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The Press of Western Australia.
The genesis of journalism in Western Australia is an interesting chapter not only of the history of the Press, but also of the many striking personalities who formed the “Fourth Estate” of the infant Swan River settlement.
Much of the following summary is abstracted from a work by Mr. Edward Stirling, afterwards identified with one of the largest journalistic enterprises in the State. In this little work, “A Brief History of Western Australia,” we have facts placed before us by one who was contemporaneous with the situations he depicts, and in many respects the work partakes of the nature of an autobiography.
We also learn from a diary kept by Mr. George Fletcher Moore that within a few months of the foundation of the settlement that a copy of a manuscript paper was issued This paper was published by a man named Gardiner, but its existence seems to have been brief and troubled. This was followed by another manuscript journal published by W K. Shenton at the Gazette office, Fremantle, and published at 3s. per copy. A copy of this sheet is at present in the library of the British Museum.
In May, 1832, Charles Macfaull in conjunction with W. K. Shenton printed a small news-sheet called The Fremantle Observer, but the partnership was not of long duration.
The story of the first newspaper is a somewhat humorous resume of the history of the “Fourth Estate” in Western Australia. The publishing house was a shed owned by Colonel Latour in Fremantle, and whilst in one corner was printed the first newspaper of the settlement in the other was the mill which ground the first bushel of wheat in the colony.
The partnership existing between Messrs. Macfaull and Shenton was not of very lengthy duration owing to the vagaries of a contributor, and Mr. Macfaull continued the sheet for a time after the dissolution of the partnership.
The paper, however, became defunct after twelve months’ existence owing to the financial embarrassment of the publisher, who could not afford the weekly rent required for the hire of the plant.
The owner of the plant, Mr. Weasel, soon after established a paper called The Inquisitor, which led to a sad contretemps, with a still sadder ending. The contributors or staff of this journal were Captain Graham,
formerly Governor of Sierra Leone, whose bickerings with the Colonial authorities were public knowledge; Mr. Yule, afterwards police magistrate of Perth; a Mr. Johnstone, who was engaged in mercantile pursuits; and a Scotch lawyer named Clarke. The policy of the paper on Government affairs led to many disagreements between the staff, who held on many questions of public interest strongly divergent views. A disagreement of a more than usually passionate and acrimonious nature led to the statement by Johnstone that Clarke was “no gentleman,” and a duel was the result. Johnstone was mortally wounded by Clarke’s fire, and died in twelve hours. Thus the first year’s publication ended in murder—a significant travesty on that freedom which should be the keynote of all true journalism.
In 1833 The Perth Gazette made its appearanoe, under the leadership of Mr. Macfaull, whose second venture in the realms of journalism was fairly successful—at least for a few years. This was the progenitor of The West Australian of to-day.
In 1835 Mr. Waylen published a letter in this news-sheet in criticism of the captain and crew of a vessel named the “Skerne,” which had been wrecked between Carnac and Garden Island. The letter accused the captain of drunkenness, and he sued the paper for £500 damages for libel. The solicitor for the plaintiff was Mr Nairn Clarke, already notorious as the slayer of Johnstone, who put in an ingenious plea, that as the captain only wanted to protect his character any damages ttp jury liked to assess would be given to the poor of Perth On the evening of the first day of the trial Clarke had an interview with the foreman of the jury—a most unrighteous proceeding—and promised him the sum of £5 for a jollification if the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. This they did, assessing damages at £75. The “spree” eventuated, but Macfaull never recovered from the financial embarrassment caused by this unjust verdict.
In 1835 Clarke, so notorious previously in journalism, became the publisher of a second journal named The Guardian, which had a brief existence of twelve months.
Having outlined the early efforts of journalism in this State, let us pass on to a history of those particular journals whose policies and literature have become part and parcel of the life of the people.
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“The West Australian.”
Before proceeding to give a brief historical review of the oldest daily paper in this State—The West Australian—which has had a continuous existence dating from the year 1833, it would be as well to take a glance at the earlier history of Australasian journalism.
A comparative table giving the date of the foundation of the oldest newspaper in each State of the Commonwealth, including New Zealand, will no doubt prove interesting, and serve also to impress the fact that in the realm of journalism throughout Australasia Western Australia holds a deservedly high place.
The following brief summary of dates will show very clearly the position of the leading Western Australian newspaper in regard to the other principal newspapers in the capital cities of the Commonwealth and New Zealand: —
Sydney Morning Herald (New South Wales).— • first published in April, 1831, as The Sydney H erald.
West Australian (Western Australia).—First published under the name of The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal in January, 1833, since which time publication has been continuous.
South Australian Register (South Australia).— First published as The South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register in June, 1836.
The Argus (Victoria).—First published in 1838 as The Melbourne Advertiser, in 1846 renamed The Melbourne Argus, eventually to become The Argus.
The New Zealander (New Zealand).—First published in 1841, and ceased publication in 1863, but was followed immediately by a paper called The New Zealand Herald, published by one of the proprietors of the defunct journal.
The Launceston Examiner (Tasmania).—First published in March, 1842.
The Brisbane Courier (Queensland).—First published under the name of The Moreton Bay Courier in June, 1845.
A glance at the above will at once disclose that The West Australian can justly lay claim to the proud position of the second oldest journal in Australasia, and it will be satisfactorily proved that the reputation of the newspaper is as high in every other respect.
While it is the oldest existing newspaper in Western Australia, it must not be forgotten that several other efforts in journalism, already noted, preceded it, though they had but an ephemeral life.
Satisfactory evidence is forthcoming that a manuscript newspaper was published but a few months after the foundation of the Swan River Settlement, and in ll2
the library of the British Museum is to be found a copy of a news-sheet published in March, 1831, with the high-sounding title of Western Australian Chronicle and Perth Gazette. The imprint shows that it was published by W. K. Shenton at The Gazette office, Fremantle.
It would be interesting if The West Australian could be traced to have had its genesis in this news-sheet, and when we consider the transactions that existed between Shenton and Macfaull, the first publisher of The Perth Gazette, it requires no stretch of imagination to give to the paper even an earlier date than that already ascribed.
Late in the year 1832 Macfaull, who already had had several essays in journalism, imported a Stanhope printing press, and on January 5, 1833, he printed the first number of The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, which still survives as The West Australian.
Of the first issue a copy does not exist in the State, but it is known that it was printed as a four-page demy sheet. News in 1833 was strictly limited, and the issue was certainly an artistic production- of “scissors and paste”; but the community cheerfully paid the sum of one shilling for the paper. The second issue of the Journal was on January 12,1833, and Macfaull was justly proud of his effort. The libel action spoken of before now eventuated and placed the intrepid publisher in financial difficulty. With varying success Mr. Macfaull conducted the paper for some years, but ultimately it passed into the hands of the Shenton family, owing to the death of its founder, his widow having disposed of her proprietary rights.
The late Rev. C. G. Nicolay, who was acquainted with the early history of the paper, states that it was first located in a small building near the Perth Causeway, which in the early “forties” was razed to the ground. It was then removed to a small house which at one time stood on the corner of St. George’s Terrace and Adelaide Terrace. This no doubt was its location when Mrs. Macfaull sold it to the Shenton family. Up to this period its fortunes had been very varying, and when we consider that the total population of the State in 1846 was 4,547 souls, its circulation oould only be restricted. However, with the steady increase in population came a steady increase in circulation, clearly proving that the paper was no mere ephemeral publication like its predecessors, but a firmly implanted product that was to become part and parcel of the prosperity of the State.
In 1864 the business had so increased that the size of the sheet had become too small for its purpose, and it was enlarged to a double demy. At the same time its name was changed, and it appeared under the title of The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times, by which name it was known for fifteen years.
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The location of the paper was several times changed, until eventually it was printed in the old building which stood upon its present site, only to be temporarily removed pending the erection of the present palatial offices.
In 1848 Mr. Arthur Shenton had been installed in the editorial chair, which he continuously occupied for a period of twenty-three years, until his death in 1871. His death was said to have been accelerated by the effects of an imprisonment he had undergone for contempt of court.
Certain comments had appeared in The West Australian Times and The Inquirer, which were held by the then Chief Justice to reflect upon the impartiality of the Supreme Court, and Mr. Arthur Shenton and Messrs. Edmund and John Stirling were sentenced, the former to pay a fine of £100 and to be imprisoned for two months in Perth gaol, and the Stirlings, whose offence was held to be of a lighter nature, to one month’s imprisonment in the same place.
Submitting to the wishes of their friends, Messrs Stirling and Shenton apologized and were released and the fine was remitted, but the intense feeling of unmerited degradation so preyed on Mr. Shenton’s mind that in the early part of 1871 he utterly broke down and died literally of a broken heart.
Speaking of his death The West Australian Times said:—“His friends have at least the consolation of knowing that he died at his post, and that almost his last act was in defence of the proper privileges of the Press, and the right to criticize the acts of public men.”
During the twenty-three years he had held the position of editor he rendered many great and valuable services to the colony, and he was a strenuous and fearless fighter for what he considered to be a just and righteous cause.
In August, 1874, The West Australian Times appeared as a bi-weekly, being published on every Tuesday and Friday. The results more than justified this step, and the commercial success of the journal was largely increased. Later on in the year Mr "William Henry Hullock was appointed editor, and his brilliant versatility had much to do with the success at this period. Mr. Hullock continued his service until certain changes which led to his severing his connection He died in New Zealand some years later under peculiarly sad circumstances.
At this time and until the year 1879, The West Australian Times was owned by a somewhat numerous proprietary, including the present Lieutenant-Governor (Sir Edward Stone), the late Sir George Shenton, Mr. Sept. Burt, K.C., the late Mr. Maitland Brown, the late Mr Charles Crowther, M L.C , and several other well-known colonists. Several changes had taken place in the editorial chair, amongst the occupiers being a minister
of religion, already mentioned, the Rev. C. G. Nicolay, and one of its most-valued contributors was Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, Bart., who was afterwards to undertake the editorship.
The latter half of 1879 witnessed an important stage in the history of the journal, for it was purchased by the late Mr. Charles Harper, who invited Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell to fill the editorial chair.
Under the new management the title of the journal was changed to The West Australian, and with the first issue under this name, on November 18, 1879, the paper embarked on that career which was to place it in the front rank of Australian journalism.
It is beyond question that to the influence of Sir Thomas Campbell The West Australian owes a very large amount of its success. After his editorship ceased he continued to mark it with the impress of his talents by frequent contributions up to the time of his death towards the end of 1892.
Notwithstanding that Sir Thomas Campbell had so large a share in moulding the fortunes of The West Australian in the earlier portion of its career, there is another who stands out conspicuously from all others, including Sir Thomas himself, on account of the part he has played during nearly three decades in raising the journal from its comparative obscurity to its present commanding position —Sir Winthrop Hackett, one of its present owners.
An Irishman of the highest type by birth and descent, a barrister by profession, Sir Winthrop, then Mr. Hackett, after following pastoral pursuits for a brief period, relinquished all and adopted the profession of a journalist, to which he has imparted the highest dignity, joining Mr. Harper in the partnership of The West Australian in 1883.
Of unbounded energy and endowed with the keenest insight, Mr. Hackett, who entertained the most sanguine hopes of the future of the State, determined to elevate The West Australian to the proud position of similar metropolitan papers in the other States What The Argus and The Age are to Victoria, and The Sydney Morning Herald is to New South Wales, he determined The West Australian should be to the State of his adoption, and in short time he persuaded Mr. Harper to consent to the conversion of the paper, which was now a triweekly one, into a daily issue. Visiting England for the purpose of acquiring the necessary plant for the new enterprise, he had on January 1, 1885, the great satisfaction of receiving from the Press a copy of the paper in its new form as a daily issue. It must have been a proud moment for the new partner, but his energies did not rest here, for he at once put into operation plans for a special weekly issue of The West Australian, as a forerunner of a distinct weekly, and on December 19, 1885,
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he started his new venture, The Western Mail, which now holds no unworthy place amongst the weeklies of other metropolitan capitals.
The position of the paper during the Crown colony stage was a delicate one, and the defective state of the libel law made it peculiarly liable to harassing and speculative actions by unscrupulous individuals.
The West Australian, despite these many disabilities, stood out boldly for the freedom of the Press, and its unbroken record of success is an excellent and overpowering testimony to the righteousness of its position.
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Hackett succeeded Sir Thomas Cockburn - Campbell in the editorial chair, and since that time the paper can be said to have been part of his very existence.
To every movement for the advance of Wes-t e r n Australia the paper lent its valuable aid, and it became the leading advocate in the struggle for resj>onsible g overnment, which was now becoming acute.
Eventually this was conceded, and the success of the movement was due in no small measure to the powerful help of The West Australian newspaper.
Not content with its present success, the partners made large sacrifices to increase the usefulness of the paper, and out of the profits large and important additions were made in every department, and on July 1, 1891, it was produced as an eight-page paper containing forty-eight columns. Year by year it increased in length and number, and its pages multiplied until it has reached its present extensive form.
Side by side with the development of The West Australian, The Western Mail has also increased, and since 1897, when an illustration department was added
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to the office, the weekly issue has gradually attained its present phenomenal stage.
All matters of more important interest are republished in The Mail, and its weekly summary of events is of incalculable value to the general reader. Besides the regular weekly issue there is a special Christmas number, containing upwards of 100 pages, profusely illustrated, and distinguished by an artistic excellence that has commanded the most flattering notices everywhere.
Mention has already been made of the offices in
which The West Australian, under different names, has been housed. Since 1870 it has occupied buildings on the site of its present office. From that year up to the end of 1895—exactly a quarter of a century—the work of editing, printing, and publishing the paper was carried on within the double block of buildings standing on the site of The IVest Australian Chambers. At one time in its history the whole of the work except the literary portion was carried on in one room, about 14 ft. by 15 ft. As the needs of the paper increased other rooms were taken in, until when Mr. Hackett joined it five comparatively small rooms sufficed for its wants. For the play of his expectations and prosecution of his enterprise further room was needed, and, as already shown, building alterations and additions were frequently made for the use of the staff and the housing of the machinery and plant. These, however, were always recognized as being of a mere temporary character, and years before the erection of the present building the scheme was in contemplation, and the time was earnestly looked for when the position of the colony would justify the erection of buildings suitable for carrying on the
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business of a large and important daily metropolitan journal. It was not till the establishment of the eastern goldfields as a recognized permanent industry, in 1894, that the opportunity presented itself, and it was at once seized by the proprietary. The preparation of the designs was entrusted to Lieut.-Colonel J. Talbot Hobbs, one of the leading architects of the city, and the closing days of 1895 witnessed the demolition of the building in which The West Australian had been conducted for a quarter of a century. Temporary offices were put up at the rear of the new buildings, the erection of which occupied nearly the whole of 1896, and on Boxing Day of that year the conductors of the paper and their staff took possession of their new offices in The West Australian Chambers, the property of the owners of the journal. Within this substantial and solid pile of buildings the business of The West Australian and Western Mail is carried on, a business which is continually expanding m every direction, necessitating the employment of inside and outside staffs numerically equal to a large Department of State. Those familiar with the old conditions under which the work was conducted would hardly, if at all, recognize that the same work, under improved conditions of expansion and development, was being carried on. Certainly, within the offices no visible indications of the former conditions can be detected, if the earlier issues of the journal be excepted. However, a relic of the old days is carefully preserved in the form of a small table which, in the earlier times of his editorship, was used by the late Mr. Arthur Shenton.
For a long time the printing of the paper had been performed on a simple “Columbian” hand-press, but after the journal became the property of Mr. Harper a small single Wharfedale, driven by steam, and, on the occasions of a breakdown in the motive power, worked by hand, was used. Shortly after the issue of The Western Mail a double Wharfedale was erected. A complete stereotyping plant and a Victory rotary machine were introduced in 1895. In 1898, a rotary machine from the well-known firm of Messrs. Foster & Sons, Preston, was added; and in the following year a Cottrell machine, especially designed for a half-tone block print and general process work for The Western Mail, was provided In this year, also, the linotype was introduced into the printing department, to replace hand composition. A further linotype machine was received in the year 1900, while a three-decker Foster machine, which can print three copies at once, arrived from Londen, to the order of the company the same year. This fine machine, which was specially christened by the Mayor of Preston “King Edward the VII ,” at a ceremony held to bid it farewell, was manufactured by Messrs. Foster & Sons.
The development of The West Australian and The Western Mail since 1900 has been steady and continuous. The most noteworthy improvements have been on the
structural and mechanical sides, and in these respects both papers are now among the best equipped in Australasia. The linotype room has been greatly enlarged. Thirteen typesetting machines are installed, and the floor space occupied by this department covers 3,800 superficial feet. The room is replete with every device for the expeditious production of a modern daily newspaper.
A new building of five floors, each measuring 40 by 30, has recently been completed, and with additions to the old offices has, by adding about 10,000 feet of floor space, more than doubled the accommodation previously provided. The lower floor of this new building provides a magnificent machine-room, in which is located a six-roll Foster machine wtih a capacity of 48,000 papers an hour, and a three-roll Foster capable of printing an additional 24,000 copies an hour, space being available for additional machinery as circumstances demand.
Other portions of the new building are occupied by an up-to-date stereotyping plant, machines for printing the illustrated pages of The Western Mad, a carpenters’ shop, and a complete photo-process plant challenging comparison with the best in the Commonwealth.
The staff of the two papers is a large and capable one. The Hon. Sir J. W. Hackett, LL.D., continues to act as Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief. Mr. Alfred Tangier is the Assistant Manager and Associate Editor. The departmental heads of The West Australian are. —Mr. J. F. Donaldson, Chief Sub-Editor; Mr.
J. W. E. Archdeacon, day Sub-Editor; Mr. T. Hooson, leader of the staff; Mr. H. C. Davies, Mining Editor; and Mr. G. White, Sporting Editor. Mr. H. Human is the Secretary of the Company, Mr. Pegg the printer, Mr. B. Skull the head machinist, and Mr. Hodgson chief stereotyper.
The Western Mail is edited by Mr. Alfred Carson. Mr. Ben Strange supplies two pages of typical cartoons, the process department is controlled by Mr. Warner, and Mr. Stanway Tapp is the artist of the journal.
The Fremantle branch of the two papers is under the management of Mr. C. Frost.
The West Australian contains never less than ten pages, more often it consists of twelve, and on Saturdays sixteen pages of nine columns.
The Western Mail now comprises 56 pages, of which twelve are devoted to an illustrated section. The “Mutual Help” pages, conducted in the interests of the farmers and men on the land generally by Mr. W. Catton Grasby, author of “The Principles of Australian Agriculture,” are a prominent feature, and ensures for the paper a wide popularity in the agricultural districts.
During the year 1912 death removed one of the founders and proprietors of The West Australian and The Western Mail, in the person of Mr. Charles Harper,
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in whom the State has lost a most patriotic public man, and one of its most enterprising sons. The Western Mail also lost by death during the same year Mr. R. Robertson, for twelve years its exceedingly capable editor, and Mr. W. Smythe, who for about the same time presided over its photo-process department.
Not a few members of the present staffs oiThe West Australian and The Western Mail might be termed “long service men.” The oldest servant of the Company is Mr. Archdeacon, who joined the staff in 1883, and has therefore been connected with it 29 years. Sir Winthrop Ilackett himself also first became associated with the paper in 1883. Others long associated with The West Australian are Mr. Tangier, who joined it in 1895, Mr. Carson in 1896, and Mr. Hooson later in the same year. Mr. Harold Thompson, the present chief advertising clerk, entered the commercial department in 1891, and Mr. H. Harper, the cashier, joined the office in 1899. On the mechanical side there are three very old servants of the Company still in full work. These are Mr. McBride, Mr. J. Maynard, and Mr. J. Healy, the latter being one of the first apprentices to be indentured by the proprietors. The late printer, Mr. Gibney, retired last year on a liberal pension after 25 years’ service. The fact that so many of the employes have been connected for such lengthy periods with the office is a testi-
mony to the excellent relations which subsist between them and their employers, as well as a recognition of the value of their services.
The West Australian has always been regarded as a union office, and enjoys the distinction of having been the first newspaper, and indeed the first employer of labour in the State, to introduce the system of an eight hours’ day among its employes.
The proprietary of the two journals was formed into a limited liability company on July 1, 1900, under the name of The West Australian N ewspaper Company, Limited.
In 1902 Mr. Hackett had conferred upon him, by his “Alma Mater,” Trinity College, Dublin, the degree of LL.D., and in 1911 he was created a knight, two honours well deserved and well earned.
During his strenuous career as a journalist Sir Winthrop Hackett has taken a deep and abiding interest in all educational matters in his adopted State, being unanimously appointed Chancellor of the Infant University of Western Australia. His labours on the Committee and afterwards as President of the appointed Board of Trustees of the Public Library, Art Gallery, and Museum of Western Australia, are not the least inconsiderable of his works for the betterment of the State of Western Australia.
Sir JOHN WINTHROP HACKETT, M.A., LL.D., M.L.C. The liberty of the Press has always been regarded by modern political writers as a matter of supreme importance. “Give me,” said Milton in the Areo-pagiteca, “liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.” Fairness and impartiality have undoubtedly been the keystone of what for want of a better phrase may be described as the higher journalism in Australia. The policy of The Sydney Morning Herald, controlled by Sir James Fairfax, and that of The West Australian, of which Sir Winthrop Hackett is the guiding spirit, may best be quoted in favour of this statement. “Australia has good cause to pride itself on its newspapers,” remarks John Foster Fraser. “With town populations that are small in comparison with those of the great cities of Europe and America it is little short of wonderful the way in which first-class morning, evening, and weekly illustrated papers are turned out. They keep to the British rather than follow the American model. They do not screech. They are dignified. This is the one secret of their power. With an experience of newspapers all the world over I know of no place
where the Press exercises so strong an influence. Newspapers have power in London; but there have been occasions when in politics the greatest city in the world has pronounced
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a verdict different from the teachings of the journals which own the largest circulations. In both Britain and
the United States there is a tendency on the part of leading politicians to ignore the influence of the Press. Not so in Australia. Leading politicians, not once but many times, told me that they would have been unable to take a certain action had they not had the support of certain newspapers. Recognizing, therefore, the strength of the Australian newspapers, it was excellent to find that the journals throughout the country were animated by a fine sense of responsibility. In all branches, from careful and judicious reporting of events up to the special leading articles, a high tone prevails.” This deliberate expression of opinion from Mr. Fraser expresses not only 'the position of the Press in Australia, but is a good enunciation of the ideals aimed at by Sir Winthrop Hackett in the conduct of the leading organ of public opinion in Western Australia. An Irishman by birth, John Winthrop Hackett, the son of the Rev. John W. Hackett, a clergyman of the Church of England, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated as an M.A. in the early seventies. Called to the Irish Bar in 1874 he practised for a time in Dublin, but soon decided to try his fortunes in Australia. Landing first in Syd-
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ney, he was admitted as a barrister, but did not practise in New South Wales for any length of time, as he transferred his residence to Melbourne, and from 1876 to 1882 occupied the position of Sub-Warden of Trinity College, Melbourne University. Having been called to the Victorian Bar in the meantime, he resigned his position at the College in 1882 and unsuccessfully endeavoured to gain a seat m the Victorian Legislative Assembly. At the close of the year he proceeded to Western Australia and at first entered ifjfon pastoral pursuits, but without aaiy encouraging results In 1883 he decided to steadily pursue the profession of a journalist, and joined Mr Charles Harper in the ownership of TLk 11 cst Australian, then only a tri-weekly newspaper At the same time he was admitted a member of the Western Australian Bar. Since then Sir Wmthrop Hackett has had two objects always before him. — First, to make The West Australian the chief newspaper and one of the most powerful agencies in the State; and, secondly, to work for all those ideals of development, culture, and recreation which represent so much in the life of a nation. Both these objects he has achieved in a measure rarely allowed to any one individual. At the beginning of 1885 he had the satisfaction of seeing The West Australian enter upon a new phase as a daily newspaper, and in 1887, on the retirement of the then editor. Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, he succeeded to the position. Since that time he has guided the destinies of the paper, and has made it what he hoped it would become • the most powerful organ of public opinion m the State, and worthy to rank with its great contemporaries in the Eastern States To every movement for the advancement of the State the paper gave its aid, and everything that made for progress and development was approved and furthered In the discussion surrounding the question of responsible government it took a leading part, and there is no doubt that the consistent advocacy of (then) Mr. Hackett contri-
buted very largely to the success of the movement. In the unparalleled expansion of the State since that time Sir Wmthrop has adopted the same bold and fearless attitude both m the newspaper and as a public citizen, and his name is stamped indelibly upon the history of his adopted country. Entering Parliamentary life in 1890 as a nominated member of the South-West province m the new Legislative Council he has without difficulty succeeded in retaining that seat at every election since held, being the only remaining member of the first Legislative Council under responsible government who still occupies a seat in that body. Though repeatedly declining Ministerial preferment he has to no small extent been for the past twenty years "the power behind the throne ” Wise and far-seeing in the interests of the people, Sir Wmthrop Hackett set steadily before him the establishment of all possible means of education and recreation on their behalf. The Public Library, the Museum and Art Gallery, the Zoological Gardens, the King’s Park, of all of which he is President, are the result of his continuous and whole-hearted advocacy, while the State’s primary and technical educational system owes much of its success to his support For many years also he has been a Governor of the Perth High School, occupying for part of that time the position of Chairman. In the opening of the wonderful caves of the State to public view he took a leading pari, and was Chairman of the Caves Board from the time of its inception until it was merged into the Tourists’ Department In Federal affairs he was a member of the Convention of 1891 and also that of 1897-8, which framed the Federal Constitution. In 1895, 1897, and 1899 he was a delegate to the Federal Council of Australasia In Church matters Sir Winthrop has always been most active, and at present holds the offices of Registrar of the Diocese and Chancellor of the Cathedral at Perth. In Masonic circles he is a prominent figure, having been deeply
interested in the formation of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, of which he was for three years Grand Master. Amid all his strenuous labours he has found time to further the development of our mining and agricultural industries, and m regard to the latter has shown practical faith by developing one of the finest orchards in the State, and by his successful endeavours to prove that Western Australia may be made a great fruit-growing country. During recent years Sir Winthrop has deeply interested himself m the establishment of a University m the State, and owing largely to his efforts a Royal Commission to consider the question was appointed in 1909 The favourable report of this Commission led to the University Act being passed early in 1911, thus placing the coping-stone upon the educational system of Western Australia. When the first Senate under the University Act was constituted in February, 1912, Sir Winthrop was appointed as one of its members, and at the first meeting of the new body was unanimously elected Chancellor of the University. Since its inception he has been Chairman of the Kariakatta Cemetery Board; in fact, there is scarcely a phase of public life or of public interest in the whole of the State with which his name is not connected Limitations of space make it impossible to dilate upon his many excellences, but of all her adopted sons Sir Winthrop Hackett is one of whom Western Australia may justly feel proud. He was offered Knighthood by His Majesty the King in 1902, but deemed it wise to decline However, in 1911 on its being again offered, he accepted it, public opinion being unanimous in considering that it was particularly well merited and deserved. In 1902 the degree of LL D was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater, Trinity College, Dublin In 1905 Sir Winthrop was married to Deborah Vernon, daughter of Mr. F. S Brockman, of Guildford, Western Australia, and has a family of three daughters and a son.
“The Inquirer,” “The Daily News,” and “The Morning Herald.”
On August 5, 1840, The Inquirer newspaper was a gentleman well known for his financial ability, who first published under the editorship and management afterwards became cashier and eventually manager of of Mr. Edward Stirling, who had as partner Mr Lochee, the Western Australian Bank. Mr. Stirling had had
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considerable experience of journalism in the Colony, having been connected with the first manuscript journal and at least one other of the ephemeral publications.
A long and successful journalistic career followed, and The Inquner, which was published as a weekly sheet at a cost of Is per copy, afterwards to be reduced to 6d., became known for its strict impartiality and fairness of comment under the guiding control of Mr. Stirling.
Eventually, after many years of hard but successful work, Mr Edward Stirling retired from the active control, handing over the business to his four sons, John, Frederick, Horace, and Lewis Stirling, with Mr. Horace Stirling m the editorial chair.
Endowed with youth, energy, and ability, the new proprietors determined to launch out into the unprecedented venture, so far in Western Australia, of a daily newspaper To do this, financial assistance was necessary, and they decided to approach their father’s old partner, who. was now manager and controlling head of the Western Australian Bank.
The account of the interview with Mr. Lochee, given by Mr. Horace Stirling in reference to the publishing of the Budy News, was told by that gentleman at a dinner given by Mr. Lovekin to the staff, and is abstracted from the ‘Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia.”
“In 1881, when the Colony had its first Exhibition, they decided to purchase a cheap four-horse power engine and embark on the venture of a daily paper. They went to Mr. Lochee, and told him what they had done, after they had indented for the engine. At that time the paper owed nothing to the Bank, and the firm was in a sound, solvent condition. Mr. Lochee was told that, with the aid of the steam engine, it was proposed to start a daily paper, and he replied that it was a mad scheme He said, ‘Your father and I started The Inquirei in 1840, and it is quite good enough. You young fellows are too fast.’ Eventually Mr. Lochee asked how much money would be required, and was told that £1,000 was necessary. Mr. Lochee remarked that they would never get that amount in the colony, but eventually agreed to let them have £100. When they had drawn some £94 Mr. Lochee called on them one afternoon and said, ‘I told you you could have £100, but that is not £101.’ ”
Notwithstanding the many initial difficulties, the partners had the pleasure of seeing their venture crowned with success, and the paper, which mainly supported the people in the struggle that was beginning for responsible government, grew in popular favour.
In July, 1886, with the paper was incorporated The Morning TIeiald, a paper which had hitherto been published in Fremantle, and the same year Mr. Lovekin joined the staff.
The paper now took a leading place in shaping the policy of the country, and Mr. Stirling, imbued with the advantages to be gained from responsible government, resuscitated the movement, which was strongly opposed at that time by the only morning paper published in the colony—The West Australian—and a majority of the Legislature. This paper, however, became afterwards a devoted adherent to the people’s cause.
The story of the struggle for responsible government has been told in another place, and it is not necessary to recount it again, sufficient to say that The Daily News did yeoman service on behalf of the popular party, and that in the face of, especially ait the inception of the struggle, strong and powerful opposition.
During the year 1888 gold was discovered at Southern Cross, and Mr. Stirling, ever to the fore in all that tended to gather news for his readers, sought by means of carrier pigeons to establish a daily communication with that centre. Unfortunately, the prevalence of birds of prey in the- interior rendered this attempt abortive.
The year 1889 in the history of the paper was remarkable for a most peculiar libel action against the paper. A letter had been received by the editor stating that a Chinese hawker of vegetables was suffering from, leprosy, and that the scales which fell from his body on to the vegetables he was vending were calculated to spread the dreadful malady. In the usual course of journalistic procedure the letter was published in good faith, and immediately roused a storm and cry for vengeance on the part of the Chinese market gardeners residing in South Perth.
The result was a libel action asking for the huge damages of £5,000, and efforts were made to at once trace the writer of the letter to substantiate his accusations. It was generally accepted that a leper did exist, and for fully twelve months continuous efforts were made to discover where he was hidden.
These efforts were unsuccessful, until within five days of the trial, when information was received of his probable whereabouts, and Mr. Lovekin was instructed to unearth him if possible. Starting from Perth, Mr. Lovekin, Sergeant Claffey, and a Chinese interpreter took train for Spencer’s Brook, and next day took a trip across country. While driving through the bush Mr. Lovekin saw' some black object moving in a hole from which a tree had fallen, and that the object was the head of a man. A hideous sight was now presented. Here was the leper, without doubt, and speaking to the writer very recently Mr. Lovekin stated “that it was a sight of such hideousness that so long as life should last he would never forget it.”
The police sergeant refused to take the man without a medical certificate, and Mr. Stirling was communicated with in Perth, and immediately Dr. Kenny was
dispatched to the scene, arriving only just in time, for a party of Chinese were endeavouring to remove the miserable object. The doctor’s examination revealed a most revolting spectacle, and the man was taken in charge and handed over to the Government, being eventually deported to the leper hospital, Singapore, at a cost of £400.
The result of the libel case was now a foregone conclusion, but the paper failed to reap the advantage of the costs which the Court awarded.
However, The Daily News reaped the credit of having saved the State from more than possible contamination, and well deserved the spontaneous outburst of public approbation that followed the action.
After the proclamation of responsible government the paper took no small part m shaping and leading public opinion on all leading questions. The paper grew in popularity, and in 1893 it was found necessary to employ more modern machinery to cope with the increased circulation. Mr. Alex. Forrest had become a shareholder of the firm, and it was decided mainly on his initiative to send Mr. Lovekin to England to procure a modern and up-to-date plant.
On his return in the following year, Mr. Horace Stirling retired from the business, and Mr. Lovekin was appointed editor and managing director.
The change in the editorial department did not afiect the forward policy of the paper, for very soon we find Mr. Lovekin suggesting to the board the opening for a second morning paper in the State.
The directors agreed to the proposal, and as a result Sir John Forrest, on January 1, 1896, printed the first copy of The Morning Herald. The advent of The Morning Herald was directly responsible for a general allround improvement in the journalism of the colony.
Mr. Letcher, the secretary of the company, having accepted the position of the company’s representative in Adelaide, Mr. Lloyd, the manager of the paper at Fremantle assumed his duties, Mr. P. W. H. Thiel taking up the position vacated by Mr. Lloyd.
During the Federal issue The Morning Herald opposed the measure strongly, and had the wishes of the paper been carried out Western Australia would have entered the Federation in an infinitely stronger position than was the case.
In September, 1900, Mr. Lovekin, who had been in the company’s service for over fourteen years, retired from the position of managing director, and at the same time Mr. Alexander Forrest vacated his seat as chairman of directors. At a dinner given to Mr. Lovekin on his retirement that gentleman thus summed up the situation at that time very tersely . —
“During the nine years I have taken an active part in the management of this business we have expended in machinery and plant and buildings, including the
linotype machines, no less a sum than £24,775 11s. 3d. We have paid in interest £3,815 2s. 9d.; we have purchased land, including the redemption of the mortgages, to the extent of £3,952 7s.; we have paid to Mr. E. Stirling, by way of annuity, £912 10s. lOd.; and we have spent upon these premises, £943 19s. lOd.—a total of £34,399 11s. 8d. In addition to this, we have paid in dividends £10,800—equal to £9 per share. We have thus a grand total of profits, apart from the expenditure on goodwill to which I have referred, amounting to £45,199 11s. 8d., which would all have been available for division among the shareholders had the capital, which the company was supposed to have started with, been actually paid up. Thus, during the nine years, in addition to the payment of £10,800 i" cash, the shareholders have been relieved out of the profits of the payment of £30,000 on capital account. We have, in fact, found the whole of the capital, and £9 per share as well, out of the profits. With this result I myself am thoroughly satisfied, and it has been achieved only by the energy and efforts of the staff which the company has, during the period I refer to, been fortunate to secure.”
The editorial chair, after the retirement of Mr. Lovekin, was filled by Mr. W. F. Forster, who had been for many years editor and part-proprietor of The Albany Advertiser.
Mr. F. T. Crowder took the position of chairman of the board, whilst Mr. Lloyd was appointed manager.
At the end of 1901 Mr. Lloyd resigned his position to enter into partnership with P. W. H. Thiel & Co., and Mr. Steadman Glyde was appointed to the vacancy.
In June, 1901, The Inquirer, which was established in 1840, and was the initial venture of Mr. Edward Stirling and Mr. Loehee ceased publication, and was incorporated with The Daily News. The Inquirer throughout had been issued as a weekly paper, and had acted as a weekly issue to the daily publication of the firm.
In 1901 Mr. Colebatch was appointed assistant editor, with Mr. Hilton as chief sub-editor, Mr. George Arnold being appointed secretary to the company.
The affairs of the company under the new management did not prosper, and eventually Messrs. Crowder and Forster resigned their respective positions early in 1902. These resignations were followed by that of the manager, Mr. Glyde. A new board of directors was formed under the chairmanship of Mr. A. E. Morgans, and at the express request of this gentleman Mr. Lovekin resumed the management.
In May, 1902, a lease of The Daily News was granted to Messrs. P. W. H. Thiel and Reginald Lloyd for five years, the lessees being given the right to purchase the goodwill of the paper at any time during the term.
During September, 1902, Mr. J. L. Nanson, M.L.A., who had been for some years associate-editor of The West Australian, acquired a controlling interest in the com-
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pany, and on the 15th he succeeded Mr. A. E. Morgans as chairman of directors. Having assisted Mr. Nanson for some six weeks, Mr. Lovekin also resigned, but was specially requested to act as adviser to the company for the ensuing year.
In November, 1902, Mr. A. E. Morgans and Mr. Lovekin joined Messrs. Thiel and Lloyd in The Daily News, and subsequently Mr. Lloyd sold his interest to the three partners.
On March 13, 1905, Mr. Nanson disposed of his interest in The Morning Herald to Mr. J. Dreyer, as the nominee of the Right Rev. Bishop Gibney, Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth.
Mr. Dreyer at once took over the management of the company, and assumed the chairmanship of the board of directors.
On August 18, 1905, Mr Dreyer resigned, and the Rev. Father Keogh, Vicar-General, was appointed to succeed him. This gentleman resigned in December, 1908, and Mr. L. O'Sullivan (Bishop Gibney’s private secretary) succeeded him.
In December, 1908, Messrs. A. E. Morgans, A. Lovekin, and P. W. H. Thiel purchased the bishop’s interest in the company for a nominal sum, but on investigation it was found that the financial position was hopeless. They, therefore, decided to place the affairs of the company in liquidation, and on January 20, 1909, The Morning Herald ceased publication, and has not since been revived. Mr. A. Lovekin was appointed liquidator, with the approval of the bank which held the whole of the company’s securities.
Thus ended the career of a paper which during the first twelve months of its career earned a profit of over £11,000 and paid, and continued to pay, regular monthly dividends to the shareholders until 1901. Profits then ceased to be made for some time, and following upon this, beginning about the middle of the year 1905, losses were shown for the first time. The debit balance accumulated rapidly until the paper ceased publication.
The Daily News still continues as a sound financial proposition, and is practically the only evening daily in the metropolitan area.
“The Sunday Times” and “The Sun.”
The Sunday Times was originally started by the late Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, and appeared in December, 1897.
The first issue was a small sheet of eight pages, six columns each, and the growth of the paper has been phenomenal, now consisting of one of thirty-two pages, each of nine columns, or the largest paper in the British Empire. Mr. Vosper floated the paper into a limited liability company, but retained the controlling interest up to the time of his death, after which his widow disposed of it to Messrs. J. M. Smith and A. Read, proprietors of The Kalgoorlie Sun.
The expansion now became phenomenal, and the financial assistance of Mr. A. T. Saunders was obtained, and it was eventually decided to purchase the fine block of land in Forrest Street, on which up-to-date offices were erected and a modern plant installed. These offices were most satisfactorily erected by day labour, a lesson in practical socialism which did credit to both labour and capital. A 24-page rotary plant was installed in these premises.
The company, however, only remained for a few months in this building, both land and erections thereon being resumed by the Government for railway purposes. A block of land was then secured in Stirling Street, and what is claimed to be the most complete set of offices for newspaper purposes for their size erected, and an entirely new plant was installed.
The paper is unique in the respect that it is the only Sunday paper published in the metropolitan district.
It possesses an agricultural section, which at the present time is of incalculable benefit, not only to well-matured farming propositions, but also to the struggling settler on the land. Its pages are renowned for their freedom of criticism, and in this respect the paper can lay claim to have fought more libel actions than any other in the State. The policy of the paper is absolutely independent of all political parties and sections, and its fearless criticism in this respect is one of its most predominant features.
The editorial chair in the earlier stages of its career was filled by Mr. Vosper, and the present occupant is Mr. J. E. Webb, who joined the staff in 1903. During one of the most strenuous portions of the career of the paper the editorial chair was filled by the present Attorney-General, Mr. Thomas Walker. Until recently the agricultural editor was Mr. Pellatt, who did much to increase the popularity of the publication amongst farmers. One of the most valuable members of the staff is Mr. A. T Chandler, whilst Mr. H. B. Taylor is responsible for the office control in regard to finance.
The Sun, a weekly newspaper published in Kalgoorlie on Sundays, is strongly democratic in its principles, and in its efforts to expose political abuses and social and moral delinquencies has at times published some very sensational articles. Its outspokenness has involved it in several actions at law, notably what was known as the “ice frauds,” but so far it has safely passed through these legal ordeals.
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The paper first saw light in September, 1898, when Air. W. H. A. O’Connor was editor and Mr. J. M. Smith (the founder) manager. From March, 1899, to January, 1901, Mr. Hugh Mahon had charge of the editorial department, resigning the post on his election to the
Federal House of Representatives, Mr. Andree Hayward, a barrister-at-law, assuming the editorial reins. The paper has now one of the largest circulations of any weekly paper in the State. Mr. C. L. Morgan, late of Truth office, is now manager.
“ The Kalgoorlie Miner.”
Of the two morning papers published in Western Australia The Kalgoorlie Miner claims to be not second to its Perth contemporary in circulation, influence, size of paper, and volume of cablegrams, telegrams, and general news. It is the only morning paper that circulates amongst the mining community of some 70,000 persons, whilst in Perth and the agricultural districts it
has also a considerable circulation. Its history and the history of its weekly parent and ally, The Western Argus, is interwoven with the history of the eastern goldfields. Collections of tents and bag and hessian shanties of the goldfields’ pioneers grew as the years went by into the great cities of Kalgoorlie, Boulder City, Coolgardie, Menzies, and Leonora, with their busy streets, their electric trams, their beautiful parks, their magnificent racecourses, their swimming baths, their excellent telephone services, and all the other conveniences and luxuries of civilization. And so in the same manner The Western Argus, a small weekly starting as it did in
1894 with but a single primitive hand-press for machinery, quickly progresses until in September, 1895, the office was able to turn out a daily—The Kalgoorlie Miner. The hand-press was quickly cast on the one side for elaborate machinery, and to-day, equipped with almost a dozen linotypes, the machinery and stereotyping departments are as up-to-date as any in the Southern
Hemisphere. The first issue of The Kalgoorlie Miner was scarcely the size of an ordinary pockethandkerchief, but to-day it compares not unfavourably with any of the Australasian metropolitan journals, and is unquestionably superior to any other inland paper in the Commonwealth. It was in July, 1895, that Mr. S. E. Hocking, the chief proprietor, founder, and first editor of The Kalgoorlie Miner, visited Kalgoorlie. He was then, with his brother, the late Air. Percy S. Hocking, proprietor of a Coolgardie daily, since defunct. After an inspection of what is now known as “The Golden Mile” he was so impressed with the great future of the place that he sold
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the Coolgardie business, and with his brother he purchased The Western Argus, with such plant, goodwill, etc., as it then possessed. Later the two brothers launched The Iialgoorlie Miner on what proved to be its most successful career. Early in 1896 they joined with them in partnership Mr. J. W. Kirwan (now M.L.C.), who became editor, and Mr. W. W. Willcock, who took control of the mechanical department.
The views of The Kalgoorlie Miner have invariably been expressed with great decisiveness and vigour, and it has always been a considerable factor in the conduct of the public afEairs in the State.
It was the first paper to advocate the extension of the railway to Kalgoorlie. It was responsible for securing the junction of the Menzies line at Kalgoorlie instead of Coolgardie, and thus Kalgoorlie became the railway as well as the geographical centre of the eastern goldfields. In 1898 serious trouble nearly arose on the goldfields through the Government issuing a regulation forbidding alluvial miners to sink to a greater depth than 10 ft. This naturally excited the greatest indignation, especially amongst the large numbers of alluvial miners who were thus deprived of their means of livelihood.
A digger might discover gold at a depth of 10 ft., and then if he obeyed the regulation he would be forced to surrender the fruits of his toil to others. This at once put an end to the idea of deep alluvial being worked in the ordinary way. The Kalgoorlie Miner pointed out that the regulation was ultra vires. It ridiculed the regulation and contended that the diggers in continuing to work acted fully within their-legal rights. The 10 feet regulation was finally annulled, though not before many of the diggers were sent to gaol for ignoring it. At a later stage the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the position taken up by the diggers throughout the troubles.
Another question in which The Kalgoorlie Miner bore a leading part was the struggle for the inclusion of Western Australia in the Commonwealth. The
Enabling Bill providing for the submission of the Commonwealth Constitution to the votes of the people for their acceptance or rejection was defeated in the Western Australian Parliament, despite the presentation of a petition signed by over 20,000 adult residents of the colony asking that the question of federation be submitted to a referendum. Parliament was dissolved, and there seemed no possible prospect of getting the Enabling Bill passed in time for Western Australia to join the Commonwealth as an original State. The prospects of the
Federalists of Western Australia seemed dark indeed. The Kalgoorlie Miner then suggested that as the people of the goldfields were practically unanimous in favour of union, they should appeal to Her Majesty Queen Victoria to create the goldfields and the Esperance district into a separate colony with a view to the latter’s entrance into the Commonwealth. This idea was elaborated in the columns of The Kalgoorlie Miner, and it was acted on by the goldfields’ people with enthusiasm. “Separation for Federation” became the watchword of the Reform League, the organization formed to secure that ideal. Every goldfields’ public body and goldfields’ public man threw in their lot with the movement. The petition to Queen Victoria praying for separation was signed by no less than 28,000 adults. That petition was backed up by another petition from the people of Albany asking to be included in the proposed new colony. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and as he was desirous of the inclusion of all parts of Australia in the Commonwealth, he made it plain in a despatch to the Western Australian Government that if the Enabling Bill were not passed and the people given the same opportunity as in the other colonies of expressing their views on federation, he would have to take the petition for separation into consideration. The Forrest Government, in response to this hint, immediately called Parliament together, and the Enabling Bill was passed through all its-stages almost
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without opposition. In the federal referendum fight that ensued The Kalgoorlie Miner powerfully urged the acceptance of the Bill, with the result that it was carried by an overwhelming majority throughout the colony'— the goldfields’ people were almost unanimous in its favour.
It would fill too much space to go into the details of all the proposals that were put forward by The Kalgoorlie Miner and adopted to the advantage of the country. The paper has never been bound to any party. When the Wilson Government was in power The Kalgoorlie Miner condemned its administration and also many of its legislative enactments, including its scheme of redis-
Mr. S. E. HOCKING, J.P., the Managing Director of Hocking and Co., Limited, was born at Nairne,
South Australia, on December 18,
1859. Educated privately and at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, he joined the literary staff of The Advertiser as a junior reporter on leaving college, and after some eight years’ experience accepted an appointment as mining reporter at Broken Hill for the Sydney and Melbourne evening papers. In 1894 he, in conjunction with a few others, established The Goldfields Courier and The Golden A ge, of which be was the first editor, in addition to being the representative on the eastern goldfields for The Register, Melbourne Argus, and many other leading newspapers of the Eastern States. His knowledge of mining induced him to make
“THE SOUTHERN TIMES,” BUNBURY.
The first issue of a newspaper in the South-Western district was the result of the enterprise of a Mr. Ashwell, who in January, 1888, published The Southern Advertiser at Bunbury, which, however, had but a short existence, and became defunct in August of the same year. The plant and effects were purchased by Mr. H. E. Reading, and a new paper immediately started under the name of The Southern Times, which is still in existence. Later on the firm undertook the publication of The Collie Miner, a bi-weekly paper mainly given over to the incidents of life a.nd news in that coal-producing district. Both papers as seen at the present are excellent productions for small provincial centres.
“THE BUNBURY HERALD.”
The first number of The Bunbury Herald was issued on September 28, 1892, being founded and edited by the late Mr. S. J. Cusack. Issued first as a weekly sheet, it is now issued tri-weekly, and is an excellent circulating medium for the South-Western districts. The manage-
tribution of seats, which it characterized as grossly unfair to the Opposition. At the ensuing general elections the Wilson Government was politically extinguished. The Kalgoorlie Miner has ever been a strong opponent of centralization, is extremely progressive in its views, and a consistent champion of the mining industry. Messrs. Hocking & Co. are still the proprietors, and the leading members of the firm still take an active interest in the business. Messrs. S. E. Hocking and W. W. Willcoek retain their old positions, whilst Mr.. J. W. Kirwan is editor-in-chief, with Mr. E. H. Irving, M.A. (Oxford), as editor.
his home in Kalgoorlie in July, 1895, where in conjunction with his brother, the late Mr. P. S. Hocking, he purchased The Western Argus, and in September, 1895, started and edited The Kalgoorlie Miner, while still retaining his position as almost the only representative of the Eastern States’ Press on the then little-known goldfield. He was elected a City Councillor in 1895, and after serving his term retired owimr to the pressure of business, but re-entered the Council in 1907, and in 1909 was elected Mayor of Kalgoorlie, holding the position for two years. He has twice visited the Old Country and the Continent, and recently spent some time in Egypt. Mr. W. W. Willcoek, another director, is associated with Mr. Hocking in the management of the company.
ment has from time to time changed hands, but the success of the paper remains assured.
“THE EASTERN DISTRICTS CHRONICLE,” YORK.
The organ of the York district is The Eastern Districts Chronicle, which journal was published for the first time in 1873 as a weekly sheet, and as such has been published ever since. Its founder was the late Mr. Ink-pen, and it is still published by a descendant of the founder in Mr. George Edwards Inkpen.
“THE ALBANY ADVERTISER.”
The first Albany newspaper was The Albany Banner, orinted some thirty years ago in Perth and circulated by post. It belonged to Mr. Edmund Stirling, the founder of The Perth Inquirer. It did not prove a success financially, although it was only crown folio in size. About twenty years ago Mr. Ashwell, a New Zealander, established The Albany Mail, a double-demy weekly. For some years it was fairly successful. Mr. Ashwell sold his interests to Mrs. Clark, his step-daughter, who became
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editress, while her husband also aided in the literary work.
In 1888 Mr. W. F. Foster, a member of the staff of The West Australian, established The Albany A dvertiser, a tri-weekly double demy. The basis of this enterprise was that the Great Southern Railway had opened up a large extent of good country, and gave easier means of access to the capital, and this afforded a field lor the establishment of a newspaper. The construction of a railway trebled the population of Albany. The Advertiser, while giving special attention to local questions, which at times were of an important character, owing to the private ownership of the railway and the attempts of the Government to take away the English mail steamers, was generally democratic in its policy— strongly favoured federation, and opposed the centralization policy of the Forrest Government. When finally the mail steamers were moved to Fremantle Mr. Forster retired from the editorship of The Advertiser and accepted the chair of the Perth Morning Herald, while Mr. Arthur Catling succeeded him at Albany. The paper is now published as a bi-weekly, and serves a large district, yearly increasing in importance, and enjoys a large circulation in its own immediate locality.
“THE NORTHAM ADVERTISER.”
With the impetus given to the trade of Northam, consequent on the decision of the Government to make that station the starting-point of the eastern goldfieldp railway, there arrived in the town a large number of persons bent on the establishment of businesses of one description or another. Among others who foresaw possibilities was Mr. J. T. Reilly, an experienced journalist, to whom the opportunity afforded for the publication of a local paper presented itself, and he accordingly decided to issue a paper, to which he gave the title of The Northam Advertiser. At first the paper was issued as a modest weekly, but the large measure of support accorded to the new journal speedily justified its being issued in an enlarged form, and still later the paper was issued as a bi-weekly. For some years the paper has been owned and published by Mr. H. P. Colebatch, formerly of The Morning Herald editorial staff, now a member of the Legislative Council. The paper is one of the most important in the provinces of Western Australia, and serves many interests, both agricultural and industrial.
The paper has a rival in The Northam Courier, also a bi-weekly issue, started late in 1909. This paper, which has been subject to the “vicissitudes of fortune,” is now published by Messrs. O’Connor, Campbell, & Dixon.
“THE SOUTHERN CROSS TIMES.”
This paper is not the pioneer journal of theYilgarn goldfields, there being a previous issue entitled The Southern Gross Miner, which is not at present in circulation. The Southern Cross Times, however, is owned locally and published bi-weekly.
“THE EVENING STAR,” BOULDER.
Boulder City owes the establishment of its first newspaper to the enterprise of Mr. A. G. Hales, more familiarly known as “Smiler,” and now famous as a war correspondent. Mr. Hales was running a paper called The Review in Coolgardie, and financially the undertaking was not too successful, so he removed the plant to Boulder City, and there issued an afternoon daily called The Miners’ Right. Eventually Messrs. Osgood & Co., proprietors of The Broad Arrow Standard, owing to the decline of mining at Kurrawah, transferred their plant to the Boulder and started The Evening Star, which paper is still in existence, and grows both in popularity and importance.
“THE GERALDTON EXPRESS.”
Geraldton is well represented in the matter of journalism by The Express, and recent years have produced another publication—The Geraldton Guardian. The Express was founded as far back as 1878 by Mr Isaac Walker, the first editor being Mr. Stephen Montague Stout, in his day a well-known journalist The paper is now a tri-weekly one and is conducted by Mr. John M. Drew, M.L.C.
The Guardian has also a tri-weekly issue, being published on alternate days to The Express Thus Geraldton is practically served by the daily issue of a locally-printed paper, and the rising importance of the port should assure the prosperity of the publication.
“THE TRUTH.”
Late in the year 1902 Mr. John Norton, proprietor of the Sydney Truth, decided also to produce the paper in Western Australia, and during January, 1903, the first issue was received from the press. The paper has been continuously published from the date mentioned, and at present enjoys a wide circulation. Until recently the editorial chair was occupied for some considerable time by Mr. Morgan, who recently accepted a similar position on The Sun newspaper at Kalgoorlie The present editor is Mr. P Finn, who is not unfavourably known to the Western Australian Press
The “Statistical Register” gives the number of newspapers in publication in Western Australia at the close of the year 1911 as 77, so it will at once appear that to give separate details in regard to them is obviously impossible. These latter will receive fuller mention in that portion of the work which treats in more detailed form of the localities in which they are published.
Labour is specially represented by The Westralian Worker, which was for some considerable time published at Kalgoorlie. The paper, which is a weekly issue, recently transferred its headquarters to Perth, with the ultimate hope that it might form the genesis of a Labour daily paper in the metropolis.
Consular.
The Consuls and Consular Agents in Western Australia of foreign powers consist of the following: —
America (United States of).—U. W. Burke, Consular Agent, Fremantle.
Austria-Hungary.—Alfred Edward Morgans, Consul, Perth and Fremantle.
Belgium.—G. F. Payne, Consul, Perth.
Chile.—John Harry Noble, Consul, Elder Buildings, Perth.
Denmark.—R. Strelitz, R.a.D., Consul, Fremantle.
France.—D. G. Gawler, Consular Agent, Fremantle.
Germany.—Chevalier C. P. L. Ratazzi, Consul, Mouatt Street, Fremantle; J. Fleischer, Acting-Consul, Perth.
Greece.—Henry P. Downing, Vice-Consul, Perth.
Italy.—Cavaliere C. P. L. Ratazzi, Consular Agent, Mouatt Street, Fremantle; E. Drake Brockman, Consular Agent, Perth.
Japan.—Archie Male, Hon. Consul, Broome.
Netherlands.—P. Strelitz, Consul, Fremantle.
Norway.—Richard S. Haynes, K.C., Consul, Perth; August Stang, Vice-Consul, Fremantle; A. Y. Hassell, Vice-Consul, Albany; H. M. Beigel, Vice-Consul, Bun-bury.
Paraguay (Republic of).—John Swift Pearson, Consul.
Russia.—Peter Micheledes, Consul, Perth.
Sweden.—R. Strelitz, R.a.D., Consul, Fremantle and Perth; S. J. Haynes, Vice-Consul, Albany.
Nothing in the way of association to protect their mutual interests existed until within the past few months, when it was decided to form a Consular Association somewhat on the lines of that which has existed for many years in South Australia. The basis of this is to assist colleagues in sending away seamen, and to act in conjunction in any matter of public interest. The association is of a purely social and beneficial character, and aims at enabling the Consuls to act conjointly without any interference with the regulations of their respective Governments under which they discharge their duties. The functions of Consuls are at times onerous and difficult, and not often give rise to delicate situations, and by association mutual action is often facilitated and valuable assistance rendered. The secretary of the newly-formed body in Western Australia is Mr. J. H. Noble, the Consul for Chile, from whose energies, guided by the advice and assistance of the cloyen of Consuls in the State, the Chevalier Ratazzi, much is expected.
UDOLPHO WOLFE BURKE, Consul for the United States of America, was born in New York City on February 21, 1866, and until ten years of age was educated at a private school in his native city. His father, Mr. David H. Burke, who had also held a consular position, removed to Hamburg, Germany, and the subject of this notice was placed as a student at the High School there, remaining for eight years. At the age of nineteen he left school and became associated with the largest coffee-importing house in Hamburg, and for the following year assisted in consular work in that city, at the end of the time returning to New York to join the Alliance Insurance Association, with which he remained for about two years. Tiring of city life he went out west to the States of Idaho and Washington, where he embarked in mining and land speculations, afterwards migrating to Australia and engaging in commercial business in the Eastern States and New Zealand
for a year (1894-5). Mr. Burke then decided to settle in Western Australia, and arrived there in 1895,
Ttartletto, Perth.
Mb. TJdolpho Wolfe Bubke.
entering into the. American trade in this State and representing the firm of Mailler & Querean, of New York, who have been in the Australian trade since 1861. Previous to receiving his present appointment as Consul for the United States he acted on several occasions as consular agent and took an active and prominent part in the arrangements connected with the visit of the American fleet to Albany in 1908. In 1898 he married a daughter of Mr. George Kilminster, of Wool-lahra, Sydney, the issue being two daughters.
HENRY PERCY DOWNING,
Vice-Consul for Greece and senior member of the firm of Downing and Downing, Barristers and Solicitors, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. The subject of our notice was born at Sydney, New South Wales, in 1873 and received his education at the High School and at the Sydney
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Grammar School. Subsequently he studied law at the University of Sydney, and in 1896 came to Western Australia, where at Perth he immediately commenced the practice of his profession. He received the appointment of Vice-Consul for Greece in December, 1903. At the general elections in April, 1901, Mr. Downing sought a seat in the Legislative Assembly and contested the Guildford electorate against Sir C. H. (then Mr.) Rason, but was defeated by the small majority of 25 votes. He was for three years a councillor of the South Perth municipality and was also for a short time Mayor of that suburb. In 1899 Mr. Downing wedded a daughter of the Honourable Sir Edward Stone,
K.B., Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia.
RICHARD SEPTIMUS HAYNES, K.C., Consul for Norway, 56, St. George’s Terraoe, Perth, was born at Picton, New South Wales, in 1857. He received his elementary education under the tuition of his father, who was a schoolmaster and a prominent man in the Hunter district of the Mother State, afterwards attending the Sydney Grammar School. In 1873 he was articled to Messrs. Russell and Holden, solicitors, of Sydney, and subsequently to Mr. A. W. Simpson, of Armidale, New South Wales. After being admitted to the Bar he took control of the offices of Messrs. Norton & Smith, solicitors, of Sydney, and for five years practised on his own behalf in that city. In 1885 he came to Western Australia, and being very successful in the first few cases he undertook soon became one of the most notable members of the profession in Perth. Especially was he able to establish a high standing in criminal practice, where his quick wit, ingenuity, and powers of pleading stood him in good stead, and after being connected with all the more prominent cases since his arrival in the State, to-day he leads in that class of practice. Several years after his arrival in Western Australia Mr. Haynes took into partnership Mr. W. M. Purkiss, formerly Crown Prosecutor in New Zealand, and himself having taken up civil work devotes the whole of his time to practice at the Bar. As early as 1886 he was elected a member of the Perth City Council, and in the same year was appointed the MM
first Chairman under the Board of Health Act for the Perth district. He infused much life into this body and drew up all its rules, but resigned in consequence of lack of support from the police magistrate in enforcing regulations. In 1891, after two years’ retirement, he again became a councillor for the city, and served a term of three years, not seeking re-election. He was the first to advocate and initiate the formation of the Municipal Association of Western Australia, and was elected its first Chairman in 1894. During his period of municipal service he prepared the by-laws for the regulation of the Council proceedings and the subdivision of the Council into Committees. He was authorized by the Council to report on the work of its officers, with the result that a city engineer and accountant were appointed, and he was instrumental in introducing two large loan bills which provided funds for the construction of new streets. On two occasions when he contested the seat for West Perth in the House of Assembly he was defeated by very narrow majorities, hut in June, 1896, he was successful in being returned as member for the Central province in the Legislative Council. He was always a strong advocate of responsible Government, and was the founder of the Central Reform League, of which he was one of seven leaders. He is a supporter of all forms of athletics and acts as Vice-President to various football and cricket clubs. In 1880 he married Marion, daughter of Mr. A. J. Goodwin, of Sydney.
HERMANN McALLUM HENNING was born on December 28, 1877, at Adelaide, South Australia, and educated at St. Peter’s College in that city. For two years after leaving school he was with Messrs. W. R. Cave & Co., merchants and agents of Adelaide, and after severing his connection with them in December, 1895, he came to Western Australia, being then only eighteen years of age. On his arrival in this State he received an appointment as general clerk in the office of Mr. W. F. Sayer, the present Solicitor-General, subsequently being articled to the late Mr. (afterwards Judge) Moorhead. He studied for the Bar and was admitted as Barrister and Solicitor on March 17, 1903, by the then Chief Justice, Sir
Edward Stone, on the application of Sir Walter James. He practised at Perth with the firm of Henning and Co. for two years, and on his own account for a similar period, but finding the demand for his professional services increasing he entered into partnership with Mr. E. Drake Brockman in 1909. Mr. Henning has great faith in the future of Western Australia, being particularly optimistic respecting the land values of the State, and he has taken up all the agricultural country that
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Herman McAllum Henning.
is allowed under the Land Act. For three years he represented South Perth in the local Council, and occupied the mayoral chair for two terms, but owing to pressure of private business and consequent inability to devote sufficient time to municipal affairs he resigned, as he felt he could not do justice to the position. As solicitor to the Municipal Association of Western Australia he has been responsible for much of the improvement effected in Municipal Acts during recent years. For some considerable time he acted as Consular Agent for Italy, but resigned the office in 1912, Mr. E. Drake Brockman being appointed in his stead. He married in June, 1903, Rita, daughter of the late Mr. John Harvey, of Adelaide, South Australia. Mr. Henning is a son of the late Mr. R. W. E. Henning, of South Australia, who was prominent in the South Australian Parliament as member for the district of Albert for many years.
JOHN HARRY NOBLE, Consul for Chile in Western Australia, is a native of Nottingham, England. After studying for the law he, desirous of visiting the dominions beyond the seas, left England in the year 1888 and went to South Africa, but was induced to journey farther on, and in the following year left on a visit to Tasmania and New Zealand. On arrival in the latter place he was so impressed with the
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. John Harry Noble.
country that be decided to remain there a while, and after embarking in mining and other pursuits, in 1891 received the appointment of assistant to Mr. H. G. Wade, the Government Property Tax Commissioner, subsequently securing an appointment with the Kauri Timber Company, Ltd., at its inception, but resigned and enrolled himself as a student at the Thames School of Mines. Subsequently he successfully followed mining pursuits, and for a time worked under Mr. “Long Drive” Walker, the promoter of the celebrated Waihi Mine. In 1893 Mr. Noble was privately retained to conduct a series of experiments for the extermination of rabbits in New South Wales. He spent several years in Victoria and started the Shepparton Butter, Cheese, and Ice Factory, Ltd. (at the time the largest country butter factory in Victoria), in conjunction with following agricultural pursuits. Migrating to Western Australia after the sensational mining developments in Coolgardie he secured appointment as Secretary to the Western Aus-
tralian Stock Exchange. Mr. Noble was for some time associated with the office of Mr. A. E. Morgans, Ex-Premier of Western Australia, and organized and conducted the electoral campaign for the Western Australian Party, including the Right Honourable Sir John Forrest, P.C., G.C.M.G., the Honourable Sir E. H. Wittenoom, K.C.M.G., M.L.C., Messrs. Clark and Mills at the Federal elections. He represents as attorney many mining and other interests, and is Secretary of the Pastoralists’ Association of Western Australia, in addition to many other private companies.
GEORGE FREDERICK PAYNE, Consul for Belgium, was born at Sandhurst, Berkshire, England, on February 17, 1862. When only four years of age he was brought out by his parents to Australia in the sailing vessel “Racehorse,” arriving at Fremantle in 1866. In the seaport town he was educated at the Government school until fourteen years of age, when he joined the firm
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. George Frederick Payne.
of Messrs. W. D. Moore &. Co., merchants and shipping agents, of Fremantle, as junior clerk, remaining with them for about ten years, three of which were spent in the Far Nor’-West, where he gained valuable experience. Resigning his post with this firm in 1886 he accepted a position with the late Sir George Shen-ton as manager of his Fremantle business, and with him he remained until the formation of Elder, Shen-
ton, & Co., Limited, merchants and shipping agents, stock and station agents. Mr. Payne became associated with Mr. T. E. Field in the control of the firm, the ramifications of which extend to the most distant parts of Western Australia. Some years ago he was gazetted a Justice of the Peace. In 1890 he was married to Maude, a daughter of the late Walter Easton, one of the early viticultural experts of the State, and has a son and two daughters.
JOHN SWIFT PEARSON, Consul for Paraguay, was born on July 10, 1856, in Yorkshire, England, and educated a.t St. Mary’s College, Hanover Park, London, E.C. At the age of seventeen he left College and entered the firm of Messrs, de Bernales & Co., marine underwriters, of Cornhill, London, remaining with them for about ten years, when he decided to settle in Australia. Accompanied by his wife, whom he had married but a few days previously, he set out for the Antipodes in the sailing vessel “Macduff,” and after an uneventful voyage landed at Melbourne on September 19, 1883. His first appointment in the land of his adoption was with the New Zealand Insurance Company, and receiving rapid promotion in this office he was before long transferred to Adelaide as assistant manager to the Company in South Australia, which position he held for five and a half years. In 1885 he relinquished his connection with this Company in order to accept the management in Western Australia of the Sun Fire Office of London, an appointment which he retained until quite recently, when owing to failing health he was compelled to resign after twenty-six years’ faithful service. Mr. Pearson was married in 1883 to Jennie, a daughter of Mr. Charles James Smith, of Brixton, London, S.W.
CARL PETER LUDWIG RAT-AZZI, Consul for the German Empire and Consular Agent for Italy, Mouatt Street, Fremantle, and St. George’s Terrace, Perth. The subject of our notice was born at Franlcfurt-on-Main on September 21, 1865, and is a relation of the illustrious Prime Minister of Italy Urbano Ratazzi (born, 1810; died, 1873). Mr. C. P. L. Ratazzi after finishing his education at Frankfurt - on - Main
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joined the firm of Henn Brothers, wholesale merchants of his native town. In 1886 he entered the Frankfurt agency of Armour and Co., Chicago, as confidential clerk. Leaving Germany in 1889 he embarked for Sydney, and subsequent to his arrival entered into business with Carl Goedecker as import and export merchants and agents. In 1892 Mr. Ratazzi proceeded on a business tour to New York, and while in this important city he married Miss Kath. Sulzmann. From New York he toured Great Britain and the Continent and devoted considerable time to the numerous manufacturing centres, coming back to Australia in 1893. Shortly after his return Mr. Ratazzi dissolved the existing partnership and joined the well-known firm of Weber, Loh-mann, & Co., of Sydney and Melbourne, with whom he remained till 1900, when, having been offered the Western Australian agency for the Imperial German mail line (Nord-deutscher Lloyd) he severed his connection with Weber, Lohmann, and Co. and established himself in Fremantle, Western Australia, in October, 1900, in partnership with Mr. Otto Liirman, of Bremen, the latter
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Carl Peter Ltjdwig Ratazzi.
gentleman retiring after two years, and the business has since been carried on solely by Mr. Ratazzi. In 1905 Mr. Ratazzi was appointed a Justice of the Peace by the Western Australian Government, and in mm2
recognition of valuable services rendered as Italian Consul His Majesty the King of Italy conferred on him the Knight Cross of the Order of the Crown in 1907, and was promoted to the higher degree of Knight Officer in 1910. In 1901 he founded at Fremantle the first German Club (Deutscher Verein). His eldest daughter, Maria, and son Carlo received their education on the Continent, where they spent in all six years. The private address is 115, Victoria Road, Fremantle.
AUGUST STANG, Vice-Consul for Norway at Fremantle, Western Australia, is a son of the late Judge August Stang, of Arendal, Norway, where he was born on August 4, 1870. His educational training was conducted at a private college at Christiana, which he left at the age of sixteen to enter upon commercial pursuits. A couple of years later, in 1888, he sailed for Australia, and arrived in Melbourne about the middle of that year, his subsequent experiences in that city being gained chiefly among the stock-broking section of the community. In 1892, when the Western State was springing into prominence by reason of the phenomenal gold discoveries in its eastern districts, he followed the stream of emigration from the older States, and settling in Perth joined the Civil Service in the Postal Department. Steady promotion has attended his years of connection with this branch, and at the present time he occupies the position of Officer-in-Charge of the Cheque Branch of the Department. In 1910 the Federal Ministry permitted him to accept from the Norwegian Government the position of Vice-Consul for Norway at Fremantle, and he devotes a great deal of attention to the responsibilities involved in this office. He has deeply at heart the possibilities of improvement in the mutual trade between the country of his adoption and his native land, and his efforts are unceasing to bring about a closer relationship between the producing and commercial firms of this State and of Norway. The shipping trade between the two countries appears to him capable of considerable expansion, and he also is ever on the alert to promote the interests of his fellow-countrymen who come to the State, his efforts in settling such on the land having met with gratifying success. He is
of opinion that it would be of benefit to this country if a portion of the annual stream of agricultural emigrants from Norway to America could be directed to Western Australia. He is a representative of the Society for the Promotion of Immigration, which has its headquarters in the Mother State. Mr. Stang is
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. August Stang.
a member of many years’ standing in the fraternity of Freemasons. He finds recreation in gardening pursuits at his residence in Subiaco and during the summer months in occasional boating trips on the Swan River. In 1906 he married Ada, daughter of the late Mr. John Bailye, of Kent, England, and has a son and a daughter.
PAUL STRELITZ, Consul for the Netherlands, senior partner in the firm of Strelitz Brothers, Fremantle (referred to in the commercial section of this work), is a native of Hamburg, Germany, in which town he was born on July 30, 1867. At the completion of his education acquired at Hamburg College, in the city of his birth, he entered the office of Mr. R. J. Robertson, one of the largest ore-buyers in the Fatherland, and there gained his first insight into commercial life. He served in the German army for twelve months and then took passage for Australia, landing at Melbourne in 1886. Joining the firm of Messrs. Baker and Rouse, photographic suppliers, he subsequently received transfer to Adelaide, where he managed the
business of the firm for five years. He returned to Melbourne in 1893 to assume the management of the firm in that State, but in the following year resigned his position and, attracted by the glowing reports of the gold discoveries, set out for the
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. Paul Steelitz.
Golden West. Once in Western Australia he was joined by his brother Richard, the outcome being the establishment of the present firm of Strelitz Brothers. On August 23, 1904, Mr. Paul Strelitz was selected for the consulship of Western Australia by the Netherlands Government, an appointment confirmed by the British authorities some months later. A lover of all outdoor sports, rowing in particular arouses his keenest enthusiasm, and he has taken
part in many amateur events both in Adelaide and Melbourne with considerable success, as the numerous trophies now gracing his home bear witness. For eight years he has been President of the Fremantle Rowing Club, is a Vice-President of the Children’s Hospital, and is ever prominently to the fore in all movements having for their purpose the raising of funds for charitable objects. His beautiful home at Mount Street, Perth, with its delightful surrounding gardens, is frequently placed at the disposal of the charitable institutions for the purpose of raising funds to carry on the good work.
