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- WA MPs with missing information
- Frederick Arthur Baglin (1872–?)
- Hugh Alexander Gourley (1875–?)
- Charles Henry Oldham (1863–?)
- Albert James Wilson (1878–?)
- Frederic Whitcombe (1858–?)
- Living WA MPs
- Bill Grayden (born 1920)
- Winifred Piesse (born 1923)
- David Evans (born 1924)
- Harry Gayfer (born 1925)
- Matt Stephens (born 1926)
- James Brown (born 1927)
- Don Taylor (born 1928)
- Clive Griffiths (born 1929)
- Tom McNeil (born 1929)
- June Craig (born 1930)
- Max Evans (born 1930)
- Arthur Tonkin (born 1930)
- David Wordsworth (born 1930)
- Gordon Masters (born 1931)
- Muriel Patterson (born 1931)
- Joe Berinson (born 1932)
- Geoff Grewar (born 1932)
- Beryl Jones (born 1932)
- Jim Clarko (born 1932)
- Bill McNee (born 1933)
- Neil Oliver (born 1933)
- David Reid (born 1933)
- Lyla Elliott (born 1934)
- Arthur Marshall (born 1934)
- Howard Olney (born 1934)
- Alan Ridge (born 1934)
Background
[edit]Electoral reform
[edit]The 1927 election was the sixth and last election to be held under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1911, passed by the government of Frank Wilson. Several governments since then had attempted to legislate for another redistribution of seats, but without success. The consequence of this inaction was that the Legislative Assembly had become severely malapportioned. In metropolitan seats at the 1927 election, the average enrolment was 8,683, whereas the average enrolment in goldfields seats was 1,262. The most populous electorate, Canning, had 17,347 enrolled voters (almost nine percent of the state as a whole), while the least populous electorate, Menzies, had just 265 enrolled voters.[1]
Party politics
[edit]In the aftermath of the 1924 state election, seven Country Party MLAs
Mayor of Kalgoorlie
[edit]Moore was sworn in as Mayor of Kalgoorlie on 7 July 1937, replacing Ernest Brimage (who had died in office the previous month). He held the position until his own death on 15 September 1966, at the age of 88. Moore was an extremely popular mayor, and in 1957 the townspeople raised A£850 in order to send he and his wife away on holiday. His mayoralty was relatively low-profile, and his devout Methodism was said to have caused him to shy away from any publicity or controversy. Unlike some of his predecessors, who had had to deal with economic instability and ethnic tensions, Moore was able to concentrate mainly on municipal issues,
- ^ p. 114.