rovers Soccer Club and member Spearwood Gymnasium Club |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p. 16. |
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