RICHARD STRELITZ, Consul for Sweden and Denmark and partner in the firm of Strelitz Brothers, was born at Hamburg, Germany, on July 23, 1872, and, like his brother Paul, received his education at the Hamburg College. On reaching his sixteenth year he was given a post in a shipping office, where he remained for three years, and then emigrated to Victoria, settling in Melbourne in 1892. Here he became associated with the well-known firm of Messrs. Lange & Thoneman, wholesale merchants, and after six months’ service was transferred to the management of the firm’s branch in Western Australia. In 1894 he severed his connection with Messrs. Lange & Thoneman, and with his brother commenced in business at Fremantle. Mr. Richard Strelitz was appointed Consul for Denmark in 1897, and six years later became Acting-Consul for Sweden, the following year being gazetted to the
consulship. In 1904 he had conferred upon him by King Christian of Denmark the order of Knighthood of Dannebrog, having first obtained private permission to accept the distinction from King Edward VII. personally. He was further honoured
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Me. Riohaed Steelitz.
in 1912, when the King of Sweden bestowed upon him the Knighthood of the Vasa Order. Mr. Strelitz visited Stockholm, where he was personally decorated, and was also entertained at a banquet by the Academy of Science. He is a noted motorist, and in 1907 drove his car through England, Scotland, and Europe, covering in all a distance of over 11,000 miles. Mr. Strelitz was wedded at Perth and has five children. His private address is View Street, Peppermint Grove, Cottlesloe.
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Medical
When the settlement upon the Swan River was first established, provision for medical assistance was made by the appointment of a Colonial Surgeon (Mr. Charles Simmons). Mr. Simmons held the position for some years before a successor was appointed. The office continued in existence until after responsible government was conferred upon the colony.
There being no University in the State to confer degrees or diplomas in medicine and surgery, the practice of the profession is governed by the Medical Act.
Under this the Governor-in-Council may appoint or remove a Medical Board, consisting of not fewer than three nor more than seven members of the medical profession, to whom persons desirous of being registered must submit their degrees, diplomas, certificates, or other proofs. The board on due proof of qualification, skill, and ability to practise medicine or surgery, and also that the applicant is a person of good fame and character, may register such in the Medical Register. Every registered practitioner is entitled to receive from the Registrar of the Medical Board a certificate of his registration. The Medical Register of the State must be annually published
in the Government Gazette in the month of January. No person other than a registered medical practitioner is allowed to practise medicine or surgery, or to profess to be a medical practitioner, or to pretend that he is qualified to so practise. The fee for registration is £10 10s., and for reinstatement on the register the board may charge £2 2s. Additional qualifications are each charged 5s. for registration. Only persons holding British (also those holding the registration certificate of the General Medical Council of Great Britain), Australian, Tasmanian, or New Zealand qualifications can be registered. A fee of two shillings and sixpence is charged for inspecting the Register.
The Medical Board established under the Act consists of: —President, T. H. Lovegrove, M.R.C.S. (Eng.); H. T. Kelsall, M.D. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.); J. W. Hope, E.R.C.P. (Edin.), L.S.A. (Lond.), D.P.H., R.C.P., and S. (Irel.); W. Trethowan, M.B., M.S.; J. S. Hicks, M.D. (Lond.); A. J. H. Saw, M.D., B.S. (Cantab.), P.R.C.S. (Edin.); T. L. Anderson, M.B. (Melb.); Registrar, Wm. Stephens, Trinity Chambers, 70, St. George’s Terrace, Perth.
MICHAEL O’CONNOR, B.A., M.D., B.Ch., B.A.O., was born at Newcastle on December 9, 1865. After a preliminary course of education under private tuition in the place of his birth he proceeded to Ireland, where he was sent to th© College of Jesuits in County Kildare, and subsequently entered as a student at Trinity College, Dublin. It was in connection with this famous institution that Dr. O’Connor received his medical training, and, having first obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in the Faculty of Arts, in 1889 was awarded the diplomas of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. A year later he returned to Western Australia and, after twelve months of travel in different parts of the State, at the end of 1891 he settled down to the practice of his profession in the capital. Shortly afterwards an outbreak of smallpox, caused by the landing at Perth of an infected passenger from one of the Nor’-West boats, led to his appointment as health officer, Dr. Scott who at that time occupied the position being prostrated by illness. The
efficient manner in which Dr. O’Connor grappled with the situation earned for him the highest respect and gratitude of the community and placed his professional reputation above criticism. Since that period he has been responsible for many schemes having as their object the health of the public, and he is an uncompromising enemy to unsanitary conditions. For fourteen years he carried out the duties of health officer for the Metropolitan district, resigning the appointment in 1907, and during that period he filled the post of senior physician to the Perth Public Hospital, also occupying a seat upon the Board. In addition to these offices he also acted as superintendent and physician to the Victoria Hospital at Subiaco, and at the present time he holds the position of consulting physician to the Perth Hospital. Dr. O’Connor is Chairman of Directors of the Emu Brewery, Limited, and the Stanley Brewing Company, Limited. At one period he was connected with the Legislative body, having been returned by the electors
of the old Moore district as their representative in the State Parliament, which seat he held for three years. In earlier days he was a prominent cricketer and polo player in Western Australia, and was Captain of the Perth Polo Club. Latterly he has turned his attention to the ancient game of golf as a means of healthful and pleasurable diversion and exercise. Dr. O’Connor married in 1896 a daughter of Colonel Forbes, of Northam, and has a son.
SAMUEL MACAULAY, J.P.,
L.R.C.P. (Edin.), L.F.P.S.G., and
L. M., Perth and Cottesloe, is a son of the late Mr. John Macaulay,
M. D., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who died at Tynemouth, England, in 1902. Born at Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland, on June 21, 1856, the gentleman under review received his early education at the Royal Grammar School at Newcastle-on-Tyne, subsequently attending a private school conducted by Mr.
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Marckbank in the same city. He entered the Glasgow University in the winter session of 1875-6 and during his medical course took class honours in practical anatomy and in surgery. Having duly qualified for his profession in January, 1880, he began practice as Assistant Surgeon at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Dispensary, where he gained a good practical knowledge, and eventually established himself on his own account in the suburb of Jesmond in that city, where his father was already in practice. For eighteen years he practised successfully in this centre, and during the course of time found his duties increase to such an extent that he was obliged to take a partner. Notwithstanding this assistance his health at length broke down through overwork, and he resolved to try a change of climate. In June, 1898, Dr. Macaulay arrived in Western Australia and commenced practice at Perth and Cottesloe for a time as a general practitioner, ultimately deciding to specialize in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He had previously gained great experience in these diseases in England, having been surgeon to the Throat and Ear Hospital of Newcastle-on-Tyne for eighteen years, this institution being the only one of its kind for the four northern counties of England, and upon leaving for Australia was appointed honorary consulting surgeon and presented with an illuminated address in recognition of his services to the Hospital. He was also Honorary Surgeon to the Northern Counties Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for many years. Since coming to Western Australia he has held the position of honorary surgeon for throat and ear diseases in the Perth Hospital, which he resigned on the occasion of his taking a trip to England. A similar post
in connection with the Children’s Hospital he was obliged to give up on account of the pressure of his private practice. For seven years he was a member of the Medical Board of Western Australia. He is honorary surgeon to the Deaf and Dumb Institution of Western Australia and to the Convalescent Home. While practising in England in 1893 Dr. Macaulay was appointed Honorary Secretary to the Section of Otology in connection with the
B.M.A. annual meeting held at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He received his commission of Justice of the Peace for the Perth magisterial district in 1910. Dr. Macaulay has always been connected with the Presbyterian Church, in the advancement of which he takes a deep
Bartletto, Perth.
Dr. Samuel Macaulay.
interest. He is at present an elder of the Church in Western Australia, having previously held this office in England for about sixteen' years. He has held the position of Presi-
dent of the Perth Y.M.C.A. since its inception in Western Australia in 1907 and is a stanch supporter of all that tends to the uplifting of the community in his adopted State. In 1881 he married Margaret Morrison, daughter of the late Mr. Robert Wilson, of “Donard View,” Annaclone, Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, and has three daughters and a son, who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church at Elstern-wick, Victoria.
ARTHUR RICHARD HAYNES, M.B., Ch.M., of Hay Street, Perth, was born at Gunnedah, New South Wales, in 1887, and was educated first at the Christian Brothers’ College, Perth, and afterwards at the University of Sydney, of which he is-a graduate. In November, 1910, he succeeded to the practice on the death of his father, Dr. E. J. A. Haynes, who for nearly twenty } ears had been one of the leading surgeons of Western Australia and a prominent and popular citizen of Perth. The possessor of high medical and surgical degrees and a skilful capacity at his work, the late Dr. Haynes made his impress on the professional life of the State, and by bringing his knowledge to bear on public affairs played no little part in many matters relating to the health and well-being of the community. For several years he was a member of the Perth City Council and was also at one time a prominent figure in military circles. He took the lead in advocating the training of midwifery nurses and established at his own expense a training home for the purpose. In these and many other directions, particularly in his readiness at all times to help the poor and needy, Dr. Haynes will long be remembered in this State.
Dental
The Dental Board which controls the registration of dentists in the State, and also so far as the Act permits exercises jurisdiction over the conduct of members on the register, consists of Dr. F. M. Wilkinson (President), with Dr. R. C. Merryweather and Dr. J. E. Ramsay representing the medical profession, and Dr. J. A. C. Wilson and Mr. S. D. Eden representing the practising dentists. Mr. F. M. Syme is the Registrar.
The board is elected by the profession in the terms of the Dental Act, and by virtue of the provisions of that Act regulates the various matters referring to dentistry in this State.
The board is empowered to make rules. —
(a) For fixing the time and regulating the election of members of the board.
(bj For the examination of persons claiming to be registered as dentists, and for determining the qualifications to be held and the evidence to be produced by any such persons.
(c) For requiring and regulating the registration of all articles of apprenticeship under which apprentices or students to dentists are now or may hereafter be serving.
(d) For regulating the meetings and proceedings of the board and the conduct of their business.
(ej For generally carrying into effect the objects of this Act.
The board may impose and provide for the recovery of fines and penalties from any person or persons subject thereto, and prescribe a scale of fees to be charged m respect of any proceeding or registration under the Act or the rules.
The fees are as follows : — Annual license fee, £2 2s.; fee for registration as a dentist, £10 10s.; examination fee, £6 6s.; for registration of articles of apprenticeship, £1 Is.
There are sixty dentists upon the Register and thirteen registered dental students.
In addition to the official body there is a society called the Odontological Society of Western Australia, the members of which are subject to the rules of the National Dental Association, a body formed from all the ethical dental societies in Australasia. Under the auspices of this association dental congresses are held regularly, and at the one held some months ago rules
for the conduct of members were framed, but have not yet been published.
The desire of the society in Western Australia is to prevent unprofessional conduct and maintain as high a status as the law of the State allows. It meets monthly —-papers are read and discussed, incidents of practice reported, and our various failures or successes brought before the meeting, the interchange of ideas being of great benefit to all.
The work outside done by the society commenced a couple of years ago, when 1,750 children were examined at James Street School. Proper charts of all mouths were recorded, one being sent to the parent of the child, the Principal Medical Officer (Dr. Hope) received one, and one was retained by the society. The society lias since been treating all indigent children at the school, as well as the Swan Boys’ Orphanage and Girls’ Orphanage, free, the members devoting two hours of their time daily to this work. A great deal remains to be done in connection with charitable institutions, which probably the society will take in hand.
The children receive attention in all branches of the profession, special efforts being made to save teeth by filling and impressing on them the benefits of dental hygiene, which, as far as they are concerned, means the use of the toothbrush; the mouths, generally speaking, are filthy and full of decayed teeth.
The work of the society at the present time is being conducted at James Street, but permanent and well-fitted rooms will shortly be available at the new medical offices in Murray Street.
The question of how it has come to pass that the dental profession has made such a remarkable advance of recent years has often been discussed. One suggestion has been that the teeth of civilized people are now more liable to decay than they formerly were, but it is much more likely that the reasons are to be found in the increased skill of the operators, the use of anaesthetics, and a general feeling on the part of the public that prevention by care and attention is far preferable to extraction in the last stages of decay.
From the number of practising dentists in the State it may be seen that the prevention and cure of what Robert Burns described as the “hell o’ a’ diseases” requires considerable skill and ability.
ALEXANDER JAMES Science, etc., etc., 76, William titioners in Australia, who arrived in WRIGHT, L.D.S., Royal College of Street, Perth, is a son of the late Victoria in 1847 and took part in the Surgeons, Edinburgh, Fellow of the Mr. Alexander Wright, of Beathe, famous Eureka Stockade riot, being American Academy of Dental Scotland, one of the first dental prac- slightly wounded in that memorable
fray. The gentleman under review was born at Bendigo, Victoria, on October 7, 1866, and received his early education at Ballarat. Having finished his schooling, Dr. Wright commenced his dental training under his father and Dr. Bomford, of Beaconsfield, Tasmania, under whose tuition he obtained an excellent
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knowledge of the principles and practices of dentistry. After practising for five years in Tasmania Dr. Wright left for Western Australia and became registered as a dentist of that State at the passing of the Dental Act of 1894. He played a leading part in the legislation that led up to the passing of this Act, and was for many years a member of the Dental Board of Western Australia, for three years occupying the presidential chair. He filled the post of honorary dental surgeon to the Colonial Hospital for a lengthy period, and on the foundation of the Children’s Hospital was appointed to a like position in that institution. He also took some part in public life, retaining his seat for four years at the municipal table at Claremont, where he acted as Chairman of the Health Committee. In the year 1906 Dr. Wright, leaving a locum tenens in charge of his practice, proceeded to Edinburgh, where he obtained the dental degree of the Royal College of Surgeons, and, at the same time, having gone through the course, secured a certificate of competency in the use of anaesthetics from the same University. Dr. Wright was then made a member of
the British Dental Association after having been registered by the General Medical Council as a dentist of Great Britain. Deciding to take further degrees he sailed for America, where he entered the Harvard University and took the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine, and while there was made corresponding secretary to the Alumni of the University, and in the same year was elected a member of the School of Dental Hygiene in the Council of America. At the request of some of the professors of the University he gave a demonstration at the Jamestown Dental Congress held in Virginia in 1907, and had the great distinction of being made Vice-President of the Congress. In 1908 the Fellowship of the American Academy of Dental Science was conferred upon him, this being the highest honour in American dentistry. At Chicago Dr. Wright entered the National Medical University and sat for the examination of Doctor of Dental Surgery, which degree he obtained the same year. Returning to Western Australia, he was elected President of the Western Australian Dental Society, and at the Australian Dental Congress in 1909 was elected Hon. Vice-President, and read a paper before this body on the proper care of the teeth in relation to the health of children. He fills various offices in connection with the Methodist Church, among them that of superintendent of the Ord Street Sunday-school. A Past Master of the Masonic craft, his mother lodge is the “Bonnie Doon.” Dr. Wright takes his recreation in motoring, and is a member of the Western Australian Automobile Club. In 1890 he married Rosina, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Walters, of Maitland, Tasmania, and has two sons and a daughter.
JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL WILSON, M.A.C.D., D.D.S., dentist, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Thomas Wilson, merchant, of Melbourne, Victoria, and was born at Carlton, in that State, on October 13, 1879. He received his education at New College, Box Hill, near Melbourne, and matriculated in 1896 at the University of Melbourne. In 1897 he was articled for five years to Mr. E. W. L. French, of Collins Street, and entered the Australian College of Den-
tistry, upon the completion of his course obtaining his M.A.C.D. diploma in 1901. Subsequently he passed the examination prescribed by the Dental Board for registration in Victoria and shortly afterwards left for America, where he took the final course in the Dental Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1903 with the degree of D.D.S. Proceeding to Great Britain he followed the practice of his profession while engaging in further study in the methods of English dentistry. In 1905 he returned to Australia and filled the position of locum tenens for Dr. A. J. Wright during his absence from Western Australia, and afterwards continued his connection with this gentleman for a time. In December, 1909, Dr. Wilson opened his present surgery in St. George’s Terrace, Perth, where he has since carried on professional practice on his own account. He was Hon. Secretary of the Western Australian Dental Society in 1909-10 and Vice-President in 1910-11. Apart from his profession, his attention has been centred in the military defence movement, and he holds His Majesty’s commission in the 1st Battalion of the 11th Australian Infantry Regi-
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ment. He received his provisional appointment as 2nd Lieutenant on March 17, 1908, which was confirmed some eight months later, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on October 25, 1909. He takes great delight in motoring and is a warm supporter of all forms of healthy outdoor sport. He is a
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member of the Naval and Military Club. In 1905 Dr. Wilson married Agnes, daughter of the Late Mr. William Rose, of Stockport, England, and has two sons.
GRAFTON CAMERON DICKSON FORSTER, dental surgeon, 178, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Charles Cameron Forster, of Brunswick, Victoria, a well-known chemist and dentist of that town. He was born at Moyston, in the same State, and at the conclusion of his education at the Stawell Grammar School became associated in dentistry with Mr. Donald McGregor, one of the leading pioneers in the profession in Australia, whose career was especially marked by the number of successful dentists who received their training under his tuition. After several years with this gentleman Mr. Forster practised his profession at 80, Collins Street, Melbourne, with Mr. W. A. E. Graham, and carried on in conjunction with this gentleman for some time. In 1896 he came to Western Australia and established himself
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Mb. G. C. D. Fobsteb.
in practice at his present address where he has continued ever since. He was appointed honorary dentist to the Perth Public Hospital, being the first to hold the honorary appointment; was a member of the Western Australian Dental Board, and is a Past President of the
Western Australian Dental Society. In matters of charity he is always to the fore and takes a deep interest in the Blind Institute, of which body he is a member of the controlling council. The health of the younger members of the community has engaged his attention, and chiefly through his instrumentality the Girls’ Guild Union was formed in this State and has been carried on on very progressive lines, this organization being a branch of the very important similar institution for physical culture established in Melbourne, which has done so much for the girls of Victoria. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and for many years has been a member of the Board of Management of that denomination, besides filling the position of choir conductor of the church at Maylands for many years. A great lover of animals Mr. Forster is the owner and breeder of the champion deerhound and the champion Borgois (Russian wolfhound) of the State. He is a Freemason of long standing and is a member of the St. John Lodge, No. 1, W.A.C. His recreation consists chiefly of motoring and he owns an Imperial 30 horse-power car. Mr. Forster married Mary Helen, daughter of the late Mr.
C. McDougall, J.P., of Brunswick, Victoria, and has a son and a daughter.
DAVID RODERIC DAVIES, M.A.C.D., dental surgeon, 178, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a son of Mr. D. M. Davies, of South Yarra, Victoria, where he was born on May 13, 1878. He pursued his scholastic studies at the Church of England Grammar School in Melbourne, and when seventeen years of age entered upon his training in dentistry under the tuition of Drs. O’Neil and Levien, to whom he served articles for four years. He was one of the original students of the Australian College of Dentistry and Melbourne Dental Hospital, and having successfully passed his final examination and taken his degree of M.A.C.D., which was the only diploma then granted by that institution, he was appointed the first demonstrator in prosthetic dentistry in connection with the college. Resigning this post in 1899 Mr. Davies came to Western Aus-
tralia, and shortly after arrival joined issue with Mr. G. C. D. Forster, who admitted him into partnership in 1904. Mr. Davies has been a member of the Dental Board of Western Australia for several years, and at the present time occupies the position of Vice-President of the Dental Society of
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Western Australia. He has been connected with the Masonic fraternity for a lengthy period, and holds office as sitting master of the Unity Lodge, No. 11, W.A.C. A cordial supporter of all healthy outdoor sport, he is particularly fond of yachting and tennis, and in aquatics has been the winner of many of the most coveted trophies in the State, including the cup presented by the late Governor, Sir Frederick Bedford, in 1908-9. He is Hon. Secretary of the King’s Park Tennis Club. In 1909 Mr. Davies married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain R. Laurie, Ex-M.L.C., of Fremantle, and has a family of one daughter.
SYDNEY DOUGLAS EDEN, dental surgeon, 195, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a son of Mr. James Eden, Government Engineer, of Dunedin, New Zealand, and now of Chatswood, New South Wales. He was born at Christchurch, New Zealand, on December 7, 1879, and received his scholastic training at the
Caversham, Kensington, Morning-ton, and Otago Boys' High Schools, subsequently taking his professional diploma in the former city, where he was an articled student to Mr. A. E. Boot, of the firm of Boot & Hunter, the leading dental surgeons of Dunedin. He carried on practice for about two years in his native country, leaving the Dominion in 1900 to come to Western Australia, and having satisfied himself that there was a good opening in Perth secured a surgery in a central position on St. George’s Terrace, and has since built up a large practice. He is a member of the Dental Board of Western Australia and is one of the original Committee of the Odontolo-gical Society and the Government Dental Hospital, which has accomplished so much good work for the
Mb. Sydney Douglas Eden.
poor children of the State. Mr. Eden is one of the live spirits of the motoring community in Western Australia and spends much of his leisure time touring in his “E.N.” car. He is very fond of outdoor recreation generally, and besides being Hon. Secretary of the Automobile Club is a member of the South Perth Golf Glub, a member of the Royal Perth Yacht Club, and for years took a very active interest in the Western Australian Amateur Boxing Club. He was a foundation-member of the last named institution, and also of the Western Australian Amateur Sports Club, and in the past has devoted a good deal of attention to the improvement of sporting matters generally. He is a member of the Perth Club.
Pharmaceutical.
The Pharmaceutioal Society was founded m 1892 to control the practice of pharmacy in Western Australia, and was constituted under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1894, which with its amending Acts in 1899 and 1903 was recompiled and readjusted by the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1910. The Council of the Society consists of a President and six members, who are elected every three years. The Governor may from time to time remove the President or any member of the Council.
A register has to be kept of all persons certified by the Council to be duly qualified pharmaceutical chemists, and an alphabetical list must be published in the Government Gazette every January giving the names and residences of all chemists practising in the State. Penalties are provided for practising without being registered, and for a company carrying on business as chemists without having a registered chemist in charge.
The functions of the Council consist of examination and registration. Under the heading of examination is included the duty of the Council to prescribe the necessary educational course leading up to the examination for certificates. The course includes practical pharmacy, chemistry, botany, materia medica, and Latin, as well as such other subjects as the Council may by regulation prescribe. Lectures in some of the subjects are provided at the technical schools. For registration the certificate of competency gained by examination is sufficient; it is also provided that “the diploma of competency as a chemist of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain or Ireland is recognized, also the diploma of any Australasian Pharmaceutical Society or Board established by Act of Parliament; provided application is made in accordance with the rules and regulations.”
The Pharmacy and Poisons Act also makes very stringent provisions for regulating the sale of poisons. Any person (unless duly licensed by the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society) who sells any poison is liable to a penalty not exceeding £50 or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for not more than twelve months. No licence is granted for the sale of poisons to any person other than a pharmaceutical chemist, unless in places more than five miles distant from the nearest place in which a pharmaceutical chemist has an open shop. Persons desirous of securing lioenoes for the sale of poisons are required to support their applications by a certificate in the form of Schedule 7 of the Act, signed by the Police or Resident Magistrate of the district where the applicants reside, and signed also by a medical prac-
titioner practising therein. Every person licensed to sell poisons must keep all poisons in a safe box, cupboard, drawer, or other place securely locked and fastened.
Any person, other than a pharmaceutical chemist, who has any poison m his possession and leaves it in any place (whether ordinarily accessible to others or not) without a proper label with the word ‘ Poison” attached is liable to a penalty of £20 or less.
It shall be unlawful to sell any poison, either by wholesale or retail, unless the box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which such poison is contained be distinctly labelled with the name of the article and the word “Poison,” and with the name and address of the seller of the poison; and it shall be unlawful to sell any poison to any person apparently under eighteen years of age or to any person unknown to the seller, unless introduced by some person known to the seller; and on every sale of any poison the seller shall, before delivery, make or cause to be made an entry m a book to be kept for that purpose, stating in the form set forth in Schedule 8 to the Act the date of the sale, the name, address, and occupation of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the article sold, and the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, to which entry the signatures and addresses of the purchaser and of the person, if any, who introduced him, and also of the vendor, shall be affixed; or m the event of the order for such article being sent to the seller by letter or telegram, in lieu of the signature of the purchaser being required to be affixed to the entry above mentioned the seller shall retain such letter or telegram and make an entry in the said book as far as possible of the aforesaid particulars.
No person shall sell any poison when ordered by letter or telegram or other document, unless the signature of such is known to him, or unless such signature is authenticated by the signature of a J.P., notary public, or legal practitioner, or by some person known to vendor.
Any person who sells poison contrary to the provisions of the Act, or who neglects or omits to comply with its provisions or gives false information relative to the particulars required on the purchase of poisons; or who signs his name as a witness to the signature of any person unknown to him ordering poison by letter or telegram, etc , or to the sale of poison to any person unknown to him, is liable to a penalty of £100 or less, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for not more than 12 months.
This Act does not extend to the sale of any poison when made up or compounded in a medicine by a duly-qualified medical practitioner or by a pharmaceutical chemist for the purpose of sale, or according to the prescription of a duly-qualified medical practitioner, or in the form of homoeopathic medicine, unless in the crude state or mother tincture, nor to the sale of patent or proprietary medicines when sold by pharmaceutical chemists or other licensed persons, nor to the sale of photographic materials for the purposes of photography, nor to the sale of medicines dispensed by veterinary surgeons, for animals under their treatment, nor to the sale of fly poison papers, nor to the sale of poisonous mixtures and fluids for the eradication of disease in any animals, or of insect pests or diseases in fruit-trees, grape vines, or other vegetation, nor to the sale of poisoned seed for the destruction of vermin, when duly
marked as such, nor to the sale for mining or industrial purposes of cyanide of potassium, strong mineral acids, or other metallurgical chemicals required in the mining or in such other industry where such chemicals are required in large quantities; nor shall it extend to any sales by wholesale dealers in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing, if an order in writing, signed by the purchaser, shall be given for the supply of the same. Provided that all such sales are entered in a book, and that the bottle or other vessel, wrapper or cover, box or case, immediately containing the poison bears thereon the word “poison” printed conspicuously.
The present Council of the Pharmaceutical Society consists of A. Tilly (President), E. Mayhew (Registrar), and E. Parry, J. B. George, J. G. Cooper, E. A. Sagar, and E. S. Sands, and the register of the society contains the names of about 200 qualified chemists.
FREDERICK ROBERTSON PLUMMER, M.P.S.N.S.W., M.P.S.W.A., and R.D.S.W.A., is a son of the late Mr. Eli Plummer, cloth manufacturer of Dewsbury, Leeds, England, and was born at the latter place on June 19, 1862. At the age of sixteen years he left the Leeds Grammar School, where he had received his scholastic training, and entered into business with his father. His health giving way he came to Australia in 1883, and upon arrival at Sydney took an open-air position on a sugar plantation on the Richmond River. A year later proceeding to Wilcannia he joined the firm controlled by Mr. H. C. Armstrong, chemist, of that town, who at a subsequent period opened branches at Broken Hill, Silverton, and Mount Browne. Mr. Plummer here embraced the opportunity offered him to study chemistry, which he ultimately made his profession, and was successful in winning the diploma of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales in 1894, prior to which he had obtained a good grip of the commercial side of the business of which he had acted as Manager. Before embarking in practice on his own account he spent a year at the college in Sydney studying pharmacy and dentistry. Then hearing that there were fine opportunities for pushing a large business in the western metropolis he came over to Western Australia, and prevailed on his brother-in-law, the late Mr. H. C. Armstrong, to join him in the establishment of their former pharmacy in Hay Street, Perth, which was carried on with signal success for over fifteen years. Extensive branches were formed at Fremantle
and Kalgoorlie, and the business became well known as the leading house of its kind in Western Australia. Ultimately the Company disposed of the parent business in Hay Street, as well as of the Kalgoorlie and Fremantle branches. Mr. Plummer took charge of the Fremantle business on its inception, and after it was sold he spent nearly a year in
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Mr. Frederick R. Plummer.
travel, visiting China and Japan and other parts of Eastern Asia. Upon his return he took up the position of Director of the Western Australian Apothecaries’ Company, Limited, and has since taken an active part in the management of its city businesses. The Company has now its head establishment at the corner of William and Murray Streets, and last
year opened another branch at 66, Barrack Street. Mr. Plummer spends his leisure hours in the cultivation of roses and other choice blooms which beautify his home in Edward Street, Perth. He has been connected with the fraternity of Freemasons for a period of five years and is a member of the Masonic Club. He was married in the year 1888 to Mary, daughter of the late Mr. William Armstrong, of Woodlodge, Coote-hill, Ireland.
FRED. W. CARTER, M.P.S., pharmacist, corner of Hay and Milligan Streets, Perth. Telephone 1213. Established in 1905, the business of Mr. F. W. Carter has rapidly won the favour of an extended clientele. The premises, which have been extended to four times their original size, are elegantly fitted with showcases and mirrors, the large show windows being attractively dressed with a variety of goods. The important work of dispensing prescriptions is undertaken with the greatest possible care, and to prevent mistakes two dispensers always work together, each keeping a check on the drugs and quantities used by the other. By this system errors cannot possibly occur. Dispensing by post is a feature of the business, and of the many orders executed in this manner disaster in transit has not befallen one. A bicycle express service is available for the collection of prescriptions and delivery of medicines, and at night urgent cases receive prompt attention. The large stock of choice perfumes is one of the
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attractions of the place, and already well known to the citizens of Perth is the American soda fountain, handsomely fitted with imported marble locally polished and erected
at very heavy expense. The delicious liquids which flow from the fountain are made from a variety of fresh fruit3, both local and imported, from which twice each week
the juice is expressed. No preservatives of any kind are used, and by a system of automatic carbonization a sparkling beverage is obtained, the drinks supplied being absolutely pure. Pure buttermilk obtained by inoculating fresh cow’s milk with lactic
acid bacilli and allowing it to incubate under certain conditions of temperature is also produced. The product is vastly superior to ordinary buttermilk, from which the nutritive
butter-fats have been taken in the process of churning. And as a nutritive diet for diabetic patients and a remedy for gastritis, indigestion, and all stomach disorders it is
widely recommended to patients by the medical profession, the members of which send to Mr. Carter for supplies. It is also supplied in sterilized bottles sealed to prevent contamination. Mr. Carter recently accepted the agency for “Gluten”
bread and flour, prepared by Messrs. James Woolley, Sons, &Co., Limited, of Manchester, England. The value of gluten for dietetic purposes has always been recognized, and there is no food better suited to the treatment of cases where starchy or saccharine foods are found to be objectionable. The bread has an agreeable flavour and is an excellent diet for persons troubled with indigestion, corpulence, diabetes, and
Mb. Feed. W. Cabteb.
other kindred complaints. Mr. Carter was born at Melbourne, Victoria, in 1883, where also he received part of his education. He came to Western Australia in 1896, and was employed as a clerk in the firm of Messrs. A. M. Bickford & Sons, wholesale druggists, for two and a half years, afterwards spending some time in the drug department, where he acquired the rudiments of chemistry. He then articled himself to the late Mr. J. M. Jeffs, chemist, for four years, but upon the demise of Mr. Jeffs before that period had elapsed he concluded the last eighteen months of his indentures with Messrs. Stewart & Freeman, who took over the business. During a portion of this time he attended the Technical School and successfully passed the intermediate examination. His apprenticeship expired, he took charge of the drug department for Felton, Grimwade, and Bickford, Limited (late Messrs. A. M. Bickford & Sons), and continuing at the Technical School passed
The American Soda Fountain at Mr. F. W. Carter’s Dispensary.
Interior View of Mr. F. W. Carter’S^Dispensary, Hay street, Perth.
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his final examination, winning the Webster gold medal for highest honours, a distinction gained by only two others, although it has been available for competition for over nine years. Being now fully qualified he spent a year with Mr. A. V. Parkes, and then launched out in his present business, which is now in the foremost rank of similar concerns in Perth.
handsome two-storied building, but more particularly by the large and artistically arranged plate-glass windows, where carefully-chosen samples of the hundred and one wares tastefully set out to attract the attention of the passer-by hint at the immense and greatly varied stock displayed in the showcases within. Entering the establishment one is struck with the first-class arrangements for light-
the charge of Mr. H. Sandercock, pharmaceutical chemist by examination of Western Australia, who makes use of the latest scientific appliances in his delicate and responsible work, and who has won for his firm the confidence of the leading practitioners of the State. A speciality is made of the dispensing of doctors’ prescriptions, and “no-substitution” is a firmly-established
Interior View of Mr. A. N. Birk’s Pharmacy, 680, Hay Street, Perth.
A. N. BIRKS, pharmaceutical and dispensing chemist, 680, Hay Street, Perth. This well-known pharmacy business is one of the finest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It was originally established many years ago by the W.A. Apothecaries’ Company, Limited, and is the largest dispensary in the State. Situated in an excellent central position in Hay Street, the casual eye is arrested not only by the
ing and ventilation and with the rich yet quiet harmony of the artistic decorations, which are carried out by means of bronze and marble statuary, carboys and mirrors, palms, ferns, and pot plants, while the sense of space induced by the long showroom and glimpses of the dispensary and office with their chaste fittings of polished cedar is not the least of the attractions of the place. The fine, up-to-date dispensary is under
policy with Mr. A. N. Birks. In the extensive basement is stored the bulk stock of the business, and here an enormous supply of drugs, chemicals, druggists’ sundries, and surgical appliances, imported direct from the manufacturers, is kept in splendid condition. Particular attention is paid to country orders, which are packed and dispatched in the most convenient and expeditious manner. There is also a large
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manufacturing department and laboratory, where the many well-known proprietary medical remedies are compounded, and which are largely used by prospecting parties and other sections of the general public. ARTHUR N. BIRKS, member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Western Australia, is a South Australian by birth, having been born at Woodville, in that State, on December 28, 1885. He is a son of Mr. John N. Birks, late of Port Adelaide, the family being well known in South Australia and in all the other States of the Commonwealth. The
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Mb. Arthur N. Birks.
subject of our notice pursued his scholastic studies for a few years at Woodville, later attending Malvern College, Unley, South Australia, from which institution he passed to Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, where he completed his education under the guidance of Mr. Frederic Chappie, B.Sc. He then decided to come to Western Australia, and in pursuance of this intention arrived in the State in the year 1903, soon afterwards entering as a student at the Perth Technical School, where he studied chemistry at the day and evening classes, gaining the silver medal of the Pharmaceutical Society for honours in the intermediate examination, finally securing his diploma in December, 1907. During
this period he served an apprenticeship to his father, then in the original pharmacy in William Street, Perth, but on gaining his diploma proceeded to the Eastern States with the object of obtaining further experience, and entered one of the oldest dispensing houses in Australia, where he remained long enough to considerably augment his practical knowledge of the profession, its busi-
ness management, and the requirements of the public. Deciding to return to Western Australia, he first took a trip to New South Wales, where he made further studies in the different branches of pharmacy, and arrived in Perth at the end of the year 1908. In July, 1910, he purchased “The Apothecaries” business, which had previously passed into the hands of his father, Mr. John N.
Birks, who carried it on for a time, and for whom he had acted as General Manager for a period of thirteen months. Under his capable direction, ably assisted by the heads of the various departments, each of whom very efficiently controls his part of the business, the concern continues to grow in popular favour, and to hold that high place in the public estimation at which it has
ever aimed. Mr. Birks takes a deep interest in matters connected with the Congregational Church and has held many offices in that body. He is also a member of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Most of his time is taken up in attending to his business affairs, but in the brief leisure that falls to his share he finds recreation in tennis, and is a member of the Claremont Tennis Club.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Mr. A. n. Birr'S Dispensary Hay Street, Perth.
EDMUND DEAN & CO., family and dispensing chemists, 631, Hay Street, Perth. This well-known pharmacy business, which is one of the oldest established in Western Australia, was founded by Dr. Jameson, now a member of the Transvaal Government, South Africa, in conjunction with Dr. Kenny, and was carried on for many years under the capable management of Mr. E. Dean, who attended to the dispensing and other branches of the business. Subsequently the scope of its operations was enlarged by the purchase of the business formerly conducted by Dr. Scott, at St. George’s Terrace, and about the same period an interest in the concern was purchased by Mr. F. W.
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Mr. Francis William Collett.
Collett, to whom was entrusted control of the dispensary and the general management, which previously had been resigned by Mr. Dean. Some years later the latter gentleman returned and became a partner in the business, taking over the management of a branch which had been opened at Fremantle. During the period that this arrangement continued the ownership changed hands several times until Mr. F. W. Collett assumed complete control of the business at Perth, the various branches of the firm meanwhile having been disposed of. Carrying on under the old and popular style of Edmund Dean & Co. the present firm by its commercial integrity, the purity and high-class character of its drugs and great variety of useful and beautiful goods, and the unfail-
ing courtesy of the members of the was absorbed into the firm of staff, commands a patronage which Edmund Dean & Co., and Mr. Col-steadily increases as the years bring lett acquired his first interest in their added and honourable prestige the concern of which he was to an already established fame. The afterwards to become sole profirm is renresented in London by its prietor. About the year 1899 he own buyer, and from this centre of was elected a member of the the world’s markets is continually Pharmaceutical Council of Western in receipt of importations of drugs Australia and held office in that and all the requisites for accurate body for three years. He is a dispensing, delicious perfumes, and other luxuries of the toilet, besides the necessities which minister to the daily needs of everyday life and alleviate the sufferings of the sick bed. Its stock is the largest and most complete in Western Australia, and that ‘ most important department, the dispensary, has had the greatest possible care bestowed upon its appointments, the firm confining itself almost entirely to the dispensing of doctor’s prescriptions, being well known among the leading physicians of Perth.
Another feature of the business is the large number of proprietary medicines which are made up and find their way to the most distant parts of the State, bringing relief to many where medical aid is unobtainable. FRANCIS WILLIAM COLLETT is a son of the late Mr. William Collett, of Gloucestershire, and was brought to Australia by his parents, who settled in Perth, where the subject of this memoir received his scholastic training. At the close of his schooldays he served articles to the pharmacy profession T. Hora, of this city he continued for three years. At the end of that period he transferred his indentures to Dr. Edward Scott, and having become fully qualified during his two years’ term with this gentleman received the appointment of manager of Dr. Scott’s dispensary, then situated on St. George’s Terrace. Subsequently this business
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Justice of the Peace, a member of the Y.M.C.A., and an adherent of the Anglican Church. He is a member of the Perth Lodge in the Masonic fraternity, and has held office in the order. A member of the King’s Park Bowling Club, what little recreation he indulges in is taken on the greens of the popular institution. Mr. Collett resides at Yentnor Avenue, West Perth.
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JOHN HENRY TINDALE, M.P.S., chemist, Guildford, is a son of Mr. John Tindale, of Newcastle-
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Mr. John Henry Tindale;
on-Tyne, England, where he was born on July 17, 1870. He received his education in his native town and upon leaving school was apprenticed
to one of the leading pharmacists of that place. Afterwards he sailed for Western Australia in the barque “Helena Mena” with his parents, arriving in Perth in the year 1887. There he accepted a post with Mr. Mayhew, first chairman of the Pharmacy Council, and after two years in this connection went to York and from there to Bunbury, returning to Perth in 1893 to take up duties with the firm of Dean and Co., of that city. In 1894 he opened a pharmacy business for his employers at Guildford which he afterwards took over and has since car-
ried on on his own behalf. During the sixteen years that he has spent in the district Mr. Tindale has watched the steady advancement of the town but the demands of his business affairs prevent his taking an active part in public matters. What little leisure he has he devotes to gardening and aquatic' pursuits, and in connection with the latter is Vice-President of the Guildford Swimming Club. He married Caroline, second daughter of the late Mr. Henry Milford, of Western Australia, and has three sons and two daughters.
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Banking, Insurance, and Finance.
When George Augustus Sala visited the Antipodes he described Australia as a democracy modified by banks In forming this opinion he was no doubt guided by the fact that in all our capitals—and Perth is no exception— the most imposing buildings are those occupied by the financial institutions. His statement may be regarded as true, too, in other ways. It is probably impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the extent to which the resources of the country have been promoted by the various banking institutions.
In the early days of Western Australia the establishment of a bank was urged upon the Government as the panacea for all the ills from which the infant settlement was suffering.
The earliest banking legislation of this State is embodied in an Act passed in 1837 (8 Gul. IV., No. 1), which provided, amongst other things, that all banks “issuing promissory notes payable to bearer on demand” should keep weekly accounts of the amount of notes in circulation and of deposits, and should furnish quarterly to the Colonial Secretary a return showing the averages of such weekly accounts. Subsequently, in an Ordinance passed in 1866 to incorporate the National Bank of Australasia (30 Viet , No. 9), and again in an Act passed in 1879 to incorporate the Western Australian Bank (42 Viet., No. 33), the forms of the returns required from these two banks were included as schedules to the respective enactments. These returns were also required to be furnished quarterly to the Colonial Secretary, and were to comprise the averages of the statements prepared weekly, showing under certain specified heads the assets and liabilities of the banks. In addition to these particulars, a statement of the capital of each bank was required, together with the rate and amount of the dividend last paid and the amount of reserved profits. The forms laid down in these enactments are those at present in use.
The associated banks operating in this State are: —
Bank. Locality of Head Office. Act of Incorporation. Date when Business commenced in Western Australia.
Bank of Australasia London .. Royal Charter * May, 1841
Western Australian Bank Perth Special Act June 23, 1841
National Bank of Australasia, Ltd. Melbourne Victorian Companies Act, 1890 1866
Union Bank of Australia, Ltd. London .. English Companies Acts, 1862-79 Special Act 1878
Bank of New South Wales Sydney ... 1883
Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd. Melbourne Victorian Companies Act, 1890 January 10, 1888
* Discontinued about 1845, and recommenced May 2,1894.
It will be seen that of these six banks two have their head offices in London, two in Melbourne, one in Perth, and one in Sydney.
The first bank of issue to commence business in this State appears to have been the Bank of Western Australia, which opened on June 1, 1837, with a nominal capital of £10,000, of which 25 per cent, only was called up. Small deposits were received on the Savings Bank principle, and interest was allowed at the rate of 5 per cent.
In May, 1841, the business of this bank was bought out by the Bank of Australasia, while on June 23, in the same year, the present Western Australian Bank was opened, mainly through the efforts of shareholders in the old bank who were not satisfied with the arrangements for transfer.
The Bank of Australasia, however, did not, on that occasion, continue its operations in this State for any great length of time, as it appears to have closed its Western Australian branch in 1845. Nearly fifty years later it again commenced business, opening in Perth in May, 1894.
The Western Australian Bank, which commenced business in this State in 1841, is a purely local bank, having no branches elsewhere than in Western Australia It was incorporated under a special Act of the Western Australian Legislature, which was passed in 1878, but subsequently repealed and re-enacted with amendments in 1896. The authorized capital with which the bank was established was £20,000, but this has since been increased to £200,000 paid-up capital. The reserve funds amount to £539,398, and the average liabilities for the year were £2,857,644, while the assets stood out at £3,836,736. To its forward policy as much as to its long connection with this State, Western Australia owes much. It occupies the premier position of all the banks, and has undoubtedly at all times been a prominent factor in the development and progress of the community whose interests it was originally formed to foster. It has branches in most of the settled districts, and is always among the first to afford banking facilities to new centres.
In 1866, twenty-five years after the inauguration of the Western Australian Bank, the National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, established a branch of its business in this State, a special Act of incorporation being passed by the Western Australian Legislature in 1866, and amended in 1867. The head office of the bank is in Melbourne, and branches exist in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and Western Australia. As a result of the financial crisis of 1893, this bank was
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reconstructed under the title of “The National Bank of Australasia, Limited.”
Twelve years later, in 1878, the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, commenced opefations in Perth, and was followed in 1883 by the Bank of New South Wales.
In 1885 a branch of the Commercial Bank of South Australia was opened in Perth, but owing to the fact that this bank went into liquidation in 1886 its career in this State was very short-lived, the only record of its transactions which appears in the Western Australian Government Gazette being the returns for the quarter ended December 31, 1885.
Some three years later, in 1888, the Commercial Bank of Australia realized the advantages of gaining a footing in the State, and commenced operations in Perth.
The returns for the quarter ending June 30, 1912, giving the average amount of the liabilities and assets of the several banks, showed notes in circulation £45,821, bills in circulation £69,626, balances due to other banks £225,462, and deposits £6,900,758, making a total of £7,241,667, while the assets amounted to £11,608,143,
made up of coin £1,734,516, bullion £497,713, Government securities £147,897, landed property and premises £217,530, notes and bills of other banks £556,370, balances due from other banks £53,178, and notes and bills discounted £8,400,939. The small value of notes in circulation is, of course, due to the operations of the Federal Banking System, which took over the issue of notes in Australia.
The two other banks operating are the Government Savings Bank and the Agricultural Bank, both of which have been fully described in the section relating to public departments.
With regard to insurance companies their name is legion. They cover every variety of risk—life, fire, accident, guarantee, marine, burglary, etc. They all operate throughout Australia generally, and many of them throughout the British dominions.
The only purely finance company is the Western Australian Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company, Limited, an organization which is sufficiently explained by its name, and the operations of which are confined to the class of business therein described.
The WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BANK, Perth, was founded in the year 1841 with a capital of £20,000, divided into 2,000 shares of £10 each, the deed of settlement being dated June 23 of that year, and the doors opened for business in that month with a subscribed capital of a little over £2,000. According to the original prospectus issued by the promoters the Provisional Committee was constituted of the following gentlemen, viz., William Tanner, Richard Hinds,
J. S. Roe, Edward Hamersley, Samuel Moore, T. R. C. Walters, W. J. Lawrence, and G. F. Stone (Secretary pro tem.), all of whom were prominently identified with the commercial interests of the State. Since that time many other familiar and highly-respected names have been intimately associated with the history of the Bank, among whom may be mentioned Mr. George Shenton (a Director from the year 1847 to the time of his death in 1864), Sir Luke Leake, Mr. F. D. Wittenoom, Mr. Charles Wit-tenoom, the late Sir George Shenton (Director for forty years and Chairman from the year 1886 to the time of his death in June, 1909), and Mr. J. G. C. Carr. All these gentlemen have at one time or another occupied the chair of the directorate. The present Chairman of the Board of Directors is Mr. W. T. Loton, a gentleman whose connection with the Bank dates from nn2
the year 1878, the other members of the Board being the Honourable George Randell, Mr. S. F. Moore, M.L.A., Sir E. H. Wittenoom,
K.C.M.G., and Sir E. A. Stone. The Bank opened for the transaction of business in what formerly had been a private house on the corner opposite the Deanery in St.
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. H. D. Holmes.
George’s Terrace and immediately opposite Government House, upon which site the Presbyterian church now stands. In 1846 a removal was effected to a building in the, west
end of the Terrace adjoining the old Victoria Library, where the Bank remained until 1886, in which year the present handsome premises were erected at the corner of St. George’s Terrace and William Street. Since that date the building has been altered and added to on several occasions to provide sufficient accommodation for the rapidly-increasing business. From the very first the business of the Bank has proved of a highly-profitable character, and shareholders, particularly those who took up shares in the early days, have been handsomely rewarded. The dividends paid have varied from 12 to 20 per cent., but since October, 1905, 20 per cent, per annum has been consistently paid. Prior to that date for many years the half-yearly dividends were at the rate of 17J. per cent, per annum. In the earlier days of the institution numerous cash bonuses were paid to the fortunate shareholders, while in addition the paid-up value of the shares has been increased on several occasions without any further call being made on the purses of the shareholders. Latterly they have also reaped the advantage of the periodical new issues of shares which were offered to them at a price well below the market value of the stock. These various issues have on all occasions realized large premiums, which have been added to the Reserve Fund, thus assisting in a substan-
tial degree to build up the present magnificent Reserve Fund. On the occasion of the celebration in 1891 of the jubilee of this progressive institution Mr. Walter Padbury, then one of its oldest shareholders, stated that he estimated the return for every original share costing XI 10s. to be equal to X3 10s. per annum. It has also to be borne in mind that this result had been attained while continuing the sound policy of building up the strength of the Bank’s reserves. The first cashier of the Bank was Mr. R. Wells, who died on April 28, 1846, and was succeeded by Mr. F. Lochee, who continued to act in that capacity and as Manager for about forty-three years, retiring in January, 1889, on a well-earned pension. Mr. J. F. Law was the Acting Manager for a short period until August 15, 1890, when Mr. H. D. Holmes, the present General Manager, was appointed. Mr. Holmes was previously connected with the Bank of South Australia, and at the present time is a banker of some fifty years’ standing. Under his able management, and aided by the great impetus given to Western Australia by the rich gold discoveries and the subsequent rapid development of the State’s agricultural and pastoral resources, the business of the Bank has continued to expand in a most satisfactory manner. In July, 1869, the staff of the Bank numbered five, and there were no branches in existence. By 1896 the staff had increased in number to eighty-five and twenty branches had been established. At the present day the staff totals 241, branches and sub-branches have multiplied to the number of sixty-three, and the Bank’s operations have spread well over the whole of the State. The following figures will indicate the remarkable progress of the institution : —
The Manager at the head office of the Bank is Mr. R. L. Herbert, who has held that office since September, 1899, and the Inspector is Mr. A.
L. Johnston. The management of the Bank is to be heartily congratulated upon the success which has attended its operations in the past and upon the progressive policy adopted by the Board of Directors,
It is evident that the shareholders and public generally have every confidence in the policy pursued by the Board of Directors, a policy which has placed the State under a heavy debt insofar as much of the present prosperity of its locaj industries has to be credited to the sympathetic support of this local financial institution.
The Western Australian bank, Perth.
which undoubtedly will secure to the Bank a good proportion of the new business which must necessarily follow the opening up of the vast areas of the Western State. To effectually cope with the continued increase in the Bank’s operations in 1911 a new issue of 5,000 shares was made, the minimum price of each share being fixed at X28, which has had the effect of raising the paid-up capital to X250,000, the full extent of its present authorization, and the Reserve Fund to well over X615,000.
1852 1871 1882 1890' 1896 1911 «March)
£ £ £. £ £ £
Deposits ... 36,387 68,389 186,890 268,721 1.897,838 2,977,205
Notes in Circulation 5,915 9,196 13,653 95,535 116,661
Balances due to other Banks 2,275 7,711 91,427
Paid-up Capital 6,006 ) ( 60,000 100,000 200,000
[•90,000
Reserve Fund 2,039 j 164,619 125,000 525,000
Specie and Bullion on hand 16,939 18,164 49,714 929,754 1,258,901
Bills Receivable and all other Advances 30,846 98,400 256,730 339,642 790,449 2,390,072
Bauk Premises 1,060 23,234 31,317 74,000
Balances due from other Banks 25,800 13,782 428,428 86,298
The NATIONAL BANK of AUSTRALASIA, Limited. This institution, which has played a prominent part in the financial history of the various Australian States, was founded in Melbourne in 1858, when the following prospectus was issued: —“The National Bank of Australasia. Established 1858. To be incorporated by Act of the Legislature limiting the liability of the shareholders to double the amount of their shares. Capital, XI,000,000 sterling, in 200,000 shares of X5 each. Preliminary deposit, 10s. per share; first call of XI 10s. per share, after which no further call to exceed XI per share. Interest allowed on current accounts and bills for discount received daily. To be conducted by a Board of Directors not to exceed six in number, who shall annually elect from amongst themselves a Chairman.” The Act of Incorporation having been obtained from the Parliament of Victoria, on August 10, 1858, the first Board of Directors was elected. Out of sixteen candidates the six successful ones were Messrs. Thomas Brown, jun., Dalmahoy Campbell, Fras Bur-
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defct Franklin, John Houston, T. H. Lempriere, and John Mackenzie. The management of the Bank was placed in the hands of Mr. Cunningham, who entered upon the appointment in 1860 and held sway until 1866, when he was succeeded by Mr. Fred. Wright. This gentleman was followed by Mr. E. M. Young in 1870, and in the succeeding year Mr. Frank Grey Smith was appointed
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Mr. F. T. Mullen.
Chief Manager of the institution. On May 1, 1901, Mr. J. G. Addison assumed control, and continued to fill the chair up to the time of his death in 1912, when Mr. E. H. Wreford was appointed Chief Manager. The operations of the Bank have extended over a wide area, and branches have been established at Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, and London, while there are 165 other branches and 42 sub-branches in the Commonwealth. According to the
The NATIONAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA, Limited, St. George's Terrace, Perth. Head Office : Comer of Collins and Queen Streets, Melbourne. The establishment of the National Mutual Life Association in the year 1869 marked a new era in the history of life-assurance practice. Up to that year the offices transacting life-assurance business in the colonies did so on the old-fashioned principle that a policy should be null and void if any premium remained unpaid more than thirty days after
half-yearly balance-sheet for the six months ended September 30, 1911, the net profit amounted to £76,856 10s. 2d., which, with the balance carried forward from the previous half-year, left available for distribution the sum of £80,405 5s. 8d. Of this amount £2,000 was appropriated to the Officers’ Provident Fund, £20,000 transferred to the Reserve Fund Account (making it £285,000),
£5,000 was written off the Bank premises, and a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum declared on preference shares, which absorbed £9,173 8s. After payment of the dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum (£35,773 4s.) and a bonus of £6,532 6s. to the officers, a balance of £8,458 13s. 8d. remained, which was carried forward to the next financial
it was due. A really effective nonforfeiture condition was inserted in the policies of the National Mutual to the effect that when default was made in the payment of a premium, and the surrender value of the policy was sufficient to pay such premium, it became compulsory on the part of the directors to pay the premium and keep the policy in force for the benefit of the assured, the premium so paid remaining as a debt against the policy, to be repaid with interest for the time during which it remained a debt. This inaugurated a
term. Notes in circulation amounted to £102,732 10s. and bills to
£750,340 14s. lOd. The working expenses for the half-year at the branches and agencies amounted to £87,604 4s. Id., while £8,448
17s. 8d. was paid on account of note, income, and land taxes. The present capital of the Bank is as follows: — Authorized capital, £3,407,904; capital paid up — preference
shares £305,780, ordinary shares £1,192,440; reserve fund, £785,000; and reserve liability of shareholders, £715,464. Mr. E. H. Wreford is the Chief Manager of the Bank in Melbourne and Mr. R. G. Fincham the Manager. The Manager of the Perth Office is Mr. F. T. Mullen, who is assisted by Mr. Angus McDonald, Sub-Manager, and A. W. Ball-hausen, Accountant.
new era in the practice of life assurance, and the principle has since been copied by all prominent life offices. The credit of introducing this liberal principle into life-assurance practice is due to the late Colonel J. M. Templeton, C.M.G., F.I.A., the founder of this Association. The introduction of such a feature alone was a sufficient warrant for the establishment of the National Mutual, but there were other reasons, viz., to found the first mutual life association in Victoria, to liberalize the general conditions of
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policies by removing stringent conditions unfair to members of a mutual life association, and to introduce an improvement in the mode of dividing profits, the rule adopted by
Ten years ago the business transacted was about one - third of the sum that is now annually written, while the funds have improved by over 50 per cent. For the State of Western Australia the total amount of business in force to date approximates one million pounds sterling. The following extract. from the March (1911) issue of The Scottish Critic succinctly sets forth the position of the National Mutual at the end of the financial year, September 30, 1910: —
“Although this Association has completed only its forty-first year it has reached a place in the front rank of British life offices which average more than three times its age. This is the case in regard to the amount of new business, the sums received for premiums, and the position of the assurance fund. The National Mutual of Australasia establishes a new and progressive record every year. The rate of expansion is steadily accelerating. Even in the trying years of drought in Australia the business was successfully maintained. That can be accepted as an evidence of the energy and enterprise with which the business is conducted, and further proof is found in the development both at Home and in this country. . . . The new busi-
ness of over three and a quarter mil-
lions sterling in the past year—the largest the Association has ever transacted in any year—suggests the magnitude of the Company's operations, and the progress is shown in adding £305,811 to the figures of the previous year. New policies were issued in the past year to the number of 13,088, bringing in new annual premiums of £121,925. The income of £1,122,668 was £78,867 more than for the previous twelve months, and of this increase £23,139 was contributed by interest. The large amount of interest received, £280,862, shows that the funds were kept well invested during the year, and is a satisfactory proof of the special care devoted to this important department of the Association’s business. It is almost needless to say that the safe and profitable investment of funds is of absolutely vital importance to a life-insurance company.” The Insurance Journal and General Financial Record, published on March 11, 1911, contains the following laudatory comments : —“Rapid development, based upon firm and solid foundation and directed by a spirit of prudent enterprise, continues to characterize the marked progress of the National Mutual life Association of Australasia. The amount of interest earned on the invested funds was strikingly satis-
Interior View of offices of the National mutual Life Association, Perth.
Bartletto,
Perth.
Mr. Henry Wright.
the National Mutual being that profits should be divided among members in proportion to their contributions to the profit fund. The principles of mutual assurance were strictly observed from the inception of the Association, no advantages being given to the first members, who were admitted on the same terms as those upon which new members now enter. Based on such firm foundations it is not to be wondered that the rise and progress of the National Mutual has been wonderfully rapid. From the beginning a prudent but comprehensive policy was adopted, and to-day the Association occupies a foremost place in the ranks of the great life assurance institutions of the Empire.
The Association enjoys a remarkable popularity, and in the most distant fields of its enterprise has a strong place in the public esteem.
The first premium received by the National Mutual forty-one years ago amounted to £6 0s. lOd. To-day the funds of the Association stand at £6,200,000, while the income for the year 1910 was £1,120,000, a truly1 wonderful increase.
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factory, the average rate realized cent, it becomes evident enough how continues to be reduced, falling being £4 14s. 7d. per cent, as com- largely the reserves must benefit, during the past three years from pared with £4 14s. 3d. in 1909 and Although there has been so 23‘3 per cent, to 21‘2 and 21 per
Offices of the National Mutual Life Association, St. George's Terrace, Perth.
£4 13s. 3d. in 1908, and when it is marked a development in the new cent., the ratio for the triennium considered that the rate assumed as business of the Association the ratio just completed being 21'8 per cent, a valuation basis is only 3£ per of expenditure to total premiums against 25 per cent, for the preced-
ing similar period. That the ratio of expenditure should so diminish even while business is so rapidly expanding speaks convincingly as to the care devoted to the business by the directorate and the management.” The Review, The Financial Union, and The Stock Exchange also referred in complimentary language to the operations of the Association and to the general feeling of confidence which it has inspired in its patrons. During the year under review the Association acquired freehold properties at Colombo and London for the use of the local branches, and to enable additions to be made to the head office the adjoining property in Queen Street, Melbourne, was purchased. The Directors of the Western Australian Branch are the Right Honourable Sir John Forrest, G.C.M.G-., P.C.,
M.H.R., and Mr. William Mac-murtrie. The Manager is Mr. Henry Wright. HENRY WRIGHT was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, on June 7, 1862. His early education was received at Melbourne, and he was afterwards sent to the Scotch College till the age of sixteen, when he joined, as junior clerk, the National Mutual Life Association under the founder, the late Colonel J. M. Templeton. At that time the whole staff consisted of only seven persons, but during the next two years business increased so rapidly that a branch was opened at Adelaide, South Australia, Mr. Wright being sent to that city to join the clerical staff. Having remained there for eight years he attained the position of acting accountant, and in 1886 was transferred to Western Australia as local Secretary, acting under South Australian jurisdiction. Two years later, when a Branch was established at Perth, Mr. Wright was selected as Resident Secretary, and later was appointed Manager for Western Australia. For many years no one was better known than he in connection with any charitable movement, and being the possessor of a fine tenor voice of wide range his services as an amateur vocalist were freely requisitioned at concerts arranged in aid of charities, and in the musical world he was equally to the fore" as Secretary to the Perth Musical Union for a number of years. Church matters have always occupied a good deal of his attention, and he is at present Treasurer of the Associated Churches of Christ in Western Australia, having in the past occupied the position of Presi-
dent and represented Western Australia in that capacity at the Federal Conference of Churches at Adelaide. His favourite recreation is cricket, and he was associated as Lion. Secretary with the old Metropolitan Cricket Club, of which he was regarded as the principal batsman and bowler. Married in Western Australia in 1886 to a daughter of the late Mr. John Sands, of St. Peters, South Australia, he has two sons (now occupied in commercial life in Perth) and two daughters.
JOHN GALE POTTENGER New-Business Manager in Western Australia for the National Mutual Life Association, is a son of the late Mr. Henry Foster Pottenger of Victoria, and was born at Maryborough, in that State, on September 23, 1864. He attended local schools until thirteen years of age, when he
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John Gale Pottenger.
was placed under the care of private tutors in Melbourne, completing his studies under the late Mr. Thomas Paul Johnstone, M.A. Subsequently he began his career in the Victorian Postal Department, where he remained for three years, resigning in 1884 in order to accept service as a salesman for an American importing house, in which capacity he achieved much success. At a later period he engaged in the real estate business at Melbourne, and at the time of the land boom in 1887 became associated with the firm of Messrs. Munro and
Baillieu, auctioneers, land salesmen, etc., as Auctioneer and Branch Manager. When the collapse of the land boom occurred in 1890 Mr. Pottenger again commenced business on his own account at Melbourne as press correspondent and general advertising agent and contractor, under the style of the International Press Association, afterwards establishing a branch in Sydney. Owing to failing health he retired from that business and subsequently joined the staff of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia in Sydney. After three years’ sojourn in New South Wales Mr. Pottenger returned to Victoria to accept an appointment on the staff of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, where for three and a half years he was signally successful. As a result of this he was offered and accepted the position of metropolitan superintendent at the head office at Melbourne of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, subsequently being promoted to the management in Tasmania in 1904. The very marked success of the business of that institution in Tasmania during his six years of office is a tribute to his great energy and special organizing ability. He received from the authorities, however, a request to come to Western Australia to take charge of the New-Business Department in that State, and his health requiring a change he acceded to the proposition, entering upon his duties in 1910. Since then he has travelled nearly over the whole of the State in the arduous discharge of his office. Mr. Pottenger is regarded as an able organizer and one of the best exponents of the science of salesmanship in Australia. He takes a keen interest in metaphysics, psychology, and mental science, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is associated with the Perth and Cottesloe Golf Clubs, this being the form of recreation he prefers. In 1886 he married Harriett, second daughter of the late Mr. Edward Francis, of Wodonga, Victoria, and has three sons and a daughter.
The COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Limited, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. This Society has its head office at Melbourne and branches in most of the principal cities throughout the
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Commonwealth. The Western Australian Branch opened its doors for the transaction of business about the year 1873, and rapidly made its way in the public regard, each year wit-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. George Horner Johnston.
nessing a substantial increase in the amount of business recorded. The steady progress of the Colonial Mutual reached its culminating point at the General Meeting held on May 10, 1911, when the balance-sheet for the year 1910 was placed before the shareholders. Not only was the amount of new business obtained a record for the Society, but the newly-established industrial and accident branch gave evidence of extraordinary vitality. The new policies issued numbered 85,231, assuring £5,554,137, the totals including the business acquired as a result of the Society obtaining a controlling interest in the Standard Life Association. Death claims in the ordinary branch represented £155,118, and the sum of £75,789 was paid for endowments matured under 325 policies. In the industrial branch claims matured by death absorbed £1,869, and endowments of £1,567 were paid to former policy-holders in the Standard Life Association. The addition to the assurance fund in the ordinary branch was £107,565, and the rate of interest yielded w>as £4 5s. 8d. The report of the actuary discloses a surplus of £172,678 in funds over liabilities, out of which the directors
have decided to allot £64,858 for immediate absorption in providing reversionary bonuses to all participating policies at the rate of £1 5s. per cent, on the sum assured, £101,561 to be distributed among policies with deferred participation in profits, and to carry forward £6,258. The ordinary life-assurance business exceeded by a million and a half sterling the total value of policies issued for the previous year, while the industrial branch attracted business to the extent of two millions sterling, a noticeable feature in connection with this big increase in the Society’s returns being the proportionate reduction in the ratio of working expenses. The present year has opened most auspiciously and bids fair to leave all previous records far in the rear, as the business recorded up to May 10 was £841,524 as against £448,355 for the same period in 1909. GEORG-E HORNER JOHNSTON, J.P., Resident Secretary and Manager of the Industrial Department, is an Irishman by birth, but nearly all his life has been spent in New Zealand and Australia. At the completion of his education obtained at the High School, Auckland, he entered the service of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of America as a cadet, and in the course of time graduated through the various positions to cashier and accountant, finally receiving the appointment of Manager at Perth for that Society in 1890. He remained in charge of the Equitable affairs in the Western State until the Society ceased active operations in 1906, and subsequently became associated with several life offices in the succeeding years, during which time he gained an allround knowledge probably excelled by few representatives in the great field of insurance. In 1910 he was appointed to the dual positions of Resident Secretary and Manager to the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society at Perth, which position he still continues to occupy.
The ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Limited, 67 and 69, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is one of the leading fire and accident offices in the Empire. Business is transacted in a number of risks, including fire, life, marine, accident, employers’ liability, burglary, and
fidelity, and the total value of policies issued each year is enormous. The head office for Australia is at Collins Street, Melbourne, and there are Branches in all the capital cities of the Commonwealth. The Western Australian Branch was established many years ago, and is very popular with the residents and business men of the State. An excellent feature in connection with the Company is the prompt manner in which claims are adjusted, the local Manager being empowered to deal with these matters without reference to the head office. GEORGE LEWIS EVES, Manager for Western Australia, was born at Brisbane, Queensland, in 1870, and is a son of the late Mr. G. T. Eves. He was educated at the Brisbane Gram-
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Mr. George Lewis Eves.
mar School and at other scholastic institutions. In 1886 he joined the staff of the Federal Bank, and here continued until 1896, when he transferred his services to the Imperial Insurance Company as chief clerk at Brisbane. Four years later he became chief clerk to the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, with which office he continued until 1907, when he received the appointment of Manager of the North Queensland Branch of the Royal Insurance Company, Limited. In 1911 he was promoted to his present position, and in the early part of the year arrived in Western Australia to take over the duties attached to the managerial chair.
The Stock Exchange.
When the question of mining first began to attract the attention of the people of Western Australia, a semiprivate association for the conduct of dealings in stocks and shares was established, but this gave place in 1889 to the Stock Exchange of Perth, a corporation of which Mr. (now Sir) Cornthwaite Hector Rason was president and Mr. Alexander Morrison secretary. This is the institution which exists at the present day, and which controls all stock and share transactions. During the exciting times of the gold boom an open exchange was established, but this was regarded by the members of the Stock Exchange itself much in the way that unregistered racecourses are regarded by the Western Australian Turf Club. It did not survive for any lengthy period.
The objects of the Stock Exchange are : —The conducting and carrying on of the business usually carried on by similar institutions, and more particularly to pro-
mote and facilitate all dealing in stocks and shares; and in all monetary transactions to adjust and enforce the settlement of all disputes and controversies between the members; to establish just and equitable principles in connection with all transactions taking place on the Exchange ; to maintain uniformity in the rules, regulations, and usages of any trade or business, the subject matter of transaction on the Exchange, and of the trade or business of brokers and dealers in stocks and shares; and to promote the business of the Exchange and increase its amount and augment the facilities with which it may be conducted.
The governing body of the institution at present consists of the following:—President, Charles A. Saw; Vice-President, H. Hocking; Committee, W. H. Willis, Alfred J. Mellor, and W. Williams; Secretary, Arthur W. Glover.
SAW & GRIM WOOD, Jun. (C. A. Saw and Sam. E. Grim-wood, jun.), stock- and share-brokers, auctioneers and land agents, etc., New Zealand Chambers, 105 St. George’s Terrace, Perth. CHARLES AUGUSTUS SAW, J.P., President of the Stock Exchange of
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. Charles Augustus Saw.
Perth, was born at the western metropolis on September 15, 1865, and is a son of the late Mr. Henry Saw, a merchant in the early days of the State. He received a sound
education at the Perth High School and subsquently joined the staff of the National Bank for the sake of gaining commercial experience. Three years later he resigned from the service, and attracted by the gold discoveries at Kimberley followed the rush thither in 1886. For a year he prospected on this field, but meeting with only moderate results at the end of that time returned to the capital. The Yilgarn goldfield was being opened up about this period, and, undaunted by the difficulties of transit which could be made only by means of drays and horses, Mr. Saw proceeded to Southern Cross, then newly discovered. Here his enterprise was rewarded by the acquirement of several promising claims; but in 1889 he returned to Perth and once more entered upon banking pursuits. In 1890 he received the appointment of manager of a branch of the Commercial Bank at Southern Cross, being the first official entrusted with the responsible duties of this position on the goldfields. While resident at this centre before the great Coolgardie discoveries were made Mr. Saw took every advantage of the opportunities offering for commercial enterprise, and in conjunction with others established the coach connection between Southern Cross and the eastern goldfields. This venture, in which Mr. Saw was the largest shareholder,
proved a huge financial success, and was carried on under the style of Cobb & Co., a firm which afterwards became famous. Upon the rise of the Coolgardie prosperity he several times visited this now noted centre and acquired large interests in the vicinity of the growing settlement.
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Mr. Sam. Grimwood.
In January, 1896, disposing of the various business claims that held him at Southern Cross, he established himself at Perth, engaging in stock- and share-broking and the con-
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duct of mining agencies, etc., his connection with large mining interests enabling him very efficiently to transact business on behalf of leading firms and citizens of Perth and the Eastern States. In 1910 he entered into partnership with Mr-
S. E. B. Grimwood, jun., since when the firm has been carried on under the above title at New Zealand Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. At the request of the ratepayers Mr. Saw became a candidate for a seat in the City Council, and was returned as representative for South Ward in May, 1697. Mr. Saw has been a member of the Western Australian Turf Club Committee for nine years and is at present Acting Vice-Chairman. He is of genial disposition, and by his business probity and upright principles has won the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens in the “City of the Golden West.” SAMUEL EDWARD BYRNE GRIMWOOD, member of the Stock Exchange of Perth, is a son of Mr. Samuel Thomas Grimwood, of Perth, his birthplace being Melbourne, Victoria, where he first saw the light on September 21,
1875. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and in 1897 came to Western Australia, where he became engaged in accountancy work. For six years he occupied the position of local Secretary to the firm of Daniel White & Company, Limited, carriage builders and importers, and subsequently joined the senior staff of Ford, Rhodes, Ford, & Co., chartered accountants, of England, with whom he continued for four years. He was Secretary and Business Manager of the Emu Brewery for some time, and in 1910 resigned this appointment to join Mr. Saw in partnership, his special department being the general land agency and auctioneering business carried on by the firm. Mr. Grimwood has always been prominent in athletic and sporting circles, and since coming to Western Australia has also taken a deep interest in military affairs, now holding a commission of Lieutenant in the 18th Australian Light Horse Regiment. When at college he was captain of the Cadet Corps, and had a seat in the winning boat when the College was head of the river, besides being a member of all the athletic clubs formed in connection with the College. In 1892, when this institution was champion school of Victoria, holding an unbeaten record in all branches of sport
for the year, he was included in every team competing in the various events. He is popularly known in racing circles and for eight years acted as judge to the Western Australian Turf Club, the Canning Park Turf Club, the Helena Vale Race Club, the Belmont Park Race Club, Tattersall’s Club, and the Fremantle Hunt Club, resigning these offices in September, 1911, to take up the duties of Stipendiary Steward to the W.A.T.C. He filled the position of judge with perfect satisfaction to the large section of the community which follows the “sport of kings” and retained the full confidence of the public during the years that he occupied the box. For several years past he has acted as honorary judge and starter in connection with the sports of the four public secondary schools of the State, and in this capacity has rendered utmost satisfaction to all associated with the promotion of these important contests. He has a large circle of acquaintances and his popularity is widespread. Mr. Grimwood is a member of the Perth and Tatter-sal’s Clubs. He was married in the year 1907 to Mabel, youngest daughter of Mr. George Pilly, of St. Kilda, Victoria, an old and esteemed resident of the sister State, where he has resided for a great number of years.
HERBERT HOCKING, J.P., Vice-President of the Stock Exchange of Perth, is a native of South Australia, having been born at Adelaide on March 19, 1850. He is a son of the late Mr. Nicholas Hocking of the same city, and received his education at the Grammar School, Nairne, in the Mount Lofty Ranges. His schooldays ended he engaged in station work, and his experiences during the ensuing years were of a highly-adventurous nature. He was a cattle-drover and station-hand in turn, and in the country round about Mount Gam-bier, where lived Lindsay Gordon, the Australian poet, he spent considerable time in taming the unbroken steed. Seeking a change in the daily routine Mr. Hocking proceeded to Adelaide and was engaged in business, which he carried on for nearly ten years, at the end of that time proceeding to Port Wakefield, some 75 miles north of the capital, where he entered into farming pursuits, with which he combined the
office of auctioneer, etc. In 1896 he left the Central State for Western Australia, and soon after his arrival in Perth commenced in business as a land and commission agent and importer at the same time becoming representative for The Kalgoorlie Miner, in which capacity he still continues to act. Mr. Hocking became a member of the Stock Exchange of Perth in 1898, and has since taken an active part in its affairs. He is a member of the Committee, and has filled the presidential chair on two occasions, being at present Vice-President of the institution. He has always evinced a keen interest in public affairs and was Chairman of the Wanneroo Roads Board for the first eight years of its existence. He has at heart the welfare of the Congregational Church, and in connection with that body holds office
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Herbert Hocking.
as senior deacon of the Trinity Church. Besides this he acts as Treasurer to the Congregational Union and Home Missions of Western Australia. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Perth Club. In his youth he was devoted to athletic sports of all kinds and was an amateur rider of some note, as well as a strong supporter of cycling when that sport held a prominent place in the public fancy. Mr. Hocking was for four years on the Caves Board, always taking a keen interest in that work, and for several years was on the Board of Management of the Perth Public Hospital. At present he holds the position of Hon. Secretary to the
Victoria Institute and Industrial School for the Blind, having served on the Committee for ten years. Mr. Hocking, who was gazetted a Justice of the Peace in 1903, married Eliza Smillie, daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Ryder, of Nairne, South Australia, and has a surviving family of three sons and five daughters.
ARTHUR WILLIAM GLOVER, J.P., Hon. Secretary of the Stock Exchange of Perth, was born at Penge, County Kent, England, on January 1, 1863. He is a son of the late Mr. William Brooks Glover, of London, and was educated by private tuition in that city. Subsequently he served a seven-years’ apprenticeship to the building and ■contracting trade with the firm of Messrs. George Trollope & Sons, upon the completion of which in 1885 he left London for Western Australia. After spending three years as a Government draughtsman he joined the commercial branch of The West Australian newspaper, and in 1890 started on his own account in Perth as a stock- and sharebroker. He is the only foundation member of the Perth Stock Exchange now in Western Australia, and is a well-known identity in mining and financial circles. A Director of the Canning Park Turf Club and the Aachen and Munich Fire Insurance Company, he is also Chairman of the Bunbury Brewing Company, and holds a commission of Justice of the Peace.
SYDNEY JAMES YEO, of the firm of Yeo & Cooke, stock- and share-brokers, Emanuel’s Buildings, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. John Yeo, of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England, where the subject of this memoir was born on October 23, 1862. He received his education at a private school in his native town, and upon the conclusion of his scholastic career was apprenticed to the grocery business for three years. At the end of this period he came to Australia, and landing at Sydney followed the same calling in that city for a time. Two years after his arrival he relinquished his connection with commercial life in the city and took a position as storekeeper on the “Willandra Station,” on the Lachlan River, in New South Wales, which he retained for about
five years. In 1894, attracted by the Coolgardie gold discoveries, the reports concerning which were spreading all over the world, Mr. Yeo came to Western Australia. Proceeding to the goldfields he started operations in dry-blowing, but not meeting with much success in the first instance he decided to go to Hannan’s (now Kalgoorlie), and in conjunc-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Sydney James Yeo.
tion with Messrs. Home and Mac-kay pegged out the claim which is now known as the South Kalgoorlie, a mine which proved a magnificent proposition, and has continued to yield good results ever since its first development. After working the property for some years the proprietors sold it to the present Company, and Mr. Yeo entered upon business pursuits as representative for Messrs. Clark & Robinson, sharebrokers, of Adelaide and London. Four years later he opened in Kalgoorlie on his own account and met with great success in the conduct of his operations, in 1902 forming a branch business at Perth in partnership with and under the management of Mr. Cooke, and which connection has existed ever since. In 1911 he ceded his goldfields business to Mr. C. W. Cameron, for several years his chief clerk and assistant at Kalgoorlie, and took up his residence at Perth, having reaped a fair reward for his years of strenuous mercantile activity, which precluded participation in the various attractive pursuits open to men of greater leisure. He is a member of the Stock Exchange and the Weld, Kalgoorlie; and Hannan’s Clubs, of the Western
Australian Club, and of the Kalgoorlie Racing Club. In 1897 he married Eliza, daughter of the late Mr. John J. Donnelly, of England, and has two sons and a daughter.
ALFRED JAMES MELLOR, stock- and share-broker, of the Stock Exchange, Perth, is a son of Mr. C. J. Mellor, of the Bank of Adelaide, and was born at Gawler, South Australia on March 14, 1874. After attending various schools he concluded his scholastic career at Prince Alfred College, and being desirous of obtaining some station experience journeyed to “Warrakimbo,” in the Far North of the State, where he remained for somewhat less than two years. Returning to Adelaide he joined the Civil Service in the Taxation Department, and continued his connection with this office until 1896, when he was attracted by the prospects offering in the rising State of Western Australia. Mr. Mellor arrived at Perth in January of that year, and proceeding to Coolgardie commenced manual work on the mines. He worked on the Golden
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Mr. Alfred James Mellor.
Leases for some time, and having gained a good practical knowledge of the mining industry within two years joined the clerical staff of the Central Exploration Corporation under the late Mr. Julius Judell. This post he resigned in order to enter the business of Messrs. Heinemann & Co., stock -and share-brokers, of Kalgoorlie, eventually transferring his services to the firm of Messrs. T. F. Brimage and Co., for whom he acted as Manager
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on the goldfields. In 1902 he was placed in charge of the Perth branch of the latter firm, and during the following year joined the Stock Exchange and established himself in business on his own account. Mr. Mellor is a great lover of horses and enjoys all sports where this noble animal takes a prominent part. He is one of the leading members of the Western Australian Hunt Club and takes an active part in its management.
ALBERT GEORGE BIRD,
stock-, share-, and investment-broker, 12, New Zealand Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, member of the Stock Exchange of Perth, is a son of Mr. S. H. A. Bird, valuator, of Adelaide. He was born in the Queen City of the South on March 14, 1873, and received his scholastic training at St. Peter’s College in his native place. At the close of his schooldays he joined the staff of the Savings Bank of South Australia and after about two years in this service relinquished it to take a clerical position in the Adelaide office of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. He steadily rose through the different grades of promotion in this employ and upon his retirement in 1896 was relieving manager at Mount Gambier. Upon his arrival on Western Australian shores in the latter year Mr. Bird proceeded direct to the goldfields, and in conjunction with his brother carried on flourishing stores and general agency business at Menzies and. Leonora. During this period he became well known all over the northeastern fields for his go-ahead commercial principles and strict attention to business, a reputation he still enjoys. In 1905 he came to Perth and established himself as a stock-.
share-, and investment-broker, and in his markedly successful career in this line has gained a wide and ever-increasing experience in the financial side of the mining industry. He has enjoyed the confidence of many leading men in the commercial world, and for many years represented the firm of Messrs. Theodore Bruce & Co., and after-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. Albert George Bird.
wards Messrs. Wilkinson & Bruce, of Adelaide. Mr. Bird is an ardent philatelist, being the fortunate possessor of two valuable stamp collections. He is very fond of photography, and as an amateur takes great interest in the pastime, gardening also being one of his hobbies. He is a member of the Western Australian Club, of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Commercial Travellers’ Club, and as a member of the Liberal League of Western Australia follows the course of politics with interest.
He is also a member of the Horticultural Society. In 1901 he married Olive, daughter of Mr. John Tasker, late of Adelaide, and has two sons and a daughter.
HENRY ROSALES WALSH, representative in Perth for the firm of M. II. Walsh, Kalgoorlie, is a son of the late Judge Walsh, of 'Melbourne, and was born at St. Kilda, in the vicinity of that city, on December 14, 1873. He pursued his scholastic studies at the well-known Wesley College, Melbourne, and at the close of his schooldays established his first interests in the mining industry by joining the firm of Messrs. John Taylor & Sons, the well-known London mining managers, in their Harrietville ventures. In 1897 he came to Western Australia and went right to the heart of things on the goldfields, spending three years as battery manager on the Menzies Consolidated Mine at Menzies. At the time of the rush to the alluvial field at Kanowna he was among the first to proceed to the scene of action, and took up claims, one of which proved a very fortunate venture. In 1902 he commenced assaying on the North Boulder and Block 45 Gold Mines, and, continued there until two years later, when he joined his brother (Mr. M. H. Walsh) in the sharebroking business, and later successfully represented the firm in the Perth office, where he is now stationed. Mr. Walsh is a great lover of horses, and as an amateur rider is well known in racing circles, where he has carried off several prizes. He has been keen in the matter of athletic sports generally, and is a strong supporter of cricket and football and other manly exercises.
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Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors
The Western Australian Institution of Engineers was established in 1909, and includes civil, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, mining, or other professional engineers. Its objects are the advancement of engineering knowledge and practice and the maintenance of a high professional standard among its members, and the promotion of the professional interests of engineers and the improvement of their professional status. Among the means to be employed for this purpose are meetings for the presentation and discussion of appropriate papers and for social and professional intercourse; the publication of such papers and discussion as may be deemed expedient; the maintenance of a library; the collection of maps, drawings, and models, and the establishment of facilities for their use.
The membership list is divided into members, associate members, associates, honorary members, and students. Members must be professional engineers of at least five years’ standing and have been engaged in responsible positions; associate members consist of engineers of five years’ practice who may be elected into the class; associates are those not qualified as engineers, but who by virtue of their connection with science or the arts are qualified to confer with engineers; honorary members consist of distinguished persons not engaged in the profession of engineering in Western Australia; and students are those not under the age of eighteen who are qualifying for the profession.
The affairs of the institution are governed by a council, the President being Mr. E. E. Light, M.I.C.E. (who succeeded the Engineer-in-Chief in that position), and the Secretary Mr. W. B. Shaw Though it has only been in existence for some two years, the institution has published several valuable papers upon engineering works in the State, and has done much to increase the influence of the profession generally
The Western Australian Institute of Architects was founded in 1892, incorporated in 1902, and admitted to alliance with the Royal Institute in 1910. The objects for which the institute is established are • —The study and cultivation of the science and art of architecture; advancing, protecting, and elevating the practice of it in its several branches; and the cultivation of friendly intercourse between the members of the institute. The institute consists of life fellows, fellows, associates, and honorary fellows, and such other classes of members, either subscribing or non-subscribing, as may be established by the institute. Life fellows are architects who have been fellows not less than ten years, and who are
elected life fellows by the institute for eminent services rendered to the institute. Fellows are architects who have attained the age of thirty years and have served articles for at least three years to a recognized practitioner, or otherwise have satisfied the council as to their qualifications, and who have been engaged as principals for at least seven years in the practice of architecture, and have erected buildings of sufficient importance in the judgment of the council. Provided that the institute shall have power to declare that every person desiring to be admitted a fellow shall be required to have passed such examination or examinations as may be directed by the institute; but in special cases the council shall have power to dispense with such examination or examinations. Honorary fellows are gentlemen eminently distinguished by scientific, artistic, or literary attainments. Should an honorary fellow commence practice as an architect in Western Australia he ceases to be an honorary fellow. Associates are persons engaged in the study or practice of architecture who have attained the age of twenty-one years, and have served at least four years’ articles to a recognized practitioner, and have passed such examination or examinations as may be directed by the institute, according to a standard fixed from time to time by the council. Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects, or of any other incorporated association of architects which the council may from time to time recognize as upholding a sufficiently high standard of qualification, may be admitted to ballot without being required to pass an examination. An associate need not pass examination prior to election as a fellow. Examination may from time to time be held at such times and places within the State of Western Australia, or elsewhere, and in such a manner, as the council may from time to time determine.
The institute has power to grant such diplomas or certificates in connection with examinations or otherwise in such manner as the council of the institute may from time to time prescribe.
Professional practice as to charges and architectural competitions is regulated by a schedule based upon that of the Royal Institute of British Architects, but adapted to local conditions.
Mr. G. T. Poole was the principal founder of the institute and also the first President when it was incorporated, and is the only member who has been elected a life fellow of the institute. The other
Presidents are Messrs. M. F. Cavanagh, J. T. Hobbs, and P. W. Harrison.
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The Hon. Secretary and chief executive officer of the institute is Mr. William A. Nelson, who has occupied that office for a number of years, and by his efforts has raised the institute to a position of importance among the professional bodies of the States.
It is worthy of remark that the Western Australian Institute was the second Australian institute to be admitted to alliance with the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The qualifications necessary to enable a person to practise as a surveyor in the State was determined by the Surveyors’ Licensing Board (of which the Surveyor-General is Chairman). Registration is granted either as the result of examination or on production of satisfactory evidence gained in some other State or country.
Following upon the establishment of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an Institution of Surveyors was founded in 1910. The Articles of Association set forth that “the institution is established for the purposes and with the objects expressed in the Memorandum of Association and all matters incidental thereto, and in furtherance thereof the council shall, subject to the resolutions of the institution in general meeting, direct attention from time to time to such of the matters therein mentioned, or incidental thereto, as may appear to them expedient. The council of the institution shall not consider or entertain any cause of complaint or grievance on the part of any surveyor who is not for the time being a member of the institution, and no such surveyor shall be directly entitled, through the aid or instrumentality of the institution, to any benefits or privileges contemplated thereby.”
The institution consists (firstly) of all members and associates on the roll of the institution who signed the Memorandum of Association and the Articles; also (secondly) of all those persons named in the schedule to the Articles who shall, after the date of registration of the institution under the Associations Incorporation Act 1895, apply in writing, under their respective hands, to the council of the institution to be declared members or associates thereof, and who shall, by such writing, undertake to agree and abide by all the provisions of such Memorandum and Articles of Association, and to pay all moneys which under or by virtue of such Memorandum or Articles they shall be liable to pay, and who shall from time to time be declared by such council to be mem-
bers or associates of such institution; and (thirdly) of all such other duly-qualified surveyors as may from time to time be elected and entered on the register of members in accordance with these Articles, and all such other persons as may from time to time be elected honorary members, associates, and students, and shall, in writing, in such form as the council shall from time to time determine, have accepted such membership, and each person so accepting or who shall become a member, associate, or student as aforesaid (all which persons are hereinafter included in the term “members,” unless otherwise expressed, or the context shall not admit thereof) shall receive a certificate of membership indicating the class to which he belongs. A member shall be a person who is entitled to practise as a surveyor in any of the States of the Commonwealth or in the Dominion of New Zealand, or who can produce a certificate of having passed examinations in either surveying or civil engineering, which, in the opinion of the council, is sufficient evidence that he thoroughly understands the theory and practice of surveying, provided that any person of eminence in any profession allied to that of surveying shall, with the consent of the council, be eligible for election as a member in the manner prescribed. An honorary member shall be of high scientific attainments, of eminence as a surveyor, or a member of the institution who, having retired from practice, is in the opinion of the council entitled to the special respect of the profession. An associate shall at the time of his election be at least twenty-one years of age, and shall satisfy the council that he has been employed in connection with surveying for a period of not less than five years, and shall produce a certificate from a member of the institution to the effect that he is competent to conduct surveys; or he shall satisfy the council that he has followed the profession of a civil engineer for a period of not less than five years, and that during a portion of that time he has held a responsible position on some engineering work. A student shall be a student of surveying.
The first President of the institution was the Honourable Sir Newton J. Moore, K.C.M.G., who was succeeded by the present occupant of the office, the Surveyor-General (Mr. Harry F. Johnston). Mr. W. B. Shaw is the Secretary. As in the case of the Institution of Engineers, the proceedings are published, and contain much information of interest to surveyors in their work throughout the State.
PERCY WILLIAM HARRISON, F.R.V.I.A. and F.W.A.I.A., President of the Institute of Architects of Western Australia, was born at London on June 19, 1864. At the age of fifteen he entered the office of the late Mr. Thomas Watts,
F.R.I.B.A., to whom he was articled for five years. Upon the completion
of his indentures he was elevated to the post of chief draughtsman to the firm, and in 1893 he severed his connection with Mr. Watts in order to launch out in business for himself. Mr. Harrison came to Perth in 1895 and immediately after his arrival in the Western State entered upon the practice of his profession,
in which he continues to the present day. In 1885 Mr. Harrison was elected an Associate of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects and fifteen years later Fellow of the same Society. He is a foundation member of the Western Australian Institute of Architects and has been a member of the Council since its
creation, and on three occasions has occupied the presidential chair, besides which he has acted as Hon. Secretary for two years and Hon. Treasurer for a term. He has held high honours in the Masonic world and at present is Senior Grand Warden, and Master of the Mundaring Lodge, No. 90, W.A.C.
GEORGE TEMPLE POOLE,
J. P., A.R.I.B.A., Assoc.Inst.C.E., and F.W.A.I.A., is a son of the late Lieutenant - Colonel J. George Temple, of Wingfield, and Dame Louisa Poole, of Rocborne Manor, Hampshire, England, and was born on May 29, 1856. He was educated at Winchester College, and was commissioned to the Hants Militia School. Upon leaving he was articled to the late Mr. Christopher Crabb Crecke, subsequently studying under the late Mr. George Judge, F.R.I.B.A. Having completed the course of study he became associated with Sir James Lemon, Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, and continued with this gentleman for some considerable time, afterwards joining the staff of the late Mr. John Ashdown, who made his name in the designing and execution of harbour works in England. Having gained considerable and varied experience in the Old Country Mr. Poole turned his attention to the overseas dominions of Britain and in 1.885 was appointed Superintendent of the Public Works Department of the Imperial Service in Western Australia. Three years later, upon the retirement of the Honourable J. Arthur Wright, Sir Naoier Broome,
K. C.M.G., then Governor of the State, promoted Mr. Poole to the nosition of Director of Public Works, which he occupied until the abolition of the office upon the introduction of responsible government in 1890. Under the new Government he was given the appointment of Colonial Architect and Superintendent of Pubb'c Works, and upon the reorganization of the department accepted the post of Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, from which he retired on a pension in 1897. He afterwards directed his energies to the promotion of a company for an all-British cable service, which project, however, fell through, greater success attending his scheme for the establishment of the Perth Tramways at a later date. A couple of years were spent by Mr.
Poole in Europe, and upon his return he began private practice as an architect and engineer in Perth, and has added various works to the long list of important public buildings erected under his supervision while in the Government Service. Among these latter may be mentioned the Perth Government Offices, including the General Post Office, the Colonial Hospital, Perth Observatory, Perth Branch of the Royal Mint, the Victorian Public Library and Museum, Lighthouses at Cape Leeu-win and Rottnest, and numerous others. The gentleman under review was appointed Justice of the Peace for the whole State in 1889. He is a Past President and now Vice-President of the Institute of Archi-
Bartletto Perth.
Mb. George Temple Poole.
tects. He gives much time and thought to matters political and has had a prominent share in the organization of the Liberal League in this State, while a favourite hobby is to further the interests of the Society of Arts in Western Australia, this body having commanded his services as President in the past. He married Beatrice, daughter of the late Captain John Banger, R.N., of Havant, Hampshire, England.
HOBBS, SMITH, & FORBES, architects, Weld Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. (J. J. Talbot Hobbs, and W. J. Waldie Forbes.) In the remarkable progress made by the City of Perth since the eighties the firm under re-
view has played an important and leading part. Mr. Talbot Hobbs commenced the practice of his profession in Perth as far back as 1887, and much of the fine architecture which to-day graces the leading thoroughfares of the western metropolis was designed by him. He continued on his own behalf until the year 1904, when he admitted into partnership Mr. Dean Smith, since deceased, and Mr. Waldie Forbes, and the reconstructed firm adopted the present designation, under which it has come prominently before the public notice. With the fresh personnel the firm has lost nothing of its ancient vigour, but rather continues each year to add to the prestige so worthily gained by its founder. During the past decade many prominent structures have been erected in the metropolitan area, the designs of which reflect great credit on the creative faculty of the firm and go to enhance the architectural features of the capital. Among these are the Temperance and General Chambers on St. George’s Terrace; Messrs. Sargood Brothers’ warehouse; the Masonic Temple, Hay Street; Dalgety’s Buildings, Fremantle; Messrs. Boan Brothers’ emporium in Wellington Street; and Sandover’s fine frontage in Hay Street, Perth. Surrey Chambers, Furnival Chambers, New Zealand Chambers, the warehouses of Messrs. Harris, Scarfe, & Co., and Messrs. Falk & Co.,-the Bon Marche Stores, and Messrs. Charles Moore and Co.’s premises are also the work of this well-known firm. Many private residences also have been designed and erected by the firm which for comfort and convenience compare favourably with similar architecture in the Eastern States. W. J. WALDIE FORBES, F.A.W.A.I.A., is a son of the late Mr. Walter Scott Forbes, of Banff, Scotland, an officer in the Imperial Army, and was born at Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. He was taken at an early age to India and afterwards to New Zealand, and pursued his scholastic studies in various places, attending schools in New Zealand. Brisbane, and Melbourne, where he finished his education at St. James’ Grammar School. At the age of fifteen he entered the office of Mr. Walter Scott Law, an architect of Melbourne, with whom he remained for eight and a half years. At the end of that period he went to Sydney and became connected
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with Mr. Edward E. Raht, who was then engaged as chief architect and building administrator in the erection of the great Equitable Buildings in Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Forbes spent three years in the carrying out of these and other works of large dimensions, and upon
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. W. J. Waldie Forbes.
the completion of the important contracts referred to the office staff was disbanded and Mr. Raht returned to America. Arriving in Western Australia, the gentleman under review shortly afterwards entered the office of Messrs. Wilkinson & Smith, and later, after the dissolution of that firm, accepted the position of manager and chief draughtsman with the late Dean Smith, who afterwards amalgamated his practice with that of the present firm. He continued to fill this post until the partnership referred to was formed in 1905, when he was admitted as one of the principals of the new firm, and has continued to practise in this connection ever since. He is a member and Past Master of the Masonic craft, and at the present time holds the office of Grand Superintendent of Works in the Grand Lodge of Western Australia. He is a member of several social and sporting clubs, among the former being the Freemasons’ Club and "The Perth,” and. the latter the Fremantle Golf and the Freshwater Bay Yacht Clubs. He seeks outdoor recreation mostly on the golf links and finds indoor pastime in billiards, of which he is a skilful exponent. In 1903 Mr. Forbes married Clara, eldest daughter of the late Mr. David oo
Strickland, of Perth, a descendant of a very old English family. He has a son and four daughters.
EDWIN SUMMERHAYES, F.R.I.B.A., F.W.A.I.A., is a son of Mr. George Summerhayes, of London, and was born at the world’s metropolis on March 6, 1868. He was educated at Christ College, London, and at sixteen years of age accompanied his parents to Australia. After landing at Melbourne he returned to Adelaide and was articled to the late Mr. James Hill, F.S.A.I.A., completing his studies in the profession of architecture under the Honourable William Pitt, of Melbourne, with whom he remained for about five years. In 1894 he came to Western Australia, and proceeding straight to Coolgar-
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die established himself in business as an architect in that town. When Coolgardie began to decline Mr Summerhayes removed to Perth and began practice in the capital, where he has continued ever since. His first work of importance was the fine building of Forrest Chambers, which he designed and erected for the Right Honourable Sir John Forrest,
G.C.M.G., and was also responsible for the plans and erection of "The Bungalow,” a private residence for the same gentleman. In the country towns and districts he has a very large connection, much public and private work being placed to his credit. He has designed and erected numerous public buildings for Roads Boards, Municipal Councils, and
other bodies at Katanning, Wagin, Coolgardie, and Kalgoorlie, and comfortable homesteads and villas for which he was architect abound in all parts of Western Australia. Mr. Summerhayes in 1907 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is attached to the 11th Australian Infantry Regiment, having been gazetted Lieutenant in 1905, and major in 1911. Keenly interested in municipal affairs, for a time he filled the office of councillor at Claremont, near Perth, and is Hon. Treasurer of the Claremont and Cottesloe Branch of the Australian Liberal League. He is a Past Grand Lodge Officer in the Masonic fraternity, and at the present time is a member of the Military Lodge. He married Florence, daughter of Mr. Thomas Camm, of Royal Park, Melbourne, and has a son and a daughter.
CAVANAGH & CAVANAGH, architects and sworn valuators, Commercial Bank Chambers, corner of St. George’s Terrace and Barrack Street, Perth [M. F. Cavanagh, F.R.I.B.A. (Lond.) and F.R.Hist.S. (Lond.), and J. C. Cavanagh, F.W.A.I.A.]. Twenty years ago Perth had but little in the way of imposing architecture to support her claim to rank as one of the capital cities of Australia, but the intervening years have brought about a wonderful metamorphosis, and to-day she worthily upholds the distinction of being one of the first half-dozen cities of the Commonwealth. To the Messrs. Cavanagh must be given a large share of the credit due for this transformation, as the plans and designs of many of the striking buildings now adorning the thoroughfares of the Western metropolis were conceived and executed by them. The work by the firm has been of a most varied character, and examples of it are to be found in almost every centre of importance in the State. Numerous business premises, private houses, and modern homes have been designed and erected by the firm which, in addition, has designed and superintended the erection of a large number of convents, churches, and educational buildings in connection with the diocesan work of the Roman Catholic Church. Worthy of mention among these is the Church of the OblateFathers at Fremantle (a handsome example of Gothic decorated architecture, which when finished will be crowned by an imposing steeple),
the Hospital at Subiaco for the nursing sisterhood of St. John, the Convent Boarding School on Cathedral Hill, the Convent at Bunbury, the Christian Brothers’ College on St. George’s Terrace (the eastern wing of which was only added early in 1912), the large three-storied
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orphanages on Monger’s Lake and on the Canning River, the Redemp-torist Monastery and Church at North Perth, the Bishop’s Palace (Perth), and churches at Northam, Coolgardie, and Kalgoorlie. The Fire Brigade Stations at Perth and Fremantle, and Baird’s Arcade, Hay Street, Perth, were also designed by the Messrs. Cavanagh. The business premises include Brennan’s, Hay Street; Foy & Gibson’s Hay Street frontage; warehouses for A. M. Bickford & Sons; Commercial Union Assurance Buildings, St. George’s Terrace; extensions of the Commercial Bank, St. George’s Terrace ; and a number of banking premises and country residences throughout the State. The firm also designed the plans of the Hotel Esplanade, Perth, of which an excellent view is to be had from the river, the P. & O. Hotel, the Orient Hotel, the Newcastle Club Hotel at Fremantle, and a number of other hos-telries in different parts of Western Australia. The work turned out by the firm has been of a most complex nature, but the intimate knowledge of every branch of the profession possessed by the principals has enabled them to cope with the heavy demands upon their creative faculties, which have been stimulated to
higher flights by the continued confidence of the firm’s extensive clientele. MICHAEL FRANCIS CAVANAGH, the principal, was born in the picturesque district surrounding the town of Beechworth, in the north-east of Victoria, in August, 1860. He is the second son of the late Mr. John Cavanagh, of Tipperary, Ireland, who left his native land in 1854 and came to Victoria, in which State he first turned his attention to mining, which was then in the heyday of its vigour, following the rushes to the various newly-discovered fields and delving after the yellow metal with a fair modicum of success. After some years of this strenuous life he decided to return to his original business as a builder and general contractor, and so settling near the town of Beech-worth, and afterwards in Melbourne, soon established thriving and prosperous connections. He continued in Victoria until 1881, in which year he removed his business to South Australia, where he was similarly engaged for several years. Later he ioined the Government Architect’s Department as supervisor of public buildings, and during the occupancy of this post, which he held up to the time of his decease in 1894, he superintended the plans and construction af a great number of important oublic buildings. Mr. M. F. Cavanagh’s elementary education was obtained in the vicinity of his birthplace, after which he attended it a private academy conducted by Monsieur A. Longue, a gentleman of considerable scholastic attainments. His educational studies at an end, it was decided that he should adopt the profession of architecture as his life work, and as a preliminary step towards the realization of this ambition he entered the local School of Arts md gained practical exnerience of the various branches of building on the works conducted bv his father. While still in his teens he entered the South Australian Civil Service in bhe Architect-in-Chief’s Department, and during the next few years made rapid headway in the various branches of architecture, and displayed such aptitude as to give every promise of a future career of great brilliance. He now resigned his post in the Government Service in order to pursue his studies in London, and subsequent to his arrival there he entered the office of Mr. John Slater. F.R.I.B.A., of Bedford Row, a leading man in architectural circles in the Old World. He also entered as a
student in the Atelier, conducted by Messrs. Millard & Bagallay, both of whom are gold medallists of the British Academy and men of considerable distinction in the profession, where he made a special study of design in its manifold branches. His insatiable appetite for study was further gratified by a course of lectures at the Royal Academy, and he also became a student at the South Kensington School of Arts, where he “crammed” the lengthy list of subjects preparatory to undergoing the severe tests conducted by the Royal British Institute. In due course he sat for the examination, and was rewarded with the diploma entitling him to Associateship in the Royal British Institute, for which he had travelled so far and studied so assiduously. For the ensuing six
months he found work as temporary hand in various offices, gaining general practice (known in the profession as “inkslinging”) in planning and designing all classes of work. During this time he had conferred upon him the honour of Fellowship in the Royal Historical Society of London for his studies in ancient and modern architecture and art. Mr. Cavanagh
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Mr. Michael Francis Cavanagh.
next returned to his adopted State, and re-entered the Government Architect’s Department as general draughtsman, but he was soon elevated to the post of Chief Draughtsman, which he continued to hold until the year 1891, when he resigned, having decided to enter into private practice on his own behalf. While filling the last-mentioned posi-
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tion, he was responsible for the pavilion hospitals, operating theatre, and accident ward of the Adelaide Hospital, and for a number of model schools based on the design then in vogue with the London County Council, but adapted to local conditions. In private practice Mr. Cavanagh soon established a flourishing connection in Adelaide and in the northern centres of the Central State, his work embracing designs of many important buildings of public and private nature, besides which he was responsible for the plans of many convents and church edifices. He carried out the duties of corresponding secretary to the R.I. of B.A., and was secretary of the South Australian Institute of Architects, which offices he resigned upon his departure from the State. Mr. Cavanagh also held a seat on the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, and was an indefatigable worker in the interests of the local Society of Arts, being a constant exhibitor at the annual exhibitions held by the Society. Before the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Architects, and the Society of Arts, he delivered a series of lectures, which afterwards were published in pamphlet form. In matters of public moment he also took a leading part, and as representative for Macdonnell Ward in the Adelaide City Council and President for two terms of the Australian Natives’ Association, his name was closely identified with those of the leading men of the day. He took a live interest in politics, and was strongly urged to contest the seat for North Adelaide rendered vacant by the death of the Hon. G. C. Hawker, but about this time he was considering the advisability of settling in Western Australia, and was compelled to refuse the proffered honour, Mr. P. McM. Glynn being chosen in his stead. He was also a member of the Adelaide Rowing Club, and held a seat in the champion fours and pairs, taking part in many events on the Torrens River. Mr. Cavanagh first came to Western Australia in 1895, with the obiect of establishing his brother in a branch office at Perth, but the tremendous rush of work which assailed them on all hands during the first twelve months led to his decision permanently to take up his residence in the Western State, and so we find him at this stage abandoning a public career of great promise in order to devote bis energies to the urgent re-002
quirements of a rapidly-expanding practice. In the midst of this press of work he managed, with other leading architects, to find time in which to resuscitate the Western Australian Institute of Architects, and with characteristic vigour he soon infused new life into the Institute which had long remained in a moribund state. He filled the presidential chair for two consecutive terms, and for years continued actively to promote the interests of the Society. In 1898 Mr. Cavanagh was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Always taking an interest in developing and beautifying he was asked to join the City Council, and for a number of years he represented West Ward. He was Chairman of the Public Works Committee, and a
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Mb. Jambs Charles Cavanagh.
strong advocate of municipalization of lighting, tramways, and other metropolitan services. He contributed a series of leading and exhaustive articles advocating that the services of the city which were necessarily monopolies should rest in the hands of the people, and these were published simultaneously in The West Australian and the now defunct Morning Herald, at the moment attracting a great deal of attention. He was also a member of the Perth Fire Brigade Board and of the Perth Hospital Board. Politics also claimed his attention, and at the first Federal elections he was chosen by the National, Liberal, and Protectionists’ Associations to contest the Perth seat in the House of Representatives, but failed to secure a majority, his opponent being Mr.
J. M. Fowler, the nominee of the Labour Party. On another occasion he was nominated for the Senate in the Commonwealth Parliament, but with no better success. Mr. Cavanagh advocated a progressive policy, which included Old-Age Pensions, a Trans-Australian Railway linking Western Australia with the Eastern States, the Nationalization of the Federal Area, etc.; but of recent years he has entirely withdrawn from active participation in the politics of the day. Outside his profession he is interested in pastoral pursuits, and at Kojonup has several thousands of acres of land, which are devoted to sheep-raising, the flock being of the merino strain, founded with rams brought from, the Bun-garee Estate in South Australia. For recreation purposes he turns to hunting, and he is freauently to be seen at the meets of the Perth Hunt Club. He is one of the founders and an Ex-President of the King’s Park Bowling Club, and in 1900 was the winner of the Sargood Cup and Gold Medal. He married in 1897 Dorothy, daughter of Judge Francis LePoer Trench, of Ba.llarat, and has two sons and a daughter.
JAMES CHARLES CAVANAGH, F.W.A.I.A., the youngest son of the late John Cavanagh, was born at Melbourne in 1874. Educated at the Christian Brothers’ College, Adelaide, he first held a minor appointment in the Adelaide School of Arts and Design, at the age of sixteen becoming articled to his brother, Mr. M. F. Cavanaerh. He entered as a student at the R.B.I.A. in 1891, and at the South Kensington Academy, and was successful in passing many examinations in architectural subjects. Having finished his articles. Mr. J. C. Cavanagh continued in his brother’s office for several years as general draughtsman, and later as nrincipal draughtsman, afterwards snending twelve months on a visit to the capitals of the Eastern States in search of practical experience. He came to Perth in 1900, and shortly afterwards was admitted into partnership with Mr. M. F. Cavanagh. the arrangement continuing until 1905, when a dissolution was effected, and Mr. J. C. Cavanagh left for England to continue his studies under Professor Tite and other eminent instructors. He next proceeded to the Continent on a sketching tour, spending several months in the French
Provinces, and after an absence of two years returned to Western Australia, when the former partnership was renewed and has since continued. Since his arrival in the State he has been a member of the Western Australian Institute of Architects, and for several years acted as Hon. Secretary to that body, and is now on the Council. He wields a very skilful brush, and some of his watercolour sketches are beautiful conceptions, giving every evidence of the true artistic touch. He has been President of the Old Boys’ Association in connection with the Christian Brothers’ College for several years, and is a member of long standing in the Amateur Sports Club. His interest in outdoor sport is keen, and he played lacrosse with the first team formed in the State, but nowadays he takes his recreation on the golf links.
OLDHAM & COX, architects and building surveyors, Howard Street, Perth. (C. L. Oldham, A.R.I.Y.A., and A. E. Cox, P.S.A.I.A.). This well-known firm, established in Perth in 1905, has witnessed a steady growth in popular favour ever since its inception, and which shows no signs of decreasing with the greater demand for combined beauty and convenience which is one of the
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Mr. Charles Lancelot Oldham.
marked characteristics of the present era, while for stability and dignity the designs executed by this firm are second to none in Western Australia. Prominent among the public buildings for which Messrs. Oldham and
Cox are responsible are the Emanuel Buildings, erected at a cost of £30,000, the great warehouses of Messrs. G. Wood, Son, & Co., Messrs. G. & R. Wills & Co., Messrs. George Wills & Co., Messrs. Dobbie & Co., Copley’s Buildings, Wellington Buildings, the Commercial Travellers’ Club, and the whole eastern side of Howard Street, besides a large and ever-increasing number of the most important homesteads, hotels, and villa residences in the area surrounding the metropolis. Worthy of special mention is the Geraldton Town Hall, where Messrs. Oldham and Cox designed and carried out a suspended gallery which gives full floor-space when the gallery is not in use. The firm was also the first to introduce into Perth buildings the large steel-girders of 50 ft. span over shop-fronts, doing away with the older methods of pillars, which had been found cumbersome and in the way of future adjustments or improvements. CHARLES LANCELOT OLDHAM is a son of the late Mr. James Oldham, of Ballarat, Victoria, where he was born on September 22, 1865. He was a student at Ballarat College and subsequently served articles to the firm of Messrs. Tappin & Gilbert, architects, of Sydney, Melbourne, and Ballarat. Having completed his indentures he was sent to Sydney to represent his firm in that city and remained for about three years. Among his earliest works was the supervision of the erection of the famous Riverview College, the Roman Catholic Church in Lewisham, and extensive school buildings, at one time the work entrusted to his hands totalling a cost of £100,000. Mr. Oldham was then offered a position in the Railways Department of the Victorian Government, and designed for it the Maryborough Railway Station, subsequently being given charge of the plans of the extensive and up-to-date Lunatic Asylum at Sunbury, for the Public Works Department. Upon the completion of these and other large public works he began practice on his own account in Melbourne, giving his attention chiefly to designs for private residences, and in 1890 became a partner in the firm of Messrs. Kempson & Connolly. He represented this firm in Ballarat for several years, and when the great land boom burst he retired from the connection, and following up the SteigliiS mining boom practically built that town during the two years
it lasted. He was then associated with Mr. G. W. Clegg in private practice, mostly in designing homesteads and woolsheds in the neighbourhood of Ballarat and in the Western district of Victoria. In 1896, with Mr. J. Herbert Eales, he commenced
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Mr. Alfred Edward Cox.
professional practice in Fremantle, Western Australia, and during the six years that this partnership continued the firm was responsible for the designs of the Fremantle Markets, Detmold’s establishment, and many other well-known buildings. In 1901 Mr. Oldham started on his own behalf in Perth and Fremantle, and entered into partnership with Mr. A. E. Cox in 1905, since when the firm has carried on under the above title. He is a prominent member of the Perth, Fremantle, and Cottesloe Golf Clubs, finding in the pursuit of this time-honoured pastime a thoroughly congenial recreation. He is also a member of the Weld and other prominent Clubs. In November, 1901, Mr. Oldham married the second daughter of Captain Russell, R.N., late harbourmaster, Fremantle, and has two sons and two daughters. ALFRED EDWARD COX was born in Adelaide on May 21, 1869, being a son of the late Mr. Richard Baxter Cox, of that city. He was educated at Whinham and St. Peter’s Colleges and, at the close of Ms scholastic career, when about eighteen years of age, entered upon commercial pursuits in the office of Elder, Smith and Co., Limited, in the Broken Hill branch of their business. After serving about two years on the clerical
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staff of this firm he resigned and went for an extended tour over the States of Queensland and New South Wales. Upon his return to Adelaide in 1888 he became articled to the firm of Messrs. Evans & Evans, architects and licensed surveyors, and during the term of four years with the firm he competed against allcomers for the designing of labourers’ cottages and English farm at the Adelaide Exhibition of 1889, winning both prizes and also being awarded special mention for mechanical invention at the same Exhibition. At the end of 1889 he qualified as a member of the South Australian Society of Arts, and in 1890 was admitted as an Associate of the South Australian Institute of Architects, and five years later a Fellow of that Institute. In the early part of 1893 he left for Western Australia, and landing at Geraldton he proceeded on foot to the Murchison goldfields, where he joined in the search for the precious metal and at the same time practised mining surveying. He soon obtained a footing in his profession and established himself at Cue, the whole of which town he practically designed and built, and erected several of the public buildings on the fields and at Geraldton. About this period he received the appointment under Government of resident architect of all areas north of Perth, with head office at Cue and a branch at Geraldton, and continued in the Civil Service until he joined Mr. Oldham in practice at Perth in 1905. Mr. Cox is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in connection with which he was lodge organist for many years. In the past he participated in most athletic games, including cricket, football, and rowing, but more recently has devoted his attention chiefly to the game of bowls, and was a member of the first interstate bowling team to represent Western Australia in the Central State. In 1897 he married Halle, daughter of the late Mr. John Siviour, of Manoora, South Australia, and has three sons and two daughters.
WRIGHT, POWELL, & CAMERON, architects, 39, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. (J. W. Wright, F.W.A.I.A., M.R.S.I.C.E., M.W. A.I.E.; T. W. L. Powell, A.W.A. I.A.; A. D. Cameron, A.W.A.I.A.). JAMES WILLIAM WRIGHT is a son of the late Mr. James William Wright, of Chiswick, Middlesex,
England, where he was born on October 9, 1854. He was educated at King’s College, London, and at the close of his schooldays was articled to the firm of Messrs. Barnett & Gale, engineers, completing his indentures with Mr. F. C. Stile-man, St. George’s Street, Westminster. In 1876 he came to South
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Australia as assistant in the Engin-eer-in-Chief’s Department of the Government Service, and less than two years later began practice on his own account as engineer and contractor. He was employed by the Government in various large contracts, including the first and second sections of the Adelaide sewers, the Nairne railway bridges, and undertook the erection of twenty-one public school buildings within a 250-mile radius of the capital. In 1880 Mr. Wright returned to England and spent a portion of his time there and upon the Continent, sailing in 1881 for Western Australia, where he accepted the contract for the second section of the railway from Guildford to Chidlow’s Well. Upon the completion of that work, in the beginning of 1884, he opened up in business as an architect and engineer at Perth, and a few years later admitted into partnership Messrs.
T. W. L. Powell and A. D. Cameron, with whom he has continued ever since. Among the many works placed to the credit of this well-known firm may be mentioned the stands and buildings on the Perth racecourse; the National Bank, Perth; the Union Bank, Town Hall, and Na-
tional Bank, Fremantle; the Gas Company and Electric Light Works; the Federal Hotel, West Perth; the Town Hall, York, and a host of other public and private buildings, while a speciality is made of sewerage and sanitary engineering work. Mr. Wright was one of the founders of the original Architects’ Association, and is a foundation member of the present Institute. For fourteen years he held membership on the Central Board of Health. He takes keen interest in the progress of Freemasonry, in connection with which he has been instrumental in the founding of four lodges, and has received investiture with Grand Lodge and Royal Arch honours. He takes his needful recreation in a variety of ways, but derives greatest pleasure perhaps from driving and motoring. Mr. Wright married in 1884, Ada Phyllis Louisa, daughter of Mr. G. T. Light, Government Architect, South Australia, and has a son and a daughter. THOMAS WALTER LLOYD POWELL was born at Melbourne, Victoria, on November 18, 1864, being a son of the late Mr. Levi Powell, architect of that city. He received his early educational training at one of the State schools, and having concluded his studies at a private college at the age of sixteen entered the office of Mr. J. H. Fox, quantity surveyor, with whom
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Mr. Thomas Walter Lloyd Powell.
he studied for two years preparatory to following the profession of his father. In 1882 he became articled to Mr. Powell, sen., who at that time carried on a large general practice in Melbourne, and after
the decease of his parent three years later the gentleman under review continued the business in connection with Mr. R. B. Whitaker. This connection lasted for about five years, at the end of which period Mr. Powell practised his profession on his own behalf, designing and erecting many well-known buildings.
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When the depression occurred in the building trade in Victoria during the years 1895 and 1896 he decided to migrate to Western Australia, where prospects were brighter, and in the latter year arrived at Perth, where shortly afterwards he became associated in professional practice with Mr. Wright. Mr. Powell was at one time secretary of the Institute of Architects, of which he is an Associate. He is a loyal adherent of the Craft of Freemasons, in which he is Past Grand Superintendent of Works of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia and a Past Master of the Bruce Lodge, No. 51, Claremont. As Vestry Secretary of the Claremont Anglican Church he gives his warm support to movements in connection with this ecclesiastical body, and in matters musical has long been known to take a prominent part, when in Victoria being associated with various Liedertafel Societies, etc. He is a familiar figure on the bowling green, and has held place in the champion fours in the Western Australian Bowling Association. In 1894 he was married to Helen, daughter of Mr. Caleb Powell, of Melbourne, and has three daughters.
ALEXANDER DONALD CAMERON is a Queenslander, having been born at Toowoomba, in that State, on October 10, 1878. He pursued his primary studies in his native town and completed his scholastic career at Perth, his father being Mr. John Cameron, Government superviser to the Western Australian Government. He served articles to the profession of architecture with Mr. J. W. Wright, with whom he is now in partnership, and having concluded his term remained in the office as draughtsman and assistant until January, 1906, when he was received as a member of the firm, which has since carried on under the style of Wright, Powell, and Cameron. He is at the present time (1911) Auditor to the Western Australian Institute of Architects. Mr. Cameron has given considerable time and attention to the study of municipal government, and in 1907 was elected to a seat in the North Perth Council as representative for East Ward. His electors subsequently honoured him by an urgent requisition to allow himself to be nominated for the mayoral office, but pressure of professional duties would not permit of his acceding to the request. He is a member of the Ancient Independent Order of Druids, and interests himself in all matters pertaining to the advancement of this body. He is perhaps best known as a tennis player in the athletic world at the present time, but as a junior made his name among his companions as a footballer; and in 1900-1 represented Western Australia in the amateur cycling events at the sports in connection with the inauguration of the Commonwealth. In 1904 Mr. Cameron married Violet Adelaide, third daughter of Mr. Walter Woolley, of Perth, and has a son.
JAMES HINE, F.R.I.B. A. and F.W.A.I.A. and formerly
F.I.A.N.S.W., Colonial Mutual Buildings, 51, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. When in the distant future the history of Perth comes to be written much attention will be given to the wonderful rise and progress of the city during the past decade. Much of the history of a great metropolis is necessarily woven about its architecture, and the heavy responsibility of building up a city which will evoke a distinctive period falls upon the shoulders of
the architects of the present day. In this regard Perth is fortunate in having in its midst a number of gentlemen who cannot fail to add lustre to its fair name. One of the members of the honourable profession of architects, Mr. James Hine, has already contributed his quota, and to-day St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Churcli at the corner of Pier Street and St. George’s Terrace stands as an instance of his creative genius. A son of the late Mr. James Hine, merchant, of Ludlow, England, he received his education privately, and at a school at Longville, in the neighbourhood of his birthplace. He was articled to the late Mr. John Grosvenor, of Ludlow, and for four years received tuition from this master of the craft, with whom he remained three years after the expiration of his articleship. Having become fully qualified, in 1873 he commenced practice on his own account at Leominster and Ludlow, and for some years added valuable experience to his store of knowledge. In 1881 he crossed the sea to South Africa and settled in Cape Town, where he continued in his profession for two years, when he set out for Australia, of which country
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he had received glowing accounts. Proceeding to the Mother State he took up his residence at Bathurst for twelve years, and during that time designed many of the handsome buildings for which that town is noted, as well as the beautiful Park in its centre. He acted as diocesan architect to the Anglican Church,
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and also held the appointment of art master to tne Technical School. Mr. Hine was attracted to Western Australia in 1895, and since Ais arrival has played a prominent part in the advancement of the western capital, in addition to St. Andrew’s Church, already referred to, he was responsible for the design of the Congregational Church at Subiaco, and the Methodist Ladies’ College at Claremont, besides which he is to be credited with the plans of numerous warehouses and cosy suburban homes. On the social side he takes a keen interest in all matters affecting the welfare of the Protestant Churches, and the Masonic fraternity also claims him as a member, fie is an ardent supporter and member of the King's Park Bowling Club, and most of his leisure is given to the pursuit of this pleasant pastime. Mr. Hine has been twice wedded, the first time in 1872 to Miss Gilbert, of Coventry, England, who died in 1908. He remarried in 1910 the widow of the late Mr. F. Birch, of this city.
J. HERBERT EALES, J.P.,
F.W.A.I.A., is the son of the late Mr. Joseph Eales, a scion of one of the old Devonshire County families who for centuries have made their home among the picturesque hills and vales which have inspired the brush of many an artist lover of quiet beauty. Born at Exmouth, in Devon, on October 19, 1864, the subject of our notice, upon concluding his education at Totnes Grammar School, made choice of architecture as a profession, and entered into articles with Mr. E. H. Harbottle, F.R.I.B.A., one of the foremost architects in the English provinces. Having completed his indentures he continued for two years with that gentleman, during which period he gained valuable and extended experience in church restoration work and the erection of certain important buildings which have linked Mr. Harbottle’s name with architectural fame. Subsequently Mr. Eales spent considerable time in the study of his special branch of art and in sketching on the Continent, finally deciding to come to Australia in 1887. He first joined the Civil Service in Melbourne as draughtsman, afterwards resigning to accept a post as chief draughtsman in one of the leading offices in that city. At the termination of the great land boom he established him-
self in practice at Ballarat, Victoria, and succeeded in winning an excellent reputation for himself both there and in the western districts of the State. In 1897, attracted by the glowing reports of the Golden West, he set sail for Fremantle, and upon arrival started professional practice at the Port, where he soon made his way to the front ranks in his line of art. Some nine years later he still further increased his connection by removing to the capital, and steadily holds his place in popular favour at the present time. While responsible for many city structures designed for commercial purposes, Mr. Eales has specialized in designs for hotels and the fine comfortable homesteads,
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farm buildings, and shearing-sheds which mark the growth of prosperity on the large pastoral areas of the State, and his name is well known among all sections of the public and private community. Apart from his profession he is one of the best amateur musicians in Western Australia, having acquired the technique of three instruments, and has held prominent positions in the musical world of the Commonwealth. He held the post of organist both at St. Augustine’s and St. Peter’s Churches in Melbourne, and was organist at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church at Fremantle for five years, this church having long been famous for its fine musical service. He also designed and presided over the finest organ built in the State, viz., for the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Perth;
but latterly pressure of business has set limits to his indulgence in this elevating art. In the realms of sport his forte is rifle-shooting, and he is known all over the Commonwealth in this connection as a member for nine years of the Victorian Interstate team of riflemen and Queen’s prizeman in 1890: He also held a
commission in the defence forces in Victoria for twelve years, retiring with the rank of Captain upon hxs departure for Western Australia. A Sitting Master of the St. George Lodge of Freemasons, he has been Grand Organist for two years, and takes the keenest interest in all matters pertaining to the craft. For recreation he resorts to the golf links in winter and the bowling greens in summer and is a well-known exponent of both games; while as a billiardist he has been called upon to play for his club against most of the visiting English professionals. Mr. Eales is on the Council of the Institute of Architects and is a past Vice-President. He married in 1908 Mabel Hannah, daughter of the late Mr. James Lilly, of Fremantle.
WILLIAM ARTHUR NELSON,
F.W.A.I.A., Secretary of the Western Australian Institute of Architects, is a son of Mr. Charles Nelson, of Sydney, and was born at Pott’s Point, near that city, on March 19, 1875. He was educated at Royston College and the Sydney High School and passed with honours through the courses of architecture, construction, and modelling at the Sydney Technical College while serving his articles to the late Colonel Rowe, F.R.I.B.A., then President of the New South Wales Institute of Architects and of the Water Supply and Sewerage Board, and was employed by • him as draughtsman on the designs of many important works. He also studied under Messrs. John Smedley, W. V, right Campbell, and
J. L. Bruce. In 1895 he began practice in Sydney and a year later came to Perth, where he entered the service of the Imperial Survey Department as chief draughtsman under Commander Dawson, R.N. Resigning from the Service he commenced practice on his own behalf, and has since designed and carried out many well-known works, including Melba Corner, St. Alban’s, buildings at Albany, Padbury Memorial Church, Johnston Buildings, Torrens Building, several leading hotels,
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many characteristic residences, and other structures in town and country, including the first reinforced concrete building in Western Australia. He is architect to the Bank of New South Wales and several corporations, and was appointed sworn valuator under the Transfer of Lands Act. In 1893 he won the national medal for architectural design at the South Kensington Art Schools. He has always taken a great interest in the welfare of his profession, and for the past five years has been the chief incentive officer of the Institute. Mr. Nelson is a Past Master of his Lodge in Freemasonry and a Grand Lodge past officer. Apart from his professional duties he has farming interests at Balingup, where he owns an estate.
RICHARD JOSEPH DEN-NEI1Y, F.W.A.I.A., is a son of the late Mr. Patrick Dennehy, of Ireland, and latterly of Melbourne, Victoria. He was born at Cork, in the “Green Isle,” on August 16, 1859, and was brought as a child by his parents to Australia, where he received his education at the Jesuit College in Melbourne. When sixteen years of age he was articled to the profession he now follows, and after two years’ practice joined the firm of Tappin & Gilbert, the style of which was changed to Tappin, Gilbert, & Dennehy, afterwards becoming Tappin, Dennehy, & Smart. This firm carried on business at Sydney, Melbourne, and Ballarat, and during the time Mr. Dennehy was associated with its operations he had ample opportunity for the full exercise of his powers of creative faculty, of which he was not slow to avail himself. In Melbourne and other parts of Victoria the works of importance in which he co-operated were St. Paul’s Cathedral in Swan-ston Street, for the design of which Mr. Butterfield, the eminent architect of England, was responsible; the Metropolitan Gas Company’s offices, the Art Gallery, the Hibernian Hall, the Mutual Stores; the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bendigo ; the Anglican Cathedral, Ballarat; St. Francis Xavier’s College, Kew; and the Convents of the Sacred Heart and of the Good Shepherd, besides numerous other public buildings and warehouses in the city, also St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview, Sydney, which
is the largest educational institution in Australia. The splendid Roman Catholic Church at Manly, New South Wales, was also designed and erected by this well-known firm. The deed of partnership expiring after fifteen years, Mr. Dennehy responded to the allurement held out for business advancement in the Western State of Australia, and in 1896 established himself in practice in Perth, where he has continued ever since. He designed and carried out the erection of the Home of the Good Shepherd, Leederville, and the Church of the Sacred Heart at Highgate, and among buildings of a commercial character are the Mo-ana Cafe in Hay Street, acknowledged from an architectural point of view to be the finest building of its kind in the Commonwealth;
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Messrs. Levinson and Company’s jewellery establishment; the Clarence Buildings, Hay Street; The Morning Herald office, now the Government Immigration Depot; St. John of God’s Hospital; and several other business houses and warehouse blocks, besides many private residences and domestic dwellings. In the country stand as evidences of his professional skill many public buildings, hotels, and dwelling-houses, and his name is well known on the eastern goldfields. During his sojourn in Sydney Mr. Dennehy was a member of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales, and acted as its Hon. Secretary until he came to Western Australia. He is at present time a member of the Council of the Western
Australian Institute. He makes a hobby of gardening and finds health and recreation in the cultivation of choice blooms in his garden plots at South Perth where he resides with his three daughters. He is a member of the Celtic Club. Mr. Dennehy, who is a widower, has a family of two sons and three daughters.
ROBERT HENRY BURNSIDE DOWNES, F.W.A.I.A., irrigation and municipal engineer, licensed surveyor, etc., and Hon. Treasurer of the Institute in Western Australia, is a son of General Downes, C.M.G., late of the Royal Artillery, and was born at Mauritius on December 10, 1861. He received his education at various schools in England, and in 1877, at the age of sixteen, came to South Australia with his father and was articled to the late Mr. Oswald Brown, hydraulic engineer, of Adelaide. He completed his indentures, undergoing the usual course in the engineering workshops and on con-tractional works; subsequently, having obtained eight years’ experience in the Adelaide sewerage and other works, he went to Victoria, where he was offered a position to prepare the designs for the Watts River water supply scheme for Melbourne. Upon the completion of this work he joined the Victorian Railways Department,
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and while in this service assisted on railway surveys and the construction of the Yea to Mansfield line, the Ser-vicetown Railway Station buildings, and other works. In 1888 he accepted the post of engineer and building
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surveyor to tlie town of Hamilton, in Victoria, and at the same time entered into architectural partnership with Mr. Hammond, the firm being known as Messrs. Hammond and Downes. Here he carried out the duties of borough surveyor and engineer of water supply, and supervised the erection of the Commercial Bank and other buildings, and in 1892 entered upon the duties of a similar appointment at Geelong which he held for throe years. Upon his arrival in Western Australia in 1895 Mr. Downes joined the Public Works Department, with which he was connected for over ten years, and in 1905 commenced practice on his own account as architect and engineer in Perth. During the period that has elapsed since then he has carried out various works in the State, architectural and otherwise, and has built numerous country branches for the National Bank and for the Bank of Australasia. As an Associate of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1890 he gained the Telford premium, a much coveted prize open to members of the Institute, for a work on practical astronomy as applied to land-surveying. He is also the author of a paper on “The Determination of Longitude in Land Surveying,” which was published by the Institute as a sequel to the former article. Mr. Downes spends most of his spare time in the study of natural science, but may be found in his leisure hours seeking health and recreation on the golf links, and he is also fond of a game of billiards. In 1896 he married Mabel C., daughter of the late Mr. C. M. Poynter, of the Bank of Australasia, Geelong.
HAROLD BOAS, A.S.A.I.A., and A.W.A.I.A., is a son of the Rev. A. T. Boas, Jewish Rabbi, of South Australia, and was born at Adelaide on September 27, 1883. He was educated at Whinham College, North Adelaide, and at Prince Alfred College, subsequently being articled to Mr. Edward Davies, one of Adelaide’s leading architects and President of the South Australian Institute of Architects. Having passed through his indentures over a period of five years he remained with Mr. Davies for a further twelve months, subsequently gaining valuable experience with the firm of Messrs. Woods & Bagot, and Alfred Bayer. In 1905 Mr. Boas came to Western Australia and was for some
time with Messrs. M. F. Cavanagh and Austin Bastow. In the year following his arrival he commenced in practice on his own behalf, and in 1907 was joined in partnership by Mr. Bastow, who subsequently withdrew from the firm. Mr. Boas has executed some very fine designs in private residences, and excellent samples of creative work are to be seen in the suburbs surrounding the metropolis. He was also responsible for the handsome hotel at Nedlands Park, one of the favourite summer resorts of the residents of the State, and the warehouses occupied by Messrs. Sands & McDougall, besides a number of other business premises of note. In his student days he was the winner of numerous competitions, and was successful in gaining
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prizes at the exhibitions held by the Chamber of Manufactures in South Australia. He is a member of the Committee of the Commercial Travellers’ Club and takes an active interest in the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Boas makes a close study of politics, and is associated with the Liberal League of Western Australia. He married in 1911, Saidie, only daughter of Mr. S. Cohen, of Perth.
GEORGE HERBERT PARRY, A.W.A.I.A., is a son of the late Bishop Parry, of Perth, Western Australia, his mother being the eldest daughter of the late Mr. George Walpole Leake, police magistrate, Perth. He was born at Perth
on February 19, 1882, and received his preliminary education at the High School in his native city, completing his scholastic studies at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, England. Subsequently Mr. Parry was articled to the profession of architecture in the office of Mr. Mervyn
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Macartney, of London, and returning to the land of his birth in 1907 joined the Civil Service in the Public Works Department. He resigned from the Government Service to join in partnership with Messrs. Cavanagh & Cavanagh, architects, of Barrack Street, Perth, the firm being known as Messrs. Cavanagh, Cavanagh, & Parry. Three years later he retired from this connection in order to establish himself in practice on his own account in Perth, and has since been employed in work of a general character. Mr. Parry is associated with the Masonic craft, being a member of the Perth Lodge, No. 33, W.A.C., in which he holds office. He is also a member of the Perth Club. In 1910 he was married to Isla, elder daughter of Mr. Alfred E. Burt, of Perth.
HENRY JAMES PROCKTER, A.R.V.I.A., is the son of the late Mr. Edward Cornelius Prockter, of Somerset House, London, and was born at London on November 19, 1863. At the termination of his scholastic studies he was articled to the late Mr. Charles Martin Muller, of Cheltenham, England, and his indentures completed he sailed for Tasmania. Crossing to the mainland
shortly afterwards he settled in Melbourne and joined the staff of Mr. W. S. Law, architect, of that city, with whom he continued for a time. In 1886 he started in practice on his own account in Melbourne and while there designed among many other
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buildings, the College of Pharmacy and a very large residence for Mr. Edwin Millar, of Millar’s Karri and Jarrah Timber Company. Mr. Prockter came to Western Australia in 1896 and established himself in his profession in Perth, where among the numerous works placed to his credit may be enumerated the North Perth Town Hall, Brookman’s Building, and many warehouses and private residences in town and country, besides the Municipal Chambers at Northam. He takes a keen interest in all public affairs, and is Secretary to the Roads Board Association of Western Australia. In addition to his professional work he owns and cultivates an orchard at Kalamunda, and finds healthy recreation in this congenial employment. Mr. Prockter has been twice married, his first wife being Miss A. E. Hogarth, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. The present Mrs. Prockter is the daughter of the late Mr. John Walter, of Borden, Kent, England. His family consists of three sons and two daughters.
WILLIAM EDWARD ROBERTSON, formerly Assoc. R.Y.I.A., is a son of the late Mr. James Robertson, M.A., M.D., of Melbourne, where
the gentleman under review was born on August 25, 1863. He received his educational training at the Too-rak and Scotch Colleges of that city, and subsequently was articled to the late Mr. A. E. Johnston, of the firm of Messrs. Smith & Johnston, architects, Melbourne. Having served a term of four years with this firm Mr. Robertson went abroad for a couple of years and studied the prevailing forms of architecture on the European Continent, in England, and America. Returning to Melbourne in 1898 he established a practice in conjunction with Mr. Inskip, F.R.I.B.A., and during the five years that this partnership existed the firm became responsible for some very important works. Conspicuous among these were nearly all the premises erected for their
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Mr. William Edward Robertson.
country branches by the Union Bank authorities, the splendid building of the National Bank at Kew, and the magnificent private residence of Sir Matthew Davis, erected at a cost of £12,000, which takes its place among the finest structures in Victoria. The firm also designed the plans for the Fremantle Branch of the Union Bank, and after his arrival in Western Australia. Mr. Robertson found no lack of work awaiting him. The State Hotel at Gwalia was built by him under commission of the Government, and he was kept busy with the designs and erection of hotels and commercial premises all over the goldfields and other parts, the Perth Roller Flour-mills being among the structures placed to his
credit in this State and numerous residential houses and villas. In his younger days Mr. Robertson was prominent on the football field and held membership in two of Victoria’s best champion teams, but in more recent years he has found recreation in the less strenuous game of tennis. In 1901 he married Elsie, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Paltridge, of South Australia, and has two daughters.
LOUIS BOWSER CUMPSTON, architect and building surveyor, Perth, is the son of Mr. L. P. Cump-ston, of that city, and was born in Liverpool, England, on November 27, 1865. He received his early education at the Ramsey Grammar School in the Isle of Man and completed his scholastic studies at the Echuca1 Grammar School, Victoria, afterwards spending two years in visiting the principal towns in England. Subsequently he entered the office of Mr. John Robertson, architect, of Queen Street, Melbourne, under whom he received his initiation in the profession he now follows. Three years later, with the object of gaining practical experience, he became associated with Messrs. James Moore & Sons, building contractors, and continued with them for a similar period. In 1891 Mr. Cump-
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Mr. Lours Bowser Cumpston.
ston sailed for Western Australia, and upon his arrival at Perth established himself in his profession, since which time he has carried on an unbroken practice. While in work of a
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residential nature he has commanded a large connection all over the State, the speciality in which he has eminently distinguished himself has been in designs for hotels, and over a score of buildings of this kind have been erected under his supervision, the well-known Ocean Beach Hotel being a fair sample of his abilities in this direction. In conjunction with Mr. W. Wolf he won the competition for the plans of the Kal-goorlie Town Hall, and in private competition he was also successful with his designs for the Town Hall and municipal chambers at Oollie. In 1911 he had in hand the erection of the largest motor garage in the State, and new premises for Messrs. Daniel White & Co., the well-known carriage builders, which have a floor space of 38,000 square feet. He has besides had considerable experience in the building of skating rinks, warehouses, etc. Mr. Cumpston is a member of the Western Australian Club. He married in 1902 Amy Muriel, daughter of Mr. Wm. Love, of Perth, and sister of the late Dr. Love, of Kalgoorlie, and of Lieutenant-Colonel Love, Commander of the 18th Australian Light Horse, and has a son and two daughters.
JOHN STROUD GLASKIN, architect, Royal Insurance Buildings, St George’s Terrace, Perth, is the son of Mr. John J. Glaskin, accountant, of the State Civil Service, and was bom at Perth on November 10, 1886. After attending a State school for a time he became a student at Webb’s Grammar School and subsequently at the Technical School, Perth. He received an excellent training for his profession under the tuition of such prominent architects as Messrs. L. Bowser Cumpston, George Clark, and T. Anthoness, all in practice in Perth, and having served nearly nine years in their several offices started practice on his own account in 1907. During the comparatively short time that has elapsed since then Mr. Glaskin has made rapid strides into the confidence of the public, and has held his own both in domestic and commercial architecture. He has specialized in country homesteads and suburban residences, a large number of the latter gracing the outlying parts of the metropolis. Mr. Glaskin spends much time in the study of the vari-
ous branches of his profession, and is a student of the International School of U.S.A. in architecture and structural engineering. What time he is able to spend from the duties incident to his calling he devotes to enlarging his knowledge of dramatic art and elocution, and is a member of the Perth Academy for the pursuit of these studies. He is a mem-
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ber of the Masonic fraternity in Western Australia, and at one time was well known as a highly-pro-ficient amateur athlete and gymnast being still in a measure attached to these pursuits.
J. McNEECE & SON, architects and surveyors, Fremantle. This firm, founded in 1901 by Mr. John McNeece, has been responsible for the designs and erection of many of the large structures which impart to the port of Premantle the imposing appearance it presents to-day. Davies’ Buildings and the Economic Stores in High Street, Mason’s Buildings, the Commercial Hotel, and Fisher Beard’s large emporium owe their up-to-date, well-finished aspect to the creative ability of the gentlemen under review, besides Messrs. J. & W. Batemen’s warehouse at Perth, and many other public and private buildings round the metropolis and in every important town in the State. JOHN McNEECE was born at New York, in the United States of America, on August 11, 1860, and is a son of the late Mr. John McNeece, of the
Imperial Army Service. He was educated in his native city, also attending several schools in Brooklyn, and subsequently was articled to the late Mr. George Clutes, architect and civil engineer of the latter place. Having completed his theoretical course, he studied the science of handrailing, and owing to the remunerative nature of this occupation spent several years in its pursuance all over the States. In addition, at a later date he carried on as a builder in America, but prompted by a spirit of adventure and with the object of enlarging his knowledge and experience he left his native land for Australia, landing at Sydney. Finding the building trade very brisk he joined the ranks of contractors in that State, and after a brief sojourn there came to Western Australia, where he accepted the post of Government Inspector of Buildings in the Kimberley district prior to the days of the gold rush to that region. Eventually, however, the gold fever seized him and he spent three years “trying his luck” on the diggings, during which Dame Fortune withheld her smile on his endeavour. Once more entering the building trade at Perth, he continued until
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1900, when he joined the office of Mr. F. W. Burwell, F.R.I.B.A., architect, of Fremantle, and remained three years in this employ in the capacity of draughtsman and supervisor of works. In November,
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own account and has continued successfully ever since. Mr. McNeece makes a hobby of yacht designing and has planned and built many of the handsome and useful craft plying on the Swan River, among which may be noted his own yacht,
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Mu. Percy John McNeece.
in which he gains health and recreation in his leisure hours. H© takes a keen interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the community in which he resides and is a member of the Fremantl© Municipal Council. H© is also associated with the Masonic craft, and has held junior honours in this body. In 1885 he married Mary Creamer, daughter of the late Mr. Benjamin Shemels, of the 73rd Regiment of the Imperial Army, and has three sons and five daughters. PERCY JOHN McNEECE, the junior partner of the firm, is a son of Mr. John McNeece and was born in Perth on February 25, 1888. He was educated at the East Perth and Beaconsfield State Schools, and when fourteen years of age entered his father’s office, where he served his articles to the architectural profession. Upon completion of his indentures he continued in the same connection for some time, and was admitted to partnership with his father during 1911. Mr. P. J. McNeece has taken a couple of trips through the Eastern States, which he turned to good account by making a study of the styles of architecture which prevail in the older cities of Australia. Like his father he is very fond of yachting, and makes it his chief diversion.
WILLIAM WOLF, architect, member of the Imperial German Institute of Architects, was born at New York City, in the United States of America, on November 21, 1855, being a son of the late Mr. William Wolf, architect, of that city. He was educated primarily at Fort Lee, U.S.A., afterwards proceeding to Germany, where he concluded his studies at Heidelberg. While resident in the Fatherland he obtained his diploma as an architect, and at a later date began practice in England in the office of Messrs. Hewitt & Son, an architectural firm carrying on business at Euston Road, London. His first work of importance while in this employ was the drawing of the designs for the Army and Navy Club Buildings in London, and he was also responsible
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Mr. William Wole.
for the plans of extensive additions to the Langham Hotel. In 1877 he came to Australia, and landing at Melbourne became associated with Mr. Lloyd Taylor, a well-known architect of Victoria. After filling the position of draughtsman for three years he resigned his connection with this gentleman and established himself in independent practice in Melbourne. During the thirteen years spent by Mr. Wolf in the Victorian capital he left his mark on local architecture, being employed in the design and erection of such prominent buildings as Mort’s Stores, the large warehouses of Messrs. Solomon and Goldsborough, various churches, and nearly a score of hotels, besides numerous other commercial and residential
structures. Subsequently he practised in Sydney for three years, from 1892 to 1895, and ultimately came to Western Australia, since when he has carried on a very successful business at Perth. Mr. Wolf has a large general practice both in city and country, and among the many notable buildings he has placed to his credit His Majesty’s Theatre and Hotel, the Royal Arcade, the Swan River Mechanics’ Institute, and the Jewish Synagogue are deserving of special mention, while the new Theatre Royal is also of his design. Married in 1883 to Maria May, daughter of the late Mr. Colonel Jordan, of Tasmania, he has a family of four sons and six daughters.
HENRY THOMAS HARDY, M.V.I.S., M.W.A.I.S., licensed
surveyor of Perth, was born at Yan Yean, Victoria, on February 17, 1863, being a son of the late Mr. James Hardy, of the same place. He was educated partly at the Central School, Melbourne, and partly by private tuition, and subsequently became connected with the farming industry on his father’s property, where he remained till he was twenty-one. He then entered the office of Messrs. Coane & Grant, sur-
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Mr. Henry Thomas Hardy.
veyors and engineers, of Melbourne, and served articles with this firm for three years, during which period he passed the licensed surveyors’ examination in Sydney in 1886, being placed fourth on the list, only
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nine candidates passing out of forty-six who sat for the examination. In 1887 Mr. Hardy passed the licensed surveyors’ examination in Melbourne, obtaining a credit pass, and eventually commenced private practice in Collins Street, where he continued until 1891. In that year he came to Western Australia and entered the firm of Crossland & Co., surveyors, of Perth, being admitted into partnership two years later. In 1900 he took over the business, and at the present time operations are conducted by the firm under the name of Crossland & Hardy. Messrs. Crossland & Hardy during the last twenty years have carried out a large proportion of the subdivisional and city surveys round Perth and Fremantle, and have recently been appointed surveyors in Western Australia for the Federal Survey Department. Mr. Hardy designed and laid out the oval on the Claremont Showground, and of this he is especially proud, as it is generally considered to be the finest in Australasia. In 1898 Mr. Hardy was appointed to, and is still a member of, the Western Australian Licensed Surveyors’ Examining Board, which is affiliated with all the Surveyors’ Examining Boards of Australasia, including New Zealand; and in 1904 ho represented the Western Australian Board at a conference of all the Examining Boards held in Melbourne for the purpose of making the regulations for the conduct of examinations uniform in all the States and New Zealand. Mr. Hardy was elected a member of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors in 1890. He is also a foundation-member of the Western Australian Institute of Surveyors and has served on the council of that body since its inception. For seven years he was a member of the Claremont Municipal Council, but owing to private business retired in 1911 after having done good service for the ratepayers as a member of the Works Committee, of which he was Chairman for three years. Mr. Hardy is interested in the farming industry, having a property of 5,000 acres on the Upper Blackwood which he is devoting to sheep-raising and mixed farming, and upon this and the growing of flowers in his suburban garden his spare time is spent. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is also a member of the Western Australian Turf Club and of the Western Australian Club. In 1903 he married
Grace Lavinia, daughter of the late Mr. John Elsegood, contractor, of Perth, and has two daughters.
BERNARD WALFORD RIDLEY, licensed surveyor, “Riverside,” Gwambygine, York, is a son of Mr. W. Walford Ridley, timber merchant, of Reading, England, where he was born in 1864. He received his scholastic training at Reading School, one of the oldest scholastic institutions in England (its establishment dating back to about 1,100), and there studied for the engineering branch of the Indian Civil Service. After taking the mathematics examination he abandoned the idea
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Mb. Bkrnard Walford Ridley.
of service in India, and for some years continued his engineering studies at Bournemouth. In 1886 he came to Western Australia in the capacity of surveyor to the Western Australian Lands Corporation. Owing to the decease of Mr. A. Hordern some six months later the operations of the Company, of which he was the principal, ceased, and Mr. Ridley’s engagement was cancelled. He then became associated with the first survey of the Bunbury railway, as assistant to Mr. May, civil engineer, with whom he continued for some considerable time. In 1888, when precious metal was first discovered in Golden Valley, Mr. Ridley was responsible for the formation of a syndicate in Perth, called the Grosvenor Prospecting Company, which had for its object the prospecting of the newly-found
eastern goldfields. He made his way to the locality among the pioneer gold-seekers and pegged out claims, but after a trying and unsuccessful endeavour to find a payable reef was compelled to return to Perth. Subsequently he made a second trip, accompanied by a party who joined in the working of the claim, and when gold discoveries eventuated at Southern Cross one of the claims taken up by Mr. Ridley on behalf of his Company was the first in the State to pay working expenses. Failure of the water supply afterwards forced the abandonment of this mine, and the same trouble occasioned many hardships during a subsequent trip taken by Mr. Ridley at the invitation of Mr. Gillies MacPherson (discoverer of the Nan-nine Mine) across Hampton Plains, in the direction of the Fraser Ranges, from which they returned to the Plains by a different route. Here the first claim was pegged out by the party of three (including an aboriginal), and after a few weeks’ prospecting the return journey was attempted. The dry season, however, forced them to remain at their camp near Slate Well, and while waiting for rain their food supply became almost exhausted. The heaviest rainfall ever recorded in those parts occurred between September 13 and 19 in that year (1888), leaving the flat a sheet of water ten chains wide, through which the horses had to swim, and after various vicissitudes the party arrived at Southern Cross on October 6. During the trip gold was discovered by the party in thirteen different places, and a mine at Hope’s Hill, pegged out previous to their departure from the settlement, cost owners and shareholders over £100,000 in machinery. A serious illness after Mr. Ridley’s return to Perth caused him to take up his former profession, and he became assistant to Mr. Monaghan, Government contract surveyor, with whom he remained for two years. Accepting a position as draughtsman in the Public Works Department after the arrival of Mr. C. Y. O’Connor, he was at a later date associated with Mr. H. Wilson in the survey of Boyanup, Busselton, Bunbury, and Donnybrook railways, and was also connected with the survey of the Southern Cross line. Returning to the head office he was employed in preparing plans for railways until June, 1892, when he qualified as a licensed surveyor, and subsequently undertook extensive subdividing sur-
veys at Armadale for Mr. Charles Patterson. He then surveyed the Serpentine agricultural area on behalf of the Government, and was identified with selection survey work in the Lands and Survey Department. Por thirteen years he was conducting surveys in the Avon district, extending as far eastward as Southern Cross, was five years in the Albany district, and has worked for the Government in all parts of the State south of Perth. Mr. Ridley was one of the founders of the Institute of Licensed Surveyors in Western Australia. He is a member of the Masonic and of the Western Australian Clubs. In early life a keen athlete and sportsman; at fifteen years of age he was Captain of the Reading Harriers, played in Hampshire and Dorset Association Rugby football teams, and was coxswain of a boat which won nearly every town cun from Oxford to Twickenham. He was a founder of the Western Australian Cricket Association, of which he is a life member, and during the visit of the American Pleet in 1910 was appointed by th( Government to take charge of the sports at Albany. He played tennis against Mr. P. D. North for the championship of the State, and swam for champion honours in the Swan. In 1892 Mr. Ridley married Jeannette, daughter of the late Mr. Tshmael Rogers, of Perth, and has four sons and a daughter.
JOHN EWING, J.P., surveyor, Perth, is a son of the late Rev. Thomas Campbell Ewing, of Wollongong, New South Wales, and was born at that town in 1863. He pursued his educational studies at King’s School, Parramatta, and upon leaving that institution was articled to his brother, a surveyor, under whom he studied. Seven years later he opened in business on his own account in his native town and subsequently took control of the Berry Estate surveys in the southern district, where he continued for about five years. In 1896 he came to Western Australia and began business as a land and mining surveyor, and in the practice of his profession was identified with almost every part of the eastern and Murchison goldfields. He was concerned in the survey of the Venture Syndicate Company’s properties in different portions of the State, and in 1897 proceeded to Collie and was re-
sponsible for the survey of the leases of the Collie coalfields. In 1900 Mr. Ewing entered political' life as candidate in the Liberal interest for the south-west mining electorate and successfully contested the seat against Senator George Henderson and Mr. Courtney of Greenbushes. Three years later he was defeated by Mr. Henshaw the Labour candidate, and in 1905 regained his lost honours in the same electorate, only to resign them to Mr. A. Wilson, Secretary to the Miners’ Union, in 1908. In 1911 he unsuccessfully contested the Bunbury electorate in the Liberal interest, his opponent being Mr. Thomas, who represented Labour. He received his commission of Justice of the Peace for the magisterial district of Perth in 1905, having previously been gazetted for the Collie district. He married Beatrice, daughter of Dr. Swinson, of Ashley, England, and has two sons and two daughters.
JOHN WATSON HENDERSON, consulting engineer, Weld Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, is
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Mr. John Watson Henderson.
a son of the late Rev. David Henderson, of Rockferry, Cheshire, England, who was associated with the Presbyterian Church movement for about forty years and acted as Moderator in England on three separate occasions. The gentleman under review was born in Cheshire on April 4, 1867, and reoeived his education in England. He served his apprenticeship to the firm of
Cochrane & Co., engineers, of Birkenhead, on the Mersey, with whom he remained for four years, and concluded his training with two years in the office of Messrs. William Esplin & Son, consulting engineers, of Liverpool, this firm being the first in that city to engage in mechanical refrigerating on anything like a large scale. Mr. Henderson next sought experience in marine engineering and took two trips on board the “Thanemore,” of the More Line of steamers. Some premonition prevented him embarking a third time when she sailed from Liverpool, never to be heard of again. After visiting the principal Mediterranean ports, in 1898 he joined the Atlas Steamship Company trading between the United States of America and the European Continent, and while in this service was the means of saving the steamship “Alps” from untimely disaster by discovering in time a flaw in the engine shaft of the vessel. At a later period Mr. Henderson joined Mr. A. Holt’s steam yacht “Argo” and made a trip to Norway as far as the North Cape (“The Land of the Midnight Sun”). On a second trip to the lochs of Scotland he called at all the historical places as far as Inverary. He then sailed in the Holt’s Blue Funnel Line, trading between China and Japan, and after two years became connected with one of their vessels plying between Singapore and Fremantle. He saw the Western Australian coast in the early days of the coastal trade before harbours were made or lights erected, and after nineteen months in this service took a trip to England, returning in 1895, when he was one of the first consulting engineers to take up residence in the State. Mr. Henderson studied for the profession at the South Kensing-tion School of Science and Art, and was awarded the Queen’s Prize, the highest honour then attainable, for his papers dealing with the subjects of heat and steam-engines. He was also successful in gaining the Birkenhead local prize for engineering subjects against seventy-four students who entered. In the early days of Western Australia Mr. Henderson was a well-known figure on the mining fields, and was responsible for the erection of the machinery on the Gem Gold Mine, on the Upper Gascoyne, which has since shut down. He also supervised the installation of the electric lighting
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plant at the beautiful Yalingup Caves in the south-west of the State. Mr. Henderson has given special attention to refrigerating machinery and is agent for the well-known Linde Refrigerating Company of Australia. His special knowledge led to his being consulted regarding the running of the plant installed by the Fresh Food and Ice Company, and he superintended the conversion of the Government Re-
frigerating Machinery from C02, or carbonic anhydride, to the wet gas ammonia system, under instructions from the Australian Linde Refrigerating Company. Mr. Henderson is the Western Australian representative for J. Wildridge & Sinclair, Limited, Messrs. Drysdale and Co., engineers, and several other prominent firms of England and Scotland. Outside his professional work he makes a bobby of mechani-
cal invention, and in the past has patented many ingenious and practical ideas of his own creation. Mr. Henderson in 1900 married the daughter of the late Mr. H. Harris, of Victoria, and has two daughters and a son. Mrs. Henderson prior to her marriage was a prominent member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and had the management of several important branches.
The royal Mint, Perth.
Accountants and Auditors.
The Institute of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia was incorporated under Act of Parliament on December 17, 1900.
Since 1908 it has regularly conducted examinations, requiring a high standard of efficiency for candidates desiring to become qualified accountants. Candidates for admission to the Institute are required to pass three examinations, viz., preliminary, intermediate, and final. The papers are set in conjunction with the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants, and the Institute of Accountants in South Australia. The subjects for the final examination are as follows: —
1. Bookkeeping and accounts (two papers).
2. Auditing (one paper).
3. The law of bankruptcy.
4. The law relating to joint stock companies.
5. Mercantile law.
6. The law of arbitration and awards.
7. The law of trustees under wills.
The Institute has also materially assisted to raise the status of the profession in Western Australia by
(a) Arranging periodical lectures for the instruction of its members.
(b) The formation and conduct of two Student Societies—one at Perth and the other at Kalgoorlie.
(c) The maintenance of a professional library.
(d) Endeavouring, with the co-operation of other Institutes of Accountants, to obtain legal recognition for the profession. At the time of writing a Bill, which is the fruit of the combined efforts of the various Institutes, is before Parliament. The measure seeks to protect the public and the qualified accountant from the unqualified practitioner.
A second Society, under the name of “The Society of Public Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia,” was founded in July, 1911, and incorporated in the following November. Mr. John Sinclair is President and Mr. M. H. J. Otto secretary. It consists entirely of practising public accountants, and its objects are much the same as those of the preceding institution, including all matters that bear upon the protection of the accountants’ profession, and, of course, upon the protection of the public in matters of accountancy and auditors. It is deeply interested in the Accountancy Bill at present before Parliament, which is framed to give legislative sanction to the various objects of both Associations.
In addition to these two local institutions there is also a branch in Western Australia of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants, of which Mr. P. B. Carter is the local representative.
SINCLAIR JAMES McGIB-BON, F.S.A.A. (Eng.), P.I.A.V., and E.C.P.A., accountant, auditor, and attorney. Colonial Mutual Chambers, St. George’s Terrace. Perth, was born at Kew, Victoria, in 1875, and received his education at the Camberwell Grammar School and at Auburn College, in the same State. At the close of his scholastic career he became associated with his father in the firm of Messrs. Gilmour and McGibbon, well-known accountants of Melbourne. In 1896 he came to Western Australia and after a brief period spent in the office of Messrs. O. L. Haines & Co. began business on his own account in 1898. Mr. McGibbon has conducted some of the largest liquidations known in Western Australia, among others the “Coliseum” and the “Pantheon.” and very successfully controlled the salvage operations connected with the S.S. “Orizaba,” which vessel went ashore off Garden Island on
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Sinclair James McGibbon.
February 16, 1905. In 1909 he was appointed a commissioner to act
with the Public Service Commissioner to inquire into and report on the Public Service of the State, with a view to suggesting where economies might be effected. He takes a great interest in the agricultural industry and is senior partner in a 7,000-acre farm at Kumminin, a new agricultural district situated about 45 miles south of Kellerberrin. This area was formerly part of a station property of 250,000 acres held by Mr. McGibbon, but resumed by the Government in 1908. He has been attorney for the Northern Assurance Company for the past eleven years, is Local Secretary for the Victorian Institute, and acts as director, attorney, and auditor for several mining and industrial companies. Mr. McGibbon is a Fellow of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors of England, a Fellow of the Institute of Accountants of Victoria, and Fellow and foundation member of the Australian Corpora-
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tion of Public Accountants, having been on the first Council of that institution, and being one of two delegates appointed from Western Australia to attend a conference of accountants in the Eastern States at which this Corporation was inaugurated.
RANKIN, MORRISON, & CO., public accountants, Emanuel Buildings, St. George's Terrace, Perth. (Alexander Donald Rankin, John Morrison, and Arthur Andrew Nairn). This firm was established in 1907 by the amalgamation of the separate businesses of Mr. Rankin and Mr. John Morrison, Mr. Nairn at that time being the managing clerk of Messrs. John Morrison and Co. ALEXANDER DONALD RANKIN was born at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1867, and received his educational training at the High School of that city. He served his articles to the accountancy profession in Glasgow, and subsequently gained nine years’ experience with the firm of Smith & Williamson, chartered accountants, of London and Glasgow, of whose London office he took the management when it was opened in 1893. In 1899 he came to Western Australia and established himself in business at Fremantle, where he remained until
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Mr. Alexander Donald Rankin.
1903. Removing to Perth in that year, he continued in the practice of his profession on his own account for a time, and ultimately united with Messrs. Morrison & Nairn in the formation of the present firm, which is now recognized as the leading one pp
of its kind in the State. Mr. Rankin is Chairman of the South Perth Electric Supply and Power Company, Limited, an alternate Director of the Gold Industry of Western Australia, Limited, and of the Hills Proprietary, Limited, a local Director of the Timber Corporation, Limited, and a local representative of the Sons of Gwalia, Limited. He is also a Director of the Emu Brewery Company and a member of the local Lands Committee of the Midland Railway Company, and Chairman of the Railway Committee of that Company. He is a chartered accountant, and has been a member of the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries of Glasgow, Incorporated by Royal Charter, since 1892. He is also a Fellow of the Incorporated Institute of Ac-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John Morrison.
countants of Victoria and of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants. JOHN MORRISON was bom at Sprouston, Kelso, N.B., on January 4, 1867, and received his education at the Kelso Grammar School. He entered the service of the National Bank of Scotland, Limited, Kelso, in 1884, and subsequently was in the Leith Branch of the same Bank. In 1888 he received an appointment from the National Bank of Australasia, Limited, London, for its Australian service, and proceeded to Melbourne, afterwards being transferred to the Perth Branch in Western Australia. In 1894 he accepted an appointment as Manager for Messrs. Alexander Matheson & Co., mining attorneys and accountants, and was in Cool-
gardie until the end of 1897, when the business was transferred to Perth. In 1901 he became a partner of the firm, and in 1905 the business came into his own possession and the firm was dissolved, Mr. Morrison carrying on as a public accountant and auditor until the present firm
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Mr. Arthur Andrew Nairn.
came into being in 1907. Mr. Morrison is Chairman of the Local Advisory Board of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, Limited, a Director of the South Perth Electric Supply and Power Company, Limited, a Director of the Gold Industry of Western Australia, Limited, and of the Hills Proprietary, Limited, local representative of the Sons of Gwalia, Limited, Chairman of Directors of Emanuel Bros., Limited, and Attorney for the Perth Electric Tramways, Limited. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants. ARTHUR ANDREW NAIRN was born at New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1884 and was educated at the Hill Head High School, Glasgow, completing his studies at the Scotch College, Perth. He was associated with the firm of Ford, Rhodes, & Ford, accountants, from 1898 to 1907, when he joined Messrs. Rankin & Morrison in partnership. He is an Associate of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants.
SMITH & GOYDER, public accountants, Elder Buildings, William Street, Perth (Harold Edmond
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Smith, F.C.P.A., F.A.I.V.;
David John Goyder, F.C.P.A., F.I.A.S.A.). HAROLD EDMOND SMITH was born at Liverpool, England, in 1856, and pursued his scholastic studies at the Liverpool Institute and later under the tuition of the Rev. J. H. Roberts at Denbigh, North Wales. He was apprenticed to Messrs. Robert Preston and Co., distillers and wine merchants, but did not complete his indentures,
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Mb. Harold Edmond Smith.
and after eleven months with this firm left England for Dunedin in
1876. He engaged in various occupations in New Zealand during four years, at the close of which period he crossed the water to South Australia and joined the firm of Messrs. Harris, Scarfe, & Co. in their counting-house, continuing there about three years. In 1884 he came to Western Australia, and was in the employ of Messrs. Sandover & Co. until 1886, when he returned to the Central State. After a short period spent with his old firm in Adelaide he went to Hergott Springs with Messrs. Davey & Pilkington for a tme, and in 1890 once more sailed for Western Australia. Here he took charge of the accountancy department for Messrs. Tolley & Company until 1896, when he established himself as a public accountant in Perth, and at a later date was joined in partnership by Messrs. D. J. Goyder and R. A. Wadham, the firm being known as Smith, Goyder, and Wadham. Upon Mr. Wadham’s withdrawal it became Messrs. Smith and Goyder, and as such has carried
on ever since. Prior to 1902 Mr. Smith combined with his work for the firm the charge of the private books in connection with the Millars’ Kauri and Jarrah Forest Timber Company, and in the above year, when various timber firms amalgamated, he was appointed chief accountant for the Millars’ Karri and Jarrah Company (1902) Limited, a position he has continued to hold, this being the largest and most important accountancy position in the State. DAVID JOHN GOYDER is a South Australian, having been born at Adelaide in February, 1862. He was educated at St. Peter’s College, and at the close of his schooldays entered upon pastoral pursuits at “Minburra Station,” owned by Messrs. Bowman Brothers. From there he went to Messrs. Elder and Waite’s “Paratoo Station,” and experienced in all about four years of station life, the last year being spent as overseer at “Netley Station.” In 1883 he became identified with the clerical staff in the office of Messrs. Elder, Smith, & Co., at Adelaide, and continued there for fourteen years, working at station and other books, subsequently being appointed sub-accountant when the firm was floated into a limited liability company. . In 1897 Mr. Goyder came to Western Australia and entered into business on his own account as a
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. David John Goyder.
public accountant at Fremantle, shortly after joining Mr. H. E. Smith in partnership. His station experience has stood him in good stead, and he acts as secretary and accountant for some of the largest
stations in the State, being also identified in this way with several pastoral companies, this being his speciality. Upon the death of Sir George S hen ton he was appointed sole local director for Elder, Shenton, and Co., Limited, and he is auditor for many of the largest city firms in Perth.
FORD, RHODES, CARTER, and DAVIES, accountants and auditors, Forrest Chambers, 62, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, and at Mines Chambers, Boulder Road, Kalgoorlie. (Resident Partners:—Perth, F. B. Carter, chartered accountant; Kalgoorlie, W. Davies, incorporated accountant.) The firm under review was originally established in Western Australia as Ford, Rhodes, & Ford. In 1901 Mr. F. B. Carter arrived from England and had control of the Kalgoorlie branch of the business for three years, at the end of which time he was admitted to partnership and the name was altered to its present title. Mr. Carter then took up his residence at the metropolis, whence he exercises sole control over the whole of its transactions in Western Australia. The concern has considerably enlarged its dimensions since its inception in this State and operates over a wide area. In his seventeenth year Mr. Carter became a student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and was articled to the London firm of Fox, Sessons, and Co. He passed the intermediate examination with honours in 1896, and after achieving success in the final two years later spent three years in the practice of accountancy in various parts of England, during a portion of that time being identified with the firm of Ford, Rhodes, and Ford. Under the latter title this large concern operates in London, Sydney, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban, and as Ford, Rhodes, & Church at 3, Queen Street, Fort, Colombo, while the Western Australian personnel includes Mr. Carter and the Kalgoorlie Manager, Mr. W. Davies. Mr. Carter is Secretary to the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants, having been elected to fill that office in 1908. He has the interests of the profession at heart and is popular among his confreres. He is associated with the Defence Forces of the Commonwealth and is referred to in the Military Section of this work.
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O. L. HAINES & Co., public accountants and auditors, Weld Chambers, Perth (Octavius Lionel Haines, F.S.A.A. (Eng.), F.C.P.A.,
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Mr. Octavius Lionel Haines.
F.F.I.A. (Vic.), F.I.A.W.A.; and Charles Augustus Wylie, F.C.P.A., F.I.A.W.A., A.I.A.V.). OCTAVIUS LIONEL HAINES was born in the year 1864 at Cheltenham, England, and received his education
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Charles Augustus Wylie.
at Cheltenham College. At the conclusion of his scholastic career he acquired his first commercial training in a London office, where he remained for six years, and in 1887 came to Western Australia. Proceeding to Geraldton, he was there pp2
identified with the firm of Messrs. E. & F. Wittenoom, merchants, but in 1888 he returned to Perth and joined the late Mr. Herbert Hemsley Holman in an accountancy and auditing business, which partnership continued for some nine years. Mr. Holman then retired, and the business was carried on by Mr. Haines under the present style of O. L. Haines & Co. In 1904 he admitted as a partner Mr. C. A. Wylie, who had previously held the position of managing clerk, and this connection has continued ever since. Mr. Haines, who is the oldest established accountant and auditor in Western Australia, is a Fellow of the Society of Accountants and Auditors, England ; a Fellow of the Corporation of Public Accountants; Fellow and member of the Council of the Federal Institute of Accountants, Victoria; and Fellow of the Institute of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia, of which he was the first President. He was for many years a member and Chairman of the Cottesloe Roads and Health Boards and also Chairman of the Executive of the Roads Board Association of the State.
PYE, BURKETT, & Co., public accountants. Weld Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth (M. Edward Pye, F.C.P.A., F.I.A.W.A.;
John Francis Burkett, A.C.P.A., F.A.I.S.). M. EDWARD PYE was born at Beechworth, Victoria, on January 6, 1877, and educated at St. Patrick’s College, Melbourne. In 1895 he joined the staff of Messrs. R. M. Walker & Co., accountants, of Perth and Fremantle, remaining through the changes in the personnel and title of that firm, viz., to R. W. Walker and Gray, and finally to T. Birrell Gray, to whom he acted as confidential clerk and Manager for six years. In 1901 he joined the M. C. Davies Karri and Jarrah Company, Limited, as Secretary and Accountant, which position he held for nearly twelve months before leaving to commence business on his own account at Fremantle. From 1902 to 1910 he practised as a public accountant and auditor and held the position of Secretary to most of the important public and other bodies such as the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, Netherlands Chambers of Commerce in Australia (Western Australian Branch), Wholesale Grocers’ and
Traders’ Association, Retail Storekeepers’ Association, and many others, several of which he helped to form. Toward the end of 1910 he
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Mr. M. Edward Pye.
disposed of his Fremantle connection to Messrs. Ford, Rhodes, Carter, and Davies, and has since devoted his attention to the interests of Messrs. Pye, Burkett, & Co., accountants and auditors, Perth. For the past six
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John Francis Burkett.
years he has held, a seat on the Council of the Institute of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia and is a member of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants. JOHN FRANCIS BURKETT was born at Echuca,
Victoria, in 1876 and received his education at the local School of St. Mary’s. At the close of his scholastic career he was identified with the staff of a public company at Echuca until 1894, and coming to Western Australia in the following year associated himself with Messrs. Alex. Mat lies on & Co. at Coolgar-die. He remained some years with this firm and finally joined the office at Perth, eventually becoming accountant and chief audit clerk, which position he retained until the firm relinquished business in Western Australia. Shortly after his retirement from this connection Mr. Burkett established himself in business at Perth, in conjunction with Mr. M. Edward Pye, and the firm has carried on under the above title ever since. The gentleman under review is Secretary of the Great Ophir Gold Corporation, Limited, Local Secretary of the Westralia United Goldfields, Limited, and Secretary of the Metropolitan Retail Traders’ Association. The members of the firm act as auditors for many companies, pastoralists, and businesses throughout the State, and are trade assignees and liquidators. Mr. Burkett is a member of the Institute of the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants, he holds a seat on the Council of the Society of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Secretaries.
EATON & LAMB, accountants, auditors, and attorneys, Moss’s Chambers, Howard Street, Perth. SIDNEY VICTOR EATON, A.S.A.A., was born at North Adelaide, South Australia, in 1879, and pursued his scholastic studies at Whinham College, North Adelaide. Upon starting life he entered the office of the South Australian Register and continued there for four years. In 1899 he began business on his own account as Secretary for several companies. Two years later he came to Western Australia and accepted a position as accountant with Mr. Arthur H. Shaw, Customs agent, and when this business was taken over by Messrs. Frank Manford & Co. Mr. Eaton remained as Accountant and Manager until 1905. In that year he established himself in practice on his own behalf in the City of Perth, and after three years was joined in partnership by Mr. Charles Henry Lamb, A.C.P.A.,
the new firm carrying on under the above title. Since its inception it has made rapid strides, and Messrs. Eaton & Lamb are now numbered among the leading accountants of Western Australia. In 1909 Mr.
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Sidney Victor Eaton.
Eaton was appointed Registrar of the Society of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia, and the firm acts as secretaries, accountants, managers, etc., for various mining companies and other business concerns
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Charles Henry Lamb.
in Perth. The gentleman under review for some years filled the post of Secretary to the Lawn Tennis Association of Western Australia. CHARLES HENRY LAMB, A.C.P.A., was born at Dunedin, New
Zealand, in 1882, and is a son of Dr. Wm. Lamb, formerly of that city. After leaving school he went to Victoria with his parents and entered the service of the National Bank of Australasia, Limited, gaining banking and commercial experience for a few years, at the end of which time he came to Western Australia. Shortly afterwards he joined the staff of Messrs. Rankin, Morrison, & Co. as audit clerk and in 1908 entered into partnership with Mr. Sidney Victor Eaton.
WALTER McKECIINIE COLLINS, A.I.V.A., public accountant and auditor, Commercial Union Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, was born at Liverpool, England, in the year 1872. He pursued
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Walter McKechnie Collins.
his scholastic studies in the city of his birth, where also at a subsequent period, he was identified for some time with a commercial firm. Coming to Western Australia in 1903, in the following year he sat for the intermediate examination in accountancy and was the first of 300 candidates in Western Australia. In 1905 he passed the final examination and afterwards accepted the position of Secretary to the firm of Bunning Brothers, timber merchants, of Perth, with whom he continued for eighteen months. In 1907 Mr. Collins opened on his own account in Perth as a public accountant and auditor, and in conjunction with his numerous other duties spent a considerable portion of his time in
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coaching students in accountancy. In this he proved very successful and before October, 1910, was able to number no less than thirteen passes among his students for the final examinations in connection with the Western Australian Institute of Accountants and the similar institution of Victoria. Mr. Collins is himself an Associate of the Institute of Accountants of Victoria and is a member of the local Council of that body. He has taken considerable interest in municipal affairs and since May, 1911, has occupied the mayoral chair in the Queen’s Park Council.
Lieutenant JOHN HENRY FOXWORTI-IY, A. I. A. A. W. A.,
A.C.P.A., was born at Fremantle, Western Australia, on May 8, 1888,
Bartletto, Perth.
Lieutenant J. H. Fox worthy.
being a son of Captain J. H. Foxworthy, of that Port. Upon the conclusion of his scholastic training at the Perth High School he entered the office of J. M. Ferguson, Limited, of Fremantle, as junior. clerk, and subsequently served in the firm of Messrs. Mills & Ware for nearly three years. With the object of gaining a thorough experience in all branches of the profession of accountancy he engaged for short terms with several of the leading firms of accountants and merchants, among whom were included Messrs. Henry Wills <fe Co., of Phillimore Street, Fremantle, and Messrs. Pye, Burkett, & Co., accountants, of St. George’s Terrace, Perth. He was successful in winning the first gold medal granted by the Fremantle
Chamber of Commerce for highest marks and general proficiency in accountancy at the examination held in June, 1905, under the auspices of that body. In 1909 he was admitted to the Institute of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia, and in the same year the Australasian Corporation of Public Accountants granted him an Associateship, and he also received his diploma from the English Institution of Certified Public Accountants. He began his military career in 1909, when he was gazetted Lieutenant, and at present time is attached to the 11th Australian Infantry Regiment, most of his leisure time being given to his duties in connection with his regiment. He is, however, fond of the game of lacrosse and is a loyal member of the fraternity of Freemasons, being associated with the Fremantle Lodge, No. 2, W.A.C.
HAROLD JOSEPH PLATT, F.C.P.A. (Lond.), A.S.A.A.W.A., public accountant and auditor, 53, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a Victorian, having been born at Essendon, in that State, in the year 1886. In 1898 he arrived in Western Australia, and after concluding his studies at the Scotch
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Harold Joseph Platt.
College, Perth, became initiated into commercial pursuits at the large emporium carried on by Messrs. E. S. Wigg & Son in this city. From there he passed into the counting-house of Messrs. Matthew Goode & Co.’s warehouse, and after two years’ experience with this well-
known firm was employed for a similar period in the office of Messrs. Charles Dunkley & Co., merchants and indentors, of Perth. At the age of twenty he opened on his own behalf as an accountant and auditor, and in May, 1910, received his degree of Fellow of the Corporation of Public Accountants, London, a year later being admitted as an Associate of the Society of Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia. He has steadily made his way in the commercial world of the great Western State, and at the present time acts as auditor to about forty well-known firms, besides filling the position of Secretary to the Davies Franklin Agency, Limited, the Western Australian Boot Manufacturing Company, and to Dr. Frank Andrew. Mr. Platt is also auditor to the North Perth Council. In addition to the other branches of his profession, he carries on a shipping and Customs agency, and may be looked upon as one of the progressive business men who are bound by means of their ability and up-to-date methods to rise to the pinnacle of their profession.
GEORGE EDWARD PROUT, J.P., C.A., F.C.P.A., F.C.I.
(Lond.), public accountant and auditor, mining and general commission agent, licensed Customs and forwarding agent, house, land, and estate agent, 21, High Street, Fremantle, was born at Williamstown, Victoria, in 1864. He pursued his scholastic studies at State schools in Victoria and Queensland and by private tuition, and subsequently was engaged in accountancy, mercantile, and pastoral pursuits. In 1896 he came to Western Australia and joined Mr. T. Birrell Gray, accountant and auditor, at Fremantle, in conjunction with whom he obtained and carried to a successful issue the railway advertising contract for a period of five years. Mr. Gray died in 1901, and the business was taken over from his widow by the gentleman under review, who has held it ever since. Mr. Prout’s operations are wide and varied, and the scope of his business necessitates his travelling over the length and breadth of the State several times each year. He conducts the audits for many of the largest firms in Fremantle and various parts of the State, is largely interested in pastoral and agricultural concerns in the Yilgarn district, and since 1903 has combined
a Customs, shipping, and forwarding agency and a land, estate, and general commission agency with the other departments of his business. He is the chief agent for the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company at Fremantle. Mr. Prout, who holds diplomas in accountancy from various British institutions, received a commission of Justice of the Peace in July, 1908. He is an enthusiastic Freemason and holds the rank of Past Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia, as well
Bartletto, Perth.
Mn. George Ebward Prout.
as many other offices in various branches of the craft. He is Past Grand Master of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society, Past Grand Master of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows, and is a member of the Independent Order of Good Templars of many years’ standing.
QUINTIN HOBDEN JAMES, F.C.P.A. (Lond.), of Messrs. Q. H. James & Co., public accountants, 4 and 5, Brookman’s Building, Barrack Street, Perth, is a native of this city, where he was born in December, 1887. He received his early education at the then Perth Grammar School (now closed) and the public schools of Perth, completing his studies in London. Upon his return to Western Australia he became connected with the firm of Messrs. L. A. Woolf & Co., accountants, of Perth, with whom he remained for a period of seven years. In 1908 Mr. James established himself in professional practice on his own behalf, and has already won the confidence of the
public in a marked degree. A considerable amount of the trade assignment work is conducted by him, and he also acts as attorney for beneficiaries under wills and settlements. Mr. James conducts the audits of
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Me. Quintin Hobden James.
several well-known firms and companies in Perth, and also has a fair country practice. Mr. James has representatives in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.
MAURICE HAMILTON JOSEPH OTTO, F.S.P.A., public
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. Maurice Hamilton Joseph Otto.
accountant, New Zealand Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, was born at Albany, in this State, in
December, 1883. At the close of his school-days he began his commercial career in the office of Messrs. Moul-lin & Hayward, Customs and forwarding agents, and during the period spent with them became conversant with all branches of the business. In 1905 the firm was floated into a limited liability company under the style of J. H. Moul-lin & Co-, Limited, and Mr. Otto received the appointment of Secretary, which he retained until 1909, in which year he resigned and started in practice on his own behalf as a public accountant in Perth. He took a prominent part in the formation of the Society of Public Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia (Incorporated), and fills the office of Secretary to that body. He is Secretary of the Western Australian Pottery Company, Limited, and of the West Cycles Company, Limited, and is rapidly winning his way to the leading ranks in his profession.
WILLIAM HUGH DUNN, public accountant, estate agent, and auctioneer, 4 and 5, Royal Insurance Buildings, St. George’s Ter-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. William Hugh Dunn. race, Perth, was born at Ballarat, Victoria, early in the year 1881, and received his scholastic training at the local High School. At the conclusion of his studies he spent seven years in the counting-house and warehouse of the well-known Ballarat merchants, Messrs. Harry Davies and Co., finishing as sub-accountant. In December, 1901, Mr. Dunn came to Western Australia to take charge of the office of the busi-
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ness firm of Messrs. Charles Moore & Co., and after two years in this connection resigned to accept the post of financial manager for Messrs. T. F. Elliott & Co., merchants, of Kalgoorlie and Cool-gardie. He returned to Perth in May, 1905, under engagement to the Economic Stores, Limited, as Secretary, which position he resigned in March, 1909, to commence business on his own account, as above. Since then Mr. Dunn has made good headway in his profession, and is acquiring an influential clientele. He is associated with Peet & Co., Limited, and has prominent connection with many public bodies, notably the Australian Natives Association and has occupied the position of General Treasurer with a seat on the Directorate of this Institution for the past two years. Mr. Dunn is a Fellow of the Society of Public Accountants of Western Australia.
ERNEST WILLIAM WAUGH, F.S.P. A.,W. A.,Perth, is a son of the late Rev. Doctor James S. Waugh, President for eighteen years of Wesley College, Melbourne, at which institution the gentleman under review was born on November 11, 1870, and where he also received his education. At fifteen years of age he entered commercial life in the firm of Messrs. Munro & Baillieu, auctioneers, land and estate agents, Melbourne, with whom he spent five and a half years. He next transferred
his services to the firm of Messrs. Langton, Holmes, & McCrindle, accountants and auditors, ofrthe same city, and some years later sailed for Western Australia, where he arrived
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Ernest William Waugh. in 1891. Almost immediately Mr. Waugh proceeded to “Moorarrie Station,” on the Upper Murchison, the property of the late Mr. J. H. Monger, where he gained a great deal of valuable pastoral experience, enhancing this by periods of residence on surrounding stations. Eventually he took the position of overseer on Mr. Frank Wittenoom’s “Boolardy Station,” and remained there in that capacity for three years. He then turned his attention to the mining industry, being connected with the
Woodly’s Reward Claim, Rothesay, Great Boulder Perseverance, Central, and West Boulder Mines, and Hannan’s Crushing Company. Leaving the fields in 1898, he joined the house of Dalgety & Co., Limited, at Fremantle, and for five and a half years served in the accountancy department of the firm. In 1903 he resigned in order to renew his association with Mr. Frank Wittenoom, as manager of his business affairs in Perth, and at the same time began to practise as an accountant and auditor on his own account. Having fulfilled all the requirements of the Board of the Society of Public Accountants and Auditors of Western Australia, he was admitted as a Fellow of that institution. He has met with every encouragement in his profession, and has continued very successfully up to the present time. Mr. Waugh for three years occupied a seat in the North Perth Municipal Council, during which period he acted as treasurer to that body, but ultimately was obliged to retire on account of the pressure of his business claims. He is a local Director of the United Insurance Company, Limited. He is interested in sport, and has filled the office of Chairman of the Western Australian Cricket Association, also being a member of the committee dealing with the ground management. He has been President of the North Perth Bowling Club for the past two years. In 1900 he married Emma, daughter of the late George Austen, contractor, of Prahran, Victoria, and has three daughters.
Master Builders and Contractors’ Association.
This Association, which is registered under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, consists of master builders and contractors, all of whom are employers within the meaning of that Act. At the present time the constitution and rules of the Association and its cognate bodies are under consideration, more especially as the Amending Arbitration Bill now before Parliament may require certain alterations and adjustments to be made. The present objects of the Association are—
(a) To protect its members in the fair and proper execution of such works, or supplies, as they may from time to time contract for.
(b) To protect the interests of its members from undue aggression and excessive State interference.
(cj To watch legislation affecting its members and proposed measures in the same direction.
(d) To adopt whatever procedure may be considered advisable in the interests of members.
(e) To assist each member of the Union when required in preparing evidence for the defence of their interests before the Arbitration Court or Conciliation Board.
(f) To act jointly with or without the co-operation of other public bodies in representing the interests of members before the Government, and, if necessary, the State or Federal Parliament.
(g) To regulate the rate of wages and transact any other business that may arise between members and their workmen, subject to the provisions of the “Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1902.”
Should any drastic alterations be made in the constitution or objects these will be referred to in the second volume of this work.
The Association consists of about 100 members, the President being Mr. Shirley White and the secretary Mr. W. B. Shaw.
SHIRLEY WHITE, J.P., President of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association, was born at Prahran, Victoria, on March 8, 1869, and is a son of the late Mr. W. B. White, Veterinary Surgeon, of that place. Having concluded his scholastic training, he served his apprenticeship to the plumbing trade and after a four years’ course began business on his own behalf at Melbourne, where he carried on until 1893. During that year he came to Western Australia and proceeding to Coolgardie established himself there as plumber and contractor after some fruitless efforts in the mining industry. He built several of the first condensers on the goldfields and among other works of importance erected the Coolgardie Chamber of Mines and the Coolgardie Club Buildings. After about nine years’ residence at this centre he made an extended trip to England and sailing for South Africa in 1903 there joined in partnership with Mr. Sherlaw whom previously he had known for many years in Coolgardie. The firm carried on business for a couple pf years at Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, and The Springs, and ultimately in 1904 became established as builders and
contractors in Western Australia. They have made a speciality of sewerage work in this country and carried out the greater part of the sewerage contracts for the metro-
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Mr. Shirley White.
politan area during the period following their arrival in the State. Mr. White has always interested himself in the affairs of the districts
in which he has resided and was a member of the Coolgardie Municipal Council for four and a half years. Since becoming a resident of Perth for three years he occupied a seat on the Subiaoo Council and has held the office of Mayor for a period of two years. He is a member of the Fire Brigade Board and of the Children’s Hospital Committee, besides displaying a practical interest in various other public institutions. He is Treasurer of the Builders’ Exchange and of the Master Builders’ Association of which in July, 1911, he was elected President. In athletic circles he has been ■well known, and in his younger days was a keen cricketer and footballer. He is now Vice-President of the Subiaco Football Club, but devotes his own leisure hours to the game of bowls and is Vice-President of the Muller Park Bowling Club. A lover and owner of well-bred horses, he is usually a competitor in the trotting events in conjunction with the Royal Shows and other functions, and has had the honour of winning many prizes with his thoroughbreds in this section. Mr. White married a daughter of Mr. George Williams, mining engineer, late of the Golden Horseshoe Mine, a lady well known
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in Perth for her great practical interest in the sacred cause of charity. He has four sons and three daughters.
SIMON BREMNER ALEXANDER, builder and contractor, 65, Brewer Street, East Perth, is a son of the late Mr. D. Alexander, farmer, of Wick, Scotland. He pursued his scholastic studies in his native town until, reaching the age of sixteen years, he was apprenticed to the carpentering trade. Upon the completion of his indentures he came to Australia and settling in Sydney was engaged in the various brancnes of the building trade during a period of twelve years, and for a considerable time carried on business on his own account as a builder and contractor in the Harbour City. In 1897, attracted by the glowing reports of the bright prospects of Western Australia, Mr. Alexander came to this State, and since that time has been identified very closely with the growth and progress of the City of Perth. His first contract was undertaken within a month of his arrival, and among the more important works with which he has since been entrusted may be mentioned the Fremantle Railway Station
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Mu. Simon Bremner Alexander.
buildings, the A.U.S.N. offices, Fremantle, the Police Court Buildings in Beaufort Street, Perth, the Perth Modern School, extensive additions to the Museum Buildings, and many mercantile offices and warehouses all over the city. Mr.
Alexander held office for three years as President of the Master Builders’ Association. He is the proprietor of the Donnybrook Freestone Quarries, the stone from which is used in the principal buildings nearly all over the State. He devotes his hours of leisure to amateur gardening, and the flower-beds surrounding his pretty home at North Perth show ample reward for the health-giving labour he has expended upon them. In 1895 he married Jane, daughter of Mr. Thomas Norman Kessell, of Brookton, Western Australia, and has two sons.
LEO FREDERICK ATKINS, who manages the building portion of the business of Mr. William Atkins, builder and contractor, Lake Street, Perth, is a son of Mr. William Atkins, and was born at Tarra-dale, Victoria, on September 26, 1879. He came to Western Australia with his father at a very early age and was educated at the Perth High School. Subsequently he spent a short time in the office of the New Zealand Insurance Company, and left this employ to learn the building and carpentering trade under his father and Mr. Law, who were then in partnership. Having become proficient in all branches of the business he specialized in the manufacture of reinforced concrete piping, patented by the Monier Proprietary Company, and spent several years in charge of the industry in this State. At the present time he is superintending the building contracts and operations of the firm of William Atkins, and in addition to this business is personally interested in the farming industry, owning a large estate at Korrelocking, where the production of cereals is studied to some purpose. Mr. Atkins is a supporter of all forms of manly outdoor sport, but renders special allegiance to football, which he considers well worthy the attention of the man of pluck and muscle.
BENJAMIN THOMAS BRADLEY, of the firm of Bradley and Rudderham, building contractors, Fremantle, was born in Gloucestershire, England, on February 8, 1855, and is a son of the late Mr. William Bradley, of the same place. He attended a school in his native village of Miserden and subsequently entered upon the
building trade, which he has followed ever since. In 1882 he crossed the seas to New Zealand, and two years later came to Australia, spending ten years in Melbourne. . During the great depression in trade in that State Mr. Bradley came to Western Australia and settled in Perth. Ultimately in 1895 he took up permanent residence in East Fremantle,
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Mr. Benjamin Thomas Bradley.
at the close of another decade joining his present partner, Mr. E. Rudderham, in business, and this firm has been responsible for some of the largest buildings erected in Fremantle since 1905. Among these are included the Commercial Hotel, High Street, The West Australian Office, The West Australian Buildings, next Post Office, Market Street, the terrace of shops in High Street for the Davies Estate, additions to the Economic Stores, and a large number of other shops and offices, besides structures of a residential nature. Mr. Bradley is of a retiring disposition and cares but little for the diversions offered by the various sporting and athletic bodies, preferring rather the quiet of his domestic hearth and the recreation offered by his growing family. His marriage took place in 1895 with Alice, daughter of Mr. James Campbell, of Tottenham, London, and he has three sons and three daughters.
ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN, J.P., builder and contractor, 53, Kimberley Street, Leederville, is a son of the late Mr. William Joseph
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Brown, contractor, of Kent, England, and was born on January 3, 1871. Coming of a family of contractors through several generations, upon leaving school he entered the building trade and spent three years in mastering the details of that calling. He left England for Australia with his parents in 1887, and settling in the Western State served his articles for two
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Mn. Arthur William Brown.
years with Mr. G. K. K. Bond, architect, during which term he went thoroughly into the artistic and theoretical side of the building trade. He then joined his father in business and proceeded to Victoria, where the partnership between father and son was carried on for over five years. At the end of this period, in 1895, he returned to the Western State, and finding trade prosperous was followed by Mr. Brown, sen., who died four years later. Since that time the gentleman under review has carried on the business on his own account, and in the course of his career has specialized in the building of villa residences, many of the finest dwellings of this description which grace the prosperous and growing suburbs of Perth being of his erection. Among other works carried out by the firm are the Baptist Church, Perth, the Methodist Church, Guildford, the Bank of Australasia at Fremantle, and a number of shops and warehouses round the metropolis. Mr. Brown has always been a studious observer of men and things and has given some attention to the matter of municipal
government. For four years he occupied the office of Mayor of Leederville and prior to that served for some time in the Council Chamber of that municipality, the status of which was raised during his mayoralty from nine to twelve councillors. He has been a member of the Lake Monger Board and has also occupied a seat on the Board of the Children’s Hospital. A member of the Masonic craft he is also a keen temperance advocate on rational lines and was Worthy Patriarch of the Lodge of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance. In the past lie was interested in horticulture and for a considerable time was concerned in a fruit-growing enterprise at Mildura, on the River Murray, and more recently in Western Australia, but through pressure of business claims he was obliged to relinquish these interests. In outdoor sport he devoted a good deal of time to cricket in earlier days. He is a lover of music, himself possessing both instrumental and vocal accomplishments. In 1896 lie married Annie Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. John Henderson, of Victoria, and lias a son and two daughters.
JAMES BROWNLIE, builder and contractor, member of the Master Builders and Contractors’
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Jambs Brownlie.
Association, Perth, was born at Glasgow, Scotland, on August 7, 1863, being a son of the late Mr. John Brownlie, of that city. He
was educated in his native town, and early in his teens became apprenticed to the trade of carpenter and joiner, serving a five years’ term. In 1885 he took passage for New South Wales, and was engaged as a builder in that State for a. period extending over seven years. In 1892 he came to Western Australia, perceiving excellent openings for his trade in the rapidly-rising State. After working at his calling for some years, in 1900 he began operations on liis own account, establishing himself at Fremantle, where he has since continued. Contracting of a general character has occupied the whole of his time, and many of the newer residential, mercantile, and commercial buildings in the town and its suburbs have been erected under his supervision. He has been a member of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association almost since its inception.
DAVIS, HANKINSON, & CO., contractors, boring engineers for artesian water and minerals, machinery and manufacturers’ agents, T. and G. Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. (Matthias John Davis, Frederick William Hankin-son, and Frederick Kopke.) This well-known firm was founded at Perth with its present personnel in 1895, and its business has been successfully carried on by the partners ever since. From its inception the attention of the firm has been mainly directed to the putting down of bores, by means of which the development of the resources of the country in the mineral, pastoral, and agricultural districts is so materially assisted. Most of the principal bores in the State for artesian water and coal have been sunk by this Company, which has specialized in this direction. In addition it has carried out numerous contracts for the Public Works Department, particularly in connection with the construction or improvement of jetties and bridges, notable among which have been the extension of the jetties at Bunbury and Geraldton and many of the permanent-ways connected with the tramways service at Perth. General contracts of a varied nature have also been successfully engaged in by the firm, and an important branch of the business is its machinery department, the Company being agents for a number of manufacturers in England and
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America. The partners are also interested in the pastoral industry of the State, owning a station property in the Gascoyne district comprising about 200,000 acres of leasehold, which is devoted to sheep-raising purposes. The members of the firm are connected with the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association, the Builders’ Exchange, the Perth Chamber of Commerce, and the Pastoralists’ Association of Western Australia. MATTHIAS JOHN DAVIS is a son of the late Mr. William Charles Davis, of Poole, Dorsetshire, England, and was born at that town on June 9, 1861. He received his education in the South of England, and having reached the age of sixteen entered upon a clerical position in a commercial office which he retained for eight years. In 1884 he left the Old Country for Australia, and arriving in Melbourne joined the Victorian Government Service in the Engineering Survey Department. Subsequently he engaged in a course of study in engineering, and gained considerable practical experience in this and general survey work in connection with railway construction in Victoria. He next went to New Zealand, where he spent a couple of years in the construction of roads and bridges under the Government,
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Mr. Matthias John Davis.
by whom also he was employed in other engineering work. In 1895 he came to Western Australia and shortly afterwards entered into the partnership above referred to, which has continued unbroken up to the present time. He is a member of
the Western Australian Institute of Engineers. His leisure is devoted to the popular game of bowls, and he is connected with the King’s Park Bowling Club, besides which he is a great reader, his choice falling chiefly upon works of a scientific character. FREDERICK WILLIAM HANKINSON, of the firm of Davis, Hankinson, & Co., boring contractors, etc., St. George’s Terrace, Perth, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on January 10, 1863. He is the eldest son of the late Mr. Peter Hankinson, of that city, and received his scholastic training in his native place. At the age of fifteen he embarked upon a mercantile career, entering a city office, where he spent ten years. In 1888 he took a trip to England, and returning a year later joined the firm of J. Falk-ingham & Sons as paymaster and
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Frederick William Hankinson.
bookkeeper on their Great Southern Railway contract in Gippsland, Victoria. While engaged in this connection he came into contact with Mr. Davis, his present partner, the result of this meeting being the long and successful partnership which was arranged a few months later and has continued ever since. In 1900 Mr. Hankinson again visited England and took advantage of the time at his disposal to travel through the European Continent, where he made a study of the newest and most up-to-date methods in vogue in connection with his calling. The firm established itself in Perth in 1895 and since that period has pursued a very successful career, proving itself thoroughly reliable and obtaining a
firm footing in the rising State. Mr. Hankinson is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is connected with the local Club. He is a home-loving man and spends most of his leisure in gardening pursuits at his residence at Claremont. In 1900 he married Edith, third daughter of the late Mr. Charles Ford, of Melbourne, Victoria, and has two sons. FREDERICK KOPKE is a Victorian, having been born at Winder-
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Mr. Frederick Korku.
mere, in that State, on January 14, 1860. He is a son of the late Mr. L. H. Kopke, of that town, where also he received his scholastic training, and at fifteen years of age became engaged in farming pursuits. Having attained his majority he took steps to acquaint himself with the methods of boring, which at that time was done by hand in the famous Madame Berry mining district, the object of search being gold. Twelve months later he accepted employment in the Government Service as a prospector for coal with the diamond drill, and spent four years in this work, in 1885 accepting a similar post under the Queensland Government, which he retained for two years. In 1888 he resumed his connection with the Victorian State authorities, and having been engaged for three years at Broken Hill relinquished this service and for a short time was identified with a private firm in New South Wales which was boring for water in the Moree district. In 1897 he arrived in the Western State and joined Messrs. Davis and Hankinson in the formation of the present business.
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Mr. Kopke is associated with the fraternity of Freemasons and is a member of the Masonic Club. For recreation he resorts to the bowling green, and is connected with the Carnarvon Bowling Club. In 1903 he married Edith, daughter of the late Mr. Henry Ogborne, of Kew, Victoria, and has two sons.
WILLIAM FAIRWEATHER, builder and contractor, 137, Hamers-ley Road, Subiaco, is a son of Mr. W. Fairweather, of Dollar, Scotland, and was educated at the Dollar Academy, that well-known scholastic institution on the borders of the Highlands. When eighteen years of age he entered the building trade under the tuition of Mr. James Crawford, a builder of his native town, and five years later came to Queensland, where he spent twelve years in the exercise of his calling. When the excitement of the Coolgardie gold rush drew the representatives of every department of life to the fields he sailed with many others for the West, and started as a builder and contractor right in the centre of the goldmining industry on those distant areas. After a period of six years he came to Perth in 1900 and established himself at the capital, where he has carried out many important contracts, among which may be mentioned the North Perth Monastery. He occupies a seat on the committee of the Builders’ Exchange and is a member of the Master Builders’ Association. Mr. Fair-weather takes his recreation on the Subiaco Bowling Green, of which Club he is a member. He married in 1891, Annie, daughter of the late Mr. Michael Yates, of Glasgow, and has two daughters and a son.
JAMES FINLAY, of the firm of Messrs. Franklin & Finlay, timber merchants and contractors, 697, Wellington Street, is a son of Mr. George Finlay, now living in retirement at Roseville, near Sydney, New South Wales. He was born at Grafton, in the Mother State, on October 31, 1862, and having completed his scholastic education at the local public school, when sixteen years of age started work in the sugar and saw-mill belonging to his father. While engaged in this occupation he also assisted his father in the building trade, and having
reached man’s estate took a position for a short time in the Sydney Steam Saw and Turnery Works. Relinquishing this connection he turned his attention to the carpentry branch of his old trade and pursued his calling at Bowral, having removed to this resort for the benefit of his health. Subsequently he
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Jambs Finlay.
proceeded to Goulburn and accepted the post of foreman in the business of Mr. J. T. Franklin, whose biography appears in the municipal section of this work. This step eventuated in a partnership—which has continued unbroken up to the present time—between the two gentlemen in 1892, and a. decision being made to come to Western Australia the firm established itself in Perth in January, 1896, since when it has carried out many large contracts and important works. Mr. Finlay is a member of the Masonic craft and is a Master Mason. His prowess at the game of bowls is well known on the green, and in the pre-sent year (1911), in conjunction with Mr. J. Hammill, he won the champion pairs of the State; he is a foundation member and Past President of the North Perth Bowling Club. In 1888 Mr. Finlay married Louisa, daughter of the late Mr. John Smith, of the Clarence River, New South Wales, and has two sons and four daughters.
ALEXANDER CRAWFORD FINDLAY, builder and contractor, Mary Street, Highgate Hill, is a son of the late Mr. George Findlay,
builder, of Glasgow, where the subject of this sketch was born on October 31, 1861. When two years old he was brought to Australia by his parents, and subsequently attended various public and private schools in Victoria. At an early age he received an insight into the calling followed by his father, and by degrees mastered all the details of the building trade, the business being carried on by his elder brother after the death of Mr! Findlay, sen., in 1879. Some years later he was taken into partnership, and upon the decease of his brother in 1887 the conduct and responsibility of the whole business devolved upon the subject of our memoir. His work lay chiefly in the western district of Victoria from the centres of Hamilton and Portland, and many public buildings, shire halls, and business premises are standing to-day as witness to the credit of the builder. A season of depression in the trade consequent upon the bursting of the land boom, together with the prospects of a new era of prosperity in the Western State, prompted Mr. Findlay to come to Perth in 1894,
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Mr. Alexander Crawford Findlay.
and since that year he has pursued his calling in Western Australia. Shortly after arrival he joined in partnership with Mr. W. R. Lakey, with whom he maintained an unbroken connection until the retirement of the latter gentleman in 1909. The firm very soon established its reputation and became closely identified with the growth and progress of the capital, being engaged in the erection of such
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buildings as Empire Buildings, tie Public Library, Emanuel Buildings, “Furnival’s” Chambers, the Old Men's Home, additions to Messrs. Goode, Durrant, & Co.’s warehouse, Elder Buildings, and many others both in and out of the metropolis. Since the retirement of his partner Mr. Eindlay has continued the work so ably conducted in the past, and his sphere of activity has not yet been eclipsed. He is a member of the Masonic craft and of the Western Australian Rowing Club, while his connection with the Mount Lawley Bowling Club and the Perth Rifle Club indicates the direction of his chief diversions, rifle-shooting especially having engaged his attention in the past, when he was one of the leading rifle shots in the various clubs in which he has held membership, and won several trophies and badges. In 1891 Mr. Findlay married Florence, only daughter of Mr. James Lamb, of Ballarat, Victoria, and has a son.
ROBERT ALEXANDER GAMBLE, builder and contractor, Gros-venor Road, North Perth, is a son of the late Mr. John A. Gamble, of Lyndhurst, Victoria, and was born at that town on September 12, 1870. He received his early education in
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. Robert Alexander Gamble.
his native place, and concluding his studies at Melbourne he began commercial life by entering a broker’s office in the latter city. Desiring outdoor life, and with ambitions for an independent career, he became apprenticed to the plastering trade, and at the same time attended a
school of instruction on matters connected with building. Before attaining to man’s estate Mr. Gamble launched out on his own account, undertaking sub-contracts which he carried on with a fair amount of success until trade became dull as a consequence of the fall of property values resulting from the bursting of the land boom in Victoria. He then temporarily retired to his father’s farm near Lyndhurst, and in 1897, encouraged by the tidings of prosperity in the Western State, left his native soil to establish a footing in the rising metropolis of Perth. After working at his trade for three years he opened in business on his own account as a builder and contractor, and amid the ups and downs of industrial life has always succeeded in maintaining his stand among his fellow-craftsmen in Western Australia. The demand for residential structures consequent upon the ever-increasing community has caused him to specialize in this class of work, but he has also been responsible for several ecclesiastical edifices, viz., the Congregational and Presbyterian churches at Claremont and the Presbyterian and Baptist churches at North Perth. He also built the Methodist Ladies’ College at Claremont. In addition to his building connection Mr. Gamble has interests in the farming industry and owns a property near Wongan Hills, which it is intended to devote chiefly to the production of wheat and wool. He takes more than passing interest in matters affecting the general good of the community in which he resides, and served a term of three years as councillor for North Perth, subsequent to which he was twice elected Mayor of that Municipality. He is a member of the North Perth Bowling Club. In 1897 Mr. Gamble married Catherine Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. John Carton, of the Western district of Victoria, and has four sons and two daughters.
HENRY GUTHRIE, builder and contractor, 483, Newcastle Street, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. David Guthrie, one of the pioneer citizens of Perth, in which city the gentleman under review was born on October 29, 1869. He pursued his educational training at the Government schools until nineteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to the carpentering trade and served a term of eight years under
Mr. Alfred Lee, of this city. At the end of this period, beginning in a modest way on his own account, Mr. Guthrie laid the foundations of his present large contracting business, whch he has carried on without a break ever since. The Grand Central Coffee Palace and Messrs.
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Henry Guthrie.
Brennan Brothers’ large premises stand witnesses to his credit, also the four-storied warehouse in Queen Street of Messrs. Mortlock Brothers and the fine warehouse of Messrs. Beath, Schiess, & Felstead in Murray Street, besides many other commercial and private buildings all over the State. Mr. Guthrie is a member of the Masonic craft and is well known in racing circles, being himself an owner of racehorses and a member of the Western Australia Turf Club. He married in 1890 and has a family of three daughters.
CHARLES HERBERT IIATS-WELL, builder and contractor, Leederville, is a son of Mr. G. W. Hatswell, who followed the same calling in Melbourne for many years. He was born at Adelaide, South Australia, on January 16, 1877, and at the close of his scholastic education, at fifteen years of age, entered upon the same walk of life as his progenitors, learning the trade under his father in Victoria. He gained a varied experience in his early years which has stood him in good stead, but in the Eastern States, as since his arrival in Western Australia in 1897, he has given the chief of his
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attention to buildings of a domestic character. In 1905 he established himself in business on his own behalf and has since carried on as a builder and contractor at McCourt Street, Leederville, with very satisfactory results. He interests himself in the moral good of the community and is an enthusiastic worker in the cause of temperance, having held many positions of honour in the various organizations to this end that he has aided by his efforts and sympathy. He is at present Senior Trustee of the Sons of Temperance
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Mr. Charles Herbert Hatswell.
Lodge at Subiaco. His chief diversion is rifle-shooting, and he has met with more than moderate success in this line of sport, being the fortunate winner of a large number of trophies. Much of the success of the local Rifle Club is due to his co-operation and active furtherance of its affairs by a conscientious discharge of his duties as Hon. Secretary. In 1905 Mr. Hatswell married Isabella, daughter of Mr. Samuel Ward Rule, of Melbourne, Victoria, and has two sons.
J. HAWKINS & SON, contractors, 146, Newcastle Street, Perth. (James Hawkins and John Bearne Hawkins.) JAMES HAWKINS, Sen., partner in the well-known contracting firm of Messrs. J. Hawkins & Son, was born at Halberton, Devon, England, and left his native land for Australian shores in 1886. After nine years, during which he worked
at his calling in the other States of the Commonwealth, he came to Western Australia, and since that time has carried on a thriving business in the metropolis of this State.
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Messrs. J. Hawkins & Son have placed to their credit many of the more important buildings that grace the streets of the city, having carried out the contracts for the King Edward Hostel, the Western Austra-
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lian Club buildings, Weld Chambers, and the National Mutual Life Assurance offices, and are at present engaged on several large contracts. The gentleman under review is a member of the Masonic craft and
for half a century has been associated with the Independent Order of Oddfellows, in which he has held all its honours and offices. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Bearne, of Newton Abbot, England, and has a surviving family of three sons and four daughters. JOHN BEARNE HAWKINS, junior partner in the above firm, was born at Dawlish, Devonshire, on October 19, 1873, and received his education at the Teignmouth Grammar School. When fourteen years of age he came to Australia with his father and followed the building and contracting trade in conjunction with that gentleman, who admitted him into partnership in 1896. Since coming to the Western State in 1895 he has taken a very active part in the conduct of the business, which is known as one of the leading concerns of its kind in Perth. Mr. Hawkins spends most of his spare hours in piscatorial pursuits, to which sport he is greatly addicted. He married in 1901 Ada Margaret, daughter of Mr. R. J. Donnelly, of Perth, and has three daughters and three sons.
JOSEPH DAVIDSON HOS-SACK, builder and contractor, Goldsworthy Road, Claremont, is a son of the late Mr. John Hossack, master mariner, of Sunderland, England, in which county he was born on August 12, 1851. .He attended the Villiers Street Academy, and upon leaving school, at the age of fourteen, entered the shipping yards of Mr. Joseph Thompson, shipbuilder, of North Sunderland. After remaining here for some time he was apprenticed to the house joinery trade, seven years later being appointed foreman of his firm’s works. He next went to sea as carpenter on a brig trading in the Mediterranean, and accompanied the vessel on a longer voyage to Australian waters. Contracting fever, he landed at Fremantle to enter the hospital, and finding upon recovery that the boat had departed remained in Western Australia. For a year he worked as journeyman, after which he opened in business on his own behalf as a builder and contractor, and with the exception of a period devoted to the mining industry has continued successfully in this calling ever since. In 1902 he revisited England and renewed his acquaintance with the scenes of his boyhood days, returning to his
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adopted country after a lapse of a few months. Mr. Hossack is a member of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association. He married in 1879 Hannah, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Briggs, of Fremantle.
ROBERT OSWALD LAW, builder and contractor, who was the first President of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association, is a son of the late Mr. David Law, well known in the early days of Western Australia, and was born in Victoria on September 20, 1867. He received his education at the Commercial College at Ballarat until fourteen years of age, when he obtained his first experience in the trade he now follows in connection with railway construction work in
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Me. Robert Oswald Law.
South Australia. He first came to Western Australia in 1881, and with the exception of a brief period subsequently spent in the Central State has continued here ever since. His earliest contract, the construction of the Fremantle jetty, was followed by many others of importance, among which, in conjunction with Mr. William Atkins, were the Perth to Pinjarrah railway—the first section of the Bunbury line—the line from Brunswick to Collie, and nearly all the jetties along the Western Australian coast. He was also responsible for the largest of the sewerage contracts in the metropolitan area and built the Perth Mint, the Perth Boys’ School, the large emporium of Messrs. Boan Brothers
in Wellington Street, Surrey Chambers, and numerous other works of the same class. He has been largely identified with the trading industries of the country, particularly in the brick and timber trades, and is managing director of the Monier Pipe Company. Mr. Law was one of the founders and first President of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association, and has been connected with the management of this body since its inception. He has taken a leading part in public affairs generally, but through pressure of business activities has been forced to relinquish many of the honorary positions he formerly held. He is associated with the fraternity of Freemasons and holds membership in various clubs, including the Masonic, the Western Australian, the South-Western, and the Liberal League. For five years he held the position of President of the Amateur Sports Club, and he is also President of the Croquet Association. Lawn tennis, however, is his favourite recreation, and he divides his leisure between this popular diversion and motor-boating on the River Swan. In 1894 Mr. Law married Bertha Pauline, daughter of Mr. J. S. Brooking, late Surveyor-General of Western Australia, and has two sons and a daughter.
FREDERICK WILHELM GUSTAV LIEBE, contractor, is a son of the late Mr. Edward Liebe, of Wittenberg, Germany, in which city he was born on January 18, 1862. He left school at the age of fifteen, and having served his apprenticeship to the building trade in the Fatherland travelled all over Europe, spending a year in Switzerland, two years in Vienna, and a considerable time in Budapest. During his journeyings he greatly enlarged his knowledge and general experience, and entering into partnership with the late Mr. Klein was engaged in the carrying out of some large contracts in Bulgaria, including the present Bulgarian Parliament House, the Barracks, and various Colleges. Coming to South Australia in 1885 the partners opened in business at Adelaide, and afterwards extended their operations to Melbourne, where they carried out many large contracts. In 1896, at the time of the Coolgardie boom, the partnership was dissolved and the gentleman under review established himself in business on his own
account in Perth as a builder and contractor, his late partner engaging in the mining industry. Among his works in Western Australia he numbers the Art Gallery, His Majesty’s Theatre, and numerous Bank premises and offices, besides which he has made a speciality of hotel erection, many of the leading hotels in and around Perth having been built under his tender. Mr. Liebe is a member of the German Club and in the past has occupied the position of President of this body.
WILLIAM MASSEY, builder and contractor, 30, Ord Street, is a son of the late Mr. William Massey, merchant, of Scarborough, England, and was born at Norton, Malton, near Scarborough, on April 4, 1861.
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Mr. William Massey.
He was educated in his native town, and at fifteen years of age became engaged in commercial pursuits in a store belonging to his father, where he remained for about a year. Subsequently he was apprenticed to the joinery trade, and after a five years’ term of service worked at his calling in England for a short time, and in 1882 came to Australia. Settling in Sydney Mr. Massey, with the exception of a short visit to Queensland in 1883, spent six years in the Mother State, the major portion of which time being engaged in the calling of a contractor, and mainly employed in minor work of a domestic character. In 1888 he went to Melbourne, and for about seven years carried on business in that
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metropolis, his contracts including a good deal of work for the Government, besides other undertakings of a public and private nature in different parts of Victoria and New South Wales. In 1895 he came to Western Australia and established himself as a builder and contractor at Perth, and also went into the sawmilling business at Dandalup. During his sojourn at that time he carried out, among other contracts, the initial work in connection with the new grandstand on the Perth racecourse. Subsequently with his wife he visited England at the time of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and spent nearly a year on the trip, reviving his memory of the scenes of his youth and travelling through Scotland and Ireland. Sailing again for Australia, he once more opened in business at Melbourne and continued for five years, at the end of which period he took up permanent residence in Western Australia. The firm of Massey & Co., with which his interests were identified, has since been amalgamated with Wunderlich, Limited, and he still maintains his connection with its operations, also continuing in the contracting business. In addition he owns a stake in the agricultural, pastoral, and mining industries of the State, and in 1908 purchased a valuable farm and 5,000 acres adjoining the property in the south-western district, near Yalling-up, where he engages in sheep and horse breeding and the culture of potatoes. Mr. Massey has occupied a seat on the Committee of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association for twenty years. He is a member of the Masonic craft and Club, and is connected with the Western Australian Club. In 1884 Mr. Massey married Miss M. Pick-worth, of Sydney, New South Wales, and has two daughters and two sons.
MIZEN BROTHERS, builders and contractors, 21, Blencowe Street, Leederville. The period of this well-known firm’s existence has run well into the teens, the year of its establishment in Perth being 1896. Since its inception the major portion of its attention has been given to contracting for residential buildings, but it has also been responsible for the large additions and general improvements to the Weld Club Chambers in Perth and for the erection of the Picture Theatre at Subiaco, besides many
Government contracts of more or less importance. During the slack season a speciality is made of the construction of wire doors and windows, many thousands of which are produced at their Subiaco factory. The partners own a property at Baandee, which is under wheat cultivation, and make a hobby of the development of the agricultural industry on this estate. They are members of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association. CHARLES MIZEN is a son of the late Mr. William Mizen, of Helions, Bump-stead, Essex, England, where also he was born. He was educated at a Church of England school in his native village and by private tuition, and emigrated to Australia at the age of sixteen, arriving at Brisbane, Queensland, in 1874. After six months he proceeded to Sydney, where he spent eight years mastering the different departments of the building trade, and having worked as a journeyman for a considerable period was attracted to Melbourne at the time of the land boom in Victoria. Here he engaged in a variety of callings, and for some years carried on as an orchardist in the New England district of New South Wales. Ultimately, in 1896, he came to Western Australia, and in conjunction with his brother founded the present business. His hours of leisure are devoted to the study of works of a scientific and philosophic nature, and he is also fond of music, being a flautist of considerable ability. In 1881 he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. J. Hooke, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and has two sons and two daughters.
ARTHUR NELSON, builder and contractor, Subiaco, is a son of the late Mr. Joseph Nelson, manufacturing jeweller, of Banbridge and Dromore, Ireland. He was born at Dromore, Ireland, on June 25, 1861, and received his scholastic training in his native town and subsequently in the City of Belfast. Leaving school he was apprenticed to the building trade, serving his time in the joinery branch, and upon the completion of his indentures left for New Zealand, where he was engaged in joinery work for a short period. He next proceeded to the Fiji Islands under engagement to the Government there, but tendered his resignation in less than twelve
months and started contracting on his own account at the period of transfer of the seat of Government from Levuka to Suva, in these islands. He erected the residence for the late Governor Thurston and superintended extensive alterations to Government House during the visit of the British squadron, besides being employed in other contracts of greater or less importance. In 1884 Mr. Nelson returned to New Zealand, where in face of great difficulties arising from trouble with the Maoris he built the first houses for the Government in the King Country on the Main Trunk Line. He also completed various other Government contracts and erected some prominent buildings in the City of Auckland. Mr. Nelson’s next arena of activity was in Victoria, where from 1888 he carried
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out some of the largest contracts of the following four years, notable among which were the factory of Messrs. Sands & McDougall, one of the finest buildings in the State, the Portland Lighthouse, and the Elmore Water Scheme Construction Works. He came to Western Australia at the end of 1892, but finding trade slack returned to New Zealand, via Melbourne, and while residing in the Dominion for a couple of years completed the Roman Catholic Bishop’s Palace at Auckland, the plans of which were designed by the firm of Pugin & Pugin, the noted Gothic architects of London. The gold rush of 1894 attracted him once more to the Wes-
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tern State and he settled in Perth, where he has since carried on his business. His first work was the completion of the Perth Railway Station, which was followed by other Government contracts, including the North Fremantle forts and various commercial structures, among which Brockman’s Building takes pride of place. Mr. Nelson is interested in the cultivation of fruit and owns a large orchard in the Darling Ranges, a farm of 4,000 acres in the Victoria district, besides which he is a property-owner in the suburban areas. Mr. Nelson married in 1888 Julia, daughter of the late Mr. Matthew Ramsay McIntyre, of Glasgow, and has a family of two sons and one daughter.
JEREMIAH O’DONOGHUE, contractor, 232, Stirling Street, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Jeremiah O’Donoghue, of Killorglin,
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County Kerry, Ireland. He was educated in his native town, and at sixteen years of age left school and took a position as assistant secretary to the constructing engineer in a railway contract in County Kerry, which he filled for nearly two years. He then served an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner, and having completed his five years’ indentures worked at his calling in several of the large cities of England. He also attended practical classes in the science and art department at Birkenhead in 1897, and
went through a special course in building-construction and drawing. He then entered one of the biggest furniture houses in London and continued there a sufficiently long period to gain an insight into factory work. Subsequently at Liverpool, when the South African war broke out he assisted in altering and reconstructing the first ship for transport, working one continuous shift of 33 hours. In 1900 Mr. O’Donoghue came to Western Australia, and proceeding to Kalgoorlie spent nearly a year at that centre with a firm of contractors. At the end of that period he established himself in business in Perth on his own behalf, and has carried on as a contractor there and at Fremantle ever since. He specializes in shop fittings and carried out several alterations and additions in the city, but has also given some attention to the erection of shops and domestic dwellings in the suburbs. The gentleman under review holds the rank of High Chief Ranger of the Irish National Foresters of Western Australia, and makes a hobby of the work connected with this body and the Friendly Societies’ Institute, with which he is also associated. He is also auditor to the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association. In the year 1902 he married Mary Ellen, daughter of Mr. John O’Donoghue, of Killarney, Ireland.
HERBERT CHARLES PITMAN, contractor, of St. George’s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia, was born on November 28, in the year 1867, at Frome, England, of which town his father, Mr. Thomas Pitman, was a resident. His education was conducted at the Boys’ British School, and when still quite a lad he was apprenticed to the stonecutting trade, in which he continued after his arrival at Melbourne in 1889. For a period of some five years he was engaged in mining and prospecting pursuits, and came to Coolgardie at the time of the gold rush to that region, but found results too chequered to promise any great ultimate success. Relinquishing his efforts he turned his attention once more to his trade, and established the present large contracting business at Perth and Fremantle. At the present time (1912) Mr. Pitman has in hand over £100,000 worth of work, and in the past has carried out some of the
largest contracts in the State, besides which he is interested in several important business propositions about the city. Mr. Pitman has also a stake in the farming industry, being the owner of an estate of 2,000 acres of land at Kunjinn, on the Merri-den-Wickepin line, where he has an area under cultivation of wheat. He has held various offices in the craft of Freemasons, his present rank being that of Worshipful Master of the Lodge of Emulation, No. 7. In the year 1901 he married Ethel, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Fuller, of Millars’ Karri and Jarrah Company (1902), Limited, formerly well known on the River Murray, South Australia, and has a family of one daughter.
JOSEPH RICHARDSON, builder and contractor, Subiaco, was born at the village of Cammaring-ham, Lincolnshire, England, on September 12, 1854, being a son of the late Mr. Joseph Richardson, of that country. He pursued his studies in his native town until the age of twelve, when he went to work on a farm. At sixteen he was apprenticed to the carpentering and joinery trade, and having served a term of five years engaged in journeyman work for a time, and in 1878 left his native land for Australia. Landing at Adelaide in October of that year he applied himself to gain experience in the building and contracting trade and two years later, taking advantage of an opening that offered, began business on his own account. He carried on successfully in South Australia for about five years and afterwards removed to Victoria, where he was fortunate in obtaining many large contracts and did some very important work in that State. Of peculiar interest, perhaps, is the fact that he built the first brick house in the famous shire of Croajingalong, the building being at Orbost, on the Snowy River. In 1895 Mr. Richardson came to Western Australia and settled at Subiaco, from which centre he has undertaken numerous contracts of a varied nature, from cottages and shops to hotels and residences of a palatial character. He is interested in real estate investments in and around the capital city, and until recently was closely identified with the farming industry of the State. A member of the Masonic fraternity he has taken honours in connection with the
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craft and is a member of the Masonic and Subiaco Clubs. He is a member of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association. Mr. Richardson applies a portion of his leisure to the diversions of the
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Mr. Joseph Richardson.
billiard table and derives considerable pleasure from the exercise of his skill in this direction. In the year 1881 he married Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Gall, of South Australia, and has three daughters.
WILLIAM HENRY ROBERTS, builder and contractor, 122, Cambridge Street, Leederville, is a son of the late Mr. Edward Roberts, of Bendigo, Victoria, and was born at Rheola, in that State, on April 10, 1871. He was educated principally at the State school at Inglewood, and abandoning his studies at an early age began work in the building trade at Bendigo, and followed this calling for many years all over the Victorian State. In 1901 he came to Western Australia and settled at Leederville, where he was employed in the bricklaying trade for some considerable time. Encouraged by the possibilities he perceived open to the enterprising builder, he erected some dwellings on his own account, and about five years after his arrival in the State undertook his first contract. Since that time the success achieved by Mr. Roberts in his line of business has been remarkable, and he has just completed a reticulation contract for the Govern-
ment costing several thousands of pounds. Shops, cottages, and villas —-in fact all classes of work—he has undertaken, his success being particularly notable in view of his small beginning in this State. In the arena of sport Mr. Roberts has distinguished himself in various ways. He was a champion fireman and winner of many tronhies in the competitions in connection with the Eire Brigade sports. He also excelled in football and cricket and is a keen marksman, still taking interest in the handling of the rifle, and varying with this diversion the game of bowls, which is his chief hobby at the present time (1911), he being the
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Mr. William Henry Roberts.
champion of the Leederville Bowling Club. In 1895 Mr. Roberts married Bertha, daughter of Mr. George Watts, of Inglewood, Victoria, and has a son and five daughters.
ELIJAH RUDDERHAM, of the firm of Bradley & Rudderham, builders and contractors, of Fremantle, is a son of Mr. Elijah Rudderham, of Norwich, England, and was born at Maryborough, Victoria, on April 10, 1866. His preliminary education was conducted in the State school in his native town, and at a later period he studied at the South Melbourne Grammar School and also attended the School of Arts, South Melbourne, and the Working Men’s Technical College, Melbourne. At the age of eighteen he was working at the carpenter’s bench, having
chosen the calling of a builder as his life-work, and gained a wide range of experience in connection with the new school buildings which were, at that time being erected all over the metropolitan area. In 1895 Mr. Rudderham came to Western Australia and a year later commenced contracting work at Fremantle, where he had settled upon his arrival in the State. His business prospered and various important contracts fell to his tender, among others being Messrs. J. and W. Bateman’s Buildings, Strelitz Brothers’ Bulk Store and Warehouse, and numerous cottage, villa, and shop erections in and about Fremantle. In 1905 he entered into partnership with Mr. Benjamin Bradley, since which period the firm has carried on successfully as builders and contractors at the Port, and has obtained its fair share of public patronage, many well-known and prominent buildings having been successfully carried out. Mr. Rudderham is responsible for the clerical work connected with the business and transacts the correspondence, etc. He is a great reader of works covering a wide range of subjects, but perhaps prefers a scientific treatise to the lighter novel, though he does not disdain the latter for
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Mr. Elijah Rudderham.
recreative purposes. A member of the Masonic craft, he is Past Master of Beaconsfield Lodge, No. 14, W.A.C., and is also connected with the Mark Sampson Lodge, E.C. He is Past Chief Ranger of the Foresters’ Lodge, of which he was
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for many years Trustee, and still takes an active interest in this order. In earlier days he was a lover of manly sports and was particularly partial to lacrosse.
JAMES DOUGLAS SANDERS, 65, Walcott Street, North Perth, is a son of the late Mr. George Sanders, F.I.A., architect, of England, and latterly of New South Wales. He was born at Manchester, England, on April 23, 1867, and at the close of his schooldays was articled to the profession of architecture in that city; but owing to an accident relinquished this calling, and turned his attention to the building and contracting trade. Trained in the Old Country, he arrived in Australia as a young man and immediately started business in Sydney and Newcastle. After remaining in New South Wales for some years he came to Western Australia in 1894 and commenced operations at Perth, where he has continued successfully ever since. Mr. Sanders joined the Builders and Contractors’ Association in 1896, and in 1909 received the honour of election to the presidential chair. He has taken some part in public affairs and represented East Ward in the North Perth Municipal Council for three years,
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retiring in 1907. He has always taken a keen interest in the advancement of this suburb, and in all matters connected with its welfare has played his part worthily as a leading citizen. In the earlier days of his residence in the State he had QQ2
many experiences on the eastern goldfields, and his reminiscences of the district north of Menzies are full of interest. For recreation he indulges in the game of bowls, and for the past ten years has occupied the post of President of the Mount Lawley Bowling Club. Indoors his great hobby is music, instrumental and vocal, and for some years he was a member of one of the leading orchestras of New South Wales. In 1896 Mr. Sanders married Hannah M., daughter of the late Mr. William Manning, of Newcastle, New South Wales, and has two sons and two daughters
JAMES SCOTT, builder and contractor, Riley Road, Claremont, was born at Bendigo, Victoria, on August 22, 1867, being a son of Mr.
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Mr. James Scott.
Robert Scott, who also followed the building trade in that district. At, the conclusion of his education the gentleman under review became engaged in his father’s calling and spent about eleven years in Melbourne, where he acquired proficiency in every branch of the trade. In 1894 he came to Western Australia when the Coolgardie of the “roaring nineties” was attracting universal attention, and proceeding at once to the scene of the mining energy he went into the building trade, and also courted Dame Fortune’s golden smile by various prospecting enterprises. After spending several years on the fields, during which he became a well-
known and valued citizen of Coolgardie, in 1901 he established himself as a builder and contractor in the metropolitan area, and has since carried on a very thriving trade. He makes a speciality of residences of every description, from the handsome and costly villa to the homely and comfortable cottage, and in most of the suburbs of Perth are found the memorials of his craft. In the intervals of leisure permitted by his business he has laid out and planted a very pretty garden round his home, at Claremont and makes a hobby of the cultivation of flowers therein. He is a thorough believer in healthy outdoor recreation and advocates free indulgence in most forms of manly sport. In 1900 he married Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas M. Arthur, of Lawrence, New Zealand, and has two daughters.
FREDERICK EDWARD SEDGLEY, contractor, 39, Nicholson Road, Subiaco, is a South Australian, having been born at Hoyle-ton, in that State, on April 6, 1878. He was educated in his native place, and at an early age became identified with station life and followed pastoral pursuits for about five
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years. In 1896 he came to Western Australia and entered the building trade. After working on the goldfields for some time Mr. Sedgley came to Perth in 1902 and established himself in business on his own account as a builder and
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contractor. Since that time his connection has steadily increased, the work undertaken being of a very varied character, ranging from church erection to the building of the humble cottage. Mr. Sedgley is a member of the Masonic fraternity and holds office in that body. He is Past Grand of the Independent Order of Oddfellows and a committeeman of the Master Builders and Contractors’ Association. In 1902 he married Matilda, daughter of Mr. James Kelly, of Hoyleton, South Australia, and has a son.
JAMES WALSH, general contractor, Perth, was born at Thomas-town, County Kilkenny, Ireland, on July 18, 1859, and is a son of the late Mr. James Walsh, farmer, of the above place. He received his education at the National Schools at Knocktopher and Thomastown, continuing until he reached his teens, when, owing to the ill-health of his father, he was compelled to turn his attention to the working of the home property for about three years. In 1880 he emigrated to South Australia, where he followed farming pursuits and other occupations for four years, leaving the Central State for Western Australia early in 1895. He first accepted employment on the
railway line between York and Beverley, and subsequently travelled all over the State, turning his hand to various avocations. The discovery of the Zeehan silver mine in Tas-
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Me. James Walsh.
mania attracted him thither, and he spent some time in work on the mines and in contracting, eventually crossing to Melbourne, where he continued in the latter line of business
for a brief period. In 1893 he returned to Western Australia, and upon arrival joined his brother in partnership in a produce store in Murray Street, Perth. He also became interested in some large contracts, which he took up in conjunction with the late Mr. Patrick Whol-ley, these including the construction of most of the tramways in Perth and its suburbs, excavations, and other contracts of a similar nature, the great bulk of the road-making in the earlier days of the city’s leap forward being undertaken by this firm. In 1907 this connection was dissolved, and Mr. Walsh has since directed his attention to various paying propositions in different lines of industrial enterprise. In partnership with his brother he owned a property of about 4,000 acres at Bindoon, near the “Mooliabeenee Station,” where mixed farming operations are successfully carried on. He has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of his native land and is a generous supporter of the Irish National movement. He is a member of the
H.A.C.B.S., having joined this organization nearly a quarter of a century ago, and was one of the founders of the Celtic Club, Perth, on the Committee of which institution he served for some considerable time.
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Commerce and Industry.
For many years after its establishment as a British colony Western Australia could not boast of anything like a commercial history. In the early struggles of the pioneer settler life was a stern fight with Nature for a bare living, and what intercourse took place amongst the few settlers partook more of the nature of barter or exchange than trade The isolation of Western Australia from the eastern colonies—separated as it was by tne broad stretch of the Australian Bight, and its distance from other countries, restricted business transactions to trade amongst the settlers and intermittent exports of raw products by occasional vessels which called here with supplies.
Towards the end of the eighties, however, the pulses of an awakening life were felt. Political aspirations began to have their effect, and when in 1890 constitutional government and representative institutions displaced the dormant conditions of a Crown colony, commercial intercourse with other colonies and countries began to be.
Political enfranchisement was almost immediately followed by the phenomenal discoveries of gold on the Coolgardie Goldfields, which afterwards developed into the renowned “Golden Mile” of Kalgoorlie, and brought Western Australia into worldwide note as one of the great contributors to the world's supply of the precious metal.
The discovery of gold, with its great attractive power, drew crowds of people to these shores People flocked from all parts of Australia and Africa and the Far East in their eager rush for gold. The rapidly increasing population needed supplies for their sustenance and work, and their demands resulted in great commercial activity, as the supplies were drawn from Australasia, India, China, and Japan, as well as from Europe and America. Steamers and sailers came to our shores with passengers and cargoes of merchandise, and an export trade in wool, timber, pearls and pearlshell, and gold sprang up.
These altered conditions speedily worked wondrous changes. The whole aspect of the colony was altered. A stimulus was given to the local primary industries to meet the demand for daily perishable supplies, while jetties had to be built, harbours improved, and other shipping facilities provided to accommodate the ships which came laden with cargo from overseas.
In 1900 Western Australia became a unit in the Commonwealth, taking its part in the larger scheme of a Federated Australia in its evolution towards nationhood.
Since that date Western Australia has progressed marvellously For ten or twelve years the phenomenal gold production centred enterprise almost entirely on the gold-minmg industry, but agriculture and horticulture now came into prominence The suitability of the soil for wheat and other cereals and of some portions of the State for the production of fruit was speedily made apparent. Encouraged by the extremely liberal terms offered by the Government to settlers, large areas of land were taken up and a yeomanry began to be formed. The first effect of this land settlement and cultivation was to provide the local requirements for hay and chaff A large quantity of fodder had to be imported from the Eastern States until the settlers were able to supply the local requirements. Then gradually the breadstuffs were locally produced, until with the expanding area under wheat Western Australia became an exporter of corn to the world’s markets.
Horticulture, too, has gradually developed into an important industry, and now prime fruits are exported to overseas markets and sold at top prices.
This in brief is the story of the development of commerce in Western Australia.
The development may be further emphasized by some brief statistics which will show how Western Australia has emerged from a struggling, stagnant Crown colony to an active and progressive constitutional State, whose population is engaged in subduing Nature and winning therefrom its stored-up riches, and the latest figures quoted are from 1911—the last completed year.
The State revenue was £3,850,440, or £13 17s. Id. per capita, and the expenditure £3,734,448, or £13 8s. 9d. per capita.
The public debt, which in 1902 amounted to £14,455,573, or £70 5s. 9d. per capita, had increased m 1911 to £21,159,141, or £73 10s. Id. per capita.
Public Loan Works.— Out of this bonded debt have been expended on railways, £12,078,756; on harbours, rivers, etc., £2,717,579; on water supply, sewerage, etc., £3,484,806; on development of goldfields, £1,262,821 ; on development of agriculture, £1,264,841. The balance was expended on important public services for the improvement of the State.
Savings Bank.—As an indication of the prudence and carefulness of the people the figures of the Savings Bank may be cited. At the end of 1911 there were 87,569 depositors, and the aggregate amount deposited was £4,080,084, or an average of £46 11s. lOd. per depositor, or £14 3s. 6d. per capita of the population.
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Banks.—The growing requirements of an expanding commercial community have been supplied by six banks, whose average liabilities m lb 11 amounted to £7,596,987, and assets to £11,623,109.
Shipping and Trade.—The ships which took our commerce to and fiom numbered (at Premantle) m 1911, 724 inwards and 741 outwards.
The imports amounted to £8,645,938 and the exports to £10,608,863—or a total trade of £19,254,801.
The products of Western Australia exported during 1911 amounted to £10,606,863 and £111,154 worth of local coal was produced.
Railways.—-Important channels of traffic have been opened for the large trade which sprung up as the result of national development and enterprise, and in the absence of waterways, railways had to be provided. At the end of 1911 2,376 miles of railways were working, which carried 14,828,603 passengers and 2,788,703 tons of cargo. These railways were worked by 323 locomotives, 369 passenger carriages, and 7,734 waggons, and earned a revenue of £1,216,477, and yielded a profit of nearly one-quarter of a million sterling in 1911.
Gold.—The yield of gold has been a very phenomenal one, and though the production of it is somewhat declining, the yield is still a very substantial total. The quantity of gold produced from 1886 to June, 1912, was in value £106,517,422, and dividends have been declared from gold won by Western Australian gold companies amounting to £22,589,847.
Live Stock.—The pastoral industry has made notable advances in recent years, but settlers would seem not to have touched the fringe of the immense undeveloped resources of the State m the North-West areas particularly. The increase of live stock during the last ten years is thus shown:—Horses in 1902 numbered 80,158, in 1912 140,277; cattle, 437,136 in 1902, 843,638 in 1912; and sheep, 2,704,880 in 1902 ana 5,411,542 in 1912.
Land Settlement.—As proof of the active expansion and enterprise of settlement on the untilled areas of the State, it is worth recording that the area alienated at the end of 1911 was 7,325,928 acres, and in process of alienation 12,677,384, and held on pastoral, mining, and miscellaneous leases 173,468,257 acres—a total of 193,471,569 acres. That there is much more land available is gathered from the fact that there are upwards of 430,000,000 acres of waste lands in Western Australia.
Wheat and Cereals —Only within the last twelve or fifteen years has cereal cultivation come prominently to
the front, but it is now one of the standard industries of the State, and promises to outrival m importance any other.
The wheat crop of 1911-12 harvest, which was a partial failure owing to the dry season, was 4,358,904 bushels, a quantity which was upwards of one and a half million bushels less than the crop at the previous harvest. At the same harvest 961,385 bushels of oats and 299,695 tons of hay were also garnered.
These figures will give a brief glimpse into the productiveness of Western Australia and as to the activity and enterprise of its people in meeting the expanding conditions of the country and providing those facilities and conveniences for commercial intercourse which are inseparably associated with all enlightened and progressive peoples.
In 1873 the Premantle Chamber of Commerce was established, and in 1890 a Chamber was also founded in Perth. Through the intervening years both institutions have done useful work in promoting the facile and regular reception and dispatch and distribution of goods and making the commercial machine run smoothly m the interests of all concerned. The organization of commercial men for mutual advantage and for the general benefit of the people has been very beneficial and has assisted the working out of many knotty problems from time to time.
The following are the officers of the Fremantle Chamber:—President, Mr. T. Carter; Past President, Mr. W. E. Moxon; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. F. W. Barrymore, W. H. Evans, and John Stewart; Committee, Messrs. E. Allnutt, H. V. Calthrop, R. Cotton, F. C. Feeley, J. D. Fraser, C. Hudson, G. G. John,
R. Laurie, J. W. Leonard, G. F. Payne, H. Robinson, and C. H. Salmon; Secretary, Mr. J. W. Parkhill.
The office-bearers of the Perth Chamber are. — President, Mr. W. F. Lathlain; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. A. E. King and A. M. Oliphant; Treasurer, Mr. W. Leslie; Committee, Messrs. G. B. Brown, J. East-wood, J. H. Gosse, G. H. Johnston, J. F. Mullen, B. Rosenstamm, A. Sandover, and J. L. B. Weir; Honorary Statistician, Mr. E. G. Stenberg, F.S.S.; and Secretary, Mr. John Fairfax Conigrave.
Other Chambers have been established at Bunbury, Albany, Geraldton, and Kalgoorlie, but these have been restricted mostly to the consideration of local commercial affairs, and have not taken in the wider view of commercial problems generally which have engaged the attention of the older and more influential Chambers.
JOHN FAIRFAX CONIGRAVE, jamin Conigrave, a Freeman of Lon- at Adelaide after a protracted and Secretary of the Perth Chamber of don (and of his wife, nee Matilda eventful voyage. In those early days Commerce and of the Marine Under- Reeve, of Norwich, England), who of emigration it was no light underwriters’ Association, patent attorney came to Australia as early as 1840, taking to bring a family to this and land agent, St. George’s Terrace, bringing with him his wife and two country, as it entailed an immense Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Ben- children in the ship “Java,” landing amount of forethought and planning,
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as well as considerable expense. First of all the land was almost in its primeval state of forest and desert, with scarcely any settlement; there were no huge emporiums as now where could be purchased all the requirements of life under one roof, but it was necessary to bring with one a tent or a house, or the materials for the building of a home, besides furniture, clothing, tools, weapons, and all the hundred and one little etceteras required for the comfort and establishment of a family in a new and unknown country. The natives also were very aggressive and dangerous, and the pioneers had to keep careful and constant watch to protect themselves and their homes from sudden and murderous attacks, the aborigines looking upon all white men as interlopers come to wrest from them their native land and their means of subsistence. The subject of our review was born at Adelaide in 1843 and received his scholastic training under the late Mr. J. L. Young, a gentleman who left an indelible mark on the educational records of the sister State. In his fifteenth year he entered the office of the South Australian Register, and deciding to adopt journalism for his future career served his articles under Mr. E. W. Andrews, then one of the proprietors of the journal. Remaining six years with this paper, he resigned and joined the staff of the South Australian Advertiser, being connected with that office for about twelve years. He then entered into business on his own behalf as a patent and general agent in Adelaide, subsequently forming a partnership with Mr. C. N. Collison, the firm being known as Conigrave and Collison. He acted as shorthand-writer to both the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of South Australia, and was secretary to numerous Royal Commissions. For some years he acted in a similar capacity to the South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers, and was mainly instrumental in organizing the early exhibitions promoted by that institution. He also assisted Sir Edwin T. Smith in the inception and organization of the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition of 1886-7, the direct result of which is to be seen in the handsome building and grounds on North Terrace, and shortly afterwards was appointed to the important office of Secretary to the Exhibition. Subsequently he took charge of the South Australian Court at the
Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, where he did excellent service for his State. Mr. Conigrave was a member of the Adelaide City Council during the mayoralty of Mr. Caleb Peacock, who was the first native-born Mayor, and he had the unique honour of being the first native-born to hold office as Councillor in the Municipal Council of the Queen City of the South. He was a member of the Council of Education under the presidency of the late Mr. J. A. Hartley, and acted in that capacity until the Council was abolished and absorbed in the Department of the Ministry. After a few years as Resident Secretary of the Australian Widows’ Fund Society he migrated to Western Australia in 1896, and has since resided in this State. He has been for a considerable time Secre-
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Mr. John Fairfax Conigrave.
tary to the Perth Chamber of Commerce and the Marine Underwriters’ Association, and performed similar duties for some years in connection with the Fire, Accident, and Guarantee Underwriters’ Associations. He was Mayor of the progressive Leeder-ville suburb for two terms, and is a Justice of the Peace for South Australia and Western Australia. He has always been associated with religious and philanthropic as well as social movements, and in the Eastern State he filled the office of deacon at the Congregational Church, North Adelaide, and the Stow Memorial at Adelaide, and for some years was a deacon of the Trinity Congregational Church at Perth. He is also a member of the Council of Churches
for Western Australia. In the Masonic craft he has recently attained Grand Lodge honours as President of the Board of Benevolence. In his younger days Mr. Conigrave was an enthusiastic cricketer, but the years that have since flow'n have tinged his hair with silver, and with the advent of the autumn of his life he has turned his attention to the ancient game of bowls, and is a member of the King’s Park Bowling Club. Married in South Australia in 1868 to a daughter of the late Mr. Charles Price, the well-known breeder of Hereford cattle on Hindmarsh Island, there is issue two sons and four daughters. His elder son, Berkeley Fairfax, is at present (1911) in London holding a responsible position in one of the large African financial and mining corporations. The other son, Charles Price, was for a number of years associated with the Perth Museum and is a Fellow of the Geographical Society and a member of the British and Australian Ornithological Unions. In 1911 he conducted a scientific and exploring expedition through the northwest of this State.
ALFRED SANDOVER, J.P., President of the Perth Chamber of Commerce (1911) was born at Plymouth, on November 24, 1866.
He is the youngest son of the late Mr. William Sandover, of Rose Park, Adelaide, South Australia, who was for many years a member of Parliament in that State. He received his scholastic training at the North Adelaide Grammar School, and upon the completion of his studies entered the office of Elder, Smith, & Co., Limited, of Adelaide, in the clerical department. Relinquishing this service after two years he came to Western Australia in 1885 and became connected with the large hardware and machinery business which had been established by his brother, Mr. William Sandover, three years before. Three years later he was admitted as a partner in the firm of William Sandover & Co., of which he is now the chief resident partner in Western Australia, having occupied this position for the past seventeen years. His connection with the Perth Chamber of Commerce extends over about fifteen years, during which he has served about eight years as a member of
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the Committee of that body. He was elected President in August, 1909, but resigned in the following March on the occasion of his leaving for London. In March, 1911, he was re-elected to the chair upon the resignation of Mr. R. A. Johnson, and completed his term of office on August 22, 1911. Mr. Sandover has occupied a seat on the Committee of the Perth Children’s Hospital since its inception, and acts also on the Committee of the Home of Peace and the Liberal League, and has always been closely identified with the various public movements in the State, although he has taken no personal part in political affairs. In 1912 he was appointed to a seat on the first Senate of the University of Western Australia.
TOM CARTER, J.P., President of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, was born at “The Grange,” Garton-on-the-Wolds, Yorkshire, and received his education at “Monument House,” Driffield, and at Bridlington Grammar School. He emigrated to Australia in 1887 and for a considerable period followed farming pursuits. In 1889, when Dalgety and Company, Limited, commenced business in Western Australia, Mr. Carter joined the staff and filled the position of accountant to the Perth and Fremantle Branches until 1899. In that year the Company decided to extend its business to the Nor’-West ports, and Mr. Carter was en trusted with the mission of opening branches at Geraldton, Carnarvon, Cossack, Roebourne, and Port Hed-land, residing in turn at each port. In 1905 he was appointed Sub-Manager at Fremantle, which position he still holds. For the past six years he has taken a keen interest in the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, and in 1911 was elected to the presidential chair. Mr. Carter is a Justice of the Peace for the Fremantle magisterial district.
WILLIAM ERNEST MOXON, J.P., who has occupied the position of Manager for the Adelaide Steamship Company, Limited, in Western Australia since 1896 is a son of the late Captain Thomas Moxon, of the Indian Army, and was born in Kent, England, on May 3, 1863. He was educated at the Chigwell Grammar School in Essex under
Canon Swallow, M.A., and having completed his scholastic course at the age of seventeen entered the office of Messrs. J. & R. Grant, shipowners, with whom he spent about seven years. In 1887 he came to Australia, and landing at Queensland joined the staff of the
B.I. and Q.A., the agents for the A.U.S.N. Company, etc., in Brisbane, subsequently being appointed manager and inspector in Queensland for the Adelaide Steamship Company. He was transferred to Western Australia in 1896, and since that time has taken an active interest in the various organizations in the State relating to his line of business. For some years he was Chairman of the Australian Steamship Owners’ Federation, Fremantle
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Mr. William Ernest Moxon.
Branch, and now occupies a similar post in the Fremantle Branch of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association. He was for two years President of the Fremantle
Chamber of Commerce, and acted as employers’ nominee on the Western Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Court for a like period. Mr. Moxon holds commissions as Justice of the Peace for the whole of this State and for Queensland. He is a member of the Weld, and Fremantle Clubs. A warm supporter of all forms of manly outdoor exercise, his favourite forms of diversion are found in cricket, golf, and angling, and he is a member of the Fremantle Golf Club. Mr. Moxon has been twice married. His first wife, Clara, daughter of the late Mr. E. Cowley, of Natal and
Queensland, died in 1905, and in 1907 he married Eva, daughter of the late Mr. R. Taylor, of Streat-ham, Victoria, and Katanning, Western Australia. His family consists of three sons and two daughters.
PETER RIDLEY, Manager in Western Australia for the A.U.S.N. Co., Limited, and Agent for the British India Steam Navigation Co., Limited, the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand, Limited, and the New Zealand Shipping Co., Limited, is a son of the late William Ridley, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. He was born in the latter city on July 21, 1861, where also he received his education by private tuition. At fifteen years of age he entered mercantile life in an office where he gained an excellent knowledge of general accountancy, being afterwards identified with shipping in the British India Company’s office in London, and as purser on steamers trading with Queensland and India. In 1886 he settled in Brisbane, joining the old Queensland Shipping Company, which afterwards absorbed the A.S.N. Company, this in its turn being merged in the A.U.S.N.'Company. After ten years in Brisbane Mr. Ridley was transferred to the great sugar centre, Bundaberg, where he spent four years as representative for the Company, and, in 1900, was promoted to the management of the Western Australian branch, taking charge at Fremantle, where he has remained ever since.
JOSEPH KEANE HITCHCOCK, Manager for Messrs. James and Alexander Brown, coal merchants and shipowners, Mouatt Street, Fremantle, is a son of Mr. David Hitchcock, who was but seven years old when he came to Western Australia in 1842, and has resided in this State ever since. The gentleman under review was born near Guildford on December 17, 1855, and at the close of his scholastic course at a local school, when thirteen years of age, entered, the office of Messrs. W. D. Moore & Co., where he remained for five years. He relinquished this connection to take a position with the firm of J. and W. Bateman, and after fourteen years in this employ transferred his services to Messrs. Padbury, Loton,
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and Co. for a couple of years. Subsequently he was with Messrs. James Lilly & Co. for a number of years, and finally, in 1905, accepted the management in Western Australia for Messrs. James & Alexander Brown at Fremantle, and has continued to fill this post ever since. Mr. Hitchcock, who is an Incorporated Accountant, was the first auditor to the East Fremantle Municipal Council and at the present time fills that office in connection with the North Fremantle Council, having acted in this capacity for the past seven years. Being of a retiring disposition he has never taken part in public affairs, though often pressed to stand for municipal honours. His leisure hours are spent chiefly in boating on the river
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Mr. Joseph Keane Hitchcock.
and in gardening pursuits round his home, where he cultivates flowers and fruit-trees. In 1876 he married Maria, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Law, of Fremantle, and has three daughters and four sons, the latter all being engaged in mercantile pursuits.
ELDER, SHENTON, & CO., LIMITED, general merchants, shipping and stock and station agents, Prince’s Buildings, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. The nucleus of this important trading firm was originally established at Fremantle by the late Sir George Shenton and carried on by him until 1903, when it was merged into the present concern
under the chairmanship of the founder, who continued to direct the destinies of the business until the time of his death in 1909. Almost from its inception the firm leapt into prominence, and to-day it holds an unrivalled position in the commerce of Western Australia. In the first instance operations were confined principally to shipping agencies, but with the incorporation of the new company and the attendant infusion of the “sinews of war” fresh ventures were launched and agencies opened at Northam, York, Beverley, and Kalgoorlie. Special efforts were centred on the supply of farming requisites to settlers in the newly-opened districts, and with the wonderful expansion of the agricultural industry of the State the firm found it expedient to transfer their headquarters from Fremantle to Perth. In a, country such as Western Australia, where the needs of the man on the land are many, and frequently of a nature requiring assistance pending the results of partially-completed efforts, the firm of Elder, Shenton, & Co., Limited, was bound to forge ahead, and in this connection a special feature was made of advancing sums of money to producers against wool and produce consigned to the London markets. The staff of officials in the London Branch of the firm handle there on arrival the various consignments forwarded by the head office, and a special expert in the service of the Company places upon each individual shipment a reserve valuation below which it is not sold, thereby protecting the owner against the financial loss which is often the lot of those who export independently. The numerous agencies of this well-known Company are a household word in the State, and its travelling representatives and local agents are at all times most willing to give expert advice to the settler as to the best means of surmounting the difficulties always present in the opening up of virgin territory. A branch of the business to which great attention has been given is the importation of stud stock, and the selections made by the Company’s officers have received strong confirmation in the various show rings in which they have been exhibited, many honours having been secured by the owners of the imported stock at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Shows and those held in country districts. Another distinctive feature in the firm’s operations is to be found in its country stock sales, in the
establishment of which it has led the way in this State. Its enterprise in this direction has been singularly successful, justifying the most sanguine anticipations, and its system of bringing to a common rendezvous both buyers and sellers has been highly appreciated and availed of by the settlers in the sparsely-populated districts of the agricultural areas. The Company is agent for Waite’s special fencing wire, Cooper’s sheep-dip, Donald’s woolpress, Donald’s wire-strainers, the Chilworth Gunpowder Company, and Nobel’s Explosives Company, Limited, Glasgow, the last-mentioned agency being a very important branch of the business. Nobel’s explosives are world-famed, and there are very few mining fields on the earth’s surface that have not at one time or another made use of the firm’s reliable products. From Marble Bar in the Far North to Ravensthorpe in the extreme South the Company’s magazines are to be found on every field, thus giving evidence of its energy and enterprise in providing the means whereby the miner and the prospector may more easily prosecute their labours in search of the treasured metal. The Directors of the Company are Messrs. A. S. Chapman, W. J. Young, and D. J. Goyder, the joint managers being Messrs. G. F. Payne and T. E. Field.
STRELITZ BROTHERS, importers and shipping agents, 46, Mouatt Street, Fremantle, and at Kalgoorlie. This important concern was established by the brothers Strelitz in 1894, Fremantle at that time being in its infancy. From its inception the business went rapidly ahead, and it was not long before the partners were compelled to establish agencies in various parts of the State to enable them to cope with the ever-increasing orders which poured in from day to day. Of the numerous agencies held by the Messrs. Strelitz the most important, perhaps, is that of the Nobel’s Explosives Company, for the handling of whose goods magazines have been erected on the various goldfields of the State. The firm is also a large importer of railway material and mining machinery of every description, including rockdrills and air-compressors, and considerable quantities of fencing wire, cement, and the
like are kept in stock. There is a branch of the business at Boulder Street, Kalgoorlie, and barkmills at Mandurah Road, in the South Eremantle district. So that the firm shall not be checked in the race for commercial supremacy one or other of the partners frequently visits Europe, there to acquire knowledge of all the latest improvements in the progressive Old World. Another very important branch of the above firm’s business is the shipping department, which is now a most important factor in the Western Australian trade. In 1896 Messrs. Strelitz Brothers opened up direct trade communication between the continent of Europe and Western Australia by chartering a sailing ship to bring the first direct cargo. This was followed by many vessels till at a later date a steamship company, called the German-Australian
S.S. Company, opened up a trade which has developed into large dimensions. There is a fortnightly regular service from Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Antwerp to Fremantle direct and a monthly service from Swedish ports to Western Australia. It is well known that these steamers, although of the cargo type, keep excellent time and run as nearly as possible to time-table dates—certainly a great help to local merchants. Not only has the import trade been fostered by the firm, but also the export by regular monthly steamers from Western Australia to Colombo and Continental ports. They have been able to carry large quantities of jarrah timber and mallet-bark. The latter article is used solely on the Continent, and for this article the steamers also call monthly at Albany. Further, the firm has helped to make important the fruit export trade of Western Australia, inasmuch as two of its steamers have been fitted with most up-to-date refrigerating machinery. Three additional steamers are now being built, and in the season 1912 the firm hopes to be able to cater for the bulk of the Western Australian fruit to be taken to Hamburg, where hitherto the best prices have been obtained. Messrs. Strelitz Brothers are also interested in two important commercial enterprises in the City of Perth. It is their intention in 1912 to move the head office from Fremantle to Perth, to buildings which are now in course of erection in William Street, between Hay Street and St. George’s Terrace.
EDWARD HENRY FOTHER-GILL, J.P., of Fremantle, is a son of the late Captain Edward Henry Fothergill, who came to Victoria from Seaford, England, about half a century ago, and traded between that State and Western Australia, being responsible for the only regular means of communication between the two States for many years. The subject of this sketch was born in Melbourne, and when nine years
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Mr. Edward Henry Fothergill.
of age accompanied his parents to Western Australia. He was educated at Fremantle, and at the close of his scholastic course at the age of seventeen entered the warehouse of Messrs. D. & W. Murray, with whom he remained for six and a half years, during which period he passed through all the departments of the business. He relinquished this connection in order to take over the management of the Western Australian Lighterage and Stevedoring Company, which position he continued to hold until the concern closed down owing to the opening up of the Inner Harbour. In 1901 Mr. Fothergill established himself on his own account as general agent at Fremantle, and eventually the business was floated into a limited liability company, trading as E. H. Fothergill & Co., Limited, under which title it is carried on at the present time, Mr. Fothergill being Managing Director. He has identified himself with the various interests of the community and has served as a member of the Municipal Council, occupying the mayoral
chair of the town for some years. He was granted a commission of Justice of the Peace by the Moore Government in 1904 and has been a member of the Tramways Board for the past three years. He takes a deep interest in charitable movements and is Hon. Secretary to the Fremantle Hospital Aid and Charity Committee. A Master Mason of some years’ standing, he is a member of the Masonic Club, and also of the Fremantle Club and the local Golf Club, his recreation being spent on the links. In 1911 Mr. Fothergill married Gertrude, daughter of Mr. W. Meadly. of North Fremantle.
Captain JOHN ABBOTT, senior partner of the Fremantle Stevedoring Company, Mouatt Street, Fremantle, was born at Hull, England, on May 9, 1848. He comes of a seafaring family, being a son of the late Mr. Alfred Abbott, ship-master and -owner, and many of his relations have followed marine pursuits. When twenty years of age young Abbott came to Australia for the first time, and has been identified with the history and advancement of the State, particularly of the Nor.’-West district, for over forty years. In 1868 he was mate of the brigantine “Pilot,” which was engaged in pearling operations along
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Captain John Abbott.
the coast north of Shark Bay, and in pursuit of this industry had many thrilling adventures. Pearl-shell was plentiful and profitable, its price
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ranging from £300 to £400 a ton, it was easily obtained in shallow water, and though pearls were not so valuable then as at the present time, the assistance of crowds of native divers made them procurable at comparatively small expense, and fortunes were speedily made. A very valuable pearl that rightly belonged to Captain Abbott unfortunately found its way into other hands and he was deprived of the profits that should have accrued to him thereby. On one occasion he had a narrow escape by descending in a French diving dress which got slightly out of gear and deprived him of his air supply. His rescuers, opening the helmet and finding him in a state of semisuffocation, in their consternation lost hold of him and let him fall back into the water with open head-piece. Unconscious as he was when he was hauled in for the second time, he yet quickly responded to remedial measures and was none the worse for the adventure. The wholesale employment of natives in the pearling industry led to the enactment of legislation, the restrictions being so severe that naked divers from the Malay States were extensively employed by the pearlers. In conjunction with Mr. George Roe, Captain Abbott purchased the schooner “Amy” and had a successful season. Subsequently he went to Melbourne to recuperate after a severe attack of fever, and upon his return conveyed the late Mr. Alex. Forrest and his exploring party to Cossack. During this voyage they encountered a terrific hurricane off the Nor.’-West coast in which the “Amy” would certainly have foundered had it not been for the splendid seamanship and intrepid courage of Captain Abbott, which received the highest tribute from Mr. Forrest, who named a conspicuous landmark on the north bank of the Fitzroy Mount Abbott, out of compliment to the master of the “Amy.” In the course of his cruisings off the Nor.’-West Cape Captain Abbott battled through five of the terrific tempests for which the locality is noted, among them being one of the very worst yet recorded. The gale struck the ship, which heeled over until she was almost beam-ended. In the midst of a deafening uproar of wind, with his hand funnel-wise to the mate’s ear, the captain gave the order to cut away the mast, by which measure the boat—the “Annie Beaton”— righted herself and eventually reached port safely. He afterwards
lisposed of this vessel and traded between Hong-Kong, Singapore, and Mauritius in charge of the barque ‘Star Queen,” which was the last ship he owned. An interesting circumstance occurred later in his career. He accepted the position of irst officer on board the “Georgette,” ;he first steamer engaged in the Western Australian coastal trade, out at the last moment got himself sransferred to his former charge, the Amy,” providing a substitute to ill his place on the “Georgette.” Proceeding to sea the latter vessel was wrecked off Cape Naturaliste, ind many of the crew and passengers .ost their lives. Captain Abbott, in the early days of the Nor.’-West, carried the mails, etc., for the Government and supplies for the original settlers in that region. About 1895 he took up his residence in Fremantle, and was the founder of the Fremantle Stevedoring Company, which he still conducts in conjunction with Mr. A. McLennan. He has various property interests in the town, and is regarded as one of the identities of that flourishing seaport. He is a Freemason of thirty years’ standing, and was one of the earliest members of the fraternity in Fremantle.
LESLIE & CO. engineers and engineering merchants, 959 - 961, Hay Street, Perth. WILLIAM LESLIE, M.I.E.S., M.I.Mech.E., was born in Scotland in the month of October, 1860, and received his early education at public schools in Alyth and Glasgow, Scotland. Subsequently he attended the Glasgow West of Scotland Technical College and at the close of his schooldays served a five years’ apprenticeship to the engineering profession. He became identified with the staff of John Elder & Co. in the Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard, and afterwards spent three years in the Cape Mail Service in order to gain experience in marine engineering work. Returning at the end of that period to the Technical College he devoted his attention to civil engineering and in 1885 proceeded to British Honduras in Central America to carry out an important engineering work in connection with what was known as Baron Sicama’s scheme for improvements to the town and harbour of Belize. Mr. Leslie was engaged in this enterprise until 1890 and upon his
return to Glasgow commenced practice in that city as consulting and inspecting engineer. Three years later he was offered the management of the Firhill Ironworks which he accepted, and occupied that position until 1896, when he resigned to come out to Australia. In October of the same year he received the offer of an appointment under the late C. Y. O’Connor, in the Public Works Department, as Engineer in charge of the Swan River improvements, and filled this position until the suspension of the work in 1898. He was then transferred as Resident Engineer in charge of the construction of the Mundaring Weir for the Cool-gardie water supply scheme, and after completing this and sub-
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. William Leslie.
sidiary works, upon the death of Mr. O’Connor, was appointed by the Government to succeed him as Engineer in charge of the Fremantle Harbour Works to carry out the original scheme designed by the deceased gentleman. When the Harbour was completed and a Trust for its administration formed Mr. Leslie resigned in order to establish a private practice and engineering merchant business in Perth, which he has carried on successfully since 1903. Besides being largely employed by corporations, companies, and firms in a consulting capacity in regard to water supply, tramway construction, and other engineering works, the firm, which includes Mr. E. A. Randell and Mr. William M. Cooper, are large contractors for the supply of all descrip-
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tions of engineering plants and modern machine tools. Mr. Leslie is President for the current year (1911) of the Western Australian Institute of Engineers.
Perth. The head of this well-known Company, whose military career appears in another section of this work, when seventeen years of age entered the old original firm of Messrs. Ro-
bert Stevenson, Son, & Co., engineers, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Pour years of his indentures had expired when he contracted rheumatic fever and retired from business on the ad-
He left England in the latter part of 1890 and upon arrival in Western Australia went on to a sheep station owned by Messrs. Cruickshank Brothers, on the Murchison River, with
the object of gaining experience. The discovery of gold in that neighbourhood, however, altered his plans for the future, and proceeding to the scene of the find he began dry-blowing and prospecting with varying success. Perceiving an opening he became engaged in contracting with teams between Geraldton and Cue during the construction of the railway line, and as the settlement started to form went into business as a forwarding agent at Cue and Nannine in partnership with Messrs. Jacques, McIntosh, and Manford. Subsequently he traded on his own account in the same place until 1898, when he sailed for England, where he remained for two years. Upon his return to Western Australia he established his present business at Fremantle, and the Company is now well known as one of the leading firms of Customs and forwarding agents and bonded stores proprietors in the State. All the business entrusted to the firm by the great mining companies on the fields and others is personally attended to by the principal of the Company, who has won the confidence of all sections of the public by his commercial reliability and attention to matters placed under his control.
ALEXANDER WATSON, representative for the firm of Emanuel Brothers, of Fremantle, is a son of the late Mr. John Watson, of Coleraine, Ireland, and was born at St. Kilda, Victoria, on April 9, 1866. He pursued his scholastic studies at Brighton Grammar School, in that State, and subsequently entered upon pastoral pursuits. Proceeding to the western district of Queensland in 1883, he began overlanding stock, and at a later date engaged in stockdealing on his own account, being occupied with these and kindred avocations up to 1895. In that year he came to Western Australia, and having passed a year in visiting the various goldfields eventually became identified with the firm of Forrest, Emanuel, & Co., as their cattle-buyer and representative in Wynd-ham, East Kimberley, and the Northern Territory. In this connection he did a good deal of exploration work for the Company, on whose behalf he took up country at the head of the Pentecost and Chamberlain Rivers, also adding to his duties those of stock-shipping representative for the firm at Wyndham.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
F. Manford &. Co ’s premises, Henry Street, Fremantle,
FRANK MANFORD & COM- vice of Professor Page, who as far PANY, bond proprietors, Customs, back as 1861 was medical officer in shipping, and forwarding agents, 4, Guildford, Western Australia, under Henry Street, Fremantle, and at the old Colonial Office regulations.
Photo by G. E. Farr.
F. Manford &, Co.'S Bond Stores, Bazaar Terrace, Perth.
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Ultimately he was offered the position of Manager of the Fremantle Branch of the business, which he accepted and has continued there ever since During his occupation of this post he has handled over a quarter of a million of cattle and several million of sheep on behalf of the Company, and in 1910, upon the transference of the business of Messrs. Forrest, Emanuel, & Co to Messrs Emanuel Brothers was appointed a Director of the latter firm. Mr Watson has a wide knowledge of the meat question which is attracting so much attention, and has contributed articles to the daily Press on the subject. He is an excellent judge of stock, and has acted in this capacity for many years at the Royal Show, as well as at the principal shows in various agricultural centres. He is a member of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce and of the Commercial Travellers’ Club, having served on the council of that body for five years. As a member of the Western Australian Turf Club he is an advocate of all clean sport.
ROBERT HARDY HOLMES, J.P., is a son of the late Mr. Robert Holmes, who occupied a post in the Civil Service in Western Australia for many years Born at Busselton on May 28, 1860, he was educated at the Government School at Man-durah, and having arrived at the age of sixteen became engaged in farming pursuits on his father’s property at Lake Clifton, where he continued for several years At twenty-one he accepted the management of the Sutton Estate at Mandurah, which he relinquished four years later in order to establish a general butchering and meat supply business in Perth in conjunction with his three younger brothers This concern prospered and the business of Messrs. Holmes Brothers is an example of the revitalizing of a dying enterprise. It was purchased by the firm for only £80, and under capable management became one of the best-known and thriving businesses in the State Eventually it was floated into a limited company and placed under control of Messrs Forrest, Emanuel, & Co , when the Brothers Holmes went into retirement. Mr. Holmes for many years has taken considerable interest in public affairs and in 1898 was elected to a seat on the Fremantle Roads
Board, in which he occupied the chair for a lengthy period, resigning his connection with the Board in 1908. He was a member of the Fremantle Municipal Council for twelve years and represented West Ward during the whole of that time, on one occasion only being opposed. He has been connected with the Royal Agricultural Society from its inception, and has continually acted as adjudicator of stock both at the Royal and country shows, being admittedly one of the best judges of fat stock not only in local circles but in the Commonwealth. He is a member and Past Master of the Ionic Lodge, No. 58, W A.C., in the fraternity of Freemasons, and for many years was connected with the Royal Arch Chapter. He is prominent in all charitable movements and gives ready support to all organizations having for their object the alleviation of the condition of the distressed. For twenty-five years he has been an active member of the Western Australian Turf Club and extends his patronage to all forms of healthy outdoor sport. In the year 1907 Mr. Holmes married Cicely Viotti, daughter of Inspector McKenna, of Fremantle.
CYRIL WALTER WALKER, Fremantle, is a native of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, where he was born in 1860. He is a son of the late Mr. William Walker, a member of the firm of
T. W. & J. Walker, hardware merchants, of that place, and was educated at the famous St. Andrew’s College in Scotland After attending school and college he became a student at the University, concluding his course at the age of seventeen, when he entered upon a commercial career in his father’s business house, remaining there for about twelve years. In 1889 he relinquished this connection in order to come to Western Australia, and arrived in this State about the time of the inauguration of responsible government. For nearly two years Mr. Walker was associated with the firm of W. D. Moore & Co., at the end of which period he accepted a partnership with the well-known firm of Sandover & Co . becoming attached to the Fremantle Branch, which he has practically managed ever since He is a member of the Fremantle Club and of the Fremantle Golf Club, to which sport he
devotes a good deal of his leisure time, and he is also fond of shooting Before his departure from the Old Country he took a deep interest in political life, and was an ardent supporter of the Gladstone Administration. Even from the age of twenty he actively concerned himself in the welfare of his Irish neighbours across the channel, and was a prominent worker in the Home Rule cause in the days when Mr. Gladstone’s star was at its zenith. Mr. Walker did more, perhaps, than any other private member of the community to forward this movement, and with Labouchere and T. P. O’Connor bore the heat and burden of the day in the battle which was won in the Commons and afterwards lost in the Lords Since coming to Australia his activities have been mainly concentrated on his private business affairs, and he has taken no active part in public life. Mr. Walker is married and has three sons and two daughters.
ARTHUR MORRIS OLIPHANT, Manager of the Western Australian Producers’ Co-operative Union, Limited, Howard Street, Perth, is a son of Mr. John Oliphant, of Montrose, Scotland, where he was born in 1872. He received his education at the Montrose Academy, and upon the completion of his studies entered the office of Messrs Robert Millar and Sons, timber merchants, of Montrose and Aberdeen, with whom he remained until 1895 He was then transferred to the Western Australian Timber Mills owned by J. M. Ferguson, Limited, with whom his former firm ultimately entered into partnership, and for five years occupied the position of manager in Perth, in 1900 returning to England for a year. At the end of this period he again took passage for Western Australia, and for a time was engaged in working a cyanide plant at Southern Cross, subsequently joining the staff of the Lake View Consols in Kalgoorlie in order to obtain a more up-to-date knowledge of the process. In 1902 he returned to Fremantle and commenced business as a mercantile agent, in which line he carried on until he received the appointment of Manager of the Producers’ Co-operative Union in 1906. The Union, which was founded through the instrumentality of the late Mr. Charles Harper and others who have played a leading part in
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its advancement, has 1,242 shareholders (representing 10,766 shares), all of whom are engaged in the farming or fruit-growing industry, the Board of Directors being chosen from among themselves. Its objects are to import those goods in regular demand by farmers, fruitgrowers, etc., and to exploit outside markets for their produce. It was the means
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Arthur Morris Oliphant.
some years ago of opening un the London market to Western Australian wheat, and a large export trade in wheat and flour is now being done, while the handling of wheat in bulk according to the latest methods is at present engaging the attention of the Union. It initiated an export of frozen meat during the last few years and has made regular shipments of wool ever since its inception. An additional feature is the conduct of auction sales daily at Perth Yard. The Union has recently been appointed agents in Western Australia for Messrs. Nicholson & Morrow, makers of the well-known “Union” harvesters and other agricultural machinery, and it is selling agent for Messrs. Cuming, Smith, & Co.’s “Florida” superphosphates and “Sickle” brand manures. Mr. Oliphant is Vice-President of the Perth Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Perth Club. He is an ardent golfer and one of the original members of the Fremantle Golf Links, and takes a keen interest in the advancement of this Club, of which he was Captain during its first year. He married a daughter of the late Rev. David Shearer, of Perth. Western Australia, formerly of Edin-
burgh and Gateshead-on-Tyne, and has a family of three sons and two daughters.
ALEXANDER CLARKE MUNRO, “Hinemoa,” Claremont, is a son of the late Donald Munro, of Rosshire, Scotland, who arrived at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1856,where the subject of this review was born three years later. At the close of his scholastic studies he became associated with the sawmilling trade under his father, who was manager for a large timber company at Hobart, and after spending five years in this connection proceeded to Victoria to take over the management of a sawmilling enterprise in the North-Eastern district of that State. Three years later he became connected with Messrs. C. & E. Millar, railway contractors, for which firm he undertook the building and management of sawmills for the cutting of sleepers and other timber required in the construction of various railways, notable among which was the line across the desert from Dimboola to Murray Bridge, nearly all the sleepers for the overland line being turned out from these mills. Mr. Munro subsequently carried on business on his own ac-
Bartletto, Perth
Mr. Alexander Clarke Munro.
count in Victoria for several years, being engaged in the timber trade at the time of the bursting of the land boom in 1893. Owing to the resultant depression in trade he came to Western Australia and took a position as Manager of the Jarrahdale Timber Station, at that time owned
by a proprietary company, and continued here until 1907. Upon relinquishing this management he was appointed superintendent of Millars’ Karri and Jarrah Company’s various timber industries throughout the State, the work also including the supervision of 350 miles of railway and a plant consisting of twenty-five locomotives, 800 waggons, 800 horses, etc. Over 800,000 acres of forest land are worked by this large concern, and employment is found for 2,500 hands. Mr. Munro was appointed a Commissioner to the Paris and Glasgow Exhibitions of 1901 as a representative of the timber industries of Western Australia, and took a prominent part in the preparation of exhibits and the deliberations of the Commissioners. Whilst resident at Jarrahdale he was one of the original members of the Roads Board, and has continued his connection with this body ever since. He has taken a prominent part in Masonic work, and was one of the foundation members of the lodge at Jarrahdale. filling the chair on two occasions, and still retains membership in this lodge. He held office as Junior Grand Deacon, and is now Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Western Australia. In outdoor sport he has always been an enthusiast, taking special interest in cricket and tennis. He was an active member and player in all the clubs connected with the mills during his long period of association with the timber industry. Mr. Munro married Annie, daughter of Mr. James McLeod, of Ayr, Scotland, an early arrival and prominent grazier and farmer in Victoria, and has two sons and five daughters.
E. C. STOTT & CO., importers of Remington standard typewriters and all typewriter supplies, 45, St. George’s Terrace, Perth (telephone 1281); Business College, Weld Chambers, 44, St. George’s'Terrace. This business was established in 1903 by Mr. E. C. Stott, who had previously filled the position of representative for the Remington Agency in New South Wales. The Remington typewriter is well known as one of the most successful time- and labour-saving appliances known to the modern commercial world, and has run the gauntlet of competition with other leading makes with results more than sa-tisfactorv to its proprietors. Since the period above
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referred to the Nos. 10 and 11 models have been put upon the market, and so great has been the popularity of these visible writers that cable advices from America mention the output as so great that the orders booked averaged one per minute. A new device which has more than doubled the value of the typewriter is the Wahl adding and subtracting attachment, which is built on the front of the Remington model No. 11, and is operated by means of the figure keys of the machine, these keys writing and adding at the same stroke. This device works with surpassing speed, is error proof, and can be used by any operator after a few hours’ practice. Mr. Stott has also the sole agency for the Burroughs adding machine, which already has been established in all the banks in
Mr. Edwin Charles Stott.
Perth, the General Post Office, the Railways Department, the Treasury, and numerous other Government departments and leading commercial houses throughout the State. EDWIN CHARLES STOTT is a son of the late Mr. John Stott, well known in journalistic circles as the founder of The Pleasant Greek News and The Southern Gross newspapers in Victoria. The gentleman under review was born at Brighton, Victoria, in 1861, and received his education at the local Church of England Grammar School. Upon the conclusion of his scholastic career he entered his father’s printing establishment, and remained in this connection until 1878, when he left Victoria to continue in the same
line of business in New South Wales. Three years later he returned to Melbourne, and was the first operator to handle the pioneer practical typewriting machine introduced into Australia, the “Cali-graph,” which he afterwards transferred to his brother, Mr. Sydney Stott. The latter gentleman established thfe business of Messrs. Stott and Hoare, and relinquished the “Caligraph” agency in favour of the “Remington,” which machine he was instrumental in introducing into the various States of the Commonwealth. Until 1897 Mr. E. C. Stott maintained his connection with the printing trade, but at this period abandoned it to take uo the duties of representative for the Remington machine in Sydney, which office he filled for five years under the auspices of the firm of Stott and Hoare. In 1903 he came to Western Australia and established the business above referred to, and also, in connection with it the Business College of Messrs. Stott & Co., of which mention is made in the succeeding article. Mr. Stott married a daughter of Mr. Henry Martin, of South Australia, and has four sons and three daughters.
STOTT & CO.’S BUSINESS COLLEGE, Weld Chambers, 44, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. (Proprietors, E. C. Stott and V. J. Matthews). This well-known institution was founded in 1903 by Mr. E. C. Stott, whose biography immediately precedes this notice, and since its inception has made rapid strides in the favour of the public. Its central position in St. George’s Terrace is yet remote from the disturbing elements of noisier thoroughfares, the classrooms are roomy and well ventilated, with excellent lighting arrangements, and the hygienic conditions all through have been made a special study. Each room is fitted with furniture especially adapted to the requirements of its respective department, and at night the whole suite is lit up with electricity, providing a splendid lighting service for the benefit of evening students. The departments include bookkeeping and office practice, shorthand, typewriting, mercantile law, penmanship, business arithmetic, business correspondence, languages (including French, German, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Latin, English, and Esperanto), and ac-
countancy. Elocution classes are also held on week-days. Students are prepared for the ordinary University, Commonwealth, and State Public Service and Parliamentary Hansard reporters’ examinations, and for the examinations conducted by the Incorporated Phonographic Society, the Dental and Pharmacy Boards, the Perth and Fremantle Chambers of Commerce, the British Esperanto Association, and many other public examinations covering a wide area. Evening classes are largely attended by many students anxious to augment their day course by extra study, or those who are engaged in office work during the day, and these have been found of special value. Tuition by post has established its right to be regarded as a successful educational agency and is one of the recognized departments
Mr. Vincent John Matthews.
of the College work. Sport is not neglected, the College having its cricket, hockey, football, and lacrosse associations, and the monthly magazine gives scope for the exercise of literary ability. Every department is under the charge of an expert instructor, and a personal interest is taken in the advancement of every student who enters the institution. Three scholarships are awarded annually, the examinations for which are held in October of each year. From its inception every year has shown an increase in the number of students attending the College, and in 1910 this reached the large total of 348. The same year witnessed a greater number of successes in the local public examina-
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tions than fell to the share of any other business college, and students from this institution secured the highest percentage in all Australasia at the examination of the Incorporated Phonographic Society of Australia held in Sydney, when twenty-seven of Messrs. Stott & Co.’s pupils were presented and all passed, six securing distinction. The Employment Department plays a very important part as a medium between employers and graduates of the College, and many by this means have been helped to very high and responsible positions, while principals are aided in securing the skilled service which they require. The annual picnic and sports take place in October and speech night is held in December of each year. VINCENT JOHN MATTHEWS, Headmaster and Manager of the College, was born in Victoria and is a son of Mr. George V. Matthews, of that State. After receiving a sound secondary education he entered Messrs. Stott & Hoare’s Business College in Melbourne and graduated from this institution, securing all the certificates granted by that College to commercial students and also winning the gold medal and other prizes. In the same year he was awarded three commercial certificates by the Melbourne University. After a period spent for the sake of experience in various offices and reporting Mr. Matthews in 1906 entered upon teaching as a profession, and for twelve months was identified in this capacity with the College, where he had himself received his commercial training. In 1907 he arrived in Western Australia and took over the management of the institution, with which he is connected at the present time, then known as the Remington Business College. In 1910 he joined Mr. Stott in partnership, and has since continued to exercise full control over all the departments connected with the College. He has passed many teachers’ examinations and is a Eellow of the Incorporated Phonographic Society (Eng.), Fellow of the Institute of Commerce (Eng.), Fellow of the Commercial and Specialist Teachers’ Society (Eng.), Fellow of the Association of Bookkeeping Teachers (Eng.), holder of Melbourne University commercial diplomas, Associate of the Incorporated Society of Commercial Teachers (Eng.), and Fellow of the Incorporated Phonographic Society
of Australia. He identifies himself with the various forms of sport and is Vice-President of the Mercantile Cricket Association.
BENJAMIN ROSENSTAMM, J.P., wholesale leather merchant, saddler, etc., and. proprietor of the Perth Tannery, is a son of the late Mr. Elias Rosenstamm, of Norden, Germany, where the gentleman under review was born on October 25, 1867. He was educated at the German College in his native town and continued his scholastic studies until sixteen years of age. After passing examinations which reduced the period of his compulsory military service in the Fatherland to one year he launched out upon a com-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Benjamin Rosenstamm.
mercial career in the firm of J. Daltrop, of Gustrow, Mecklenburg, and eventually emigrated to Australia, landing at Melbourne in January, 1887. After a month’s experience in a boot factory he joined the firm of Michaelis, Hallenstein, & Co., of Melbourne, and continued in the employ of this Company until 1894. In August of the latter year Mr. Rosenstamm came to Western Australia and opened in business on his own behalf as a leather merchant at Perth, and two years later was joined in partnership by his former firm of Michaelis, Hallenstein, & Co. In 1904 the Perth Tannery was purchased from Mr. F. D. Good, and this concern, one of the landmarks of the city and originally owned by Messrs.
Ranford Brothers & Simpson, in its present hands has lost none of the prestige earned during fifty years of thriving trade which has marked its progress since its inception. About a hundred employes are required for the conduct of the business, and a special feature is made of the harness factory, where every kind of harness is manufactured. The building in which the head office is situated was erected in 1904 at a cost of over £8,000, and the establishment is accounted the leading one of its kind in the State. In the Franco-British Exhibition of 1898 the firm was awarded a diploma and bronze medal for saddlery and a diploma of honour for leather work, and in 1906-7 received a certificate of merit from the Western Australian Chamber of Manufactures. Mr. Rosenstamm has held the various positions of Treasurer, Vice-President, and Committeeman in the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce, and occupied the presidential chair during 1907-8, when his address to the Chamber at the annual meeting elicited the most complimentary remarks from the local Press. He is Hon. Treasurer and a member of the Board of the Children’s Hospital, and is connected with the fraternity of Freemasons. In 1910 Mr. Rosenstamm took a trip to England and the Continent and revisited the scenes of his youth after twenty-three years’ absence, combining pleasure with business during a tour through most of the principal cities of the Old World. He is a member of the Commercial Travellers’ Club and of Perth Club, and in circles of sport turns his attention chiefly to fishing, tennis, and golf, holding membership in the Cottesloe and Fremantle Golf Clubs. In 1906 he married Doris, only daughter of Mr. Charles Fraenkel, Mayor of Bun-bury, Western Australia, and has two daughters.
GEORGE WILLS & CO., shipowners and general merchants, Australia and England. It is now nearly seventy years ago since the late Mr. George Wills came from England to Australia with the object of establishing a business and selected Adelaide as the venue of his operations. So successful was he in the carrying out of his enterprise that at the present day the firm of George Wills & Co., of London and Australia, is widely recognized as
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one of the leading business houses which have played so important a part in the commercial development of the Australian Continent. At its inception the business was conducted in a small establishment in Rundle Street, which was mainly confined to the drapery and softgoods trade The enterprising and progressive spirit displayed soon resulted in a rapid expansion of business, and in 1859 the firm found it necessary to open its own buying-house in London. The subsequent record of the house has been one of practically uninterrupted progress and expansion, until to-day it not only controls one of the most comprehensive wholesale businesses in South and Western Australia, but its trading ramifications extend to New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. The soft-goods branch of the business at an early stage of the firm’s career was left in the hands of the twin-firm of G. & R. Wills & Co., which is a distinct business, though under the same proprietary, while the transactions of Messrs. George Wills & Co. are those of shipping and general merchants. In general shipbroking and chartering it controls a very extensive connection, especially between England and all parts of New Zealand, as well as in the Australian trade. In addition to the chartering and loading of vessels and the various duties appertaining to shipbrokering and chartering Messrs. George Wills & Co. have pecuniary interests in several steamers running between London and Australia. The firm acts as agent for the well-known P. & 0. Branch service steamers and Alfred Holt’s, of Liverpool, and has several important sailing-ship agencies. The Australian headquarters of Messrs. George Wills & Co. are at Grenfell Street, Adelaide, and the firm has branch offices in the various business centres of Australia. The London buying-house and offices are at 3, Chapel Street, Whitecross Street, E.C., where the premises cover a large area and are divided into excellently appointed offices for the various members of the firm controlling its affairs in London, while for the purely shipping portion of the business the offices are at 57, Leadenhall Street, E.C. In 1896 the Fremantle Branch of the business was opened by Mr. A. E. Braund, who acted as Manager for the Company at this centre for many years. The premises consisted of offices in Phillimore Street and a warehouse in South Street, while now the head
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office for Western Australia is at Murray Street, Perth, with branches at Fremantle and Maritana Street, Kalgoorlie. In Western Australia the firm has played a leading part in the development of the mineral and agricultural industries. In the earlier days of its trade relations with the State, which now extend back over a period of twenty-five years, its operations were confined chiefly to the skin and produce business now being carried on by Messrs. Henry Wills & Co. at Fremantle, but about 1897 it entered upon the business of general mer-
chants, shipping, Customs, and forwarding agents, and at the present time is doing perhaps the largest general business in Western Australia. The financial assistance which the firm has been able to render to industries in their infancy has tided over the critical stage in the career of many a struggling enterprise. Agriculture in particular is heavily indebted to the firm, which, with other large merchant houses, has ensured to the tillers of the soil a large and reliable supply of agricultural machinery, fertilizers, and general farmers’ requirements on extended terms, and in addition has found
for them a ready and remunerative market for their produce. In the mining and pastoral districts the house bears an equally favourable reputation, and other transactions comprise contracts with the Government for the supoly of such commodities as railway materials, iron and steel, galvanized iron, and for the purposes of export the purchase of shipments of the valuable timber which is found in various parts of the State. Another department consists of the importation of softwoods for the demands of the wholesale trade, and yet another of premier importance in the numerous agencies held by the firm, notable among which are Messrs. H. & E. Albert’s English Thomas phosphates, the United Alkali Company’s English superphosp hates, jute goods, etc., special agencies being that for Messrs. Lea & Perrins’ world-famous Worcester sauce and Messrs. C. & E. Morton’s grocers’ requisites. To the late Mr. George Wills is readily accorded the honour due to him who “found a thing to do and did it,” his particular achievement having meant much to the successful development of the young Australian nation. It is the merchant who by his courage, perspicacity, probity, and enterprise does more than any other class to colonize and develop the bounds of Empire. The late Mr. George Wills bore the brunt of the development of the business to its present stupendous and influential proportions, and his career may be taken as a typical example of that of the eminently successful British merchant of the Victorian epoch. At the present time the personnel of the firm consists of the late Mr. George Wills’ three sons, Messrs. George Tarlton Wills, John Henry Wills, and Charles Percy Wills, and Messrs. George Arthur Jury and Charles Frederick Risch-bieth.
MESSRS. GEORGE WILLS & CO.'S PREMISES, MURRAY ST., PERTH-
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G. & R. WILLS & CO., general warehousemen, Perth, Fremantle, and Kalgoorlie. A business house that has played a very important part in the commercial development of Australia is the firm of G. & R. Wills & Co., whose headquarters are at Adelaide, and who are practically identical with the firm of George Wills & Co., of London and Australia. It was about 1850 that the late Mr. George Wills came out to Australia with the object of establishing a business and selected Adelaide as the venue of his operations. He opened a small establishment in the heart of the City of Adelaide, confining his trade chiefly to drapery and softgoods. The enterprising and courageous spirit displayed soon resulted in a rapid
Bartletto, Perth.
Mu. A. E. King.
development of business, so much so that in 1859 the firm found it necessary to open its own buying house in London. The subsequent career of this house furnishes over fifty years’ record of practically continuous and uninterrupted progress and expansion, until to-day it not only controls one of the most extensive wholesale softgoods businesses in the Central State and there occupies one of the largest and most perfectly-equipped warehouses in the Commonwealth, but its trading ramifications have extended over the whole Continent of Australia. Next, perhaps, to the establishment in Adelaide in point of size in the building and the volume of trade controlled is the fine warehouse erected in 1897 in Hay Street, Perth, and extended to St. George’s
Terrace in 1912. As early as 1866 the firm had its travelling representative in Western Australia, the first gentleman so employed being the late Mr. J. G. Anderson, who in 1881 was thrown from his horse and killed at Roebourne, in the Nor’-West. The position was filled successively by Messrs. John Cornish (1881-4), John Plolman (1885), W. J. Stewart (1886), S. P. Saphir
(1886-98), and it was during the lastnamed representative’s period of service that stock was first permanently held in Western Australia, headquarters being established at Fremantle in 1889. Upon the death of Mr. Saphir his place was taken by Mr. D. H, Weidenhofer, who died in 1900, having had control for about two years. He was succeeded by Mr. D. Macpherson, who represented the firm to the end of 1907,
and since 1908 the business has been under the joint management of Messrs. A. E. King and A. L. Parker, the former of whom has been identified with the Western Australian house since 1892 and the latter since 1894. In 1897 the headquarters were transferred from Fremantle to Perth, where what was then considered a large warehouse had been erected in Hay Street, comprising a basement and three floors, where the various de-p a rtments are stocked with boots, m anchester and linens, blankets and rugs, carpets, furnishings, woollens and clothing, mercery, millinery and laces, silks and ribbons, dresses, mantles and costumes, underclothing, haberdashery, hosiery, stationery and leatherware, perf urn er y, fancy - goods and toys, and light ironmongery. The expansion of trade in later years rendered necessary yet further accommodation, and in 1912 the premises were extended through to St. George’s Terrace, by means of which additions the former flooring space was doubled. The new structure was erected at a cost of about ,£22,000, and with the former premises comprises the finest warehouse block in Western Australia. The new bulk store, 120 ft. long and 40 ft. wide, is located in the basement, and adjoining are the receiving-room, packing-room, workshop, a large reinforced concrete strongroom, and the granolithie-paved
Photo by G. F. Farr.
G. &, R. Wills & Co.’s Premises, Hay Street, Perth
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yard. Showrooms, 165 ft. long by 55 ft. wide, comprise the whole of the second floor, and are connected with the older part of the building by reinforced concrete and fireproof passage-ways, from which open out ladies’ and gentlemen’s lavatory suites, this convenience also being provided in the connecting building at the flat roof level. The flat roof, 166 ft. long by 56 ft. wide, is
covered with Trinidad asphalt, and is fitted with two large lantern lights to assist the lighting of the showrooms below. Every care has been taken by the architects with the sanitary arrangements and ventilation, all of which are up to date in every respect. All the external window openings are fitted with Wbrmald’s patent fire-screens, and every door opening, both ex-rr2
ternal and internal, is fitted with steel roller shutters. Each
showroom has two 30 ft. by 15 ft. light wells, and all the floors are connected by cedar staircases, while two electric friction goods
hoists are worked automatically
from each floor of the building, and there is also a modern electric goods lift. The original building has also been fitted with a first-class 200-
minute speed electric passenger lift to serve each floor, and an electric goods life. The whole of the later structure is of brick throughout on cement concrete foundations, the main floor areas are of jarrah hardwood, and the floors of the connecting building are of reinforced concrete finished with tiles of ornamental design, while the ceilings are of art-stamped steel finished with
flat white. The main entrance for the receiving and dispatch of goods opens on to St. George’s Terrace by a wide granolithic-paved cart-way, and the whole block is a substantial and handsome addition to the architecture of the City of Perth. For the benefit of the Coolgardie goldfields district the firm erected at Kalgoorlie in 1899 a permanent sample-room, where a full range of samples representing the Perth stock is carried all the year round. Prom this centre the immediate surrounding districts are worked by a local staff. A glance at the map of Western Australia will show the enormous tract of country which has to be covered by means of rail, coach, or boat by
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. A. L. Parker.
travelling representatives in order to reach the firm’s clients in localities extending from Derby in the Nor’-West to Esperance in the South-East, and to Laverton in the Eastern goldfields, and the determined manner in which all obstacles to the furtherance of business ends have been surmounted is only an additional testimony to the enterprise of the firm and its competent staff, which in the various States numbers considerably over a thousand. A great deal of the stock is of Australian manufacture, the Company having had erected in South Australia very extensive clothing, shirt, boot, shoe, and leather factories which are fitted up with the most up-to-date machinery and turn out a superior class of goods.
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G. & R. Wills & Co.'s Premises, St. George's Terrace, Perth.
GEORGE P. HARRIS, SCARFE, AND CO., LIMITED. Registered office for Western Australia, 297 to 303, Murray Street, Perth. This great firm of wholesale ironmongers, agricultural and general machinery merchants, etc., etc., the largest of its
kind in the Southern Hemisphere, had its inception in Adelaide, South Australia, in the year 1862, when Messrs. George Scarfe, Richard Smith, and George P. Harris joined forces in the establishment of a warehouse in Gawler Place. Mr. Harris, who subsequently took over the management of the firm’s London office, died in 1874, in which year Mr. Thomas R. Scarfe arrived in Adelaide and afterwards was admitted into partnership. In 1900 the business was converted into a limited liability company, with a paid-up capital of £700,000, the Directors being Messrs. George Scarfe (Chairman), Richard Smith, and Thomas R. Scarfe. Three years later Mr. George Scarfe, to whose ability and enterprise the success of the concern was primarily due, died in Adelaide at the age of seventy-six years, and the present Directors of the Company are Messrs. Richard Smith (Chairman), Thomas R. Scarfe, Frederick
G. Scarfe, and H. Law Smith. From the first the business obtained a reputation for reliability, this being one of Mr. Scarfe’s most marked characteristics which was early reflected in his trading operations. The scope of the rapidly-increasing connection widened, and as time passed a large number of contracts were taken for mining supplies, not only in South Australia, but also in Broken Hill and Western Australia. The bright prospects of the mining industry in the Western State led the
Directors in 1890 to send a representative from Adelaide to take charge of the firm’s interests here, an honour which was conferred upon Mr. William Sandover (afterwards founder of the firm of Sandover and Co., of Perth), who held the position for about twelve months. Upon the resignation of this gentleman at the end of that period he was succeeded by the late Frederick Stacey, who proved himself peculiarly adapted to the pioneering work entrust e d to him. Through his untiring efforts and the firm’s satisfactory handling of the business trade increased by leaps and bounds, and with the increasing activity in the gold - mining industry the Adelaide directorate decided in 1895 to import direct from overseas, and the establishment of a branch house in Western Australia became a necessary step in the development of this forward movement. Mr. G. G.
Martin (now manager of the General Electrical Engineering Company, Perth) accordingly was deputed to undertake the responsibility of opening the new branch, and he chose as the headquarters of the business a small one-roomed chamber situated beneath the old "Eureka” Mill, at Fremantle, where the staff, consisting of the manager and two
assistants, a man and a boy, applied their energies “to the working up of the trade. Additional storage space very soon became necessary, and between 1897 and 1898 suitable land became available in Newman Street, Fremantle, where a site was purchased and stores and offices erected. Owing to the continued steady progress of the business and the coincident increase of stocks, these premises sufficed only for a short time, and further blocks of land were acquired in High Street and Henderson Street, where large stores and stables were built. During this time several changes had taken place in the management. In 1903 the retirement of Mr. Martin took place, and his successor, Mr. L. K. Lewis, was appointed to control the business. The untimely death of the latter gentleman in the following year rendered the position once more vacant, and the late Mr. Frederick Stacey was recalled from Kalgoorlie-—where he had been permanently stationed for some years as manager of the firm’s business on the goldfields—and installed as head of affairs at Fremantle. Only three months later one of the most disastrous fires ever
known in the history of Western Australia devastated the warehouse, an ordeal which was sufficient to try the mettle and resources of one of longer standing in the position now occupied by Mr. Stacey. Despite this heavy blow, however, it remains to the everlasting honour and credit of the firm that although very little of the stock was left in good order or saleable con-
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George P. Harris, scarfe, & Co.'s Premises High Street, Fremantle.
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dition orders on hand were executed in a minimum of time, though at considerable loss to the company, and during the whole of the trying time which elapsed until the arrival of new stock not one of the firm’s employes lost even an hour’s pay. As a consequence of this fire new premises were again required, and this work was undertaken at once, the result being the imposing and commodious block of warehouses that are to be seen in High Street, Ne-wman Street, Henderson Street, and Queen Street, Fremantle, at the present period. Covering nearly two acres of ground, these premises consist of five large stores, containing a floor space of approximately 72,000 square ft., and all the most modern hoisting appliances for the handling of heavy goods in the most economical manner, iron racks, platforms, and other conveniences have been installed. The progress of the firm in Western Australia may fairly be claimed to have proceeded hand in hand with the remarkable development of the State during the past few years, and owing to the ever-expanding business the immense stores at Fremantle soon proved quite inadequate to house the stocks required to meet the increasing and pressing demands from all quarters of the mining, agricultural, and metropolitan districts. Additional land was therefore purchased in
Perth, a good site being chosen in Murray Street, whereon was erected the present very fine and commodious premises which were opened in 1906. A walk through the well-appointed departments of this fine warehouse affords the visitor some idea of the vast assortment of general hardware
goods imported, consisting of furnishing and general ironmongery, electroplated ware, mining materials, saddlery and harness, oils and colours, paperhangings, guns, rifles, and ammunition, fancy-goods, sporting materials, etc., etc. The busi-
ness of the agricultural department having increased so rapidly that the space allotted to it proved quite inadequate for the efficient handling of the growing trade, and this experience being repeated in other departments, room was made for the latter at headquarters by the removal of the agricultural machinery to a store in Wellington Street, where a full range of ma-
chinery, implements, engines, pumps, etc., are exhibited. The firm has a competent staff of travellers to uphold its interests throughout the vast territory of Western Australia, the coastline from the farthest point north to south being traversed and the remote inland districts pene-
trated. At Kalgoorlie the firm has a special mining representative, whose district embraces Kalgoorlie and the surrounding territory to Norseman in the south and as far as Laverton in the north. The complete Western Australian staff at
the present time numbers 220, and is under the personal supervision of Mr. James Eastwood, late of Victoria, who was associated for many years with the well-known firm of Messrs. Hawkes Brothers, of Geelong, and can claim an experience of some thirty years in the eastern States, his appointment taking place prior to the decease of Mr. Stacey, in 1910. Associated with the management are Mr. Maclachlan (accountant), also a Victorian, and Mr, P. Law Smith (son of Mr. Richard Smith, of Adelaide), who has spent some eleven years with the branch. The firm is sole agent in Western Australia for R. Hornsby’s & Sons’ engines, England; tfie New way Engines,
U.S.A.; May Brothers’ Harvesters and Strippers; Salman’s Chaffcutters and Horsegears; Monitor Windmills; Unicorn Twine Manila Rope and Binder Twine; Red Star Machinery Oil; Champion and Excelsior Cylinder Oil; Peters’ English Cement; Silver Crown Mining Candles; Harris’ Shovels and Spades; Western Shovels and Spades; Copper Queen Belting, etc. The firm in Western Australia has risen from a comparative “day of small things” to its present position of proud eminence. This only has been attained as the result of close application and faithful attention to details, and the watchword of the great enterprise, “Satisfaction to customers,” may safely be registered as the key to success.
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George P. Harris, Scarfe, 4 Co.s Premises, Wellington street, Perth.
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George P. Harris, scarfe, & Co.'s Premises, Corner of Queen and Newman streets, Fremantle.
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McLEAN BROTHERS & RIGG, Limited, importers, general ironmongers, metal and machinery merchants, Murray and Pier Streets, Perth, and at Maritana Street, Kalgoorlie. It may with truth be said that no commercial house is better known through the Western State than that of McLean Brothers and Rigg, Limited. Established in 1896, the first seven years of the firm’s existence were marked by steady progress, but since 1903 the prestige of the business has increased in a wonderful manner until to-day it takes rank as one of the foremost trading concerns of the Australian Commonwealth. It was in the last-mentioned year that the Western Australian Branch of McLean Brothers & Rigg, Limited, was purchased by Messrs. R. P. and W. H. Vincent, and responding to the energetic control of the new regime the business has gone ahead in a surprising manner. From time to time extensions have been made, and in 1907 the stock and agencies of W. H. Kidston & Co., Limited, of Perth, were taken over by purchase and joined to the operations of the parent establishment. About the same time a nail factory was opened at East Perth, and has since come prominently before the notice of the public as the ‘‘Sampson” Nail Factory. The building is fitted throughout with the most up-to-date machinery known to the trade, the nails
turned out being of unrivalled quality, and with a continually increasing demand the future of this venture appears very bright indeed. The principal establishment of McLean Brothers and Rigg, Limited, is situated in Murray Street, and covers a large area of
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. George R. Preston.
ground, and here is displayed in great variety an immense stock ol British, Continental, and American hardware, household furnishings, guns and ammunition, scales and mining machinery, saw - milling machinery, and requisites, and oils
and colours. The firm acts as representative for many important manufacturing houses in the Old World, including Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox’s famous tubular boilers, expanded steel metals and lathing, the Cradley Boiler Company, Harland’s English varnishes and enamels, Blake’s American steam pumps, Milner’s celebrated fireproof safes and strongroom doors, and Bullivant’s wire ropes for mining and general purposes. The Pier Street establishment, comprising a ground floor and basement) is heavily stocked with every conceivable class of goods peculiar to the special trade catered for by the firm, and is fitted up with all kinds of labour-saving appliances, lifts, and cranes, having been installed for the handling of the heavy iron and steel goods. An interesting feature is the tent, tarpaulin, and waterbag factory, which is fitted out with the latest machinery propelled by electric power. The rapid increase of the firm’s turnover has led to the directors making provision for the years to come by the purchase of land at the rear of the Murray Street premises, reaching to Wellington Street, where in the course of time extensive premises will be erected on the most modern lines, which will embrace all those features essential to the successful conduct of so huge an undertaking. The total depth from Murray to Wellington
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McLean Brothers & Rigg-s Premises, pier Street, Perth.
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Streets is 375 ft., with a width of 60 ft., which on each floor will provide an area equal to 22,500 sq. ft. of space. The representatives of the firm regularly travel throughout the settled areas of the State, and in addition visit the most distant ports of the great Nor.’-West. The directors of McLean Brothers and Rigg, Limited, are Mr. Richard Paul Vincent and Mr. William Henry Vincent. The former gentleman, who is a well-known figure in public circles, is fully referred to in the municipal section of this work, while the latter also receives extended reference in the next succeeding article. Mr. George R. Preston, the General Manager, is an Englishman by birth, having been born at Nottingham on June 16, 1862. While still a lad he was brought to Australia by his parents, who landed in the Western State. Shortly afterwards the family removed to Adelaide, where Mr. Preston completed his education, joining Messrs. McLean Brothers & Rigg in 1876. In 1897 he was transferred to Western Australia as Assistant Manager. Since that time he has maintained an unbroken connection with the business and was appointed General Manager in 1904. The claims of the large concern which he controls fully
occupy his time, and what little leisure falls to his share he devotes to gardening pursuits at his residence, “Stratheden,” Subiaco Road.
WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT, Ex-President of the Master Builders
Bartletto, Perth.
Ms. William Henry Vincent. and Contractors’ Association, is a son of the late Mr. Richard Paul Vincent, of Perth, and formerly of
Melbourne. He was born at Castle-maine, Victoria, on April 28, 1862, and received his education at the Presbyterian School at South Yarra. Upon leaving that institution he joined his father in the building trade and continued in this connection until 1886, when he left Australia on a trip to the United States of America, which extended over two years, and of which he made practical use by studying the latest methods and ideas in his own calling, as exemplified in the structures of the new world. Returning to his native land he undertook, in conjunction with his father, some very large contracts in Victoria and New South Wales, and subsequently worked on his own behalf in the latter State, being employed in the erection of some of the fine pastoral homesteads in the Riverina district. He arrived in Western Australia in 1896, and continuing the old partnership Messrs. R. P. Vincent and Son very soon obtained a sure footing in the building trade, and carried out the contract for the erection of the Supreme Court, the footing in the building trade and other additions to the viceregal residence, the Perth Public Hospital, and a number of the largest commercial houses and warehouse blocks in the City of Perth. At a later date
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McLean Brothers a Rigg’s Premises, Murray street, Perth.
the firm was dissolved and Mr. W.
H. Vincent carried on the business, becoming responsible, among other prominent works, for the building of the Horseshoe Bridge in William Street and Dalgety’s at Fremantle. In 1904 his brother (Mr. R. P. Vincent) came into the firm as a partner, and purchase was made of the business of Messrs. McLean Brothers and Rigg, and also that of Messrs. Kidston & Co., which were carried on with other joint concerns, in addition to the large building operations by which the name of Vincent has become well known in the State. At the present time (1911) the firm is specializing on railway contracts and has in hand the construction of the 50-mile section of the Boyup-Kojonup line and 38 miles in the line from Katanning to Nampup, in connection with which the firm has extensive jarrah saw-mills at Noggerupp and at Benjinupp. Among Mr. W.
H. Vincent's private enterprises are the Hoffman and Bellevue Brick Companies, which he carries on successfully in conjunction with the management of other departments of the business, the scope of which increases every year. Pie was for three years President of the Master Builders’ Association, and during his term of office was mainly instrumental in founding the Builders’ Exchange and in furthering other developments of the Association. Mr. Vincent takes a keen interest in the Children’s Hospital and acts as Chairman of the Board. Pie finds his chief recreation in motoring, and is a member of the Council of the Western Australian Automobile Club. He is also connected with the Masonic craft and holds membership in the Masonic and Western Australian Clubs. In the year 1899 he was married to Beatrice, daughter of the late Mr. Richard Willdridge, of Melbourne, Victoria.
ALFRED FREDERICK COLL-YER, produce merchant and in-dentor, Henry Street, Fremantle, is a son of the late Mr. Thomas Coll-yer, of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England, where the gentleman under review was born on November 2, 1867. He received his education at a public school in the same town and continued as assistant teacher at this institution for three years. At nineteen years of age he abandoned the teaching profession in order to enter
the firm of Roberts & Roberts, of Leicester, who carried on business as general shippers of American provisions, and during his period of service in this firm, which extended to 1895, he became intimately acquainted with all the details of the various branches of this extensive establishment. Prompted by the glowing reports which at that period
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Alfred Frederick Collyer.
were bringing Western Australia into prominence, he relinquished his connection with this house, which he considered did not give full scope for advancement, and arriving at Perth became engaged for a few months with the firm of Holmes and Blain. Early in 1896 he established himself in business at Fremantle on his own account, and has carried on successfully from this centre ever since, his house being one of the recognized channels of commerce with the Eastern States. Mr. Collyer is a well-known member of the Fremantle Golf Club, of which he was one of the founders, and is acknowledged one of Western Australia’s representative players, having taken part in the final match of the current year for the championship of the State. In 1902 he married Jeanie, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Cole, of Tavistock, Devonshire, England, a member of a very old Devonshire family.
JOHN CHURCH, merchant, of High and Packenham Streets, Fre-
mantle, is a son of the late Mr. John Church, of Easton-M audit, Northamptonshire, England, where he was born on December 27, 1844. He received his scholastic training at Oundle Grammar School, in his native county, and at its conclusion in the year 1865 came to South Australia, where he was associated for twenty-seven years with the firm of Harr old Brothers, afterwards known as Harrold, Colton, & Co., Limited, which business he managed for a lengthy period. In 1895 he came to Western Australia and opened in Fremantle, where he purchased the business formerly carried on by the late Mr. George Edwards. This he considerably enlarged and extended, and it is now the principal concern of its kind in the town, with very large china and crockery departments and hardware of every description, household furnishings, and builders’ materials, while the ramifications of the firm in the wholesale and retail trade are found all over the State. Mr. Church is known in philanthropic circles, and is a sup-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John Church.
porter of all charitable objects. He takes his recreation in a quiet way round his home, where the care of the bright blooms of the garden and flourishing fruit-trees provides him with healthy exercise and diversion. In the year 1872 he was married to Agnes Rachael, daughter of the late Mr. William Lewis, of Kapunda, in the State of South Australia, and has a family of three sons and one daughter.
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LIONEL SAMSON & SON, wine and spirit merchants and wholesale grocers, Fremantle. The business of the above firm was established by Mr. Lionel Samson, who arrived at Swan River in one of the first ships to visit Western Australia in the year 1829, when the colony was
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. John Henky Payne. first founded. He brought with him a shipload of merchandise and commenced business as a wine and spirit merchant and wholesale grocer at Fremantle in the same year, and the business has continued without interruption or break of any kind ever since that date, thus constituting a record so far as the whole of Australia is concerned. During the early thirties Mr. Samson was also Postmaster-General of the colony, the General Post Office at that time being located at Fremantle, this being clearly confirmed by the evidence of several old newspapers in the Perth Museum containing advertisements of the closing of various mails, which may be seen at the present day. The founder of the firm died in 1878, and the business then passed into the hands of his son, Mr. W. F. Samson, who in turn died in the year 1900. Since then it has been conducted in the interests of the widow and family of the lastnamed gentleman. At the present time the firm has the largest distributing wine and spirit business in the State and a fair proportion of the wholesale grocery trade, while the agencies controlled by the firm are many and of the best kind, including several of the best brands of wines
and spirits, whiskies and stout, liqueurs, brandies, cordials, ales, punch and lemon squash, blue, starch, and grate and metal polish; and wherever business is likely to be obtained there their travellers are to be found. The block of their premises which appears on this page gives a fair idea of the large two-story and basement warehouse in Cliff Street, and in addition to these the Bond and Free Stores situated in Essex Street consist of three large warehouses filled with the various stocks of merchandise always required to be on hand to fulfil the orders continually claiming attention. JOHN HENRY PAYNE, Manager of the above business, was born at Bunbury on October 7, 1867, and is a son of the late Mr. George C. Payne, a member of the Civil Service of the State. He was educated at the
Fremantle State school, and upon concluding his studies at the age of sixteen entered the establishment of the late Mr. John McCleery, wine and spirit merchant, with whom he continued for three years. He left this employ in order to gain experience in banking, and became
an officer in the National Bank of Australasia at Fremantle, three years later joining the staff of the Adelaide Steamship Company, in the service of which he spent eleven years. Upon his retirement from the Steamship Company he accepted the position of accountant with the firm of Lionel Samson & Son, and held the post until the death of the previous manager, the late Mr. P. C. J. Campbell, in 1902, when he was appointed to take control of affairs, and has continued in this capacity ever since. Outside of business matters he is Trustee and Treasurer of the Fremantle Literary Institute and is a member of the Committee of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Payne takes a deep interest in matters connected with the Church of England, and is Warden of St. John’s Church at Fremantle. He is a
member of the Fremantle Club and is associated as a playing member with the Fremantle Bowling Club. In 1892 he married Laura Evelina, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Smith Bond, of Westminster, England, and has two sons and a daughter.
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Lionel Samson & Sons’ premises, Fremantle.
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D. & J. FOWLER, Limited. This immense mercantile firm which had its inception in South Australia in the early fifties of the nineteenth century, and now has its London
approved design facilitate the handling of heavy goods. The house is now recognized as the leading establishment of its kind in Western Australia, and branches have been
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D & J. Fowler, Limited's Premises at Kalgoorlie.
house and ramifications extending throughout the various States of the Commonwealth, first opened for business in Western Australia at Fremantle on October 1, 1896. Within ten years its trade had trebled, making it necessary to seek larger premises, and the present fine warehouse was erected, covering the whole block of land reaching from Henry to Packenham Streets.
The imposing pile of buildings, with its handsome frontage to Henry Street, presents a valuable addition to the architecture of the town and besides the main structure embraces commodious stores at the rear. The interior displays much beauty of design coupled with utilitarian values, and the result is a splendid example of a thoroughly well - appointed, up-to-date building, comprising entrance hall, counting-house, offices, sales- and sample - rooms, and all other conveniences. Premier consideration has been given to the arrangements for .light and ventilation, and lifting appliances of the most
opened at Perth and Kalgoorlie, while the name of D. & J. Fowler, Limited, has long since become a household word even in the most remote regions of the State. The early history of this important trading corporation is one of great interest. In the year 1854 it was
founded by the brothers James and David Fowler, in premises situated in King William Street, Adelaide. The commencement of the second decade of the firm’s existence witnessed its establishment in a more commodious building in the vicinity of the former place of business, and early in the seventies trading operations had increased to such an extent that large stores were erected on McLaren Wharf, Port Adelaide. An excellent site, facing the new docks, subsequently was secured, on which the present fine building owned by the firm was reared, and the city premises were augmented by the erection of a large warehouse with a floorage space of 45,000 ft. In course of time an extensive shipping business was undertaken by the firm, which also acts as agent® at Port Adelaide for various mercantile trading companies. It has also large interests in the milling industry, being part-owners of the Adelaide Milling Company, Limited, and has included in the immense sphere of its operations the cultivation of the vine over a large area in the Barossa district of South Australia, and the conduct of an extensive winery at Kalimna, near the town of Angaston. This district being regarded as a most favoured locality for the production of wine grapes and other fruits, the rich soil and climate bringing them to
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D. & J. fowler, Limited’s business premises in South Australia.
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perfection, the wines produced are full-bodied and exceedingly palatable. In 1906 a well-equipped factory was erected by the firm on North Terrace, Adelaide, in close proximity to the Central Railway goods-yard, and at this establishment, now so widely known as the “Lion” Factory, are prepared and manufactured a large assortment of household necessities which find their way into use in the thousands of homes throughout the Commonwealth. Among these are the celebrated and popular brand of “Am-goorie” tea, prepared in four grades (Special, Nos. 1, 2, and 3), Red and White “Paou Chung” and “Owl” tea, and numerous other brands of China and Ceylon teas. The celebrated “Lion” self-raising flour and a great number of other foodstuffs bearing the “Lion” or “Alola” brands are also manufactured, spices are ground and packed for the Australian markets, and various other commodities prepared in an attractive and easily-handled form. The firm holds many important English agencies, chief among which are J. and J. Coleman, Limited, mustards, etc.; J. S. Fry & Sons, cocoas and
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chocolates; Crosse & Blackwell, Limited; Gillard & Co., pickles and
D. & J. Fowler, limited’s premises,
sauces; Bovril, Limited; Cerebos Salt, Limited; R. S. Hudson, Limited, soap extracts; Huntley and
Palmer, Limited, biscuits; the Bur-nese Alps Milk Co.’s celebrated
Murray street, Perth.
“Sledge” brand unsweetened milk; Fussell &. Co.’s Dahl cream; the “Sunshine” Custard Co.’s vanilla cream, etc. D. & J. Fowler, Limited, also represent the Alaska Packers’ Association, being agents for their well-known “Horseshoe” and other brands of salmon. They are agents in Western Australia for the British Imperial Oil Company, Limited, “Shell” brand of kerosene, motor spirit, benzine, engine oil, etc. “Shell” spirit is most popular with the owners of motor-cars the world over. This spirit has an enormous sale, which shows a big increase year by year, and holds numerous world records gained on the roads and on the racing tracks against the keenest competition. The wonderful speed of over two miles a minute, equal to 127 miles per hour, has been achieved with the aid of “Shell” spirit, and on the Brooklands track, under test conditions, the record distance of 42 miles was covered by a 20 horse-power car on a single gallon of the spirit. The vast oil stores located at North Fremantle provide accommodation for an immense stock, which never falls below 60,000 cases. The firm’s Australian agencies include the Sydney Meat Preserving Company, tinned meats; Dyason & Sons, Limited, sauces and cordials; Laver Brothers, canned vegetables; W. Arnott, Limited, specially oelebrated milk arrowroot biscuits and Sao cream crackers; the
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Co vent Garden Packing Company; Maypole soaps, etc. The present Board of Directors is constituted of the following gentlemen:—Messrs. James Richard Fowler (Chairman), James Fowler, R. J. Phillips, G. Fowler Stewart, E. Allnutt, E. V. Joyner, and F. W. Collingwood, the Managing Director in Western Australia being Mr. E. Allnutt, to whom personal reference is made in the section of this work devoted to the Fremantle Harbour Trust.
when twenty-seven years of age commenced business on his own account as above, on a site formerly occupied by his father, Mr. Samuel Moore, who had established himself in commercial pursuits at the Port as far back as 1840. In the first instance the present firm was known as Messrs. J. H. Monger & Co., but in 1867 the other partner, Mr. Monger, withdrew, and several years after Mr. Moore took in as partners Messrs. J. M. Ferguson and A. F.
into a company. The original stone grinders quarried at Greenmount-are still to be seen at the firm’s house of business. In connection with the mill the firm owned a schooner which traded in general merchandise between Fremantle, Dongara, and Geraldton, and brought shipments of wheat and other produce to the port of Fremantle. In April, 1900, Mr. W. D. Moore disposed of the business to his son, Mr. G. F. Moore. Mr. W.
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W. D. Moore & Co.-s Hardware Stores, Henry Street, Fremantle.
W. D. MOORE & CO., general merchants and importers, wine and spirit merchants, Henry and Pack-enham Streets, Fremantle. The establishment of this enterprise dates back to 1862, when the late Mr. William Dalgety Moore, father of the present proprietor, opened up in business in unpretentious premises in Henry Street, which originally were occupied by the Western Australian Bank when it first opened its doors to the general public. The late Mr. W. D. Moore was born at the Oakover, in the Swan district, in 1835. He received his education locally, and
Durlacher. After these partners had retired from the firm Dalgety and Co., Limited, purchased the shipping and wool branches of the concern, Mr. W. D. Moore retaining the general mercantile business. It was carried on by him until 1900, and steadily and consistently he increased his operations until it came to occupy a foremost place among the best Australian houses. Mr. Moore was a man of great energy and enterprise, and about 1876 established a flour-mill at Fremantle, the first of its kind in Western Australia, which he kept going for twenty years, when it was converted
D. Moore’s name is indelibly associated with many large commercial ventures in the State, his purchase at auction for £22,000 of the splendid “Cheriton” property, which he afterwards sold to Messrs. Harper, Edgar, & Wedge, being regarded as one of the most spirited enterprises of the time. He also became the proprietor of “Quindalup” jarrah timber station in Western Australia. His adventures in the pearling industry on the Nor.’-West and Shark Bay coasts make fascinating history, and the find of one pearl alone which returned him the large sum of £1,500 rendered the pur-
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suit a sufficiently profitable one. At Cossack and Roebourne be established an importing business and distributing store under the name of the “North-West Australian Mercantile Company,” which he afterwards sold to his son, Mr. Charles
E. Moore. The premises occupied by the firm of Messrs. W. D. Moore and Co. at Fremantle consist of two large commodious buildings with frontages of 99 ft. to Henry
ture of pumps for raising water from underground. Deserving of special mention is the famed “Air-moloo” windmill, the popularity of which among the pastoralists in the Nor.’-West and in the other States is something remarkable. The tower of the windmill is specially constructed to withstand the fierce onslaught of the willy-willy common to the Nor.’-West, and the design has been very successful. Thousands
and here also is kept a very large stock of general groceries, wines and spirits, hardware of every description, household requisites, and Canadian chairs and fancy tables, the latter line being a feature of the firm’s business to which special attention is given. At the rear is located the factory, which is fitted up with a complete plant for the preparation of the many proprietary lines turned out by the firm.
J. & W. BATEMAN, wholesale
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W. D. Moore &. Co.’s Premises, Henry Street, Fremantle,
Street, and reaching back to Pack-enham Street, a distance of some 300 ft. The building nearer to High Street is specially designed and fitted for the handling of heavy goods, and contains an extensive stock of merchandise. Part of it is devoted to a private bond, in which the various brands of wines and spirits handled by the firm are stored. Gasolene engines for farming and general irrigation purposes are kept on hand, and a speciality is made of the manufac-
of these mills have been erected in the pastoral areas of Western Australia, an expert being specially employed to supervise their erection. This expert spends most of his time in the northern country, and was the first to proceed overland by motor-car from Roebourne to Port Hedland and thence via Onslow and Carnarvon to Perth. In the main establishment, a two-storied building with an imposing frontage to Henry Street, the firm’s offices are located,
grocers, shipping and insurance brokers, wine and spirit merchants, ship chandlers and general ironmongers, Fremantle, Perth, and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. This old-established business was founded in 1860 by the late Mr. John Bateman, who came to Western Australia from England in 1830. Shortly after its inception he was joined by his brother, Mr. Walter Bateman, and in the early days of its history the firm was engaged chiefly in a vigorous shipping trade.
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The construction of sailing vessels was successfully undertaken at Fremantle, Western Australian jarrah being found well suited to this purpose, and launching was effected by means of a temporary slipway erected across the roadway to the water side. Several schooners were also purchased in England, and the firm had a fleet of nine or ten vessels trading on the high seas and round the Australian coast. Before the advent of steamers the coastal trade was practically in their hands, and this led to their undertaking the transport of cargoes to and from China, the Straits Settlements, Java, and Mauritius. An extensive trade was also carried on with the Eastern States, the local products of. timber,
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sandalwood, horses, etc., finding ready markets elsewhere, while the ships came back loaded with sugar, wheat, flour, and other commodities. The firm’s vessels also secured almost the whole of the coastal passenger traffic of those early days, and a notable feature of the service under the primitive conditions then obtaining was the small number of mishaps that occurred. The sugar-laden brigantine “Bungaree,” on her voyage from Java to Fremantle, was wrecked off Safety Bay, in the vicinity of which the fore-and-aft schooner “Star” also went ashore when returning from a whaling cruise. Insurance offices being non-existent in the State at that time the loss of these vessels fell entirely on the firm. The late Mr. John Bateman, besides being personally concerned in various whaling enterprises, also engaged in
the pearling industry at an early stage in the firm’s history. As the import trade increased the partners realized their position as importers, and their vessels became well known in Australasian and Asiatic ports, whence valuable cargoes were conveyed to Fremantle, and in course of time they became universal providers, in a literal sense, to the re-
joint management of Messrs. John Wesley Bateman and Lewis Lindsay Bateman, sons of the deceased. The late Mr. J. W. Bateman was President of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce during five years of the most important period of its history, and on his retirement was presented with tangible tokens of the appreciation in which his services were held
Photo by C. E. Farr.
J & W. Bateman's Premises, Murray Street, Perth
tail distributers in the Western State. In 1872 Mr. Walter Bateman retired from the business which was carried on until 1900 by his brother, who in that year disposed of it to his son, the late Mr. John Wesley Bateman, who had managed its internal affairs since the last-mentioned year. This gentleman continued sole proprietor until his death in May, 1907, at the age of fifty-five, since which date it has been conducted under the original title by the trustees of his estate, under the
by his fellow-members. The present premises occupied by the firm have frontages to Henry, Croke, and Mouatt Streets, and cover nearly 3 acres of ground. The main frontage faces Henry Street, where the two-storied structure of simple design presents a substantial appearance. The floor space, which in 1870 consisted of 1,000 sq. ft., now covers well over 60,000 sq. ft., and the warehouse includes a manufacturing department, where the preparation of coffee, essences, condiments,
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baking-powder, etc., is carried on, and tea is packed for the trade. Messrs. J. & W. Bateman are proprietors of the "Royal Seal” brand, under which the firm's proprietaries are placed on the market and find their way to all parts of the State.
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Mr. John Wesley Bateman.
The staff has increased from four or five employes in the early period of the firm’s development to over seventy at the present time. In order to cope with the extensive trade done on the goldfields, in 1905 a branch was opened at Kalgoorlie, and five years later special premises were erected in Murray Street, Perth, comprising two floors and a basement, the latter providing
sample-rooms, and here a general stock of the goods regularly dealt in by the firm is also kept. A special feature is made of fulfilling the requirements of pastoralists, and a large connection has been established with the Nor.’-West. The pearling industry is also specially catered for by the firm, which has a resident agent at Broome and other representatives who keep in touch with every district in the State. The firm’s reputation as ship chandlers has long been established and it does a large business in this department. Its agencies are numerous and include the United States Steel Products Company’s “Carnegie” X bar-iron, and the famous steel “Star” windmill manufactured by Messrs. Flint & Walling, Kendallville, Indiana, U.S.A. For the past thirty years the makers have been giving every attention to the perfecting of this windmill, and the “Star” is specially adapted to suit Australian conditions, being of great strength and minimum weight. The special spread tower is designed for use in districts subject to cyclonic disturbances, and properly erected always gives satisfaction. It is constructed in sections, a valuable feature being that, by the removal of a few bolts, every working part may be replaced with the greatest possible ease without any necessity for dismantling the mill. Ball-bearings have been introduced and there is a governing arrangement to enable the mill to adjust itself automatically to the wind conditions. The firm keeps a full range of duplicate parts, one of
the advantages which renders the “Star” windmill so popular among Western Australian pastoralists. Other agencies are those of the “Hercules” galvanized special steel fencing wires of fine gauge, combined with high-breaking strain ; the Holzapfel’s Compositions Company,
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Mr. Lewis Lindsay Bateman.
Limited, Newcastle-on-Tyne, “Lago-line” paints and “International” anti-fouling and anti-corrosive compositions, which are extensively used in the Royal Navy and by most of the important shipping companies; Fison’s sheep-dip, manufactured by the Chemical Union, Limited, Norwich, England; and “Rainbow” dyes, the special feature of which is that they may be used for wool, cotton, and silk alike. The firm is also agent for Usher’s O.V.G. special reserve whisky, which has been selling in Australian markets for the past forty years and has a world-wide reputation; for Ainslie’s Scotch whisky; A.V.H. Geneva and Schnapps; Messrs. White, Tomkins, and Courage, jelly crystals, etc.; Messrs. Alfred Bird & Sons, custard and egg powders; Messrs. Thomas Hayward & Sons, "Military” pickles; Messrs. J. Robertson & Sons, London, "Golden Shred” and "Silver Shred” marmalade and jams. Messrs. J. & W. Bateman are the local representatives for the United States and Australasia Steamship Company, Limited, line of steamers, trading regularly between New York, Fremantle, and the Eastern States, and are represented in London by Messrs. R. T. Turnbull and Co., 4, Lloyd’s Avenue, E.C.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
J. W. BATEMAN'S PREMISES, HENRY STREET, FREMANTLE.
THE COLONIAL STORES, Guildford. The extensive drapery, grocery, and hardware business carried on by Mr. William Padbury at
Guildford was founded some forty years ago by Messrs. Padbury, Loton, & Co., who several years later disposed of it to Mr. Allpike. Owing to failing health that gentleman relinquished business affairs, and the concern at Guildford was purchased by Mr. Padbury. The establishment in its early days gave no indication of the magnitude the turnover would assume in years to come, and no noticeable increase was visible until Mr. Padbury took control. Originally confined to a single frontage, the present roomy structure is the result of additions made from time to time in order to provide room for the ever-increasing stock of useful and artistic goods. The firm transacts an immense business throughout the State, and caters specially for the requirements of agriculturists and pastoralists, even in the most distant localities.
The conduct of the various departments is in charge of experts, who in turn are responsible to Mr. Padbury, who exercises a strict supervision over all. Immense stocks of every conceivable line of goods are carried, the whole being valued at from £50,000 to £60,000. Groceries of every description, hardware, drapery, ironmongery, oils, colours, paints, builders’ requisites, agricultural im-
plements, roofing and galvanized iron, fencing wire, etc., are sold, as well as furniture, the last being manufactured at Guildford from
well-seasoned timber, of which a big stock is carried. An unlimited assortment of French bedsteads, dining and bedroom suites, upholstered suites, and bedding of all kinds is to be obtained, and, in fact, everything from “a needle to an anchor” may be purchased in this veritable treasure-house. The firm is agent for Mount Lyell superphosphates, man-
ures, and fertilizers, and Mr. Padbury is a direct importer of jute goods from Calcutta. The firm has its own Home-buyer to attend to this important department, and buys in the open marts of the world and direct from the manufacturer, thereby securing goods at the lowest
possible figure to the benefit of the consumer. In season Mr. Padbury is a large, straight-out buyer of wool and skins, and also makes advances on the same commodities for shipment to the London markets. The growers’ interests are specialy studied and sales are effected at a minimum expense with considerable saving in the way of exchange, freight, etc. The stores adjoining the main building are heavily stocked with chaff, oats, barley, etc., locally grown, and produce of all kinds. The drapery department carries a large general stock of up-to-date goods and a fine assortment of fashionable millinery, and the firm’s prices for all items are remarkably low, considering the high-class quality of goods supplied. Close at hand are the fine bulk stores at Guildford, and the branches at Toodyay and Moora are supplied from here. The Toodyay business, established early in February, 1909, is an important concern, employing fourteen hands and controlled by a capable manager. The Moora branch is also under excellent management, and eight hands are required to meet the demands of the trade. The Peerless Flour-mills at Guildford were built by Mr. Padbury’s uncle in 1899. The most modern machinery known to the trade has been installed, and this year (1912) over
100,000 bags of corn will be milled into flour, bran, and pollard. The
mill is connected with the main railway line by a siding, which enables the firm to deal in an expeditious way with the heavy freight daily passing in and out of the establishment. “Peerless” flour finds a ready sale in Western Australia, and large quantities are shipped to buyers’
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orders to the Eastern States, where its excellent qualites quickly attracted the attention of the important buyers of this staple commodity. The products of the mill are also sent to Europe, and each year witnesses a healthy increase in the cargoes forwarded to the crowded centres of the Old World. WILLIAM PADBURY is the eldest son of the late Mr. William Padbury, of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England, and came to Western Australia with his father in the P. and 0. steamer “Oriental.” Landing at Albany, father and son were met by the late Mr. Walter Padbury, a well-known merchant and pastora-list of Western Australia, and immediately proceeded to Koojan, where Mr. M. T. Padbury has a station. Mr. Padbury, sen., continued to reside with his son at Koojan until the time of his decease in 1905. In England he was intimately associated with farming pursuits, as were his forefathers for many generations before him. The subject of our notice was born on August 31, 1867, and educated at the Charlbury Grammar School. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to the grocery and provision trade with a Mr. Joseph Bowl, and when his indentures expired at the end of four years he transferred his services to the firm of Harry Clifford, of Finsbury Park, with whom he gained much valuable experience during a period extending over about eight years. Subsequent to his arrival in this State, and after a stay of a month at Koojan, he went to Guildford and joined the late Mr. John Allpike, who had purchased the
business from Messrs. Padbury, Loton, & Co. At the end of two years, Mr. Allpike’s health failing, Mr. Padbury bought the concern,
and since that time has continued as sole proprietor. Mr. Padbury is closely identified with the affairs of the Guildford municipality, and never allows an opportunity of furthering the interests of the district to. evade his vigorous attention. At the request of a private deputation he consented to nominate for a seat in the local Council, and in 1910 was returned as a member of that body. Among the many honorary offices held by him may be mentioned that of Justice of the Peace, which com-
mission he received in June, 1901; Vice-President of the Chamber of Manufactures; Vice-President of the Royal Agricultural Society and of the
Swan Agricultural and Horticultural Society, of which he was President for three terms; also Vice-President of the Moora Agricultural Society. He is a member of the Grain Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, which fixes the standard for the year, and is Chairman of the Insurance Office of Australia. Since its inception he has acted as Vice-President of the Y.M.C.A., and as a stanch supporter of the Anglican Church has been Rector’s Warden at Guildford for many years. He is President of
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Interior View of No. 1 Shed, showing Flour Stacks,
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the Perth Dog and Poultry Society and a Patron of the Midland Junction Poultry Society. Though a life member of the Guildford Bowling Club, his varied business interests prevent his indulgence in any especial form of recreation, the whole of his time being devoted to the demands of his commercial life and the varied societies of which he is a member. He married in January, 1897, Eveline Mary, daughter of the late Mr. William! Wellman, of “Rosehill,” a very old farming identity of Guildford, and has issue a son and four daughters.
PATERSON & COMPANY, LIMITED, general merchants and importers, Leake and Packenham Streets, Fremantle, and at Northam. The firm of Paterson & Co. was established by Mr. Duncan Paterson in February, 1905, and in July of the same year turned into a limited oompany. In May, 1909, Mr. G. G. John took a place on the Board of Directors, previous to which he had acted as secretary, the duties of which post were then taken over by Mr. Eric Warren. The Board to-day consists of Mr. Duncan Paterson and Mr. G. G. John. As
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Duncan Paterson.
produce merchants the firm holds pride of place over all others, and from the very commencement the concern has been a great success. Quantities of goods are regularly im-
ported from the East, and the firm has the sole agency for Lysaght’s wire-netting, which is manufactured in the mother State and sold all over Australia, the netting being favoured by farmers and pastoralists. English and German wire and wirenetting is also stocked, and the . firm acts as selling agents for Florida and Mount Lyell fertilizers, the sales of which are leaping forward as year succeeds year. An important agency which they also hold is for the “Southern Cross” windmills and boring plants, great numbers of which have been installed throughout the State, particularly in the agricultural and pastoral areas. The "Southern Cross” mill is very popular with farmers and pastoralists, as to it is attached a patent automatic oiling arrangement which does away with the necessity of oiling the plant at frequent intervals. The oil-box requires filling but once in each twelve months, and thereafter no further attention is necessary, as this automatic feed attachment provides a regular supply of oil to all bearings. Again, the firm is the largest exporter of sandalwood from the State, and many thousands of tons of this valuable commodity are annually shipped to the Far-East markets. Big buyers of all locally-grown products, the firm has buying and selling representatives in almost every town in the State, and in addition their travelling representatives visit every centre of note and traverse the Nor’-West country. Daily auction sales of produce are held at the Perth Metropolitan Markets, and this arm of the firm’s operations is in the hands of Mr. Louis Noseda, an auctioneer of great experience. The firm is well represented in Melbourne, and regular shipments of produce and other lines are made to Fremantle. Paterson and Co., Limited, hold the agencies for D. & J. McCaPum’s “Perfection” and “Trophy” whiskies, for which there is an excellent demand, and for “Oxymel” oils and paints. The premises in Leake and Packenham Streets have a handsome exterior, while the interior arrangements are excellently adapted to the easy handling of goods. The available floor space is equal to about 20,000 square ft., and most of this is occupied by
a heavy stock of wooipacks, corn-sacks, branbags, twines, etc., and farmers’ and pastoralists’ requisites. Under the energetic guidance of Mr. Duncan Paterson the business had grown to such an extent that within
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Mr. Griffith G. John.
recent times it was found advisable to divide it into several departments. The principal department is that devoted to the handling of general merchandise, and under the vigorous management of Mr. Stanley Bur-ridge this section has gone ahead in a most satisfactory manner. In each of the other departments an expert manager has been appointed, the whole coming under the direct supervision of Mr. Griffith John. DUNCAN PATERSON, the governing director, is the youngest son of the late D. W. Paterson, solicitor, who in his time, was one of Scotland’s foremost lawyers. He was born at Edinburgh in the sixties, and educated at a public school and at the University of Edinburgh, gaining his early commercial training with Scott & Co., merchants, of London. His abilities soon gained him promotion and a few years later he was transferred to Singapore, where ultimately he was placed in control of the shipping branch of the firm’s business at that centre, which was carried on under the style of Guthrie <fc Co. In 1898 Mr. Paterson was selected for the important task of opening a branch of Guthrie and Co. at Fremantle, and this he succeeded in doing with conspicuous
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success. Under his able direction the business continued to flourish, and the prosperity which attended the venture may safely be attributed to Mr. Paterson’s business acumen, probity, and strong personal attainments. In 1905 he resigned his post as manager, and within a few years of his relinquishing the command the firm of Guthrie & Co. ceased to do business in the State. Shortly after resigning his post Mr. Paterson established the present prosperous business, and here again his attainments were attended by
duce Merchants’ Association, and he is a warm supporter of the Presbyterian Church. At one time he was fifty - mile champion cyclist of Edinburgh University, and all outdoor sports claim his hearty support. He is a member of the Fremantle Golf Club, and takes his recreation on the links. Mr. Paterson married in the year 1892 Louise Veronica, daughter of the late Dr. Bethune, of Toronto, Canada, whose father was one of the pioneers of the famous Hudson Bay Company. He has a family of three daughters. GRIF-
etc. Some six years later he joined the firm of Guthrie & Co. in a clerical capacity, and left them in 1905 to act as accountant in the newly-founded firm of Paterson and Co. Some time later he was promoted to be Secretary, and in 1908 received appointment to the Board of Directors, on which he still continues to act. He is a Director of the Fremantle Building and Investment Society. Business occupies most of his time, but in earlier days he was a keen supporter of outdoor sports and played both cricket and football.
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PATERSON A CO.. LIMITED'S PREMISES, LEAKE AND PACKENHAM STREETS. FREMANTLE.
characteristic results. The success of the new venture was assured from the start, and the concern expands from day to day. In January, 1910, Mr. Paterson left for the Far East, India, and England, on a business trip, and returned to Western Australia in October of that year, only to leave again for England three months later, to further his overseas’ interests. For two terms he was President of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, and also of the Pro-ss2
FITH G. JOHN, managing director, was born at Fremantle in the year 1878, and is a son of the late William Thomas John, who for fifteen years was a member of the Fremantle Municipal Council, during which he strongly advocated the municipalization of the tramways and electriclighting services for the town. The subject under review received his education locally, and entered the employ of J. M. Ferguson, as junior, after two years joining his father, who was in business as a draper,
Mr. John also has to his credit tiie “Diamond Jubilee” Sheffield Handicap, which he won in the year 1897. With the late T. O’Beirne he founded the South Fremantle Football Club, of which subsequently he was elected a life member. Mr. John is a keen supporter of the game as it is played under Australian rules. He was married in the year 1903 to a daughter of Mr. F. S. Rickards, of Melbourne, formerly of Bendigo. His private address is Leake Street, Cottesloe.
WITTMAN MOTOR SUPPLY COMPANY, Limited, 1,056, Hay Street West (opposite Parliament House), Perth. (J. A. Wittman, A. Anderson, and A. Adams.) That the time is rapidly approaching when the horse will become almost as rare as the classic “Dodo” can no longer be denied, as each round of the calendar witnesses a marked decrease in the number of animals pressed into service both for private and commercial
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uses and a correspondingly large increase in the mechanical vehicles brought into requisition. While it is to be admitted that the march of events in this direction is much more noticeable in the busy arenas of the Old World, yet ample evidence is not lacking to indicate that the Australian States are not far behind in the evolutions of the “Iron Age.” Particularly noticeable has this been in the Western State, where the motor industry has expanded in a manner little short of miraculous, and shows a robust growth with every sign of continuance for many years to come. Parallel with this fillip to the industry came the establishment of the Wittman Motor Company and the erection and equipment of what must be one of the most up-to-date manufactories in the Australian Commonwealth. Following the return from England and the Continent of Mr. J. A. Wittman, bringing with him the agency for the famous selfstarting S.C.A.T. car, came a combination of interests, resulting in the formation of the present Company to take over the S.C.A.T. agency and the freehold property on which the
extensive garage was afterwards built. Filled with the determination to be well abreast of the times, the directors secured other important agencies, including the “Itala,” “Crossley,” “Silent Sunbeam,” and “Overland,” and imported from England and America a plant of the most up-to-date machinery known to the trade. The plant, especially selected by Mr. Adams, has been duly installed in the firm’s premises, which have a frontage to Hay Street of 60 ft. and a depth of 200 ft. The structure is of brick and iron, and embraces a showroom (erected to street levels) 45 by 50 ft., fitted with large plate-glass windows and handsomely-decorated interior, illumination being provided by a series of electric lights. In the main garage provision has been made for years to come, lockers have been installed for the convenience of customers, and a corner set aside for the storage of parts, tyres, etc. The workshop occupies the northern corner, and outside the main building is the petrol store and lavatories and a stand for cleaning down cars. The garage is conveniently arranged so that entrance may be obtained either from Hay or George Streets. The plant includes a large 8-in. centre lathe for turning out such jobs as crank shafts, boring cylinders, etc., a small 6-in. centre lathe for light work, a milling machine manufactured by the Cincinnatti Company for bevel gear cutting, hexagons, squares, helical gears, etc., with a complete set of milling cutters, a 22-in. Rockford driller for boring, etc., and an 8-in. power Hack saw, capable of cutting an 8-in. steel bar. Power is supplied by a 5-horsepower electric motor connected to a 2-in. main driving shaft fitted with ball-bearings throughout. A fitter’s bench runs the whole length of the shop, and is replete with vices, tools, and drawers, while electric fittings have been placed over each stand and machine so that work may be proceeded with both by night and day. First and foremost of the several agencies held by the firm is the self-starting S.C.A.T. car, the performances of which are almost too well known to need recapitulation. In the construction of the S.C.A.T. the makers have aimed at producing a moderately-powered car of high quality, and if the wonderful increase in the sales each year is any guide, they have succeeded in rendering full satisfaction to the motoring public. An important self-starting
device, which has proved its efficiency in a most satisfactory manner, has been affixed to the car, and the attachment considerably adds to the pleasure and comfort of driving. The S.C.A.T. is built in two models of 15- and 22-horsepower respectively, although the R.A.C. rating is an increase on these powers. The 15-horsepower 4-cylinder engine is cast en bloc, the 22-horsepower in pairs, the design otherwise being the same, and is noted for its simplicity of construction and finished appearance. The chassis is of pressed steel, and the four forward speeds and reverse are operated by a single lever, very silent in action and easy of manipulation. The carriage work is highly finished in a variety of designs, detachable wire wheels are fitted, and in general equipment and style the car stands in a class by itself. The S.C.A.T. was awarded the Grand Prix at the Turin International Exhibition, and was the winner of the Targa-Florio contest in 1911. Next comes the “Itala” car, famous as the winner of the Pekin to Paris international contest, without doubt the severest test
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Mb. Arthur Anderson.
to which a motor car has ever been subjected. Leaving Pekin, the “Itala,” a 35-horsepower touring car, penetrated the unknown interior of China, crossed snow-capped mountains, forded innumerable rivers, and reached Paris in forty-four days, twenty days ahead of the next competitor to arrive. From 1905 to 1912 the “Itala” registered many fine performances, and placed to its credit innumerable cups, gold medals, etc.,
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both on the road and racing track. The “Itala” engine is turned out in half a dozen different models, the power varying from 14-20 to 60-70, the latter engine having six cylinders. The remaining five have four cylinders cast en bloc, with the exception of the 35-horsepower, which is in pairs. The back axle of the “Itala” is of great strength, providing for the carriage of heavy weights, and is fixed to strong springs of ample flexibility. The chassis is of pressed steel, and the gears, operated by side lever, run in an oil bath, carefully protected to exclude dust. In the 25-horsepower and 35-horsepower engines the functions of the ordinary poppet valves have been superseded by a rotary distributor worked by a shaft which takes the place of two cam shafts. Each car is fitted with four forward speeds and reverse, and the whole of the mechanism is so simply constructed that it can be taken down with the greatest of ease. The “Silent Sunbeam” is an English car, and the makers claim it to be “the embodiment of all that is perfect in motorcar construction.” The “Sunbeam” is built in three distinct models, i.e., 12-16, 16-20, and 25-30-horsepower, the latter being a 6-cylinder engine. These cars are so designed that all parts are accessible for easy and quick adjustment, and four forward speeds and reverses, controlled by clutch and foothold pedals, are provided. There are many types of bodies to choose from, all of which are handsomely designed and finished in a manner such as would satisfy the most exacting connossieur. The “Sunbeam” has been severely tested on several occasions, and has always come through with colours flying. In the Scottish reliability trials, held from 1903 to 1909, the “Sunbeam” gained the highest possible points, never having to stop for mechanical troubles of any kind. The car won more than forty cups and medals in 1910, and during 1911 improved on these performances to the extent of fifty cups, gold and silver medals, etc. In the great French contests over the Dieppe circuit in June, 1912 (open to allcomers), the 12-16 “Sunbeam” cars registered a phenomenal performance by securing first, second, and third prizes in the small-power class, averaging over 60 miles per hour for the full distance. The “Crossley” car, manufactured by Crossley of gas-engine fame, is turned out in two models of 15-horsepower and 20-horsepower respectively. The
outstanding features of the 1912 models are simplicity, power, and flexibility, combined with handsome coach work and the maximum of comfort. Recognizing the great demand for a high-power car at a figure somewhat below the ruling prices of standard English and Continental makes led the Company to secure the agency for the “Overland” car, turned out by the Willys Overland Company, of Ohio, America. Five different models of this car are placed on the market, the indicated horsepower ranging from 25 to 45, and the seating accommodation from two to seven persons. The model catalogued as 58R is a 25-horsepower two-seated car fitted with planetary gears, two speeds, forward and reverse, worked by foot-levers. The
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Mb.. Alfred Adams.
engine is cast in four separate cylinders, and the big bonnet gives the car a smart and racy appearance. The chassis is a fine piece of workmanship, and the car, being well-sprung, is most comfortable to ride in. Dual ignition is provided, hood, screen, lamps, and tools, and for £285, at which price this car is sold, it must be the best value obtainable in the motoring world. Model 59T is a five-seater car of 30-horsepower, with three speeds, forward and reverse, operated by a side leaver. Close attention has been given to the body, which is roomy and finished in high-class style, the colour generally being a deep-blue. Model 59R, a two-seater, is built on the same lines as the model last described, both of which are fully
equipped with hood, screen, tools, etc. Model 60T is practically the same in construction, except that the engine power has been raised to 35. Model 61R is a 45-horsepower two-passenger torpedo roadster of great reserve power and flexibility. This chassis is also fitted as a five-passenger touring car and with a torpedo body seating four persons, these two models being handsomely finished in Brewster green, with ivory lines and nickel parts. Although only recently introduced into Western Australia, the Overlands have already demonstrated their worth, and to meet the exceptional demand for these cars the firm has arranged for special shipments from the American house. ARTHUR ANDERSON was born at Huntingdon, England, in 1867, and came to Australia in 1886, after a tour through the Eastern States, settling in North Queensland, where he turned his attention to gold- and tin-mining and general prospecting for a few years. At a later date he was similarly engaged in the Herberton district, and was one of the original shareholders of the Muldiva Fields, now known as Chillagoe. He was also engaged in other mining ventures, but relinquished all his interests in 1894, in which year- he came to Western Australia, Proceeding to Kalgoorlie, in conjunction with Mr. Fitzpatrick he established the firm of Fitzpatrick & Anderson, contractors, etc., and carried on business until 1900, when the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Anderson set up for himself as a timber merchant and importer. In 1911 he joined Mr. Wittman and Mr. Adams in the Wittman Motor Company, Limited. ALFRED ADAMS, the Managing Director, served his time with the firm of Hawthorn & Leslie, locomotive builders, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. He next entered the employ of the Great Western Railway Company, large builders of vehicles for commercial purposes, and during his connection with this company gained a comprehensive knowledge of every branch of the motor industry. After three years he gave up his position, and in 1905 came to Western Australia. Subsequently he entered the service of Mr. S. P. Emanuel, with whom he proceeded to England, and made an extended tour of England and Wales. Early in 1909 Mr. Adams purchased a half-interest in the Perth Motor House, and on his return from a second trip to Eng-
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land and the Continent with Mr. Emanuel entered into active management of the business. In the year 1911 he sold his share, and later joined with Mr. J. A. Wittman, the well-known mineowner, and Mr. A. Anderson, of Kalgoorlie, in establishing the present enterprising and progressive trading concern.
C. H. FIELDING, LIMITED, wool-, hide-, and skin-brokers and stock salesmen, Packenham Street, Fremantle. Mr. Charles Haider Fielding, managing director of the firm of C. H. Fielding, Limited, is by birth a South Australian. A son of the late Mr. Edmund Fielding, of
Mb. Chables Haldeb Fielding.
Adelaide, he was born at the favourite watering-place of Glenelg, about 6 miles from the capital, on September 6, 1868. After a preliminary course of education at the local public school he attended an advanced academy in the same town for some time, and at the close of his scholastic career entered upon office life, in which he continued for about a year. Having obtained some insight into mercantile life during this period he became connected with the staff of W. R. Cave & Co., general merchants, of Adelaide, in his seventeenth year. Mr. Fielding was first identified with the wool department of this well-known firm, but subsequently held other positions, and during the twelve years that he spent in the service gained a thorough acquaintance with all the details of management. In 1894 he was transferred to Western Australia to open
a branch of the firm’s business at Fremantle, which he continued to control for about three years. Resigning at the end of this period he established himself on his own account as a wool-broker, etc., in
pute, this branch of the business being personally conducted by Mr. C. H. Fielding. The claims of his office are many and exacting, and he has little leisure in which to devote himself to any form of public ser-
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Interior of Hide department, C. H. Fielding, Limited.
Packenham Street, and having continued successfully for seven years found that his connection had spread over a very wide area. Accordingly, in 1904 he floated his business into a limited liability company, under the title of C. H. Field-
vice. In the Masonic fraternity he ranks as Past Master, and during the lengthy period in which he has been associated with this body has passed through the various chairs of the order. In his youth he was an enthusiastic participator in manly
Photo by C. Farr.
Sheepskin Department, C. H.
ing, Limited, in which he retained the position of managing director. Since that period the business has progressed in a most satisfactory manner, and the field of operations covered by the company extends all over the State. As auctioneers the firm is held in high re-
FIELDING, LIMITED, FREMANTLE.
outdoor games, and is a well-known advocate of all forms of clean sport. Mr. Fielding is a member of the Commercial Travellers’ Club. In 1897 he married Rose, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Day, of Swindon, Wilts, England, and has a son and three daughters.
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FOY & GIBSON Proprietary, Limited, Hay Street, Perth, and at Collingwood and Fitzroy (Victoria), Adelaide, and Brisbane. Conspicuous among the many fine commercial structures which have contributed in so large a measure to the beauty and dignity of Perth City is Messrs. Poy & Gibson’s business premises, extending from Hay Street to St. George’s Terrace, with imposing frontages to both thoroughfares. Situated in the western part of the city, the establishment has four floors and a basement, providing over a quarter of a million square feet of space, to which must be added the area of a fifth storey embraced in the new premises fronting the Terrace, where also a flat roof of large dimensions paved with Neuchatel asphalt has been constructed. The history of the firm, the first lines of which were inscribed in the year 1895, is a triumphant record of constant progress and unvarying success. The foundation of the present huge emporium was set by Mr. George Rae in the year just mentioned, the initial offices being in Murray Street, but these were soon vacated for the more extensive buildings in Hay Street, where the firm still carries on its immense trading operations. In the true sense of the term the firm may be proclaimed “Universal Providers,” and as such it has obtained a wonderful reputation in practically every State in the Commonwealth, Western Australia being no exception to the popular rule. A brilliant beginning was followed up by the eminently successful endeavour to maintain the same degree of excellence in every department, and as season followed season more and more of the fashionable trade of the State flowed through the widely-opened doors. The extraordinary progress made in Western Australia primarily must be attributed to the fact that the huge stocks carried are obtained from a parent em-
porium which controls immense capital, and accordingly is able to buy direct from the manufacturers of the Old World at bedrock prices. Further, the firm has its own large mills and factories, where only the most up-to-date machinery finds a place, which with very keen organization reduces the cost of manufacture to a very fine point. Within the establishment are the usual workrooms, where dressmaking is carried on under the supervision of thoroughly-trained and highly-paid experts, and skilful milliners fashion the beautiful and stylish creations destined to grace many a lovely head. A ready-to-wear department is also catered for, and garments are manufactured by the hundred to supply
the large demand for all kinds of lingerie, children’s clothes, etc., while immense stocks of mantles and costumes and ladies’ and children’s underclothing are obtained from the British and Continental centres famous for the manufacture of these classes of goods. The showrooms are resplendent with beautiful gowns, coats and skirts of the latest cut, evening wraps of every description, while imported millinery models are here displayed to the greatest possible advantage. The male wardrobe has received like careful attention, and gentlemen may here be smartly tailored in the latest styles, while a department of tailor-made suits for immediate wear has become very popular. The firm is a large
manufacturer of furniture of all descriptions, and its factories are fitted up with machinery of the latest English and American design. The showrooms contain a fine selection of dining and bedroom suites, bedsteads, sideboards, etc., and everything required for the complete furnishing of a house may be obtained at a very reasonable outlay. All kinds of groceries and table dainties, Continental condiments, preserves, China, Ceylon, and Indian teas are stocked, and in the hardware branch is to be found a large assortment of ironmongery of all kinds for household, workshop, or other requirements, farming implements, etc. The building has been enlarged from time to time to provide the accom-modation demanded by the expansion of trade, and in 1912 very large additions were made, with a handsome front-a g e to St. George’s Terrace, the premises now covering the full block from Hay Street, a depth of 384 ft. The frontage to Hay Street is 125 ft. and ' to St. George’s Terrace 187 ft., including a block of 62 ft. on which a refrigerator and bulk stores have been placed. The portion of the building facing south consists of five floors, whilst from the flat roof a fine view of the river and surrounding country is to be obtained. A series of three light courts, each 60 feet by 30 feet, provides splendid lighting, and a supplementary system of electric lights has been installed for use as occasion demands. The ceilings, carried out in Canadian pressed steel, handsomely designed, are in excellent taste, and lavatory accommodation has been provided on all floors, while a fireproof staircase makes possible very rapid egress in the event of fire. Since the completion of the south wing of the building all the departments have been rearranged, and the immense stock may be viewed with the greatest comfort.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Premises of Foy a. Gibson Proprietary, Limited, Hay Street Perth.
BOAN BROTHERS, Wellington Street, Perth. (Harry Boan, proprietor.) Emulating the historical gourd in the rapidity of its growth, yet maintaining the stability of an oak, the business of Messrs. Boan Brothers must necessarily take its rightful place in the van of similar enterprises to-day existing in the capital cities of the great Australian Commonwealth. The year 1895 witnessed the foundation of this immense trading concern, and from the very commencement success was assured to the enterprising proprietor. Messrs. Boan Brothers have ever striven to meet the popular fancy in the matter of styles, materials, house-furnishings, and the thousand and one necessities of modern civilized life, and that they have succeeded in striking the nail on the head is amply demonstrated by the unfailing and generous support accorded the firm by the general public. A glance at the history of the business is full of interest for all those to whom the record of successful business enterprise carries stimulus and commands admiration. In 1895 Mr. Harry Boan, from the far cry of Broken Hill, perceived the excellent opening offered for the establishment of an emporium of this kind in the capital city of the West. The mining industry was booming all over the State, and all departments of com-
merce were reaping the benefit of the tide of prosperity and the resulting increase of population. Borne on the crest of the surging wave of humanity rushing pell-mell to the “land of promise” Mr. Boan arrived
Me. Habhy Boan.
at Perth about the middle of the year and proceeded to select a site for his premises. This he found in Wellington Street, at the time only a sand-track, its only ornamentation being a large duckpond on its southern side. He secured the duck-pond in, with the greater portion of
his present frontage overlooking the railway station, at the price of £42 per foot, and a few days later hundreds of men were employed digging the foundations and rearing the walls of the future emporium. The opening day was fixed for November 7, 1895, and so great was the crush and excitement that doors were broken, windows smashed, and damage done to the value of £140; the staff was paralysed with the onrush of the people, and the warehouse had to be closed until the following Tuesday. The commercial wiseacres who had scoffed at the notion of any such business succeeding out of Hay Street found ample opportunity for revising their opinion when the steady trading of successive weeks and months proved beyond shadow of doubt that the new enterprise had come to stay, and, moreover, to make itself a quantity to be reckoned with in the local world of commerce. Within a year workmen were again summoned to make extensive additions to the warehouse, and year by year the business continued to grow until it reached dimensions little short of enormous. Mr. Boan at length realized that the time had arrived to replace the first premises, which were of a temporary character, by a structure more befitting the dignity of his large connection and more suitable in every way to the demands of the trade. With the object of making himself conversant with the latest ideas in warehouse construction he went abroad and personally visited all the principal stores of England and Scotland, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and in 1904 the present handsome building rose, phoenix-like, on the old site, the firm’s business proceeding without interruption during the whole process of transformation. The magnificent frontage is modelled on the style of the most approved Old World emporiums, and the roomy interior is equipped with the latest improvements, is well lighted, lofty, and splendidly ventilated. In 1911 Mr. Boan purchased a block of land immediately at the rear of the Wellington Street store at a cost of £20,000, and erected upon it a handsome building with an imposing frontage to Murray Street. The new structure contains four stories and a basement, with a total floor space of
200,000 square feet, access thus being provided from one street to the other. Groceries, furnishings, iron-
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mongery, and several other departments have been added, so that the firm can indisputably claim the title of universal providers. The garden roof, smokeroom, and refreshment and retiring rooms are all additional attractions, while in the various departments conveniently arranged on each floor is displayed the immense and valuable stock of latest novelties from the best markets of the world. Expert buyers in England, America, and on the Continent keep well abreast of the constantly changing fashions, and the exquisite gowns and chic millinery imported from Paris have made Messrs. Boan Brothers the leaders of style in the western metropolis. Art furniture is imported from England, and the beautiful display of drawing- and bed-room suites in rosewood, walnut, etc., is a feature in the furnishings department. The firm also has its factory at West Perth, equipped with a modern plant driven by electric power, where bedding and furniture of all descriptions are manufactured, the local article meeting with considerable support. The country order department is very popular and has grown to a remarkable extent, and altogether some 400
hands are employed by the firm, the business management of which is in the hands of Mr. Henry Williams. HARRY BOAN, J.P., was born in Victoria in 1860 and received his education at Dunolly, in the same State. He gained an extensive commercial experience in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland until the year 1886, when he joined his brother in establishing the firm of Boan Brothers at Broken Hill. This enterprise proved an immediate success, and to-day the firm is acknowledged as the leading drapery establishment of the Silver City. In 1895 operations were extended to Perth, and five years later Mr. Boan sold his interests in the Broken Hill business and assumed sole proprietorship in Western Australia. Apart from his important commercial transactions Mr. Boan devotes most of his leisure to the “sport of kings.” He is a true sportsman, and the pleasure he derives from his racing string amply recompenses him for the time and money devoted to its upkeep. Mr. Boan is a fine judge of horseflesh and an excellent illustration of his judgment may be found in “Tanami,” which he purchased for £300. “Tanami” sub-
BOAN BROTHERS' NEW PREMISES, MURRAY STREET. PERTH.
sequently won for him over £5,000 in stakes and placed to his credit the New South Wales Derby of 1910. This was Mr. Boan’s first attempt to capture the classic event, and the victory of his horse was a source of great gratification and pleasure to him. Mr. Boan has paid some big figures for his thoroughbreds, notably £1,750 for “Malt-field” and £1,250 for “Maltblossom.” On the Victorian turf Mr. Boan captured
Mr. Henry Williams.
the Gwynne Nursery Handicap in two successive years, first with “Tanami” and then with “Sweet-malt,” and he has many other important races to his credit. Some years ago “Gunlock” won the first W.A. Hunt Club Purse, this being the first occasion on which Mr. Boan’s racing livery was seen on the Australian turf. Hitherto he has raced principally in the Mother State, but in the future his colours (gold, pink, hoops and cap) will be often seen at the meetings of the Western State. Mr. Boan’s name appears on the membership-roll of the leading sporting institutions in Australia, including the V.R.C., the A.J.C., and the W.A.T.C., and he is also a member of the C.T.A. and of the St. John Lodge of Freemasons. HENRY WILLIAMS, General Manager for Messrs. Boan Brothers, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Z. Williams, of Willunga, South Australia, where the subject of our review was born on November 10, 1867. He was educated in his native town and at the Lefevre Peninsula school. South Australia ; at the conclusion of his studies, when about
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sixteen years of age, joining the staff of the National Bank of Australasia. He continued in this institution for ten and a half years, during which time he filled various positions, and was relieving accountant when he resigned from the service in order to enter upon an appointment in the Western Australian Bank in 1895. Less than a year after his arrival Mr. Williams was offered and accepted the position of accountant with his present firm and upon the resignation of Mr. Orton, the former manager of the establishment, in 1910 he was appointed
Financial Manager. He continued in this position until early in 1912, when he was appointed General
Manager, which post he still continues to occupy. Mr. Williams
recently visited the Old Country, and, though mainly on pleasure bent, he availed himself of the opportunity to study the various up-to-date business methods in vogue which might prove useful in furthering the interests of his employers in Australia, with this object in view inspecting all the great commercial houses in the principal cities of
Great Britain and the Continent. He is a member of the Board of Management of the Children’s Hospital. In 1895 he married Louie, daughter of the late Mr. J. S. Jones (of Messrs. Jones Brothers), of Port Adelaide, and has three sons.
The ECONOMIC STORES, Limited, Shenton Corner, Hay and William Streets, Perth. As long as fifty years ago the present business
under their joint management the concern was carried on for several years, when it was purchased by the late Captain W. Oates. Shortly
Window Display at the economic Stores, Perth.
was founded by the late Mr. George Shenton, sen., and carried on by him up to the time of his death in the sixties. The control then devolved upon his son, Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Shenton, who at a later date was joined in partnership by his brother, Mr. Ernest Shenton, and
Window Display at the Economic Stores, Perth-
afterwards the old name of G. C. Shenton & Co. was abandoned in favour of the present title, under which the firm has become favourably known throughout the length and breadth of the State. In the year 1906 Mr. Thomas Bradshaw was admitted as a shareholder, and coincident with this event the premises that had hitherto served were demolished and the present handsome structure erected. With the advent of Mr. Bradshaw the business methods of the firm underwent drastic changes; old methods gave place to modern ideas, and an elaborate system installed to facilitate the workings of each department. The old stock was cast out at a great sacrifice to make way for the new goods gathered regardless of expense from the four corners of the globe. The London representatives have been given carte blanche in the selection of the very latest novelties, and as a result each incoming steamer brings an accumulation of the most bewitching draperies, etc., so dear to the feminine heart, bought at the keenest cash prices. In the counting-house, which lately has been placed under
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the control of Mr. E. S. Champion, Eellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, London, an accountant with a wide experience in the drapery trade in London and elsewhere, and who also acts as Secretary to the Company, sweeping al-
Captain W. Oates.
terations have been made, and the credit business in force during the old regime has been replaced by a cash system under which customers receive enhanced value for their outlay. Naturally the progressive policy adopted has led to an immense increase in the amount of business transacted, far in excess of the most sanguine expectations formed by the management, and the firm is
now seeking means to double the present capacity, so that the wonderful expansion of trade may be expeditiously dealt with. The Economic Stores have secured a firm hold on the buying public, and it is the fixed determination of the proprietors that this confidence shall not be abated one iota. The magnificent show windows which have a frontage to both Hay and William Streets altogether cover an area of 5,000 sq. ft., and oontain a ravishing display of goods constantly undergoing changes in accordance with the dictates of the fickle goddess “Fashion.” The millinery department always contains le dernier Gri in smart headgear, and the creations of the firm are truly chic. The dress department is patronized by the elite of Perth, and the distinctive and original dresses designed by the firm are quite equal to the best gowns created in Paris. The country mail order department deserves special mention. Orders received per medium of the post are given the most careful attention, and customers’ requirements are studied to the smallest detail, the goods being dispatched with remarkable celerity. The management is looking forward to the time when Western Australia will take her rightful place in the van of the Australian States, and is leaving no stone unturned to secure a fair share of the increased business which must necessarily follow the opening up of the vast areas of the State. The way to success is not an easy road to travel, but if perspicacity and busi-
ness acumen count for anything the Economic Stores will not fail to come prominently to the fore in the race for the commercial goal. THOMAS BRADSHAW, the Managing Director, is a native of Belfast, Ireland, and served an appren-
Mr. Thomas Bradshaw.
ticeship of six years to the softgoods trade at Lindsay’s Arcade, Ulster. He left Ire-
land in 1885, and after a few years in Melbourne proceeded to Brisbane, where for ten months he acted as Manager for Messrs. Duncan, Sinclair, & Co. He next purchased a business at Townsville, which he conducted for some time.
the economic Stores, corner of hay and William Streets, Perth,
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eventually coming to Western Australia in July, 1902. Subsequently he acquired a large share in the business of Messrs. Weidenbach and Co., Hay Street, and traded under the name of Bradshaw & Hall; but disposed of his interests in 1905, when he became a shareholder in the Economic Stores, Limited. Mr. Bradshaw is a keen business man, and it is his ambition to make his firm the premier institution of its kind in Perth.
ture rises to three storys at the rear, providing an enormous amount of space in the interior. The frontage to Hay Street is 132 ft. by a depth of 187 ft., the ceilings are 17 ft. high, and the showrooms are many-windowed, letting in a blaze of light through the day, while the arrangements for ventilation leave little to be desired. At night a wonderful system of flame arc lamps, ingeniously devised to shed an indirect light, illuminates every corner
Bon Marche Stores possess a third superlative quality. Besides being the oldest, it is without doubt the most popular of the drapery stores of the West, and this popularity, of which the proprietors are justly proud, is based not upon an evanescent pyrotechnic display of sensational bargain sales, but is a direct result of the sound commercial integrity which regulates and sets its mark upon the transactions of the whole business. The manage-
Interior View of Millinery Department at the Bon Marche Stores. Perth.
The BON MARCHE, Limited, Hay Street, Perth, is the oldest purely drapery business in Western Australia, and to this priority of age adds the distinction of being one of the largest drapery stores in the Western State. The whole of the original buildings were recently pulled down and the present huge and imposing premises erected. The two-storied front elevation is finished with English pottery glazed tiles in a most effective shade of blue, and the struc-
of the vast establishment with radiance equal to daylight, which it counterfeits with amazing success. In the departments devoted to drapery, etc., is to be seen an immense and varied stock, and in the men’s and boys’ outfitting department a big range of the most up-to-date wearing apparel. The
department for millinery is particularly entrancing, and contains a ravishing display of models imported direct from Fashion’s centre in the environs of the old world. The
ment has built up an enormous trade on the principle of selling only the most reliable make of goods at the lowest margin of profit, and thus has deservedly earned for Bon Marche the enviable title of “Quality House.” It is a well-known fact, of which the thousands of purchasers daily show their appreciation, that only goods of dependable quality are offered for sale, and misrepresentation is strictly forbidden. The Bon Marche is fortunate in its staff of European buyers, who pos-
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sess that valuable gift of discernment which is able to recognize Fashion’s latest and choicest creations among the myriad allurements of the British and Continental markets, and secures the best values with an unerring decision little short of infallibility. Their personal experience of the Australian climate enables them to achieve remarkable success in selecting suitable materials and styles for local requirements, and every mail-
linery and lace goods is an Englishman of wide Australian experience and is well qualified for his responsible duties. The woollen buyer has been successful in making highly-satisfactory arrangements by which the Australian house receives cut lengths of tweeds for men’s suits from the leading manufacturers at a slight advance in makers’ prices, no two suit lengths being of the same pattern. This arrangement guarantees to every gentleman pur-
the second largest sewing-machine manufacturers in America, and the “Bon Marche” treadle sewing machine, with automatic drophead, is rapidly making its way into popular favour. This agency can be held only on condition that 500 machines be distributed throughout- the State every year, and in order to achieve this average they are sold at a slight margin above the factory price, viz., £6 10s. each, with a written
guarantee until 1921. Bon Marche
Photo by 0. TS. Farr.
The Bon Marche Stores, Hay Street, Perth.
boat arriving at Fremantle from London brings fresh shipments for the Bon Marche from the best markets of the world. In this way the very newest fashions are continually displayed in Perth, and are worn by the ladies of the western State almost before they have found their way to the world’s metropolis. The London buyer of Manchester goods (i.e., calicoes, linens, and all cotton piecegoods) is acknowledged in commercial circles to be the most expert and highest-salaried buyer in the British Isles. The gentleman to whom is entrusted the important task of suiting the firm with mil-
chaser a suit unique in the design of its material, and has given great satisfaction to the smartly-tailored men of the State. The head cutter at Bon Marche, an artist of considerable ability, for domestic reasons resigned his position and came to Australia after a long experience as cutter in a leading Bond Street tailoring establishment. A very attractive feature of the Bon Marche is the “Liberty” department, the management having just completed arrangements by which it represents the popular London firm in Perth. It has also obtained the sole agency in Western Australia for
holds a contract for supplying all Government institutions within the State, including all the hospitals, with the various drapery goods, carpets, mattresses, etc., required, and makes a speciality of providing for these necessities. The large staff of employes forms a very happy family, and some of them have been engaged in the business for over twenty years. All the profit made is circulated in Perth, the three Directors of the Company being Messrs. G. H. Cargeeg (of Claremont), G. F. Pitch-ford (Rheola Street, Perth), and A. E. Joyner (of Palace Court), by whom practically all the shares are held.
THE CYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
THE “HOUSE OF BRENNAN,” Hay Street, Perth; Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie; and Bayley Street, Cool-gar die. Messrs. Brennan Brothers first established themselves in business in Western Australia in 1896, when they opened a drapery emporium at Kalgoorlie, the famous mining town being then in its infancy. The concern prospered, and at a later period several branches were opened in the surrounding district. The Boulder branch proved very successful, and in 1899 the firm opened a branch at Coolgardie, and in 1906 the present business in Perth was opened. In 1904 Mr. Kyran Brennan withdrew from the partnership, taking over the Boulder business on his own account and relinquishing any further interest in the firm. In December, 1911, Mr. James Brennan purchased his brother Patrick’s interest in the business for a substantial consideration, and is now the sole remaining proprietor of the firm of Brennan Brothers, of Perth, Kalgoorlie, and Coolgardie. The metropolitan business was inaugurated under favourable auspices, and being conducted with enterprise and skill has been developed into one of the leading concerns of its kind in the Western State. Its rapid advancement in face of the keen corn-
beautiful draperies, chic millinery, and the innumerable and important accessories of good dressing. The
the world. The dressing of these windows is made a veritable “fine art” and provides a continually
Photo by G. E. Parr.
Corner of the Showroom at the " House of Brennan," Perth.
premises cover an area of 245 ft. in depth with 75 ft. frontage to Hay Street. The magnificent show windows have a glass area of over 3,000
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Window dressing at the
House of Brennan," Hay Street, Perth.
petition encountered on all sides has been little short of phenomenal, and a very large share of popular patronage falls to the “House of Brennan,” the recognized home of
square ft., a novel feature being the four island windows, in which are displayed to such splendid advantage the special attractions of the season culled from the foremost markets of
changing feast for the eye, the harmonious colour schemes and artistic disposal of goods having won for the “House of Brennan” the premier place in Australia for this department. The interior is roomy and well lighted, and is fitted up with all the latest arrangements for the display of wares and the prompt and convenient despatch of business. The object of the firm is to keep all the departments on the ground floor, this having in the past proved a great convenience to customers, dispensing as it does with the necessity for climbing stairs or awaiting the lift service. The land at the rear of the building, reaching to Murray Street, is owned by the firm, and it is the intention of Brennan Brothers in the near future to extend the premises right through, thus providing the house with a frontage to both Hay and Murray Streets, which will prove a great convenience to the purchasing public. The firm specializes in drapery, and the “House of Brennan” is represented in England, the Continent, and America by one of the largest buying concerns which has its headquarters in London. Each season many cases of samples are sent out, from which Messrs. Brennan Brothers make their selection for the special requirements of the Western Australian public. In regard to novelties in millinery and
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other ephemeral fancies of an hour, the choice is entrusted to the London representative, who makes the purchase on the spot, and is very successful in suiting the fastidious tastes of the most exacting votaries of fashion. Purchases are made at king’s values and best prices, which make it possible for the “House of Brennan” to retail at the reasonable figure which is one of the sources of their popularity. A glance at the various departments reveals a high standard of taste maintained throughout. The mantle department revels in a profusion of costumes, robes, cloaks, and blouses ranging from great richness to sweet simplicity, the designs being carried out in costly fabrics of silk and velvet and dainty cambrics and muslins. The millinery department is like a materialized rainbow broken up into bows and birds and flowers and scattered with charming grace over the hundreds of elegant models and shapes which have received the last touch from expert fingers at home or abroad. The dressmaking department is a very important one, and has received the greatest possible attention, the gowns turned out by
the firm being among the most beautiful creations of their kind worn by the ladies of Perth. There are three
Mr. James Brennan.
rooms each under the control of an expert and a large number of assistants are employed. Upstairs is a manufacturing department where a large quantity of costumes, under-
clothing, blouses, and children’s ready - to - wear garments are fashioned by skilful hands, these always commanding a ready sale. A tailoring department is shortly to be inaugurated, and this will be placed under the most efficient management, the high level of workmanship aimed at in all other branches of the trade being made a sine qua non in the arrangements for this additional attraction to the already popular house. The heads of the various departments are experts who are secured regardless of the salary asked, and the whole of the large staff is efficient and appreciative of the courtesy required in attending to customers’ requirements. Mr. JAMES BRENNAN, the Proprietor, was born at North Kilkenny, Ireland, on November 18, 1872. He is a son of the late Patrick Joseph Brennan, of County Kilkenny, and was educated at the Christian Brothers’ College at Castle Comer, his birthplace. Mr. Brennan served his apprenticeship to the drapery trade in his native place for five years, and afterwards gained three years’ experience with Pirn Brothers, Dublin, one of the largest drapery houses in Ireland. Here he
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Brennan Brothers’ Premises, Hay street, Perth.
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made himself conversant with every branch of the business, and in 1894 set sail for Queensland, where he joined his brother in trading operations until 1896, in which year he came to Western Australia and settled in business at Kalgoorlie. Mr. Brennan is a keen supporter of every kind of sport, and has done much to futher the interests of trotting in this State. He has held the office of President of the Western Australian Trotting Association since its formation, and under his able guidance the association has made rapid strides, and trotting is well under way to become one of the foremost sports in the State. At considerable expense he has imported from the East and New Zealand several thoroughbred trotting horses (the well-known trotting stallion “Lord Dudley,” and the champion buggy mare “Princess Derby,” as well as others, being his property), and has devoted much time to the improvement of the breed of the utility horse in Western Australia. His horses have been very successful ■ in the show ring, having carried off several championships, as well as having won a number of events on the trotting track in the State. Mr. Brennan is a member of the Western Australian Turf Club and the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Racing Clubs. His private address is 2, St. George’s Terrace, Perth.
GEORGE HENRY CARGEEG, J.P., was born at Adelaide on April 13, 1851. He was educated chiefly at private schools in the city of his birth, and at the age of thirteen entered a lawyer’s office, spending ten years in the study of law. He relinquished the pursuit of the law to direct his energies to mastering the details of the publishing business at the office of the South Australian Register. Later he became the first publisher of The Australian Star, an enterprise he abandoned to become an advertising agent. Mr. Cargeeg next turned his attention to sharebroking on the Stock Exchange of Adelaide, but in 1894 he came to Western Australia, where he had purchased the Bon Marche drapery business, in which he has retained his position as chairman of directors ever since. When The Morning Herald newspaper went into liquidation he purchased the plant and established the Herald Printing House, Limited, and as chairman of directors has kept a guiding hand on the helm of this
enterprise also. Mr. Cargeeg takes a very active interest in religious and philanthropic movements, is a Board member of the Blind Asylum, and fills the position of senior Vice-President of the Y.M.C.A. He assisted in the foundation of the Baptist Union of Western Australia, and has acted as a member of the executive of this body since its inception, besides undertaking the duties of Treasurer to the Church Council. In 1876 he married Louisa Jane, daughter of the late W. H. Selway, of South Australia, and has five sons and three daughters.
JULIUS LEWIS GLICK, J.P., is a son of the late Mr. Moses Glick, of Weckshna, Province Kovanah, Russia, where the gentleman under
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Julitjs Lewis Glick.
review was born on January 26, 1869. After the completion of his education in his native country and in Germany, at sixteen years of age, he went to Dublin and there became attached to the British Army at the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, where he spent nearly a couple of years. At the end of this period he proceeded to Liverpool and entered into commercial pursuits, opening in that city a softgoods store, which he conducted with unqualified success for thirteen years. In 1897 he decided to come to Australia, and arriving at Adelaide in September of that year established himself in business as a softgoods and furniture merchant. Here for the first time he took out his papers of naturalization, by which he was registered as
a citizen of the British Empire, and seven years later left South Australia for the Western State. Besides the establishment of the Adelaide Tailoring Company in Hay Street, which he has made one of the features of commercial life in Perth, Mr. Glick has invested a considerable amount of capital in city and suburban properties, as well as in land for farming purposes, and has proved himself a moat worthy citizen of his adopted country. In 1907 he was appointed to the Western Australian Commission of the Peace, and in the past occupied the post of President of the Perth Hebrew Philanthropic Society, being at the present time Treasurer of the Perth Hebrew Congregation. He is a member of the Masonic craft, in which he has held various honours, and is a supporter of all kinds of outdoor sports. In the latter connection he is President of the Western Australian Coastal Athletic League and a Patron of several other clubs, being himself a player of bowls and billiards. In 1890 Mr. Glick married at Liverpool Fanny, daughter of Mr. M. Zeffertt, now of Liverpool, England, and has a son and three daughters.
PARKER & CO., tailors and mercers, 681, Hay Street, Perth. Telephone 759. In the confines of the new world it would be difficult to find a parallel for the remarkable rise and progress of the Western State, its commerce and industries, during the score of years commencing with the early nineties of the last century. The surpassingly rich mining discoveries of the period mentioned were followed by an era of activity and expansion which can only be considered as bordering on the miraculous. New business houses sprang into existence like mushrooms, and many were the mercantile firms which set up their shingles in the most central positions obtainable. Concomitant with the commencement of this cycle of progress was laid the foundation of the present tailoring concern under the name and style of Alfred Morris and Co., and the establishment may rightly claim priority over any other of a similar nature in Perth. In 1901, nine years after its foundation, the business was purchased outright by Messrs. Parker & Jones, and for eight years was carried on by them as Parker, Jones, & Co., unon the retirement of Mr. Jones in 1909, the
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name having been changed to its present designation. Parker and Co. are specialists in tailoring and outfitting, the former department in particular receiving close attention. The firm’s cutter has had lengthy ex-
PARKER & CO.’S PREMISES, HAY ST , PERTH.
perience of the trade, first in London and more recently in Ceylon, where for many years he held the position of head cutter to the well-known firm of Cargell’s Ltd., and maintains a distinctive and stylish cut for which the house has been long deservedly noted. Much of the cutter’s art may be lost in
the piecing together of suits by incompetent workmen, to avoid which the firm has gone to no inconsiderable trouble and expense to secure only the most expert TT
workers, so that the very best results must naturally follow. Parker and Co. are also noted for the effective and wide range of cloth lengths kept in stock, their London buyers displaying an excellent taste in the selection of materials adapted to local conditions. The success of this department must be ascribed to the faculty for specialization possessed in a high degree by those responsible for its inner workings. Suits of all kinds are turned out, some of the most popular specialties of the firm being dress suits, Norfolk jackets, and riding breeches. The outfitting department is complete in every detail, being under the superintendence of a practical man who understands his business thoroughly and makes it his aim to satisfy the individual requirements of every customer. Hats in every style, shirts, pyjamas, linen wear, neckwear, etc., are regularly imported from London, and fresh shipments of novelties are received fortnightly. The firm also manufactures shirts and pyjamas, and retains the services of a practical hatter for the manufacture of silk hats, helmets, and caps, which are shaped and fitted to the lines of the head, providing perfect comfort to the wearer. The plateglass windows fronting the main thoroughfare are always dressed in the best taste, and the goods displayed are indicative of the high quality of the manifold lines
kept in stock. Parker & Co. aim to give satisfaction to every client, and in this they are efficiently assisted by a competent staff, whose courtesy and attention add greatly to the
popularity of the house. The general management is in the hands of the Proprietor, PRANK ROWLAND PARKER, who was born at Highgate, London, on May 12, 1872. He is a son of Mr. William Parker, of the same place, where also he received his education and early business training. In his eighteenth year he became possessed of the desire to travel, and taking passage to Australia he landed at Victoria in 1890. For the ensuing five years he occupied himself in gaining ex-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Frank Rowland Parker.
perience in his present trade, but perceiving better opportunities farther afield embarked for Western Australia, where he arrived in 1895. Mr. Parker was identified with a leading firm in Perth for the following six years, having charge of the men’s department, where he further augmented his knowledge, and upon taking over his present business in conjunction with Mr. Jones was fully qualified to bring it to a leading place in the ranks of similar concerns throughout the Commonwealth. Under his direction the business has gained pre-eminence, and is now favourably known far and wide throughout the State. Mr. Parker devotes nearly all his time to the furtherance of his business interests, but his name is to be found in the membership lists of the Cottesloe Golf Club, the Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, and the Commercial Travellers’ Association. He married in 1903 Ethel, daughter of Mr. T. W. Ottaway, J.P., of Armadale, and has two sons and a daughter. His private address is Irvine Street, Cottesloe.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
interior View of Parker &. co.’s establishment, Perth.
Outfitting Department at Greig'S," hay Street, Perth.
Mr. Oliver Adamson Greig.
trade, all specialists in their particular line, brought together at infinite trouble by the management, There are some thirty hands constantly employed, but the firm does not claim to turn out large quan-
Mr. William Arthur Donald.
tities of suits per week, rather confining itself to a higher-class trade which demands less of quantity, but where quality is a virtue unto itself. The general manager of this well-conducted house is Mr. Donald, who has had wide experience of the requirements of the trade in London, America, China, and India, and several years in the sister States.
English and Continental lines. The cutter-in-chief, Mr. 0. A. Greig, has had a lengthy experience of the trade both in London and in the Eastern States, and has the assistance of cutters specially obtained from England. A feature in connection with the firm is the exclusive design and cut for which it is already well known. It numbers among its clientele the leading professional and business men of Perth, and is a favourite house with the grandes dames requiring the very latest creations in robes, costumes, and riding habits, besides which servants’ liveries are also turned out in the best style. In fancy suiting for gentlemen the firm imports but one suit length in each pattern, an innovation introduced into Australia by Mr. Oliver Greig, and it is by these means that the firm is able to maintain exclusive and fashionable novelties for its patrons. The firm’s London buyer is commissioned to secure the latest designs executed by the large woollen manufacturers of the Old Country, and these are immediately shipped to Perth, where they arrive within four or five weeks of the time of leaving the makers’ hands. “Greig” is thus enabled to provide the very latest in smart wear far ahead of the time in which the designs are displayed in the Eastern States. The outfitting department contains an elaborate stock of men’s wear and gentlemen’s travelling requisites, including suit cases, kit bags, rugs, etc., and the neckwear displayed is the most fashionable to
be had in the metropolis. The progressive policy of the firm is reflected in the workrooms, which contain some of the smartest workers in the
“ GREIG,” gentlemen’s tailors and outfitters and ladies’ habit-makers, Hay Street, Perth. (Oliver Adamson Greig and William Arthur
“greig’S” Premises, Hay Street.
Donald.) Established during the past ■ decade, the firm of Greig has rapidly won a reputation for high-class and exclusive work. It was in 1905 that the; present central premises in Hay Street were taken over by the firm and renovated and fitted throughout on the most up-to-date
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COGAN BROTHERS, Paris House, expert tailors, mercers, hatters and hosiers, and ladies’ tailors, 670, Hay Street, Perth, and at Menzies, Western Australia. Telephone 511. (M. P. Cogan and
C. T. Cogan.) Early in the nineties of last century this business was founded in Perth by the firm of Wilson & Co., trading under the
among the leading fashionable tailors and outfitters of Perth. Great attention has been paid to the staffing of the establishment with thoroughly - skilled and competent hands, chief among whom is the cutter, an expert in his line, who before coming to the Western State had gained a wide and valuable experience in leading tailoring houses
ing on comfort, is not insensible to the artistic merits of first-class cut and exclusive design in suiting may command the satisfaction of all his requirements at the well-known “Paris House.” The high-class trade catered for by the firm demands the importation of one only suit-length in fancy tweeds, and the standard set in this department is observed throughout the whole of the carefully-chosen stock of materials worked upon by the Messrs. Cogan. In 1911 the increase of business made enlarged accommodation necessary, and new premises were erected in Hay Street, consisting of a two-storied building and basement covering 6,000 square feet of space, with a handsome frontage forming a welcome addition to the architecture of this popular commercial highway. These have been fitted up in the most approved style, and the department
Bartlett o, Perth.
Mr. C. T. Cogan.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Cogan Bros,' new premises, Hay street, Perth.
style of Paris House. In the year 1907 it was purchased by the Messrs. Cogan, who have applied their energies to the building up of the trade in such a manner that not only have they “deserved success,” they have commanded it, the firm holding its place tt2
in the East for very many years. This gentleman is ably assisted by equally skilful tradesmen in the other departments of work necessary to the turning out of a really well-fitting and stylish suit of morning or evening clothes, and the professional or commercial citizen who, while insist-
allotted to the display of a most replete stock of men’s general wear and travelling goods is specially commended to the notice of the purchasing public. The Messrs. Cogan are both natives of Otago, New Zealand, where they were brought up and educated. In 1896 Mr. M. P. Cogan came to Western Australia and founded the firm’s present large drapery business at Menzies, at a later date branches being established at Leonora and Mt. Morgans. He was joined by his brother in the year 1898. In 1907 the former assumed the management of the goldfields house and Mr. C. T. Cogan took over the control of the Perth business.
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HARALD & CO., ladies and gentlemen’s tailors, 36 and 38, William Street, Perth. (S. M. Lindquist and C. E. Lindquist.) The fashionable and progressive tailoring firm of Harald & Co. was inaugurated at Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia, in the year 1896 under the management of Mr. S. M. Lindquist, who came from London for the express purpose of opening up the business in this city. Besides
having been engaged as a cutter for several years in the West End of London Mr. Lindquist had had a wide Continental experience, embracing two years in each of the capital cities of Copenhagen, Berlin, Brussels, and Paris, commencing his trade in the first-named city and eventually being awarded the French Academical Diploma of Cutting at Paris. In 1901 he was joined by his brother, Mr. C. E. Lindquist, whose assistance was necessary in order to cope with the rapidly-increasing business occasioned by the growing popularity of the firm with
the Western Australian public. The latter gentleman, who has also had a large and varied experience in Stockholm and the West End of London, and is the holder of the English Academical Diploma for Cutting, arrived in Western Australia direct from Naples, where he had been engaged with the English house of Messrs. F. G. Green & Co., late Messrs. Lennon & MacMurray. In the year following his arrival the
partners moved into new premises in William Street, and from this centre have commanded the patronage of a large section of the professional and commercial men of the city, their trade being of an exclusively high-class order. Their experience in the West End of London, which is recognized to the farthest bounds of the British Empire as the home of fashionable clothing, enables them to avail themselves of the latest and most exclusive designs in suitings, which alone are suitable to the up-to-date style and fashionable cut which is a marked feature
of the establishment. A speciality is made of the tailor-built costumes so popular with the well-dressed woman in all parts of the civilized world, and great success has been
Me. C. E. Lindquist.
achieved in this line, the firm having been awarded the gold medal for ladies’ costumes in connection with the Exhibition held by the Western Australian Chamber of Manufactures in 1906-7. Since its inception the firm has kept abreast of the rapid rise of the Western Australian State, and its popularity not only in the metropolitan area, but in the large
Mr. S. M. Lindquist.
rural and mining towns, without doubt is due to the fact that the public is keenly appreciative of the excellent and practical knowledge of their profession displayed by the Messrs. Lindquist.
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G. D. CTERCTEKO, gentlemen and ladies’ tailor, 30 and 32, Pier Street (near King Edward Hostel), Perth. Centrally situated in premises close to the main artery of traffic in the city, the business under review originally was established in 1897. Beginning on a small scale, even in the first decade of its existence the concern made rapid strides and necessitated a removal to more extensive premises only two years after its commencement. Within an incredibly short space of time it had earned the right to be included among the premier establishments of its kind in the Western capital, and in the earlier stages of its existence, as at the present time, numbered among its clientele the leading professional and commercial men of the city. The patronage of the wives and daughters of the leading business men who in well-cut costumes are the cynosures of all eyes at the various public and society functions has also served to advance the interests of the well-known and popular firm, which has ever striven by close attention to detail and conscientious work to be worthy the trust reposed in it by the different classes of the community. Another
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Mr. G. d. Ctercteko's Premises, pier
branch of the trade in which the firm has been particularly successful is livery-making, and in all the ordinary departments of a tailoring business the work turned out is of a superior class. The cutting is done
by Mr. Ctercteko himself, while in the workrooms a dozen hands are employed, all of whom are experts in their especial lines. The suitings turned out have a distinctive cut, while the materials are selected with a view of supplying the diverse tastes of the numerous customers. A heavy and varied stock of all the latest designs turned out by the English manufacturing houses is kept, and in securing only one suit length of each fancy material Mr. Ctercteko is able to meet the requirements of his patrons who prefer an exclusive design in these suitings. GEORGE DAVID CTERCTEKO is a native of South Australia, having been born at Rosewater, in the vicinity of Port Adelaide, in 1870. He is the eldest son of Mr. Peter William Ctercteko, of Greece, who came to Australia in the fifties and took up his residence in the Central State. Upon the conclusion of his education he had two years’ experience in farming life, followed by a further two years at sea, and eventually was apprenticed to the tailoring trade with the firm of P. Sheehan, of Port Adelaide, with whom he continued for three years. At the end of this period his employer gave up business and Mr. Ctercteko went to Melbourne, where he completed his apprenticeship with the firm of Scourfield and Coultas and with Mr. J. B. Mil-ton, both high-class tailors of Collins Street. Long before the expiration of the six or seven years which he spent in the employ of these firms he had obtained proficiency in every branch of the trade, and after a subsequent twelve months in South Australia came to the Western State. In 1897 he established his present flourishing business in Pier Street, and now receives his customers in very convenient premises two doors north of Hay Street. Mr. Ctercteko was for some years connected with the Western Australian Amateur Sports Club, and was for a considerable
Street, Perth.
time one of the State’s most prominent amateur cyclists. He is a supporter of the Young Men’s Christian Association and other kindred societies. His chief recreation is taken on the bowling green, and he is connected with the Leederville Bowling Club, prior to joining which he had been a member of the Mueller Park Club, of Subiaco. In 1900 he married Blanche, daughter of Richard Tullett, of Walthamstow,
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. George David Ctercteko. England, latterly of Perth, and has two sons and two daughters. He resides at Railway Parade, Leederville.
McBEAN & DEASON, mercantile, shipping, and insurance agents, land and estate agents, William Street, Perth, and at Eremantlo. (James McBean, John Henry Dea-son, and Thomas Erancis Deason.) This business was established in the early nineties by Mr. James McBean in conjunction with Mr. Frank Bow-ker, and was carried on by these gentlemen until 1900, when the partnership was dissolved. The firm’s offices were originally located on St. George’s Terrace, and were removed to William Street in 1910, when the present premises were secured. After the dissolution already mentioned Mr. McBean continued to trade on his own behalf until 1905, when Mr. J. H. Deason was admitted as a partner, and this arrangement held until 1910, when the personnel of the firm was added to by the admission of Mr. T. F. Deason. The firm acts as sub-agents for the Ocean and Ac-
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QUALITY SHOE STORES, Limited, Hay Street, Perth, and at Kalgoorlie and Boulder, Western Australia. Among the many commercial enterprises which have come prominently to the fore during the past decade the firm under review must hold a foremost place. In May, 1905, the present General Manager, Mr. F. H. White, reached Western Australia from Victoria in search of an outlet for his commercial abilities, and having decided on the town of Boulder as the venue of his operations, in August of that year he established himself in business as a boot trader and importer. The early progress of his enterprise was not marked by any sensational trading, but the business steadily and surely won its way in public favour, so that in some' few years’ time a branch establishment was opened for the convenience of customers at Kalgoorlie. This was in March, 1909, and evidence was soon
Interior View Quality Shoe Stores, Perth.
absorb the energy displayed by the management. Accordingly Mr. White came to Perth and purchased the Utility Shoe Stores in Hay Street, and under his successful management the turnover increased by leaps and bounds. In October, 1911, the premises formerly occupied by Mr. Albany Bell (opposite Sand-
The Quality Shoe Stores, Hay Street, Perth.
tion to ladies’ boots and shoes. At the new establishment in Hay Street an elegant fitting-room has been set apart for ladies, and in this department will be found a choice array of smart and up-to-date chausserie in all colours for day and evening wear. The suede tops and fancy colours are in great favour in England and on the Continent, as also is the buckle which greatly adds to the appearance of the shoe when en promenade. For ladies also Clark’s favourite English wear is kept, and dainty shoes of Australian manufacture are ready to hand to suit the most fastidious tastes. To meet the demand for high-grade boots for gentlemen a great variety of makes is kept in stock, including Florsheim and Snow, both of American manufacture, and Bostock’s English boots; in fact, all of the very best makers find representation on the shelves of this progressive business house. For the convenience of country residents a mail-order department has been inaugurated, and that this boon has the appreciation of a wide section of the public is sufficiently evidenced by the large number who avail themselves of this simple method of making purchases without the necessity of entering the busy arteries of a commercial city.
cident Guarantee Corporation, Limited, and transacts risks in fire, accident, and employers’ liability. They are sole agents in Western Australia for the popular brand of Robur tea, and for the Bunyip Soap Company, Limited, of South Australia, the bulk stores being situated at Fremantle, where an office is also open. The land and estate department is' an important branch of the business, and transactions in house properties occupy a considerable share of the firm’s attention.
forthcoming that the confidence reposed by Mr. White in the new venture had not been misplaced. Both businesses now forged ahead in splendid style, and in 1911 a further outlet was found necessary to
over’s) were purchased, and after being renovated and elaborately fitted throughout opened for trade as the Quality Shoe Stores, Limited. The Stores deal in every kind of footwear and pay particular atten-
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MACFARLANE & CO., Limited, Perth. This progressive business concern was established at Fremantle by Mr. James Macfar-lane in 1902. Operations were at first confined to the handling of pro-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. James Maceablane.
duce lines, and trade increased very rapidly. In the year 1905 Mr. Mac-farlane’s attention was directed to the lack of an efficient fresh milk supply, and he decided to add a milk branch to his already soundly-
established business. Proceeding to Melbourne he investigated the system adopted by the Wills-mere Certified Milk Company and finally purchased a complete plant, which, later, was installed in the firm’s new premises in Murray Street, Perth. The business of
Messrs. Macfarlane & Co. was now turned into a limited company, operations ceased at Fremantle, and the whole attention of the Company was directed to the control and expansion of the metropolitan undertaking. The scheme for the supply of pure milk was prominently brought before the public attention for several years, but lack of appreciation ultimately caused the directors to part with the process. Thenceforward the energies of the management were focused on the produce branch, which had made considerable headway, and in the following year, upon the opening of the Murray Street premises, a branch was established in Barrack Street. In 1908 a second branch was opened at the corner of King and Hay Streets, which was subsequently transferred to William Street (opposite Queen’s Hall), where the firm had secured a lease of a commodious shop. During this period of expansion operations had been extended to embrace the supply of continental and Australian delicacies, butter, bacon, hams, eggs, honey, etc., and in these lines the house has established an enviable reputation. The firm also secured the agency for Messrs. Griffiths Brothers’ celebrated teas, coffees, cocoas, and chocolate, and a tearoom was opened at the William Street depot, but in the year 1912 the lease expired and the shop was closed down. These teas, etc., have caught the public fancy and a large business is done in Messrs. Griffiths’ commodities. The firm purchases direct from the producer, and specializes in local dairy produce and dressed poultry for table use. Messrs. Macfarlane & Co. supply under contract to the principal public institutions in the State, and householders are waited on twice a week for orders. In 1902 a lease was taken of the Vasse Butter Factory, which had been closed for some eighteen months, and the manufacture of butter was commenced, the supplies of cream being obtained from the southern and south-western districts. Subsequently a second fac-
Plioto by C. E. Farr.
McFarlane & Co.'s Premises, Murray Street, Perth.
tory was opened at Perth, districts on the Midland Railway, Eastern Railway, and Great Southern Railway and in the south-west as far as Picton Junction being drawn on for the necessary cream supplies. In this and other ways the firm has done much to place dairy-farming on a sound footing in the State, but the industry is very backward, and in the opinion of the firm will continue so until the Government sees fit to pay a bonus, as was done in the sister State of Victoria, where the conditions are much more favourable to settlers than they are in Western Australia. The firm imports large quantities of dairying machinery, which is supplied to purchasers on very easy terms, and acts as agent
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. P. Giles.
for the Crown “Tiptop” separators (hand and power driven), Crown steel churns, Babcock milk testers, etc. Mr. J. Alvey, who is in charge of the Perth factory, came originally from the East to take charge of the Vasse Butter Factory on behalf of the Western Australian Government, and his services were afterwards secured by the present firm. The directors of Macfarlane & Co., Limited, are Mr. James Macfarlane, Mr. J. V. Banfield (well known as the patentee of the Banfield-Lorden dry blower, which played such an important part in the opening up of the mining fields of the State), and Mr. S. F. Conning (who has control of the factory at Busselton). The Secretary is Mr. P. Giles. Mr. James Macfarlane, the managing director, is a Victorian, and was born in 1865, his father, the late Mr. Robert Mac-
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farlane, having come to Australia from California in 1852. At the close of his education the gentleman under review followed in his parent’s footsteps for a time, being engaged in mining pursuits in his native State. Later he joined the Bacchus Marsh Concentrated Milk Company at Melbourne, and in 1897 came to Western Australia, where he became a member of the firm of Walker, Wilson, & Co. at Fremantle. It is interesting to note in connection with this business that the first supplies were brought to Western Australia in the four-masted sailing vessel “Hinemoa,” which anchored at Gage Roads for nine months, supplies being brought ashore as required from the refrigerator with which the ship had been specially fitted. Mr. Macfarlane severed his connection with the firm of Walker, Wilson, and Co. at the expiration of three years and returned to Victoria, where he remained until 1902, when he returned to the western State and established the present concern, as already recorded. He is one of the commercial members of the Food Standards Committee appointed by the Government under the Pure Foods Act of 1910. Mr. Macfarlane still continues to act as representative in Western Australia for the Bacchus Marsh Concentrated Milk Company of Victoria.
The late JAMES RENDALL was a son of the late Mr. David Rendall, of Westry, Scotland. Born at Port Adelaide, South Australia, in 1856, at an early age he was taken to South Melbourne, Victoria, where he received his education at a local school. Upon the completion of his studies he was identified for a number of years with a manufacturing industry owned by one of the principal firms of the State. In 1895 he came to Western Australia as travelling representative for Messrs. Willshire & Feely, agents in Western Australia for the well-known firm of Swallow & Ariel, and continued in this service for eleven years. At the end of this period he entered the employ of Messrs. Clarke & Co., at that time agents for the Queensland Meat Company, and continued to travel in its interests up to the time of his death in August, 1912. Mr. Rendall displayed keen interest in Friendly Society work, and was a Past Chief President of the Australian Natives’ Associa-
tion. For a number of years he held the position of Chairman of the United Friendly Societies’ Board in Perth, and was first President of the dispensary in connection with the same united organization. He occupied a seat on the Board of Management of the Perth Public Hospital for a lengthy period and was a prominent member of the Liberal League, in which he acted upon the Executive Council. He was a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Perth Bowling Club.
JAMES CHARLES HURST BLURTON, J.P., storekeeper, Lord Street, Perth, is a son of the late Major George Blurton, of the 2nd Queen’s Own Regiment, who fought in the Crimean War, the Indian
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. J. C. H. Blurton.
Mutiny, and in the China War and the Kaffir Rebellion. He was born at Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony, South Africa, on October 2, 1857, and at an early age was taken to England by his father, where he received his education at Boston and at St. Mark’s College, Chelsea. He passed through Woolwich and Sandhurst, and subsequently joined the 14th Hussars, at a later date exchanging to the Queen’s Own, of which he was paymaster for five years. Whilst attached to this regiment he spent the greater part of twelve years in India, during which time he was examiner of military accounts, and was a member of Lord Roberts’ staff in the relief of Kandahar. He saw active service in the Zulu Campaign, South Africa, and
in the Boer Rebellion of 1881, with the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers. In 1882 he retired from the service and sailed for Australia, where he practised as an accountant at Adelaide for some considerable time. In 1896 he came to Western Australia to take a position as accountant to the Great Boulder Main Reef Mine, which he held for five years. After spending two years in farming pursuits in Victoria Mr. Blurton returned to the Western State, and established himself in the storekeeping line of business on his present premises in Lord Street, where he has continued ever since. He has made himself active in public affairs, and in 1907 was appointed Justice of the Peace for Perth Magisterial District, also holding office as Postal Vote Officer for Perth and President of the Political League. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, ranking as Past District Grand Master in the craft. His chief recreation is found in the game of bowls, and he is a member of the Perth Bowling Club. Mr. Blurton married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Frank Whitfield, farmer, of Shep-parton, Golden Valley, Victoria, and has two daughters.
WILLIAM HENRY McCOR-MACK, is a son of the late Mr. Robert McCormack, of Lanarkshire, Scotland, a non-commissioned officer of the old 42nd Highland Regiment. He was born at Middlesex, England, on September 12, 1854, and received his education in the same county. Upon leaving school he was engaged in the contracting business for a number of years, in 1886 leaving the Old Country for Western Australia. At that period the colony was practically a penal settlement, and upon Mr. McCormack’s arrival he became identified with bush life. By degrees he was able to purchase a horse and cart, and was the first contractor to carry goods between the various Government offices under the era of responsible Government, prior to that time the work having been done by means of prison labour. His enterprise and industry in course of time was crowned with success, and prosperity set its seal upon his various operations. He purchased a fine site in Wellington Street and erected the Perth Free Stores, which are the largest of their kind in the State, and in the course of his career has undertaken some
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notable contracts, among which may be mentioned the shipping of the guns, stores, accoutrements, and ammunition for the Western Australian contingent bound for the scene of the war in South Africa. Mr. McCormack has always been a man of great public spirit, and it is
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. William Henry McCormack.
worthy of record that upon the first occasion that he stood for municipal honours he ran a dead heat with Dr. Haynes for the South Ward seat in the Perth Council, the latter gentleman being returned by the casting vote of the returning officer, Mr. Walter Simpson. From March, 1905, to 1909 he was a member of the Darling Ranges Roads Board, being Chairman for three years, and in 1905 he was chosen to represent his Board at the General Conference at Cue, when many important matters were discussed. He was closely identified with the Liberal movement in this State and was a practical member of the Liberal League, being also the first to suggest the formation of the Liberal Club, which has abundantly justified its existence. He held office in the League as member of the Council, and has also acted on the Recreation Board. Mr. McCormack received his commission of Justice of the Peace for Perth in 1909. He has seven sons, his wife being deceased.
GEORGE WILLIAM BURKETT, manufacturers’ agent, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, was born at Echuca, Victoria, on February 14,
1880, being a son of Mr. James Burkett, of that town. He received his education at the local Grammar School, where he continued until nineteen years of age, when he joined Messrs. D. Stratton & Co., Limited, in the flour-milling industry. After two years in this connection he directed his attention to Western Australia, and landing at Fremantle became connected with the firm of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, & Co., eventually being appointed head of their purchasing department at Kal-goorlie. At a later date Mr. Burkett visited London and the Continent, and upon his return to this State spent six years as shareholder and director of J. J. Horrocks & Co., mining machinery and manufacturers’ agents, of Perth. At the end
Bartletto, Perth
Mb. George William Burkett.
of this period he took another trip to England, and was successful in obtaining the management in Western Australia for Messrs. Hatfield’s Steel Foundry Company, Limited, of Sheffield, England, which he still successfully conducts at offices on St. George’s Terrace, Perth. Mr. Burkett saw active service in the Transvaal War in South Africa in 1900-2, and holds the Queen’s medal and three clasps. He is a foundation member of the Naval and Military Club, and a member of the Military Lodge, No. 15, W.A.C., in the Masonic Order. For the past six years he has served as Lieutenant of the 18th Australian Light Horse Regiment, and has only recently retired on account of pressure of business. He is a Vice-President of the South Australian Soldiers’ Association, and takes a keen interest in re-
unions of that body. Mr. Burkett married in 1905 Maggie, daughter of the late William Britnall, of Perth, a Western Australian pioneer, who arrived in the State in the early forties. He has one daughter.
JOHN ROSIER SAUNDERS,
clothier and mercer, Wellington Street, Perth, and at Kalgoorlie, is a son of the late Mr. E. H. Saunders, of Devon, England, where he was born on October 29, 1860. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to the drapery trade in his native town, and four years later became engaged with the firm of Leaf, Sons, & Co., silk merchants, of Old Change, London. He remained with this firm for upwards of three years, resigning in order to come to Australia, and arrived in Adelaide, in the Central State, in 1881. After a short stay in the capital he went to Sil-verton and opened in business on his own account, and met with such success that twelve months later he extended his operations to Broken Hill, in which town he carried on a thriving drapery establishment for about eight years. Selling out at the end of that period Mr. Saunders came to Western Australia, and proceeding direct to Coolgardie began business operations in the mining city. Toward the close of the twenty-
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Mr. John Rosier Saunders.
two years that he spent in this centre he was one of the first to realize that a period of decline was setting in after the floodtide of prosperity which had brought Coolgardie
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before the notice of the world; and removing to the more recently opened goldfield of Kalgoorlie he secured suitable premises in Hannan Street, and for over fifteen years has conducted one of th© best known and most popular clothing and mercery emporiums in that place. In 1910, relinquishing the management of the Kalgoorlie business to his son, Mr. R. Pox Saunders, he came to Perth and established his present concern in Wellington Street, which he has carried on ever since. Mr. Saunders devotes a portion of his leisure to the study of works of history, and finds in the perusal of these and other standard works of literature his chief recreation. He is also a lover of music and was one of the founders of the Kalgoorlie Eisteddfodd, in which he holds the position of Vice-President. Married in 1883 to Gertrude, daughter of the late Mr.
Robert Owen Pox, of Sturt Street, Adelaide, he has two sons and two daughters.
SAMUEL MAJOR, Manager for the head establishment of the Swan Meat Company, Perth, was born at Moonta, South Australia, on June 9, 1872, being a son of Mr. Ephraim Major, coachbuilder, of Yorke Peninsula, in that State. He was educated at various public schools, and when sixteen years of age served his apprenticeship to the butchering trade with the well-known firm of L. Conrad, in Adelaide. Arriving in Western Australia in 1895, fie followed in the wake of the goldseekers on the fields, and for a few months relinquished trading pursuits in favour of the mining industry. Returning to his former calling he spent fifteen years in the conduct of butchering businesses at Kalgoorlie
and Boulder, and when the last concern with which he was connected fell into the hands of the Swan Meat Company Mr. Major received the appointment of Manager. In July, 1911, he was transferred to Perth to undertake the management of the firm’s chief establishment in Barrack Street, and has continued to act in this capacity ever since. Mr. Major has given a great deal of time and attention to the study of improved methods in the conduct of the meat trade, and has had little time to spare for outside interests. He is, however, a prominent supporter of the Labour movement, and in his youth took a leading part in the foundation of its organization in South Australia. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1892 he married Selina Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. William Havercroft, of Ravensthorp, Western Australia, and has a son and a daughter.
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.
In April, 1899, the first Western Australian Trade Union and Labour Congress sitting in Coolgardie carried as one of the clauses of its programme of industrial reform the following resolution:—“Compulsory Conciliation and Arbitration Act, for the peaceful settlement of industrial disputes, containing a provision for the enforcement of awards. The Act to be on similar lines to the New Zealand Act.”
Previous to this similar resolutions in favour of the principle had been carried by numbers of unions and councils, but the above is the first official record of anything which definitely pledged the labour movement to the principle of compulsory arbitration.
Before the gold rush of 1893-98 took place Trades Unionism was a very weak force in Western Australia. Among the new arrivals from the Eastern States were many men who had been prominent in trades unionism, and their coming to the West materially strengthened the movement; in fact, to them is due its revival in this State. Very quickly following their arrival there was a demand for higher wages and better conditions of living, and as the employers were naturally loth to leave the low-wage standards which had existed during pre-rush times, industrial conflicts became more and more common. Several disastrous strikes occurred in the building trades; a bitterly-contested strike, lasting for some six weeks, took place between the Fremantle lumpers and their employers; and in January, 1900, the locomotive enginedrivers employed on the Government railways left their work for a few days. These all
tended to turn the minds of union leaders to the old problems of how to protect and improve themselves as wage-earners without resort to the method of declaring a strike.
On the goldfields, which were industrially a community apart from the coast, developments of much the same character had taken place. During the exciting days following 1892 men did not feel the need of unionism, as Urn wages-man, as soon as he had gathered a few pounds together, went off prospecting in the hope of securing riches. Towards 1898, however, when the mines round Kalgoorlie began to open up to greater depths, and a settled population of wage-earners upon the mines grew up, trades unionism revived, and on taking stock of their condition men found, that though wages were apparently high, they were really low when the cost of commodities, particularly water, was taken into account. On the other hand, the mine manager, anxious about high mining costs, and driven by shareholders anxious for dividends, cast covetous eyes at the wages The whole position was ripe for a period of bitter industrial strife. Old unionists, many of whom had had experience of the maritime, Broken Hill, and Newcastle strikes, saw the possibilities of the position, and turned their attention to the idea of compulsory arbitration, glowing accounts of the success of which in New Zealand had for some time been attracting attention. When the second Trades Union Congress assembled at Perth in August, 1900, the general opinion was voiced that only by such means could Western Australia escape serious
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industrial trouble. In this spirit they approached the bovernmcnt. Ihe Premier, (Sir John Porrest, was m one of those delicate situations which render politicians amenable to argument, even about subjects ot wnich they do not personally approve. The party he had led for a long period was beginning to break up; a dangerous cabal had been formed, the members of which made no secret of their intentions; and it was to secure their renewed allegiance and so enable the Premier to get back into smooth water that the first Compulsory Arbitration Act was passed at the close of the year 1900. It was-inoperative from the beginning. For private reasons the employers' representative left the colony, and as the three members of the Court had to sit together, nothing was done foi over a year.
During 1901 trouble of a serious character was caused by a railway strike. The abnormal increase m imports resulting from the population brought by the gold rush had proved utterly beyond the capacity of the railway rolling-stock, and as a result a large quantity of material had to be dumped on a reclaimed area locally known as ‘ The Farm.” The temporary hands engaged there became dissatisfied, the members of the Railway Association made common cause with them, a strike was declared, and the whole railway service paralysed. The seriousness of this may be understood when it is mentioned that out on the gold areas—400 miles away—there were nearly 60,000 people dependent for food and water upon a single line of railway. Fortunately the strike did not last long. The point to be explained is. why was the Arbitration Court not availed of to settle this dispute? One reason—which, however, was not vital—was that a member of the Court was absent from the State, but the real stumbling-block was that by the definition of “worker” in the Act clerical workers were excluded, and as many members of the Railway Association came under that category, the Association had not been able to register under the Act, and could not therefore approach the Court. This strike, combined with continually threatening trouble on the goldfields, convinced the public that a more satisfactory Act was required, and in 1902 the whole matter was reconsidered and the present Act placed upon the Statute Book, though not without determined opposition. The fight centred principally round two proposals—one that of preference to unionists, and the other that unions should deposit with the application for registration a sum of from £50 to £200, according to membership, as security for the observance of the award. The first passed the Assembly, but was defeated in the Council; the second, which was a proposed amendment, was fortunately also lost, as it would have rendered the Act inoperative, no union being in a strong enough position to lock up its funds in that manner. In addition, it would have been tantamount to a denial of justice.
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A section of the Act from which much was expected was that establishing Conciliation Boards. Experience has shown these Boards to be almost utterly useless. Their decisions were not final, as either party if dissatisfied could take the case to the Arbitration Court, and as both parties rarely were satisfied, it was soon found that reference to a Board was merely a waste of time.
One of the fiist disputes heard before the Court was that between the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Miners’ Union and the various companies on the Golden Mile. The award was dated September 2, 1902, and it is one of the triumphs of the Arbitration Court that this award formed the basis upon which the wages of every union in Western Australia have been regulated ever since. If the most recent award m the mining industry is compared with that of 1902, and allowance made for the increased cost of living, the differences between the two will be found to be very small, proving that the members of the Court, consisting of a Judge, a plumber, and a shipping manager, after hearing the case submitted to them by a carpenter on behalf of the men and by a clerk on behalf of the companies, grasped the essentials of the mining industry so well that after ten years mining men have not been able to suggest any serious alteration.
The Act has been in operation for ten years. It is one which breaks entirely new ground. It fundamentally altera the whole relationship between employer and employe-—a relationship around which endless law and custom has grown—and consequently it is an Act which inevitably demands frequent revision and alteration to meet unforeseen developments. It is extremely contentious, however, in almost every clause, and attempts to amend it or similar Acts in the various States or in the Commonwealth have been so disastrous to the political health and reputations of Ministers that politicians have grown very shy of the measure, and so it comes that an Act which, more than most, must be kept up to date if it is to be effective has gone so long unaltered. The amounts involved in the awards are very large, and m view of this fact the litigation that has arisen over the Act is not great. This comparative immunity is said by some who do not view the intervention of lawyers in industrial matters with favour to be largely due to the fact that lawyers are not allowed to practice in the Arbitration Court in Western Australia. But unfortunately lawyers were permitted to practice before the New South Wales Court, and appeal after appeal was taken to the Supreme Court and on to the High Court, and almost invariably the result had been to curtail the sphere over which the Arbitration Court may operate. These decisions, of course, affect the Western Australian Act, and the result has been that the Court has for a long time been compelled to do its best with an Act from which many important provisions have been taken away,
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and to which has been added many pages of judicial speeches. To successfully find a way thiough a piece of legislation so onbbed and hampered would tax the ingenuity of an expert lawyer, and union representatives have found the task of piloting an industrial dispute through the Court one of constantly increasing difficulty. In fact, it may be asserted that if an employer is determined to take advantage of every possible technical objection, and employs a skilled agent, then it is practically impossible for any industrial dispute, no matter how pressing the grievance, to be carried through the Court to a definite conclusion. This has caused a great deal of adverse criticism to be levelled at the Court and its work, but the constant stream of cases shows that the principle of compulsory arbitration is not to blame. The blame must rest upon the cumbersome and highly technical procedure with which Supreme and High Court decisions have encrusted the Act. Fortunately in the great majority of cases the employers, recognizing the value of the Court as a means of settling wages and working conditions, have waived technical objections, and thus enabled an award to be expeditiously and smoothly arrived at.
Up to the date of writing 291 awards have been made by the Court, and when it is remembered that these are for periods of from one to three years, they form a truly great record of work done. Another very striking proof of the success of the work of the Court is the list of industrial agreements arrived at between employer and employe. Out of a total of seventy-one such agreements twenty-seven are marked as being founded on previous awards of the Court, simply modified at the request of one or both parties to meet altered conditions.
A critical examination of the list of agreements not founded upon awards would probably reveal that their terms and conditions owe much to preceding awards of the Court, for industries are so closely related one to another that it is not possible to set up a standard in one without materially affecting the others.
All critics of the Arbitration Act, friendly or otherwise, invariably ask what benefit the working of the Act has conferred. To answer this question statistically or in money terms is impossible. Great as has been the service to the community, the employer, and the worker by the work done and the awards issued, still greater is the service rendered by preventing industrial dislocation, and to estimate this it is necessary to have an intimate knowledge, extending over ten years, of the fluctuating prosperity of the State, of the supply and demand of labour, and, above all, of the fighting strength and spirit of the unions. On none of these points will any two observers agree. That the unions have gained by the Act is proved by the number of cases referred to. The number contested by the employers before the Court
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strictly on their merits as industrial disputes is proof that the employer recognizes the Court as the best method of fixing wages and working conditions. This is also proved by the fact that should any whisper of a strike be heard, the employers are the first to demand that the matter be referred to the Court.
During the currency of the Act a number of things have occurred in contravention of its provisions. The most notable fact about them all is that after doing their utmost by means of the old weapons, and inflicting loss and hardship on all concerned, the unions have found it necessary, without the enforcement of the penalty clauses in the Act, to resort to some form of arbitration—a method of settlement open to them from the beginning. It would appear from this that the Arbitration Court is slowly getting behind it a mass of public approval and confidence which will, as time goes on, render it more and more effective and powerful in the cause of industrial peace.
There is no doubt that the public demand of the Arbitration Act a higher standard of effectiveness than they do of any other Act. Laws upon every possible subject can be, and are, ignored and evaded every day, and the public mind is not disturbed in the least. They see every year large sums voted by Parliament for the purpose of compelling compliance with the law, but so long as the law is reasonably effective everyone is satisfied. Let, however, any hitch occur in the working of the Compulsory Arbitration Act, and immediately Press and platform resound with demands from some for its repeal, and from others for its amendment. Some denounce it with extravagant condemnation, others exhaust themselves in excusing and explaining. One reason for this is that the Act and the principle involved is new, and there has not yet been sufficient time for settlement in permanent form. The question is to some extent a party one. It may be mentioned in passing that the question—shall wages and working conditions be regulated by law ?—is no longer a party question in Australia. No political party dare move to repeal the machinery which has been established to do this work. The party fight is now confined to the details of the machinery and as to the forms and powers of the Court or Boards. Other reasons for the fierce light of criticism which occasionally beats upon the proceedings of the Arbitration Court is the importance of the work done, its difficulty, and the large numbers of the public who are immediately affected by any hitch in the smooth working of any industry. It is only when such a hitch occurs that the public realize the importance and difficulty of the work. In normal times any industry may approach the Court and go away with a code of wages and working conditions fixed for from one to three years, and beyond a vague idea that the Arbitration Court “fixes things,” the public have little knowledge of what is done; but when
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Mr. Suburbia finds some morning that he has to walk as his car is not running, he demands in a very angry voice why the Arbitration Court has not “fixed things.” In the successful work he has no interest, but everyone of the few failures affects him very deeply.
When the Arbitration Court was first called into existence the limit of its activities in the minds of the public was that it was to be an institution for settling disputes and so preventing strikes. In other words, it was intended to act at that stage when negotiations between employer and employed over some existing grievance had become so acute that without the intervention of a third party there was danger of a rupture. This idea has long since been outgrown, and the Court has become an institution for the regulation of the relationships between employers and workers in all industries From this evolutionary growth has arisen most of the
successful appeals to the Supreme and High Courts, on the ground that the Arbitration Court has exceeded its jurisdiction. The Judges have consistently endeavoured to limit the Arbitration Court to the “settlement of disputes” (Section 58). The Court in its work soon found that in a dispute which has primarily arisen over wages and hours, many details about which there was no actual dispute had to be reviewed and fixed. Once this was done, its advantages were so apparent that all unions desired similar codes, and so the dispute and its settlement ceased to be the end, and became only the means by which the Arbitration Court was enabled to lay down a complete code of wages and conditions, and to-day, when awards are nearing the time of expiry, unions and employers negotiate for their renewal in much the same spirit as the buyer and seller of any commodity do about their contracts.
Fremantle Harbour Trust.
Under the provisions of “The Fremantle Harbour Trust Act 1902” (2° Edwardii VTL, No. 17), which came into force on January 1, 1903, power was conferred upon five Commissioners, to be a body corporate, with common seal, and power
to hold land, and perpetual succession, and to be called the Fremantle Harbour Trust Commissioners, who were to be appointed by the Governor and hold office for a term of three years, to exercise exclusive control of Fremantle Harbour, undertake the maintenance and preservation of property vested in them under the Act, and provide such facilities and charges as may be most expedient for the trade of the port.
The Act vests in the Commissioners all lands of the Crown, harbour lights and beacons (excepting the lighthouses on Rottnest Island and at Woodman’s Point), wharves, docks, landing stages, piers, jetties, wharf sheds, and railways belonging to the Government, lying
Photo by G, E. Farr. Royal Mail Steamers
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within the boundaries of the harbour, and, in addition, such other property as may be acquired by them or may be vested in them for the purposes of the Act; a schedule of all these properties to be made by the Government
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determined and charged against the Commissioners. All dues, etc., collected by the Commissioners are to be paid into the Treasury to the credit of an account, to be called the “Fremantle Harbour Trust Account,” which is to be annually charged with all fees, salaries, wages, and other expenditure paid or incurred by the Commission-
osterley" (departing' in Fremantle harbour, ers, the balance, subject to certain conditions, being carried to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be used by the Government in payment of interest on capital cost and sinking fund.
The Commissioners are further empowered to make regulations for the various purposes specified in the Act.
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By Order-in-Council, dated January 7, 1903, the Honourable the Colonial Secretary was appointed to be the Minister to administer the Act, the Honourable R. Laurie, M.L.C., Messrs. A. G. Leeds, C. Hudson, A. Sandover, and T. Coombe being at the same time appointed Trust Commissioners, the'firstnamed to be Chair • man of the Commission, and Mr. F. Stevens receiving his appointment of Secretary.
The first regulations made by the Trust were approved of by the Governor-in-Council on July 24, and gazetted on August 13, 1903 The following officers of the Trust were therein enumerated: —A Secretary, an Accountant, the Engineer-in-Chief as Consulting Engineer, the Harbourmaster, the Deputy-Harbourmaster and Surveyor, an Engineer Inspector, and a Wharf Manager and Berthing Master. The regulations provide for the “Conduct of Business,” “Control and Guidance of Officers appointed by the Commissioners, and the Time and Mode of Accounting by Officers for Moneys coming into their Hands,” “Management and Conduct of Business at Meetings of the Commissioners,” “Payment of Revenue,” “Contracts,” “Signals,” “Harbour Dues,” “Pilotage and Charges therefor,” “Exemption Certificates,” “Exemption Flag,” “Tonnage Dues,” “Berthing Dues,” “Wharfage,” “Special Rates,” “Navigation,” “Berthing,” “Vessels in Port,” “Handling of Cargo,” “Explosives and Other Dangerous Materials,” “Licensing of Vessels and Boats,” “Watermen and Boatmen,” “Baggage Porters,” etc.
These regulations have been altered, amended, and varied from time to time as the development of the port required.
The Act itself was amended in 1906 by 6 Edw. VII., No. 35, giving extended powers to the Commissioners and at the same time enabling them to make regulations governing matters not foreseen at the time of passing the principal Act. The two Acts were then consolidated, and no further alteration was made until 1911, when by 1 Geo. V., No. 25, the Commissioners were empowered to appoint special constables within the limits of the harbour and also to make regulations for the removal and storage of goods.
One of the first matters taken in hand by the Trust on its appointment was the reorganization of the Pilot Service, and on August 1, 1903, the sea-pilot station on Rottnest Island was abolished, and arrangements were made for the whole service to be worked from the port of Fremantle, it being proved that the situation of the pilot station on the island was liable to tempt vessels to approach it too closely looking for a pilot, and so get into dangerous water. By the new system the passage into Gage Roads, South of Rottnest, was closed to all vessels whose masters do not hold exemption certificates. In rounding Rottnest vessels are, on no pretence whatever, to approach nearer than three miles to the island,
but are to always keep in clear open water, with sufficient sea room to work in.
Other matters were then dealt with, such as the licensing of boats, proper shed accommodation, facilities for handling cargo and the conditions under which such handling should be carried out, harbour lights, wharf cranes, and the many other details necessary to secure smoothness of working and efficient control.
The wharves are now equipped with nine large sheds and rails, and cargo destined for inland is loaded direct on to the railway waggons at the ships slings, and consigned from the wharves to destination. Steam and electric gantry cranes and wharf capstans are in operation. Electric light is installed throughout. Large grain sheds equipped with electric elevators and conveyors are now in operation to deal with the rapidly increasing export of wheat. Portable electric elevators are also in use Wharfage rates are 5s. 9d. and 6s. on some special lines, 2s. 9d. or 3s. per ton on general cargo, with lower rates on special lines. Handling charges vary from Is. 6d. per ton to 3d. per ton on some bulk lines. A harbour improvement rate of 6d. per ton on cargo discharged at the port is also charged.
Tonnage of cargo dealt with at the port for year ending June 30, 1911, has been as follows:—General. 379,400 tons; gold, 1,162 boxes; frozen meat, 21,952 carcasses; live stock, 188,883 head; wool and skins, 75,392 bales; number of hides, 29,069.
Tonnage dues collected by the Harbour Trust: —All foreign-going vessels, 3d per ton inwards and 3d. per ton outwards; if cargo in or out is in excess of one-fourth of net registered tonnage, then net registered tonnage is taken, but if cargo is less than one-fourth of net registered tonnage, then tonnage of cargo is taken. Inter-State and coastal vessels pay from 2d. downwards per ton on their net registered tonnage. A vessel part loading at Fremantle and completing at another Western Australian port, or vice versa, is charged on the tonnage of cargo shipped at Fremantle. Vessels calling for ooal supplies, orders, or in distress, and not broaching cargo, or landing or shipping passengers, pay a maximum sum of £5 per entry into the port to cover all port dues whatsoever, including pilotage.
Berthing dues at inner harbour wharves: —All ocean-going steamers, 2d. per ton on the first 2,400 tons cargo landed or shipped, Id. per ton on balance (minimum, £3); coasters up to 200 tons register, 2d. per ton on cargo landed or shipped (minimum, 5s.); all other vessels, 2d. per ton on the first 2,400 tons cargo landed or shipped, Id. per ton on balance (minimum, £3). Vessels using moorings are charged same rates as if occupying berths at wharves. Vessels loading grain pay special berthing dues of £d. per day of twenty-four hours per ton of their net register for the first six days, and thereafter Jd. per ton per day of twenty-four hours.
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Vessels can obtain coal, water, and all other supplies at low rates, and steam tugs are available. Correct time is given daily by means of time-ball and gun. Depth of water in inner harbour and at wharves, 30 feet below dead low water, which means 33 feet on an average.
The present Harbour Trust Commissioners are: — Messrs. James Thompson, B.E., M.I.C.E. (chairman), E. Allnutt, A. M. Oliphant, J. H. G. Taylor, and Captain C. J. Irvine. The officers of the Trust are as follows:—Secretary, F. W. B. Stevens; accountant, S. S. Glyde, A.I.A., W.A.; consulting engineer, Jas, Thompson, M.Inst. C.E.; harbourmaster, Captain C. J. Irvine; deputy harbourmaster, surveyor, and chief pilot, Captain J. F. Morrison; wharf manager and berthingmaster, Captain Alex. Cleary.
The total amount debited to capital account of the harbour on June 30, 1911, was £1,477,468; the gross earnings for the year were £177,433, showing a surplus of £123,258 over working expenses, and of £56,772 over working expenses, interest, and sinking fund. The number of vessels usirlg the port was 726 and the net register tonnage 2,012,536 tons.
The imports and exports for the half-year ending December 31, 1911, were 445,220 tons, as against 344,100 tons for the corresponding period of the previous year.
These totals give some idea of the trade of the principal port of Western Australia, and from them we are in a measure enabled to estimate the magnitude of the operations of the Trust.
ERNEST ALLNUTT, J.P., Commissioner of the Harbour Trust and Managing Director of the firm of
D. & J. Fowler, Limited, is a son of the late Mr. Samuel Lea Allnutt, of Victoria, and was born at Hamilton, in the western district of Victoria, on June 23, 1865. He received his education at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and subsequently attended a similar institution at Geelong, completing his scholastic career at the age of seventeen. He then entered upon a commercial career, joining the staff of Messrs. D. & J. Fowler, Adelaide, in the clerical department, and during a period of thirty years’ service became closely acquainted with the workings of all branches of the firm’s operations. Promotion was steadily accorded him from time to time, and in 1898 he was admitted as a partner in the firm soon after his arrival in Western Australia. Eighteen months later, when the business was floated into a Company, Mr. Allnutt was appointed a Director of the Company, and has continued to control the affairs of the house in this State ever since. He occupies various public offices, having held a commission of Justice of the Peace since 1902, and in 1905 was appointed by the Government to the position of Commissioner of the Harbour Trust, discharging the duties of chairman for six months during the absence of the elected officer, Mr. Leeds, in England. He is a member of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce, and filled the position of President of that body in the years 1903-4-5; is Chairman of Directors of the local Board of the Alliance Assurance Company, and Chairman of Directors of the Western Australian Shipping Association, Limited, a power-
ful body in the State. He is also a member of the Committee appointed by the Government to fix the pure foods standard for Western Australia. In church matters Mr. Allnutt has taken a prominent part, and is a member of the Church Council of the Anglican denomination, of which he is a member. He was recently elected a member of the Dean
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Ernest Allnutt.
and Chapter of the Cathedral of Perth, and holds the Bishop’s licence of diocesan lay reader for Western Australia. Golf is the special form of recreation indulged in by Mr. Allnutt, and he is at present Captain of the Fremantle Golf Club, of which he was a foundation-member. He is also a member of the Western Australian Automobile Club, the Weld Club, and of the Fremantle and Commercial Travellers’ Clubs of Western Australia. In 1893 he mar-
ried Marion Anderson, daughter of the late Mr. George Swan Fowler, one of the founders of the business of Messrs. D. & J. Fowler, and has four daughters.
JOHN HENRY GEORGE TAYLOR, Harbour Trust Commissioner, was born at London on July 23, 1873. At the close of his scholastic career he entered upon marine pursuits, and subsequently made many voyages, practically to all parts of the globe. In 1896 he settled at Fremantle and occupied himself with shipping interests on the wharves. During the earlier years of his career Mr. Taylor was identified with the Seamen’s Union, and after his arrival in Western Australia he became a member of the Fremantle Lumpers’ Union, of which body he afterwards became President. He was also President of the Fremantle Branch of the Australian Labour Council for two years. In 1912 Mr. Taylor was elected by his Society as workers’ representative on the Fremantle Harbour Trust, and has acted in this capacity ever since. He has occupied a seat in the East Fremantle Municipal Chamber for four years, having first been returned as councillor for West Ward in 1908.
HENRY GELL BARKER, Commissioner of the Fremantle Harbour Trust (1908-1912), was born at Old Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1864. He is a son of Mr. Henry M. Barker, LL.D., late of that city and now of Banchory, and received his scholastic training at Chanonry School, Old Aberdeen, and the High School of Glasgow. At the age of seventeen he entered as junior clerk the well-
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known firm of Berry, Barclay, and Co., grain merchants, of Glasgow and London, and three years later came to Australia as Secretary to the then General Manager of the Orient Line of Steamships. After spending six years with that company and three years with Messrs. Mcllwraith, McEacharn, & Co., Mr. Barker took a trip to England, and upon his return in 1893 took up his residence in Western Australia. He in 1894 floated, and for some years afterwards managed, the Swan River Shipping Company, and on his resigning in 1900 from that concern commenced business on his own account under the style of H. G. Barker & Co., Ship and Insurance Brokers, at St. George’s Terrace, Perth, where his firm is still established. Mr. Barker occupied a seat on the Fire Brigades Board for two years as representative of the Fire Insurance Companies. In 1908 he was appointed to a seat on the Harbour Trust as the nominee of the Chamber of Mines. He is a member of the Weld Club and, is one of the founders of the Perth Golf Club. In 1903 he married a daughter of the late Dr. H. Ferguson, of Glenelg, South Australia.
CHARLES HUDSON, who for several years was a member of the Fremantle Harbour Trust, is a son of the late Mr. William Hudson, mer-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Charles Hudson.
chant, of Burra, South Australia. Born at Adelaide on February 24, 1865, he was educated during his early years in his native town, sub-
sequently attending Whinham College, North Adelaide. Leaving this institution at the age of sixteen he entered upon a commercial career in the Central State, which extended over three years, and in 1884 came to Western Australia, where he joined the firm of William Sandover, hardware merchants, of Hay Street. Mr. Hudson spent eighteen years with this well-known firm, being admitted as a partner in 1890. In 1901 he retired from the connection and established himself in insurance business at Fremantle, where he still carries on, in addition to his local operations being representative for various pastoral and other firms in the Nor.’-West. He is Manager of the Fremantle Branch of the Commercial Union Assurance Company and local director of the A.M.P. Society, and for about twelve years was connected with the Marine Underwriters’ Association, during the whole of which period he acted on the Committee and for four years occupied the Chair. He received his appointment on the Harbour Trust as one of the original Commissioners, being nominated by the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce in 1903. In 1906 he retired for some time and was reappointed by the Government in 1907, holding the seat until 1912, in which year the Trust was reconstructed. For some considerable time Mr. Hudson served on the Hospital Committee. He is a member of the Royal Agricultural Society and is connected with the Fremantle and Commercial Travellers’ Club. He is interested in both of the time-honoured games of bowls and golf, and is a member of the local clubs, being patron of the Fremantle Bowling Club. He married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. John Snook, of Fremantle, and has a family of three sons and two daughters.
Captain CHARLES JAMES IRVINE, chief Harbourmaster for the State of Western Australia and member of the Fremantle Harbour Trust, is a son of the late Mr. Charles James Irvine, of Launceston, Tasmania, where the subject of our review was born on June 21, 1857. He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, and at the age of seventeen went to sea as apprentice in the ship “Loch Ness,” of the Glasgow Shipping Company, in which vessel he completed his indentures and served successively as
third and second mate. After about nine months as chief officer of the steamer “Adeline Sholl,” trading between England and the various Continental ports, he returned to Australia and joined the barque
Bartletto, Perth.
Captain Charles James Irvine.
“Kassa” as mate, trading in her on the China coast for about one and a half years. He was then offered the post, of mate on the “Rob Roy” by the Melbourne shipping firm of Anderson, Marshall, & Lilly, and when at about 1883 this Company sold out its interests to the Adelaide Steamship Company he transferred his services to the latter firm. During the nine years of his connection with this Company he was successively master of the "Otway,” the “Flinders,”, the “Lubra,” the “Ferret,” the “Perth,” the “Rob Roy,” and the “Albany,” and ultimately resigned in order to join the Western Australian pilot service at Albany. Seven years later he was transferred to Fremantle to fill the position of Assistant Harbourmaster, and upon the retirement of Captain C. R. Russell, the then Chief Harbourmaster, resident at Fremantle, Captain Irvine received the appointment to his present position. His duties include the supervision of all the lighthouses on the Western Australian coast and the control of all the outports with the exception of Fremantle and Bunbury. He also holds the position of Royal Naval Registrar and Lieutenant in the Australian Naval Reserve, and is one of the best-known figures in shipping circles in the State. Captain Irvine is President of the Fre-
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mantle Swimming Club and has always taken a keen interest in yachting matters. A member of the Fremantle Golf Club, he is frequently to be seen on the links enjoying the healthy recreation afforded by that ancient sport. In 1887 he married Flora M., daughter of the late Mr. H. J. Yelverton, of Quindalup, Western Australia, and has a son and a daughter.
Captain JOHN FRANCIS MORRISON, Deputy-Harbourmaster, Chief Pilot and Surveyor to the Fremantle Boat Licensing Board, Inspector of Shipping and Shipwright’s Surveyor under the Navigation Act, Western Australia, was born at Hobart, Tasmania, on February 12, 1858, being a son of the late Mr. James Alexander Morrison, of that town. He was educated at the High School, now Christ College, in his native city, and when approaching fifteen years of age joined, as apprentice, the ship “Wagoola,” of London, in which he sailed for five years, completing his apprenticeship in
1877. Having obtained his second mate’s certificate he returned to Australia in the “Cairnburg,” Aberdeen line, and after enjoying a well-earned holiday at Melbourne joined the barque “Nardoo” in 1878. Nearly two years passed in a trip to China, Japan, and adjacent ports before the return voyage was made
Bartletto, Perth.
Captain John Francis Morrison.
to Victoria, when, arriving again on Australian soil, Mr. Morrison took his certificate as first mate and made a second trip in the “Nardoo” as uu
first officer. In 1882 he obtained his master’s certificate, and after a year, during which he shipped as mate in the Currie line, he rejoined the sailing vessel “Nardoo” this time taking command, and for three years traded in her in the Southern Hemisphere. Abandoning the sailing craft, he then took a position as second officer on board the steamer “Nemesis,” and after augmenting his experience on various steamboats accepted the position of master of the S.S. “Lubra,” of the Adelaide Steamship Company, by whom afterwards he was transferred to different ships engaged in the coastal trade until 1897, when he joined the Harbour and Lights Department at Fremantle as master of the Government steamer “Penguin.” Subsequently, in 1900, he was offered his present position in the pilot service, and in 1905 he also obtained the appointments of Deputy-Harbourmaster, Inspector of Shipping, etc., which he holds in conjunction with that of Chief Pilot. Outside of his professional duties he indulges in the hobby of amateur carpentry, in which he excels, varying this form of exercise by an occasional hour on the bowling green. In 1881 he married a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Wise, of Hobart, and ha-s two sons surviving.
Captain ALEXANDER CLEARY, Wharf Manager and Berthingmaster, Harbour Trust, Fremantle, is an Irishman by birth, having been born near the City of Dublin, Ireland, on January 13, 1854, and is a son of the late Mr. J. M. Cleary, of Melbourne, Victoria. Part of his early youth was spent in his native place, and subsequently he removed with his father to Plymouth, England, whence at the age of fourteen he went to sea. Serving his apprenticeship in the sailing vessel “Statesman” and other vessels engaged in the coasting and West Indian trade, upon its completion he continued with the Company for over fifteen years, during which time he rose through the various offices from midshipman to master, in 1880 receiving his first permanent command on board the S.S. “Rosella,” having previously served a few months on other steamships in order to gain the experience required when transferring from sailing vessels to steamers. He continued in the command of this and other vessels for the same Company—Messrs. J. H. Berry
and Co., of Witty, Yorkshire—during seven years, until 1877, when he joined in commercial enterprise with his father, who had settled in Melbourne. Sharing in the general loss resultant upon the land boom in
Bartletto, Perth.
Captain Alexander Cleary.
Victoria Captain Cleary relinquished his business interests and returned to a seafaring life, entering the service of Messrs. Mcllwraith, McEacharn, and Co. as second officer on board the S.S. “Federal.” Within two years he was again promoted to a command, and continued as master of various vessels in this Company’s fleet during the ensuing ten years. In 1900 he was appointed by the Western Australian Government Pilot-in-Charge of Rottnest Pilot Station, and carried out the duties in connection with this appointment until the station was abolished upon the amalgamation of the pilot services when the Harbour Trust was formed, whereupon he was transferred to Fremantle and remained in the Pilot Service until June 30, 1910, on which date he entered upon his present appointment, having been chosen by the Fremantle Harbour Trust out of over 200 applicants for the position. He married in 1895 Amy, daughter of the late Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Beech-worth, Victoria.
FRANK WILLIAM BUCK STEVENS, Secretary to the Harbour Trust at Fremantle, is a native of Wellington, New Zealand, where he was born on December 16, 1867. He is a son of the late Mr.
Francis Stevens, who was for many years prominently associated with the Civil Service of the Dominion. Educated at the Wellington College in the country of his birth, at the age of seventeen years the subject of our memoir became a law clerk in the firm of Messrs. Chapman and Fitzgerald, barristers and solicitors,
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. F. W. B. Stevens.
of Wellington. Having spent five years with this firm he relinquished the idea of entering the legal profession and instead adopted the career of a journalist, becoming attached to the staff of The Evening Press newspaper in the same town. Early in 1892 he was offered and accepted the post of private secretary to that engineering genius—the late Mr. C. Y. O’Connor, elsewhere referred to in this volume—and came to Western Australia to take up his new duties. It was about this time that the late gentleman assumed the appointment as Engineer-in-Chief and General Manager of Railways under the then new conditions of responsible government which had been granted to the colony of Western Australia in 1891, and for the ensuing ten years Mr. Stevens acquired a vast and useful knowledge of the extensive Public Works then being carried out in various parts of the State. With his chief he visited London to assist the Board of Engineering Experts specially created to investigate the final arrangements to be adopted in connection with the contemplated construction of the goldfields water supply scheme, a great undertaking which, as the world has long since
known, was brought to a very successful issue. During the years of his residence in the Western State Mr. Stevens had become a well-known figure in the community, and with the creation of the first Harbour Trust in the State, at Fremantle in 1903, he was selected as its chief executive officer, and upon his shoulders fell the brunt of the work of organizing and administering the new departure. In the performance of these duties the experience gained in the engineering branch of the Government Service stood him in good stead, and with this substantial basis to work upon it is not surprising that his efforts have been attended with great success. Not being content continually to remain in the one groove, Mr. Stevens has paid visits to the Eastern States of Australia and to the Old World, and from observations gathered on these trips he keeps the shipping facilities of Fremantle well abreast of the requirements of this ever-expanding and important depot. As the permanent head of the Harbour Trust the whole of the work of handling the immense quantities of goods landed and shipped at the wharves naturally devolves on his hands, and the systematic way in which the whole work is expeditiously dealt with is a tribute to his powers of organization, and has brought the port of Fremantle into a very high position in any comparison made with other ports of the world. When he is able to dissociate himself from his onerous duties Mr. Stevens derives pleasure from the pursuit of yachting and boating, and has, with Mr. Justice Burnside, an interest in the beautiful “Genesta,” the finest yacht on the Swan River. His marriage took place in 1899, when he was united to a daughter of the late Mr. Henry Ever all, a prominent figure in mercantile circles at Shang hai, in the Chinese Empire. He has a son and a daughter.
SAMUEL STEDMAN GLYDE, A.I.A., W.A., was born at Norwood, South Australia, on December 3, 1872. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, and gained his first experience of commercial life in the Adelaide office of the National Mutual Life Assurance Company. About the year 1891 Mr. Glyde proceeded to Mildura, on the River Murray, where he set to work to master the various industries of the settle-
ment. Three years later he became secretary to the Mildura Fruitgrowers’ Association, relinquishing the post in 1897 in order to come to Western Australia. Subsequent to his arrival in this State he spent four and a half years as accountant to Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, during a portion of that time filling the position of joint manager for Western Australia. In 1901 he accepted the management of Stirling Brothers and Co., Limited, and remained with them for two years, when a change of ownership took place, and Mr. Glyde severed his connection with the firm. On the formation of the Harbour Trust at Fremantle in 1903 he was appointed accountant to the new body, a position he still continues to hold. He is an Associate of the Institute of Accountants of Western Australia, having gained his diploma in 1907, and with it the Dicksee prize, looked upon as the blue ribbon of the accountancy profession. Since 1909 he has been lecturer in advanced accountancy at the Perth Technical School. Mr. Glyde has a 1,000-acre plot at Three Springs, which is principally devoted to the growing of cereals. He married in 1896, and has two sons and one daughter.
JAMES JOHN STRATFORD,
Officer in Charge, Harbour Trust Office, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. John Edmund Stratford, of
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. James John Stratford.
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, where he was born on January 27, 1859. While still a lad at one of the public schools in his native
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town he turned his attention toward teaching as a profession, but at the age of sixteen relinquished the idea and went to sea, trading on the coast and-, to the Continent, afterwards joiring the deep-sea barque “Gar-noc.c” trading to Queensland. Arrived at Queensland in 1877, he left the ship and engaged in farm and dairy work for twelve months, then joining the “Corea,” one of Padbury and Lamb’s boats, gained his first experience in the Australian coastal trade. A year or two later he sailed for San Francisco in the mail steamer “Zealandia,” and after continuing in this ship for some twelve months returned to the coastal trade of Australia, joining the Richmond River Steam Navigation Company,
and afterwards was identified with the old Australian Steam Navigation Company (now known as the A.U.S.N. Company) and the Howard Smith line in various departments of the service. In 1880 he went to England in the “Sorata” and there joined the P. and O. Company, remaining in the latter employ for about five years. Settling in New South Wales in 1886 Mr. Stratford filled a position for a time with the contractors for the underground sewerage works in Sydney, after which he came to Western Australia in 1891 and joined the Railways Department, doing the clerical work in connection with the shipping industry at Fremantle. Upon the creation of the
Fremantle Harbour Trust in 1903 he was transferred from the Railways Department to the Fremantle Harbour Trust and appointed to the dual position of wharf manager and berthingmaster, which he filled until the following year, when the introduction of the handling of cargo made the holding of the two positions an impossibility, and that of berthingmaster was handed over to Captain Morrison. Mr. Stratford continued as wharf manager until June, 1910, when he was transferred to his present appointment at Bazaar Terrace, Perth. In the year 1886 he was married in Sydney to Annie, daughter of the late Mr. John Kimber, of Otford, Kent, England.
Bunbury Harbour Trust.
The extensive harbour works at Bunbury, now under the control of the Bunbury Harbour Trust, are sufficient evidence that the policy of centralization so studiously adhered to by some of the Eastern States finds no counterpart in the policy of the Government of Western Australia.
When harbour works at Bunbury were first proposed the late Engineer-in-Chief, Mr. C. Y. O’Connor, M.Inst. C.E., C.M.G., prepared alternative designs for them as follows: —1. For an inner harbour, similar in conception to that being constructed at Fremantle, with two ocean moles, and an entrance to Leschenault Estuary at the embouchure of the Preston River, estimated cost £430,000. 2. For a mole reaching out from Casuarina
Point for a length of 3,000 ft. to shelter, to some extent, the existing anchorage; estimated cost £100,000 The latter alternative was adopted.
The work was commenced on April 27, 1897, when the first load of stone was tipped into the sea at the root of the breakwater, the ceremony being performed by the then Premier, Sir John Forrest, K.C.M.G.
The scheme, so far, is comprised in the construction of a mole running out into the ocean from Casuarina Point in a north-north-easterly direction, thus partly enclosing Koombana Bay, and, to some extent, protecting the shipping from the foroe of the west to northwest gale3.
The mole is of the “Pierres Perdues” type, and follows generally along a curve of about half a mile radius. Its foundation for the whole distance is bare rock, the mole reaching, in 21 feet of water, a length of 3,200 feet.
The total expenditure on this main portion of the Bunbury harbour works scheme has been £116,705.
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The main jetty is constructed of timber, and consists of a neck or viaduct 1,900 feet long, running from the shore in a north-easterly direction to a head about
2,000 feet long, running north and south. The head affords berthage for two steamers and three sailers on the east and two steamers and three sailers on the west side, the depth of water at low tide ranging from 15 to 20 feet. A viaduct 2,500 feet long, partly in stone and partly in timber, connects the lines on the jetty head with the main railway system of the State. With the exception of northerly gales the jetty is protected from all weather.
Further extension of the works has been in abeyance for some few years, the question as to whether the outer harbour shall be further developed, or whether works for an inner harbour should be instituted having been the subject of not a little controversy. It is expected, however, that in the forthcoming year a decision will be come to, and that additional works will thereupon be undertaken.
In 1909 the Bunbury Harbour Trust Act was passed under which five Commissioners were appointed by the Governor-in-Council to control all matters relating to the harbour and its appurtenances. The powers conferred upon the Trust were much the same as those conferred upon the similar body at Fremantle.
The first Commissioners, appointed on the proclamation of the Act in May, 1909, were Messrs. H. M. Beigel (chairman), W. Balston, J. Bolden, F. W. Roberts, and
F. W Steele, with Mr D. G. Humphries as secretary. In October, 1910, Mr. Beigel resigned fiom membership and Mr. F. W. Steere was appointed as chairman, the vacancy on the Board being filled in March, 1911, by the appointment of Captain J. G. Dodds.
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Regulations were issued in November, 1909, and with slight alterations made during the following year have been found to work satisfactorily.
The trade returns published in the second annual report issued in September, 1911, show that the number of vessels using the port during the year was 165, of a net registered tonnage of 318,248, being a slight decrease on the figures of the previous year. The total loads shipped, consisting principally of timber and coal, amounted to 199,965, representing 356,010 tons.
Indications point towards a great development in the south-western portion of the State, the natural outlet for which is Bunbury. How deeply this fact is impressing itself on the Trust may be seen from the following extract from its annual report: —-“During the year the need of extensive harbour improvements has
an enhanced shipping cost to the producer. The Board realizes that the undertaking will be of an expensive nature, but feels assured of its ability to find the necessary interest, sinking, and replacement fund': on the works. The present sea jetty has answered its purpose in demonstrating the importance of this port to the State. It is also an indisputable fact that in five to seven years about 1,000 feet of the older portion of the jetty will have to be renewed, at an estimated cost of £50,000. In view of this contingency and the increasing export, the Board feels that the time has now arrived when the exigencies of trade demand considerably improved facilities, recognizing that the proper development of this part of the State and the hinterland adjacent thereto is absolutely dependent upon a thoroughly up-to-date harbour equipped with the neces-
The Harbour at Bunbury.
Photo by W. J. Ford.
been forced upon the members. The question of future trade was fully considered by the Board, who arrived at the decision that in five years hence the Board will require to make provision to cope with the following additional annual trade : —70,000 tons coal, 30,000 tons wheat, 60,000 cases fruit, to say nothing of increases in imports and other directions. The above quantities will further, after that period, be of a yearly increasing nature. The jetty at the present time is usually taxed to its utmost capacity, so that it will be impossible to deal with the additional trade named unless considerable extra wharfage space, as well as more extensive facilities, are provided. It is recognized that any further extension of the present jetty is out of the question, so that an entirely new scheme will have to be evolved, which must of necessity provide for shed accommodation right alongside the ship, as it is quite impossible to handle an export produce trade by any other means except at
sary appliances to cope expeditiously and cheaply with the mineral and agricultural wealth of the district. The requirements of the Board have been placed before the Government, and it feels assured that its requests will receive the favourable consideration that their importance merits.”
The question referred to as a “new scheme” refers to that of a commodious harbour within the estuary, where ample accommodation for shipping could be secured. Trial borings have shown that this would not be so easy of achievement as was at first expected, as the rock bottom is reached before sufficient depth could be secured in the canal cutting between the estuary and the sea. Whatever means may be ultimately adopted, it is evident to all with a knowledge of the port and of the possibilities of the immense district behind it that in the near future extensive additional accommodation will be required.
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FREDERICK WALTER STEERE, Chairman of the Bunbury Harbour Board, was born in 1867, and educated at the Hope House School, Richmond. He was articled to the architectural profession under
Ford, Bunbury.
Mr. Frederick Walter Steere.
his father, with whom he continued until his departure for Australia in 1888. After about nine months at Sydney he proceeded to Queensland, where he was identified with station life for three years. Subsequently he was attracted to Victoria, and spent a period in Melbourne, leaving for the Western State in 1898. In 1901 Mr. Steere established himself in business on his own account, and since that period has been responsible for the designs of many important buildings. Mr. Steere has always taken a very active part in municipal and social affairs, and has served the ratepayers as councillor for some years, twice holding office as Mayor. While on the committee of the old Mechanics’ Institute, he was instrumental in transferring that property to the municipal council and establishing the first municipalized free public library in Western Australia. For the past two years he has occupied the office of Chairman of the Bunbury Harbour Board. He is a Justice of the Peace for the district, and in the past filled the post of Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, being a member of the committee of that body. He holds the rank of First Lieutenant in the Military Forces, and has charge of the Senior Cadet Corps. In the year 1892 Mr. Steere married a daughter of
Mr. Alfred Wells, of England, and has a family of five sons and a daughter.
Captain JOHN GEORGE ABRAHAMSON, Harbourmaster, Bunbury, was born on March 9, 1848, and is a son of Captain John Abrahamson, of London. He was educated at Montrose Academy, Scotland, and being apprenticed to marine pursuits became connected with the Pow and Faucus line of vessels of North Shields, in which he was apprenticed for six years. He passed his first examination in 1866 in London and sailed as second mate in the “John C. Munro,” of London. In 1869 he took his first mate’s certificate in London, qualifying as
Ford, Bunbury.
Captain John George Abrahamson.
master in 1873 in London. Captain Abrahamson had command of one of the Oliver Wilson, also Trinder Anderson, line of ships, and was engaged in the early immigration trade between London and Western Australia in command of sailing vessels. From 1888 onward for many years he was associated with the Nor.’-West trade, while in command of the “Australind” plying between Fremantle and Singapore, via the northwestern ports of this State, prior to taking the Australian coastal commands being connected with the China, Japan, African, and Black Sea trade. In 1891 he joined the service as pilot at Rottnest, and from 1894 to 1900 occupied the post of pilot in charge of the station at that island. In the latter year he received his present appointment of
harbourmaster at Bunbury, and he has the distinction of being the second senior officer in the service, Captain Irvine having a priority of three months. Many improvements have been made during Captain Abrahamson’s occupation of the position of harbourmaster, the jetty alone having been extended five times since the time of his appointment. Originally it was only 750 ft. in length, drawing 16 ft. of water, while at the present time it is 3,536 ft. long, with 2,220 ft. of berthing space, and at the outer end has a depth of 27 ft. of water. Captain Abrahamson is a member of the Town Bowling Club and an
enthusiastic chess and bridge player. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Mr. T. H. Higgins, of London, and has a surviving family of three daughters and a son.
DOUGLAS GUY HUMPHRIES, Secretary of Bunbury Harbour Board, is a son of the late Mr. George Guy Humphries, and was born at Lewisham, Kent, England, on September 24, 1873. He acquired his scholastic training at Purley, Surrey, and upon leaving school entered a shipping office in London, where he remained for two and a half years. Subsequently he proceeded to Germany and con-
Ford, Bunbury
Mr. Douglas Guy Humphries.
siderably enlarged his experience in shipping at Hamburg, Antwerp, and Rotterdam. Having spent five and a half years on the Continent
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he took a trip to London, and in 1896 booked Ms passage to Western Australia. After some connection with the shipping at Fremantle Mr. Humphries was identified with life on the goldfields for a short time, but being obliged for private business reasons to take a trip to England at the end of 1897, upon his return he accepted a position in the Jarrah Timber and Wood Paving Corporation at Bunbury, and ultimately was appointed Manager and shipping agent for that Company. He continued to fill this position until the post of Secretary and accountant to Beigel’s Brewery
fell vacant, for which he was the successful applicant and acted in this capacity for some little time. Upon the formation of the Bunbury Harbour Board he entered upon the duties of his present appointment in August, 1909. Mr. Humphries has taken a prominent part in the founding and subsequent proceedings of the Shipping Association of Bunbury, in whicn he held the position of Vice-President for some years. This Association played an important part in the accomplishment of alterations and additions to the Harbour which are recognized as being a great improvement to the former
facilities. For some years Mr. Humphries filled the position of auditor to the Bunbury Municipal Council. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has held various important offices in the Bunbury Lodge and Grand Lodge. An enthusiast in yachting pursuits, he is one of the original members of the Bunbury Club, and has also given a good deal of time to lacrosse, but he finds his chief diversion at the present time in gardening. He married Daisy, daughter of the late Mr. George Teede, of Bunbury, and has a family of two sons and one daughter.
Shipping.
Maritime interests must always constitute a very important factor in the interests of Western Australia, partly because of its geographical position and length of coastline and partly because it must in time grow to be a large exporter of the results of primary industry. Even when the colony was founded m 1829 agriculture and wool were looked to as possibilities m working up a lucrative export trade, and when timber, pearlshell, guano, gold, and other metals were added, Western Australia became a country worth the while of ships seeking cargo to visit.
During tne very early years the infant colony, far from being an exporter, was unable to supply its own needs m wheat, flour, and other products of agriculture, and consequently whatever shipping called at Fremantle did so because the captain had goods to sell, and as he had no opportunity of securing cargo in return, no doubt charged for his goods accordingly. Up to the end of 1833 sometMng like 128 vessels of different sizes had called at Fremantle, bringing goods to the value of £306,426, and not one of them had taken in return produce to the value of one farthing. As in all the Australian States, the first commodity to make its appearance on the export list was wool, 7,585 lb., valued at £758, being sent away in 1834. Beyond one experimental shipment of hardwoods in 1836, valued at £2,500, wool stood alone until 1844, when timber (£163), agricultural produce (£258), and livestock and horses (£464) made their appearance. Perhaps the stimulating fact bringing this to pass was the depression that fell upon the colony in the early forties, and the persistent advice of Governor Hutt that only by the cultivation of the soil could it be overcome. Since 1833 wool has never been absent from the list of exports, and since 1846 there have been very few years, and these few far back, when timber (hardwoods and sandalwood) and
livestock, including horses and cattle, have not figured in the returns. The export of agricultural produce continued in a desultory manner until 1872, when it disappeared, to return again with increasing output alter the revival of agriculture that took place during the early years of the present century. During the fifties lead and copper made their appearance on the list, and ten years later pearls and pearlshell appeared, to be followed in 1876 by a regular export of guano, which continued until it was prohibited by the Government in 1904. Lastly, in 1886 appeared gold—the talisman which was to carry Western Australia to the height of prosperity, and make her envied of all countries. To give some idea of the growth of the export trade it may be mentioned that wool exported was valued in 1833 at £758 and in 1911 at £925,450; timber, £163 in 1844 and £986,341 to-day; pearls and pearlshell, starting at £250, are now valued at £340,714; wheat and flour stand at £441,487; and gold from £1,146 in 1886 had risen in 1911 (and that by no means the highest figure) to £5,823,075.
Imports have naturally followed upon two determining factors—development of the country and growth of population—but they have in Western Australia more perhaps than in any other country been affected by the fact that the State is not rich in industrial manufactures of any kind, and therefore show a greater value in proportion to population than elsewhere. Political factors, too, have had an influence, for we find the periods of great mcreases are coincident with, for example, the establishment of the convict system, the commencement of a loan policy under the representative Legislative Council, and the abnormal expansion in every direction that followed the grant of responsible government.
The following table will show some idea of the natural expansion of shipping and trade in Western
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Australia at the end of each decennial period since the establishment of the colony in 1829: —
Ships. Tonnage. Imports. Exports.
1830 39 11,601 £ 114,177 £
1840' 137 39,850 No record No record
1850 64 15,088 52,351 22,135 89,247
1860 109 51,564 169,075
1870 127 65,716 213,259 200,985
1880 165 123,985 353,669 499,183
1890 281 484,354 874,447 671,813
1900 769 1,625,696 5,962,178 6,852,051
1910 733 2,372,303 7,908,386 8,299,781
In addition to the oversea shipping trade, including interstate, there is, as might be expected in a country of such magnificent stretch of seaboard as Western Australia, a considerable trade between local ports. Steamers regularly ply along the north-west coast from Fremantle, and there is also a service between Albany
and the ports to the East. Into this trade the Government has recently entered, in the hope of in some measure reducing the cost of meat, most of the cattle for consumption being grown on stations in the far north. As to the probable results of the venture, opinions— principally political—-are divided, but as to the motives actuating the authorities there is no room for difference. A State-owned steamship service is an anomaly in Australia, but Australia is a country of experiments, and most of her experiments have been exceptionally fortunate.
With the completion of the Trans-Australian Railway it is expected that shipping interests at Fremantle will receive a very considerable interest. For a long time that port has been the first and last port of call for most of the vessels trading easterly and westerly to and from the Commonwealth, and with the opening of the railway it is hoped that it will become for many vessels the only port of call.
The Chamber of Manufactures.
The Chamber of Manufactures of Western Australia was established in 1899. Members must be bond fide manufacturers or directly associated with manufactures. Honorary members may be elected on same conditions, but these are not entitled to vote or take part in the deliberations of the Chamber. The objects of the Association are to promote the development of Western Australian manufactures and products—by exhibitions, certificates of merit, correspondence, collecting and disseminating information, essays and discussions on subjects of advantage to manufacturers and producers, or by any other means which the Chamber may deem desirable, and to erect an exhibition building.
Owing to the operation of interstate free trade, industrial establishments have been somewhat retarded in the West. The thoroughly-established and fully-equipped factories of the Eastern States have been able to land their manufactures in Western Australia on terms that the local employer found difficult to compete with. Notwithstanding that fact, however, there are many industries that are gaining a firm footing, and year by year sees others being entered upon. In his annual address to the Chamber delivered in August, 1912, the President said that “it was gratifying to know that the Government was giving the manufacturer a share of the work of building new waggons for the Railway Department. He was pleased to note that during the past year there had been a few more industries added to the list in Western Australia. The fertilizer factories at West Guildford and North Fremantle, erected two
years ago, had been, and were still, doing good work. They had produced something like 40,000 odd tons since they were estaolished. The capacity of the factories was much greater, and he hoped farmers would in future place all their orders with the local factories. The people of Western Australia should whenever possible buy goods made in Western Australia, and thus encourage the industries already established.”
If this advice is adopted it will no doubt have a far-reaching effect upon the establishment of local industries, and so provide many avenues for employment not now open to the people.
According to the official reports there were 859 establishments in the State in 1911, as against 822 in 1910, giving employment to 16,672 persons, as against 14,894. This is itself encouraging, as it shows that the industries are recovering from the setback which they received from federation, and that m face of paying better wages than similar establishments in other States they are able to hold their own in the open market. The principle of support for Australian manufactures as against the imported article is an excellent one for those who would see Australia prosper, but support to the local Western Australian product is for this State a better principle still, as it means not only comfort and competence to the worker, but added wealth to the community.
In these directions the Chamber of Manufactures is doing a work that deserves every recognition, and in its endeavours to foster trade in the home-made article it deserves all possible encouragement.
THE CYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
The officers of the Chamber for the year 1912-13 are as follow:—President, Mr. William Padbury (reelected) ; vice-president, Mr. C. E. Galwey (re-elected); treasurer, Mr. H. Armstrong (re-elected); auditor,
Mr. John Sinclair (re-elected); committee (six vacancies), Messrs. J. Hodgson, Bela Makutz, Lyons, Locke, Povey, and Ferguson. Mr. John Phair is the secretary.
The EMU BREWERY, Limited, Mounts Bay Road, Perth, is one of the oldest and most important concerns in the State. The premises are situated on the banks of the Swan River, at the foot of King’s Park, and form a prominent landmark to river-goers. The business was founded as far back as 1837, and from its inception has steadily expanded to its present high estate. As to the uninitiated the manufacture of beer remains a complete mystery a brief description of the processes undergone in the production of the amber fluid may prove of interest to the numerous readers of this work. Ascending to the top floor of the familiar tower our initiation commences at a cylinder - shaped contrivance known as a malt-mill, to which is conveyed from floors below by means of elevators quantities of malt grain. This passes into the interior of the mill, where it is graded through a sieve and cleansed from impurities by a revolving fan. The malt is then fed to the crushers, after which it passes to the mash-tub through a washing-machine containing a series of revolving tables, water being added at the same time in sufficient quantities to reduce the starch contained in the malt to a sugary state. The mixture is then allowed to soak in the mash - tub for varying periods up to a couple of hours, when the malt liquid or extract is drawn off to an adjoining copper boiler and the pulp extracted through a false bottom with which the tub is fitted, and shot outside the building to be used as fodder for stock and for other purposes. Sugar is then added to the malt liquid, which is boiled by means of steam introduced into the jacketed bottom of the copper, hops also being introduced to clarify, preserve, and flavour the mixture. From the copper the liquid flows
through a sieve to a tank known as a hop-back, to which it makes its way through a finely-woven gauge inserted for the purpose of effectually straining off any stray grains which may have thus far found their way. A hundred feet of piping next conveys the wort, as it is now called, to the cooler fed from a refrigerator (direct expansion ammonia coil), which gradually reduces its temperature and aerates the liquid at the one time. By an ingenious arrangement the water used is returned to a well whence it is again taken up and recirculated through the top portion of the cooler, over which the boiling wort is continually falling, which has the effect of bringing
it almost to boiling heat, in which state it is conducted to the cask-room, where it is used for washing purposes. From the refrigerator the wort is run into four huge vats, where yeast is added, and for the next 48 hours it is allowed to go through a process of fermentation to reduce the specific gravity. During fermentation the liquid throws off carbonic gas, familiarly known as C02, and with the conclusion of this operation has reached its alcoholic state. It is now conducted to the cellars to undergo a through cleansing, and after a few days in the large casks, during which it discards the yeast, isinglass is added further to clarify the mixture, which is then stored for various periods to assume the condition so dear to the con-
noisseur of the seductive beverage. It is interesting to note that the yeast thrown off is conserved in tanks erected under the barrels for the purpose and is afterwards brought into use again — better for the transition and available for use over many years. The beer now undergoes a process of filtration, during which it is not handled by the men nor is air allowed to reach it. The filtering commences in a long cylinder round which brine is circulated, and to maintain the liquid at an even temperature it is constantly kept in motion by an agitator. The chilled liquid is then forced through a patent filter consisting of a series of frames on which papier mache has been fitted and pressed, the whole being clamped together and rendered airtight, whence it passes to the racker to be filled into casks ready for distribution. By adopting these methods it is impossible for the beer to become contaminated, the natural gases and delicate aroma are successfully retained and the maximum of sterility secured, the whole resulting in the production of a beverage for which the Emu Brewery has deservedly become famous. The Bottling Department, an important auxiliary to the firm’s operations, has recently been fitted up with the most modern machinery known to science. From the collecting depot the bottles are automatically passed through the various stages without being handled by the staff employed. They are first cast into soaking bins cleansed and sterilized, and then conveyed on an endless belt to the rotary filler, after which they are corked and wired. The beer is then pasteurized by being placed in water at 100° temperature, which is gradually raised until an even temperature of 140° has been maintained for some time, after
The Emu Brewery, Mounts Bay Road, Perth.
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which they are taken out and cooled off and labelled, all by machinery. This latter process destroys all bacteria and prevents what is commonly known as second fermentation, a frequent fault in beer not treated in this manner. With this machinery 1,300 dozen per day of eight hours may be turned out—a large increase on the old methods hitherto in operation. All the casks in use are made on the premises, the timber used (oak) being imported, as also is a large number of the bottles, but it is the established policy of the directors to use local materials whenever procurable. The interior of the casks in use is specially treated with a compound of resin and oils, which is heated and blown into the casks under pressure, forming a thin veneer of varnish and rendering the vessel germ-proof. At the rear of the premises are located two “Hercules” refrigerating engines of 20 and 10 tons capacity respectively, and three immense boilers, which provide all the steam required for the performance of the various operations included in the firm’s work. Electrically-driven machinery is also employed and the establishment is fitted throughout in the most replete manner. The directors of this progressive concern, so intimately connected with the rise and progress of the fair city of Perth, are Dr. M. O’Connor (Chairman), Messrs. J. R. McKenzie, E. J. Hayes, J. R. Jones, and A. D. Rankin, the Secretary being Mr. R. S. Forbes. The important part of the brewing, upon which so much of the success or failure of the brewery depends, is in the capable hands of Mr. E. Terry, who has had twenty years’ experience of the requirements of the trade, most of that time being spent in the service of the Carlton Brewery Company of Victoria, and for generations before him his people have fulfilled a similar capacity, so that it may well be said that the germs of the trade circulate in his blood. The hands employed total well over 100 and the weekly paysheet plays an important part in the advancement of the Western Metropolis.
EDWARD JOSEPH HAYES, J.P., is a son of Robert Hayes, of Port Fairy, Victoria, in which district the gentleman under review was born on November 11, 1870. From a pupil in the State schools he rose to the teaching profession in
the same institution and spent eight years in this calling, being the possessor not only of the certificates requisite for his profession but of several others testifying to his proficiency in science, music, and drawing. Being of an enterprising disposition he obtained a year’s leave of absence and came to Western Australia on January 16, 1898, to see what prospects offered in the rising State. He was very favourably impressed with the excellent opportunities open to a young and pushing man, and deciding to remain entered the Education Department, being appointed to a position in the Highgate Hill School,
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Edward Joseph Hayes.
Perth. Four years later he resigned from the Service, having attained to the post of first assistant in this school, and opened in business as a produce merchant on his own account in Perth. This he carried on very successfully in both wholesale and retail lines for four years, when, parting with it as a going concern, he turned his attention in another direction and became Director of a number of local Companies, including the Stanley and Emu Brewery Companies, Limited. Mr. Hayes takes a live interest in municipal matters and has rendered valuable service as member for East Ward in the Perth City Council, his three years in this office terminating in November, 1910. In 1907 he received his Commission of the Peace, in connection with which he has a seat on the City Bench. In matters charitable and philanthropic he is ever to the fore, and hardly a Committee of
Ways and Means is formed without his practical co-operation. He is a member of the Cathedral Committee and is a committeeman of that excellent unsectarian charitable institution, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, being also a Past-President and valuable worker in the Perth Catholic Young Men’s Society. A member of several prominent Clubs in Perth, his chief interests in this respect are centred in the Celtic Club, of which he is a foundation member, and a past president of three years’ standing. He has also acted as President and Vice-President of various athletic Societies, and gives his hearty support to all healthy outdoor sports, cricket and bowls being perhaps those in which he takes the keenest interest. Much of his leisure time is given to the cultivation of flowers, making the garden surrounding his home, “Kincora,” Adelaide Terrace, “a thing of beauty” to the beholder and “a joy for ever” to himself through the health and recreation it affords him. Mr. Hayes married in 1902 Monica, daughter of the late Mr. Daniel Connor, of Perth, and has a son and three daughters.
ERNEST WILLIAM TERRY,
head brewer, Emu Brewery, Limited, is a son of the late Mr. Alfred Terry,
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Ernest William Terry.
one of the oldest and most successful brewers in Victoria. He was born at Melbourne, Victoria, on September 20, 1875, and educated in the same city. Leaving school at about fifteen years of age he entered the
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Carlton Brewery under Colonel Bal-lenger, tiien Lead brewer there, and completed his articles at the end of five years. Thence onward for seventeen years he filled the position of under - brewer, ultimately relinquishing it to take up pastoral pursuits at Croydon, near Healesville. At a subsequent period he sold his property, and having been offered the position of head brewer to the Emu Brewery he accepted it and took up his new duties in June, 1909. Upon his arrival Mr. Terry was entrusted with the task of reorganizing the Brewery, and as a result the whole place has been renovated. New buildings have been erected, new machinery installed, and the bottling department, cellars, and malt store improved, everything outside the office coming under Mr. Terry’s immediate supervision. Recently he took a trip to the Eastern States to make a further study of the latest improvements in all the principal breweries in order to cope yet more successfully with the increasing demands of the business. In his leisure time he makes a keen study of our equine and canine friends, and his sports and recreations are taken in their company. He has made a name for the breeding of Gordon setters, winning all the chief prizes in the principal shows in Australia. He is a member of the Western Australian Turf Club. In 1905 Mr. Terry married a daughter of Mr. John Starr, C.E.,. of Victoria, and has two sons and two daughters.
REGINALD SLADE FORBES, Manager of the Emu Brewery, Limited, is a son of Colonel Charles D’Oyly Forbes, of the Imperial Army, and was bom at Plymouth, England, on April 1, 1868. He received his scholastic training at the Galway Grammar School on the West Coast of Ireland and upon leaving college was articled to Mr. T. W. Gilbert, chartered accountant, Clements Inn, London, with whom he remained until he came to Western Australia in 1886. Upon arrival at Perth he joined the service of the Western Australian Bank and subsequently managed the branches of that institution at Don-garra, Southern Cross, Kalgoorlie, Monzies, Mount Margaret, and Marble Bar successively. In 1896 he became associated with the Venture Corporation, Limited, a mining company formed in England,
and acted as attorney for the company jointly with Mr. W. H. Glanville, now resident in England. Two years later Mr. Forbes went into partnership with Mr. Glanville as legal managers and general mining agents, carrying on business
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Reginald Slade Forbes.
under the title of Glanville and Forbes. He managed the transactions of the Venture Corporation in Western Australia, as well as all subsidiary companies, the partnership also representing James Simpson & Company, Limited, engineers, of London and Newark, for whom they acted as attorneys during the whole course of the contract for the supply of pumping machinery for the Goldfields Water Supply. Upon the satisfactory completion of the contract Mr. Forbes was invited by the firm to England, where he was appointed commercial manager of their engineering works at Nottingham. After five years in this responsible position, for family reasons he decided to return to the land of his adoption in 1908, and upon his arrival was offered the post of Manager of the Emu Brewery, Limited. Mr. Forbes is a member of the Masonic craft, in which he has held office. His chief pastimes are boating and yachting. He was married in 1896 at Dongarra to a daughter of Mr. Samuel F. Moore, M.L.A., of Western Australia, and has a son and a daughter.
JOHN HUGH GRACIE, founder of the Castlemaine Brewery, Fremantle, was born at Hobart, Tasmania, on January 30, 1855, and is
a son of the late Mr. William Gracie, who was Manager of the Cascade Brewery in Hobart for a great many years. He received his education at the City School, Hobart, under the late Mr. H. M. Pike, and at the conclusion of his studies in 1872 was initiated by his father into the processes of the brewing business. He proved an apt pupil, and was so successful in his operations that at thirty years of age he succeeded to the management of the Brewery upon the retirement of his father. He retained this post about five years, in 1889 being compelled through severe illness to resign, and subsequently went to Melbourne, where he was engaged in various brewing businesses for some years. Afterwards he proceeded to Bathurst, New South Wales, and was brewer at the Crown Brewery in that town, leaving there in 1896 for the Western State, which was rapidly increasing in popularity. In conjunction with three partners Mr. Gracie built and opened a small
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. John Hugh Gracie.
brewery at East Fremantle, and buying out his partners’ interests at a later date joined issue with Mr. W. F. Walkley as working partner. The business was carried on by these gentlemen for five years, during which it made rapid progress, and in 1907 was floated into a limited liability company, with a capital of £60,000. In the newly formed company Mr. Gracie continued the personal management of affairs as Managing Director and Chairman of Directors until 1912, when he disposed
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Photo by C. ~E. Parr
Mr. R. s. Cumpston's Engraving works, hay Street, Perth.
the time of Mr. Cumpston’s departure there were over 300 men at work in the mines, and this Company supplied the Government with the first 360,000 tons of coal ever mined in this State. For a time Mr. Cumpston carried on business at Kalgoorlie as auctioneer and produce merchant, but eventually returning to Perth he established his present concern, the City Electric Engraving Works, and has conducted it successfully ever since. The business comprises a great variety of operations and turns out excellent work in brass-plates, stencils, brass, steel, and rubber stamps, medals, memorial brasses, raised-letter plates, wood and metal type blocks, stock brands, and many other articles in continual demand in professional, commercial, and pastoral circles. Mr. Cumpston has taken a leading part in the advancement of the various districts where he has resided, and was a member of the Hospital Board at Collie and Trustee of the same institution. He gave great assistance to the municipal authorities at Kalgoorlie, showing keen interest in the various details of their work for the district. He is also a member of the Commercial Travellers’ Club, and
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Richard Stanley Cumpston.
for recreation resorts to boating on the River Swan. In the year 1911 he was married to Ella, daughter of Mr. James Gibney, printer, of Western Australia.
of his interests and retired from the directorate. He devotes his spare time to farming interests in the neighbourhood of Kellerberrin, where he owns a property of considerably over a thousand acres, which is devoted chiefly to the growing of cereals. His picturesque residence is situated on the river bank at Riverside Road and commands one of the most beautiful views in the district, and here he finds recreation in tending the beautiful blooms which adorn in their season the well-kept flowerbeds and shed their delicious perfume on the air.
RICHARD STANLEY CUMPSTON, proprietor of the City Electric Engraving Works, Hay Street, Perth, is a son of Mr. L. P. Cumpston, of this city, and was born at Liverpool, England, on February 23, 1873. He came to Australia with his parents when twelve years of age and attended the Echuca Grammar School, Victoria, for several years. In 1890 he entered the office of a lithographic artist, and subsequently became articled to Mr. C. G. Roeszler, the proprietor of the leading engraving wo#ks in Melbourne. He came to Western Australia in 1897 and joined Mr. Robert Manning in partnership in the Commercial Agency Company, but eventually relinquishing this
connection proceeded to the goldfields as representative for the Brownhill Great Southern, the Railway Venture, and the Britannia Mining Companies. He also took a personal part in prospecting for a hundred miles around Kalgoorlie
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. L. P. Cumpston.
with more or less success, and in conjunction with Mr. H. M. Deakin took part in the opening up of the Collie Coal Mines. This enterprise, begun with a staff of seven hands, increased to such an extent that at
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The WEST AUSTRALIAN BOOT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Newcastle Street, West Perth. This prosperous and extend sive business was established in the year 1907 in premises situated in King Street, Perth. Commencing operations on a small scale the Company soon obtained a large and steadily-increasing connection, and at the end of three years found it necessary to secure a larger building to cope with the orders which continued to flow in in continually augmented numbers. Accordingly a substantial block of land in Newcastle Street, West Perth, was purchased, and here was erected a commodious structure providing an area of over 4,000 sq. ft. of space. The factory has been equipped with a modern plant of machinery driven by a 5|- horse-power electric motor engine, and the Company is now turning out boots at the rate of over
100,000 pairs per annum. Attention is confined to the manufacture of heavy and medium weight footwear for men, women, and children, and the great demand for all these lines is a striking evidence of its popularity with the buying public. The well-known “Harvester” brand boot is made by the Company and finds a ready sale in the country districts, where the boots are noted for their comfort and durability. The wholesale trade only is supplied, and as each day passes the Company finds itself harder pressed to meet the demand of the distributing-houses
in Perth and throughout the State. In the near future a most up-to-date plant for the manufacture of gentlemen’s light footwear will be installed and for the accommodation of this department further additions will require to be made to the factory. In
erecting the present edifice the Directors wisely provided for an additional storey, adequate foundations having been laid to support the extra tonnage, while the depth of the land will allow for the extension of the building by an extra 30 or 40 ft. Employment is found for some fifty hands, but the expansion of this important industry is handicapped by the absence of a sufficient number of skilled workers. The leathers used in the building of the uppers are
imported from the Eastern States, and include boxhide, satincalf, chrome-kid, wax-kip and wax-split, but the whole of the sole leather brought into use is procured locally, the management maintaining the excellent policy of supporting home
industries whenever possible. In a cellar at the rear of the factory the sole leather is stocked and in the cool atmosphere retains the moisture, without which it would be rendered unsuitable for everyday use. The rapid development of the concern from the embryo stage to its present flourishing condition augurs well for the future of the Company, and under the energetic control of the Manager, Mr. Taplin, great things may be looked for in the years to come. The Directors of the Company are Messrs. Edgar, Robinson, William Arcus, Richard Logan, William Dudney, William Smith, and W. R. Taplin. WILLIAM ROBERT TAPLIN, the Managing Director of the West Australian Boot Manufacturing Company, was born at Bristol, on the West Coast of England, in the year 1870. He received his scholastic training in his native town and at the conclusion of his studies was apprenticed for five years to the boot trade with the firm of Hutchinson & May, of Portland Square, Bristol. During the period of his indentures he attended the Merchant Venture Technical School, and by close study completely mastered the finer details of the trade which he had chosen to follow as his life-calling. Deter-
Photo by C, E. Farr,
Cutting and Machine Room
Photo by G, E. Farr,
The W.A. Boot Manufacturing Co.'s Premises, Newcastle street, Perth.
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mined to acquire a thorough knowledge of every branch of the trade, he vigorously continued his
studies and had the satisfaction of carrying off first prize for patterncutting against sixty competitors,
Photos by C. E. Farr.
achieving this while yet in his teens. In the year 1899 he decided to visit the Southern Hemisphere, and so took passage for Victoria, where, subsequent to his arrival, he joined the firm of William Thomson, boot manufacturer, later relinquishing this employ to take up a position in Ballarat, in which city he remained for seven years. He next journeyed to Tasmania, but in less than a year’s time returned to England to revisit the scenes of his youth and witness the latest developments in the boot manufacturing trade of the Old World. In 1898 he once more set out for the land of the Southern Cross, and disembarking at Western Australia shortly afterwards took over the management of what was then the largest boot factory in the State. He continued in this control until the firm closed down the manufacturing section of its business, when he
Ruskin, Perth.
Mu. William Robert Taplin.
founded the present Company, most of the success of which has been due to his untiring energy and indomitable will, which has enabled him to overcome the difficulties inseparable from the building up of a sound and profitable industrial concern. Mr. Taplin married in 1901 Flora, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Carruthers, of Victoria, and resides at Mount Lawley, his home being surounded by a beautiful garden, to the cultivation of which most of his leisure is devoted.
NTERIOR VIEWS OF FACTORY.
BAKER & MOORE, manufacturers of art wicker furniture, go-carts and general basketware, etc., 4 and 6, Dyer Street, West Perth. (George Baker and William H. Moore.) This business was established in 1902 in premises situated off Murray Street, where it was carried on for some eighteen months with
The wonderful expansion of the trade that has marked the operations of this enterprising firm necessitated further additions being made to the premises, and these were effected early in the year 1911, the available space now exceeding 20,000 sq. ft. The firm confines its attention to the manufacture of art-wicker furniture,
frames utilized in connection with the work are made upon the premises. In designing special attention is paid to local requirements, and the drawing-room suites, either upholstered or plain, obtain great favour among the residents of the
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Baker &. Moore's Furniture Works West Perth.
most encouraging results. Larger premises were then secured in Queen Street, and as trade still continued to expand with extraordinray rapidity in 1904 the firm secured a triangular piece of land in Dyer Street, adjacent to the West Perth Railway Station, and erected a commodious structure on the most approved and modern lines known to the trade. The building is of brick, two-storied, with a handsome frontage to Dyer Street. The ground-floor is devoted to showrooms and offices, and in the space to the rear upholsterers and ironworkers are busily employed. Upstairs may be seen at work the hands engaged in executing the various designs in chairs, settees, and other lines turned out in such large numbers at this up-to-date factory. The bulk stores are on the first floor, where a large stock of finished goods, ready for immediate despatch, is kept on hand in anticipation of the orders which are daily received by the firm from all parts of the State. At the rear of the premises is a broad right-of-way which offers easy facilities for the loading and dispatch of these same large orders, which are executed, carefully packed, and sent to their several destinations with all possible promptness.
perambulators, go-carts, overmantles and hallstands in bamboo, and general basketware, and the work turned out is the very best obtainable. The raw material used in manufacture is imported from all parts of the globe, including Japan, China, Calcutta, Singapore, England, and Germany, and the iron
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. George Baker.
Western State on account of their cool, light appearance and freedom from hot, heavy padding, the appropriateness of the art-wicker furniture being readily acknowledged by all dwellers in the warmer climes.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Corner of Showroom at baker & Moore-s, West Perth.
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The wicker chairs and lounges are fort combined with beauty of design easily handled and in the summer which testifies to the possession of time especially are a welcome ad- high creative faculties on the part dition to the furniture of the house, of the management. These carriages while to invalids they are an untold are the greatest possible boon to boon. The foundation consists mothers, inasmuch as they are easily mostly of Malacca cane, and the use
This class of goods is finding great favour with the travelling public and is rapidly ousting the old-style portmanteau. Some thirty employes, all of whom are skilled artisans, are engaged in the work
Photo by C. ~E. Parr.
interior View of bulk Stores at Baker a Moore's Furniture Factory.
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. William H. Moore.
of this in preference to willow has rendered the article immune from the attacks of insects. Another feature in which the firm specializes is the manufacture of collapsible carriages for children, and in this line it has secured that acme of corn-
folded up to small proportions and readily adapt themselves for transit by tram or rail. Another important line to which considerable attention is given is the manufacture of bas-ketware in great variety of designs.
of the factory, and the wholesale trade is supplied throughout Western Australia. Both partners have had a lengthy connection with the trade, having gained many years’ experience in Adelaide and Melbourne. In 1911 Mr. Moore proceeded to England and the Continent, where he spent his time profitably in gaining an insight into the latest methods of manufacture known to his trade.
Art Wicker furniture in Process of manufacture.
W. ZIMPEL, furniture manufacturer and general importer, 797-801, Hay Street, Perth. For more than a quarter of a century the firm of W. Zimpel has catered for the requirements of the Western Australian public. Originally established in 1884 in premises insignificant in comparison with the extensive structure now occupied, the firm has grown to such an extent that it is now the most important concern of its kind in the State, and where everything required between the four walls of a house, be it mansion or cottage, may be obtained at lowest prices commensurate with good quality. The magnificent show-
rooms fronting the main thoroughfare cover a space of 15,000 square ft. and are filled to overflowing with furniture and house - fittings of every conceivable description. The ground-floor is devoted to a fine display of sideboards, upholstered suites for drawing- and dining-room purposes, wicker chairs and lounges, and cutler desks, the carpets, bedsteads, etc., being located on the first floor. Immediately adjoining the showrooms is a bulk store, every nook and cranny of which is filled with goods, with the exception of a corner set apart for the display of linoleums and oilcloths, of which there is a wide range of patterns to choose from. The factory at the rear is a veritable hive of industry. It contains four stories and was erected some nine years ago to enable the firm to fulfil the increasing demand for household and office furniture. The most up-to-date machinery known to the trade has been installed and furniture of every description is made, including sideboards, hallstands, bedroom and drawing-room suites, tables, desks, icechests, chairs, and wire mattresses. The whole of the timber used is seasoned on the premises, and to prevent green wood being brought into use the stacks are never allowed to fall below 100,000 ft. Special attention is given to the production of “art” furniture, and the showrooms contain many fine specimens turned out by the experts employed in the factory. The country order department is a feature of the
Corner of the Showroom at mr. Zimpel's Establishment.
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. W. Zimpel.
his arrival he established himself in business in Hay Street, and by his commercial acumen has built up the present prosperous concern and made his name a household word throughout the settled areas of the Western State.
firm’s operations and is in the hands of an expert. Orders received in this department are promptly dispatched, the goods being carefully packed to prevent damage in transit, and delivered to the nearest railway
to St. George’s Terrace, a depth of 390 ft., the width of the block being 60 ft. The proprietor, Mr. W. Zimpel, is a native of Austria and a cabinetmaker by trade. During twelve years’ residence in Con-
MR. W. ZIMPEL’S PREMISES, HAY STREET, PERTH.
station. Among the many lines stocked may be mentioned perambulators, mail-carts, invalid chairs, kitchen utensils, lampware, and bedding of all kinds. In addition to transacting a wholesale and retail trade, including the supply of goods to country storekeepers, the firm executes many Government contracts, principally in connection with the Department of Education. The premises are erected on freehold property and extend from Hay Street
stantinople, Turkey, he acquired the rudiments of his trade, and subsequently went to London, where he gained experience for seven years, at the end of which time he came to Western Australia. Shortly after
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DANIEL WHITE & CO., carriage builders and importers, Murray Street, Perth. This well-known business is one of the oldest established of its kind in Western Australia, the firm of Daniel White & Co. having commenced operations in Hay Street, Perth, as early as 1887. In 1901 the proprietorship changed hands, when the connection and plant were purchased with the whole of the stock in this State by Mr. J. McMahen, who had filled the post of manager and attorney, and Mr. P. D. Good. Since then the business has been carried on by these gentlemen under the old title, and as a Western Australian business relying solely on local manufacture, and thus giving permanent employment to a very large number of skilled mechanics, it maintains a solid and well-recognized claim on the patronage of the State. In 1911 the site in Hay Street was required for the purpose of building a large arcade, and Daniel White & Co. erected a fine factory on land which they had acquired in Murray Street, next the Federal Telephone Exchange, and running through to Wellington Street. The area of the factory and showroom comprises 50,000 square feet, 40,000 of which is under cover, splendidly lighted, and ventilated. The lofty roof, supported by brick walls, surmounts a splendid structure, with ornamental approach and provided with every facility for ingress and egress. It is two storeys in height, and a basement traverses the whole length of the factory site, while the showroom (200 ft. long by 40 ft. wide) is surmounted by a large storeroom, which is used for the accommodation of the firm’s large stock of seasoned timber and fittings. Separate departments are allotted to the body - makers, coach - painters,
wheelwrights, locksmiths, and trimmers, and the machinery installed is of the very latest type, the motive
power being generated by Hornsby’s up-to-date gas-producer plant. In all respects the new factory may be placed as the finest carriage-building factory in Australia, and it is worthy of note that the firm has exported some high-class vehicles to the eastern States, in addition to carrying off the highest honours and awards at Western Australian shows and exhibitions. Over sixty hands are employed at the factory, and the firm pays annually in wages £7,500. JOSEPH MOORE McMAHEN, the Managing Partner, was born in Victoria in 1863, and is a son of Mr. William McMahen, of Armagh, in the North of Ireland, who came to Australia in 1820. At the close of his education the gentleman under
review was apprenticed to the coachbuilding trade with Mr. James Parker, of St. Kilda, Victoria, with whom he remained for six years, subsequently entering the employ of Mr. J. Bull, of Fitzroy. He afterwards proceeded to Hay, New South Wales, and spent three years with the well-known firm of Sydney Cobb and Co., who afterwards offered him the management of the Bourke branch of their business, which he declined. He next went to Melbourne, when his first connection with Daniel White and Co. was formed. This continued twelve months, but was broken by his acceptance of the post of foreman to T. Crane for five years, and renewed at the end of that period, when he was sent to manage the firm’s
Mr. Joseph Moore McMahen.
factory in Western Australia in 1896. At a later date he was appointed Attorney and Manager of the branch, and in 1902 purchased the business as above stated. Mr. McMahen is a member of the Masonic craft, his lodge being the Lathom, No. 29, W.A.C., and he has passed through various offices in the fraternity. He married Caroline, daughter of John Hanlon, of Hay, New South Wales, and has three sons and a daughter.
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BON TON, LIMITED, Perth. The nucleus of the present extensive business, so widely and favourably known as Bon Ton, Limited, was purchased by the present managing director, Mr. J. M. Lofthouse, in 1903. At that time the whole business of the firm was carried on at the original Hay Street premises, which formed part of a building adjoining the old Bon Marche structure, and for many years the bakery was situated in the basement at this locality. Under the energetic direction of Mr. Lofthouse the cafe achieved considerable popularity, and from time to time various improvements were added, the whole culminating in the present fine and commodious restaurant. The marked success which attended the enterprise soon made other branches a necessity, and several establishments were opened in various parts of the city, all of which have been exceedingly well patronized, the continuous stream of daily and casual visitors to the Bon Ton tea and luncheon rooms being the best advertisement for their many attractions. The cafes, which now number five in all, are all centrally situated, the parent shop at 580, Hay Street, being known as No. 1; No. 2 is situated at 109, Barrack Street; No. 3 at 147. Barrack Street; No. 4 at 104, William Street; and No. 5 at 726, Hay Street. The interiors of the several
cafes have been tastefully decorated and the general appointments leave nothing to be desired. To ensure a rapid and satisfactory service an ample staff is maintained at each of the establishments, and the require-
ments of the manifold patrons are dealt with most expeditiously. The continually increasing turnover resulting upon the firm’s extended operations made it necessary for the company to secure more commodious premises for the manufacture of the various confections and other dainties, the excellence of which has ensured to the business its present wide reputation, and accordingly the building at East Perth, formerly occupied by the Swallow Brewing Company, was purchased, and by means of extensive alterations and additions adapted to the requirements of the firm’s business. Many ingenious ideas, for which Mr. Loft-house’s particularly fertile brain was responsible, were incorporated in the general scheme of improvement, the whole resulting in the process of manufacture from mixing to distribution being carried on with a minimum handling of the goods. The new factory is a roomy structure containing two floors, 104 ft. long by 36 ft. wide, surmounted by a five-story tower, from which an excellent view of the Darling Ranges is to be obtained and also a fine panorama of Perth City. Being built on sloping ground the upper floor is practically on a level with the surface, which facilitates the delivery of the heavy stocks of flour handled by the firm. On the ground floor and adjoining the western wall a series of
chambers have been erected, consisting of a cooling-chamber, a refrigerator, and another room specially designed for pastry-making, where the temperature is always kept at 60 degrees. The floor in these
rooms is of plastic concrete, insulated, watertight, and non-conductive, and the walls have been constructed on a plan of Mr. Loft-house’s own designing. The pastry is mixed on a special slab of imitation marble, formed of white cement and reinforced concrete, the first of its kind to be psed in Western Australia. The building stands in two acres of land, which will allow for further extensions as the necessities of the business may demand. The
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Jacob Matthias Lofthouse.
machinery includes a Budge refrigerator plant, which in addition to maintaining three different temperatures is capable of turning out several tons of ice per day, a 30-h.p. Fairbank & Platt engine, and a 50-h.p. Crossley gas producer, cake mixers, egg beaters, etc. Two ovens, designed by Mr. Lofthouse, have been added to the main building, and over the fires boilers have been installed which produce a copious supply of hot water for use throughout the factory. The whole of the operations are carried on under cover from the moment of mixing to the placing in the delivery van, and perfect cleanliness reigns all over the factory. Only the best materials are brought into use in the concoction of the appetizing cakes, pastry, and different kinds of bread, etc., which are turned out in huge quantities by the experts employed by the firm. Preference is always extended to local products, for which a little more than market price is paid by the management, but the limited
Photo by C. E. Farr.
The Bon ton Factory, East Perth,
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local supply necessitates the importation of large stocks from the eastern markets. Upwards of 400,000 eggs are annually purchased, and . these are stored until required in huge concrete baths, the firm also making its own egg pulp. On the premises is a fine well containing an unex-
a perfect medium for all domestic purposes. Consisting as it does of 98| per cent, of air and 1| per cent, of petrol vapour the gas has all the advantages of coal gas without its disadvantages. The extraordinary percentage of air renders it nonexplosive and odourless. It has
demand, and there being no storage of gas the danger of an explosion is altogether eliminated. A plant capable of supplying 200 lights occupies a floor space of 24 by 24 in., and is to be purchased at a very low figure. The plant is very simple in construction and, once installed, requires practically no attention apart from replenishing the supplies of petrol. The gas may be used for all domestic purposes and is an ideal heating - medium for furnaces, blowpipes, etc., and for work in the laboratory. The system may be readily adapted to hospital requirements, and in the kitchen and laundry work will be simplified and cheapened to a degree hitherto unattainable. JACOB MATTHIAS LOFTHOUSE, Managing Director of Bon Ton, Limited, is an Englishman by birth, having been born at Radcliffe, in Lancashire, in the year 1862. From the age of six he acted as guide to his father who was blind, and was thus prevented from pursuing the studies usual to his years. He gained a liberal education, however, in the school of the world, and at length turned his attention to business pursuits in Manchester for some years, afterwards going to Leeds, where he spent two years. His knowledge of the catering trade was obtained first in his native place, and after sixteen years’ experience in this line in the Old Country he went to Canada and engaged in farming pursuits for a couple of years. Subsequently he opened as pastrycook and confectioner in England, and carried on in business for three years, in the year 1899 coming to Australia, where he was first identified with life on the goldfields. From Kalgoorlie he took up a vineyard of 200 acres at Baker’s Hill, and followed the wine-making industry until 1903, when he purchased the present business, which was turned into a limited company in 1908. He is connected with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the Abercorn Lodge, No. 28, W.A.C., and has passed through various chairs, including the office of junior warden. Mr. Lofthouse has been twice married. His present wife, whom he married in 1885, is a daughter of Mr. Joel Bold, of Radcliffe, England, the issue being two sons and two daughters. By the former marriage Mr. Lofthouse had one daughter who takes an active part in the management of Bon Ton, Limited.
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haustible supply of pure water, and in the near future this supply will be drawn from as required. Associated with the Bon Ton, Limited, is the Autogene patent air-gas system, which undoubtedly has a great future before it. The gas gives a brilliant and soft light, and provides vv2
Perth.
great heating and illuminating power, while the cost of production is estimated as being only one-sixth the cost of acetylene gas, and less than half of electricity and gas. By an ingenious contrivance the supply of gas is automatically controlled so that the supply is adjusted to the
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ALBANY BELL, manufacturing confectioner and pastrycook, Dangan Street, Perth, is a South Australian by birth, his native place being the town of Clare, where he was born in 1871. Upon the conclusion of his education he entered the employ of Mr. Richard Honey, timber merchant, of Adelaide, and continued in this connection until 1887. In that year he came to Western Australia and joined the old Perth Confectionery Company, and after about twelve months in the factory of this Company became associated with the drapery trade with the firm of W. G. Hearman, the largest retail draper of the time in the western capital. Three years later he transferred his services to the drapery department of Mesrs. Pad-bury, Loton, & Co., but relinquishing this employ in about a year proceeded to the Upper Murchison and took a post as station-hand on the “Coolgardie Station,” spending about the same period in pastoral pursuits on this run. A further connection with the drapery business followed when he entered the service of Messrs. Rice, Saunders, and Co., of Perth, and eighteen months later, in 1893, he joined his mother in a small confectionery business in High Street, Fremantle. This may be said to have been the beginning of the large many-branched concern with which the
name of Albany Bell is linked at the present day. After a year at Fremantle he opened a confectionery shop on his own behalf at Hay
Street, Perth, where he carried on the manufacture and retail of his goods at the same establishment. In twelve months’ time the trade had increased sufficiently to warrant his employing an assistant, for which purpose he engaged Mr. William Anning, who is still in his service, now holding the post of foreman of
Mr. Bell’s Confectionery Works. The following year witnessed the opening of a restaurant and confectionery store in William Street,
which venture was succeeded by a third establishment in Barrack Street, which is undoubtedly one of the finest and most up to date in the Commonwealth, the decorations especially appealing to the artistic sense by their unique and tasteful design. In 1897 Mr. Bell decided to build a factory in Dangan
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Street, and the premises, three storeys in height and basement, then erected have been added to from time to time until it has been extended to fully four times the original structure. Here the general manufacturing operations for his extensive business are carried on, but already Mr. Bell’s enterprise has suggested the supplanting of this large building by a model factory on the banks of the Swan River, within two miles of the Perth Post Office, where he has purchased nineteen acres of land, forming an ideal spot for a factory for the manufacture and handling of foodstuffs and confectionery. The abundant water supply is one of the chief advantages of this site, 100,000 gallons of water per day being available from natural springs on the property. When the federation of the States was accomplished Mr. Bell, to compete with the importation of cheap confectionery, entered into the pastry trade, and from that time has been extending his tearooms, which now number six in the city area, one in Premantle, two at Kalgoorlie, one at Coolgardie, and one at Bunbury; and about 140 hands are employed in connection with these branches. The tearooms now form the largest branch of the business, and visitors to the goldfields especially express their surprise at finding such up-to-date and artistic rooms in the heart of the mining districts. In Hay Street very large new premises have been recently opened, replacing the old shop established by Mr. Bell
Photo by C. P. Farr.
Interior View of Hay Street Tea Rooms (Opp. sandover's).
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. Albany Bell.
an instant popularity which seems likely to continue. Dating from October, 1911, the business was formed into a limited liability company by Mr. Bell, who admitted into partnership his two former managers, Messrs. Albert Johnson and Arthur Allen Lightfoot. The
seventeen years ago, and the fact juices for flavourings and maintain-that large crowds are daily supplied ing a high standard of excellence with lunch, afternoon tea, and (in throughout. In particular he has
Photo by J. J. Dwyer.
Albany Bell's Tea Rooms at Kalgoorlie.
the summer time) with cool drinks at this refectory speaks well for the future of the firm. In 1899 he took a trip to England and America in order to gather further experience in the efficient management of the various departments of his trade, and since his return has added an important feature, viz., the retailing of soft drinks and ices in the season, and has given special attention to the production of all American soda-fountain beverages, using pure fruit
registered a line to which he has given the name of “Sundae,” an icecream served with a composition of fresh fruits, and this has received
Kalgoorlie hands are all granted a fortnight’s leave annually on full pay, when the firm defrays rail expenses and provides for two weeks' board at some seaside resort. In Perth the employes are allowed a fortnight’s holiday annually and fares covering 150 miles distance from the capital. Mr. Bell is a Justice of the Peace, his commission dating back to 1909.
JOHN HOBBS, founder of the business of Plaistowe & Company, Limited, confectioners, Marquis Street, Perth, was born at London in 1863 and received his education at a public school in that city. At eleven years of age he entered the firm of Plaistowe & Co., confectioners, of London, a.nd after remaining with them for about nine years severed the connection, only to renew it after a period spent in gaining a further knowledge of his calling in association with various other firms. Again leaving the firm’s employ Mr. Hobbs sailed for Western Australia, arriving at Perth on January 13, 1890. Only a few weeks subsequent to this he began business on his own account, trading as the Silver Pan Confectionery Company,
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John Hobbs.
and after continuing for some years was joined by Mr. Hugh Plaistowe, who assisted him in the successful conduct of the concern until 1904, when Mr. Hobbs retired from the business. In 1908 he once more entered the firm which has since
traded under the title of Plaistowe and Company, Limited, and steadily maintains its place in popular favour. Mr. Hobbs is a member of the Chamber of Manufactures of Western Australia, and was the recipient of an inscribed gold watch presented by that body in recognition of his services as President from 1906 to 1907, during which period the Exhibition of Western Australia was held. During the ten years that he has held membership he has filled other offices in the Chamber, and has always taken the keenest interest in all its affairs. He was one of the delegates to represent Western Australia at the conference in connection with the Commonwealth tariff, held at Sydney during the first year of Federation. At the Exhibition referred to the firm was awarded a certificate of merit and a gold medal for its high-class confectionery, prior to which it received an award of merit at the Western Australian Exhibition of 1899.
BELA MAKUTZ, general ironworker and safe manufacturer, Perth, is a son of the late Johann Makutz, of Hungary, and was born in the town of Felso, Banya, Hungary, on September 29, 1857. He commenced his education at the Normal School, where he continued until nine years of age, transferring thence to a college presided over by the Bishop of the Diocese, at which institution he continued his studies for three years. He was then apprenticed to the bootmaking trade with his cousin, and served a term of five years, during which he acquired a thorough knowledge of the trade. Relinquishing this connection, Mr. Makutz joined his uncle, a well-known ironfounder of Galatz, Roumania, and after seven years proceeded to Turkey, where he remained for a short time. He next left for Alexandria in Egypt, and for six months was identified with the Carmus Iron Foundry and Engineering Company, eventually joining the staff of the Egyptian Government Arsenal. In this capacity he refitted several of the Egyptian mailboats running between Alexandria and Constantinople with new engines, work which took up the better part of two years. Leaving for Melbourne, where he arrived in 1882, Mr. Makutz immediately obtained a position with Mr. Radtke, as safe-maker, but after four months perceived that there was every encour-
agement to launch out on his own account. Taking the late Mr. H. Ehret as a partner he established a safe-manufacturing business, and upon the latter gentleman’s retirement in order to return to Germany formed a new partnership with Mr. T. Barke. This firm carried on for
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Bela Makutz.
six years, but was dissolved at the time of the bank failures in the Eastern States, and Mr. Makutz turned his attention in the direction of Western Australia. In 1893 he came to the Murchison district and settled at Cue, opening a blacksmith’s shop, which he conducted for seven months. Selling out, he followed the mining industry with indifferent success for a time, and again visited Melbourne, but not being impressed with the prospects there returned to the Western State. In 1895 he opened in Perth as a general ironworker and safe-manufacturer, and has met with much success in the conduct of this business, having at the present time a staff of about fifty men in constant work. He holds interests in the agricultural industry, owning a property of 7,000 acres at Nugadong, on the Wongan Hill-Mulliwa railway, where he engages in wheat-growing on a fairly large scale. Mr. Makutz married in 1885 Cecelia, daughter of the late Mr. Peter Albers, of Melbourne, and has two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Mr. Ernest Makutz, is associated with his father in the iron foundry, and the younger (Rudolph) assists in the showroom and locksmith and key-fitting branch in William Street, Perth.
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The SWAN CAKE & BISCUIT FACTORY (Mills & Ware, proprietors). This business was established in the year 1898 at Cottesloe, its inception being on a modest scale. Sufficient encouragement was accorded the young enterprise to authorize the removal at the end of
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. William Mills.
twelve months to the present fine manufacturing site on the Man-durah Road, Fremantle, where a massive block of buildings indicates the great establishment, completed with its well-equipped tinsmith's shop and case-making factory, which has been built up within a few years by Messrs. Mills & Ware. The floor space of the factory comprises 30,000 sq. ft., or three-quarters of an acre, and the machinery and general equipment is on the latest lines. The automatic wafer machines are an interesting feature, and four cake ovens, of which the patent steam “decker” ovens are the most recent innovation, are heated from their own furnaces, and bake continuously for eight hours each day. The manufacturing part of the business is done exclusively by men and boys, and as the factory transmutes into biscuits and cakes every week from 90 to 100 sacks of flour, one and a half tons of butter, and 2,000 dozen eggs, besides oatmeal, fruit, etc., a very large staff is employed on this branch, while the labelling and packing is attended to by girls. Thorough cleanliness prevails, and the manipulation of the dough and cake mixtures is done by machinery, the human hand not being allowed to
come into contact with any of the ingredients, and by this means the utmost purity and freedom from injurious microbes is attained, while the thoroughness of the process ensures a never-failing excellence in results. The output of the factory includes over fifty varieties of biscuits, 30 cwt. of goods being turned out in an eight-hour day. The varieties range from the ship’s bread and cabin biscuit to the delicate wafer sweetmeat, and include twenty of the richer kinds, the “Queen’s Drops” being choice samples of the latter. The wafer delicacy was introduced as a result of a trip to Europe and America taken by Mr. Mills, during the course of which he made it a primary object to acquaint himself
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Bartletto, Perth.
Me. Nelson Mills.
with all the latest developments of the biscuit trade. At the St. Louis exhibition he saw the first automatic wafer machine at work, one factory alone being equipped with as many as twenty-five of these up-to-date machines, one of which now finds a place in the Swan Cake and Biscuit Factory. The wafers are put up in fancy tins and include the chocolate, ice, lemon, sugar, and vanilla varieties, in addition to the very exquisite cup wafer which enhances the most recherche table decoration with its delicate colour and fairy-like shape. The introduction of the biscuit packet to the retail trade has met with considerable favour, as it does away with the necessity of weighing and packing, with the too frequent result of breakage to the fragile wares. Derby cakes in 6-lb. blocks and 1-lb. Canterbury
cakes are put up in hermetically sealed tins, and are greatly in demand for the country and goldfields trade. The fruit for both cake and biscuits is imported from the Eastern States and Southern Europe, the Renmark elixir raisins being specially favoured by Mr. Mills, while large quantities of lemonpeel are imported from Italy and consignments of other fruits are received by almost every German steamer calling at Fremantle. The lemonpeel, after being unpacked at the factory, is specially treated in liquor, and when ready for use conveys a full fruity flavour to the mixtures. In recent years locally manufactured flour has been more largely used in the factory, Mr. Mills holding that the virgin wheat of the Western State excels in nutritive qualities the product of the Eastern areas, and since the installation of modern machinery in the mills the dressing of the flour is equal to that of the best Adelaide brands. Constant communication goes on between the biscuit ovens and the packing-room, where defthanded girls receive and immediately pack the biscuits into tins which are sealed down the following day and transferred to the labelling rooms. Each tin is then labelled on a perfect check system, ensuring
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. S. J. Mills.
absolute carefulness among the operatives and salesmen, secret marks on the label recording the whole history of the contents of the package, date of baking, etc. In the dispatch department the tins are cased ready for the wholesale
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market, when the firm’s waggons convey them to a local destination or deliver to rail, road, or steamboat. The Fremantle dispatch department has always about 3,000 tins of cakes and biscuits in stock, about half that quantity being stored at the Perth Branch, situated in Queen Street. A large trade is done in Messrs. Mills & Ware’s self-raising flour and baking-powder, and underneath the dispatch department are capacious cool cellars for the storage of butter and other necessities of the business. All tins are made on the premises, a large press turning the metal into a tin by four blows ready to the hands of the packer. The firm of Mills & Ware has always preferred that its wares should sell on their own merits rather than on the plea of being locally manufactured, and the increasing support given to the industry by the Western Australian public is sufficient evidence of the success of this principle. Mr. Mills is now the sole proprietor, his partner having died during the early years of the enterprise.
LYONS & HART, plumbers, sanitary engineers, galvanizers, ironworkers, etc., 103, Fitzgerald Street,
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. Oliver Charles Lyons.
Perth. (Oliver Charles Lyons and Stanley William Hart.) This business was established in Perth in May 1901, the firm being registered in the following year. At the present time it employs a staff of twenty hands, who are employed chiefly in
the carrying out of Government contract work in connection with the supplying of sanitary appliances to the order of the local Boards of Health. It also undertakes large orders for the wholesale trade, and engages extensively in various works incidental to the trade of tinsmiths, coppersmiths, and blacksmiths. OLIVER CHARLES LYONS was born at Ballarat, Victoria, in 1865, and learned his trade under Messrs. T. J. Connolly & Son, of Melbourne. He remained with this well-known firm of galvanizers and ironworkers for some fourteen years and gradually rose to the position of foreman of the works. In 1891 he opened on his own account at a’Beckett Street, in the same city, but after a short time abandoned industrial pursuits in favour of prospecting in Gippsland. In 1894 he came to Western Australia and ob-
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Stanley William Hart.
tained employment as plumber in the workshops of the Perth City Council, at a later period in conjunction with Mr. Hart establishing the present business. STANLEY WILLIAM HART is also a Victorian, having been born at Richmond in 1873. At the close of his schooldays he engaged in various occupations and spent a few years ifif the plumbing and coppersmithing trade. In 1896 he came from New South Wales to Perth, and for a period of seven months was identified with the firm of Lapsley & Co. After some subsequent experience on the goldfields he was employed on plumbing work by the Government authorities and later
on in conjunction with Mr. Lyons, undertook certain work for the Perth City Council. This connection resulted in a partnership between the two gentlemen, who ever since have carried on successfully under the above title.
JOHN WILLIAM PORTER, wheelwright and coachbuilder, William and Newman Streets, Fre-
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Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John William Porter.
mantle, is a son of the late Mr. Mil-son Porter, of Gloucestershire, England, and was born at Coleford, in that county, on October 2, 1861. He received his scholastic training at the Church of England School in his native town, and coming to Western Australia in 1891 took up his residence at Fremantle, where he has continued ever since. Mr. Porter purchased his present business from his brother-in-law, Mr. R. H. Tyler, in 1903, and has conducted it successfully on his own account from that time onward. He is a member of over thirty years’ standing in the Ancient Order of Foresters, and has three times passed through all the chairs of that Order. Since the opening of the Church of England at Beaconsfield, near Fremantle, he has taken an active interest in its management and now holds office as warden of the Church. He is a warm advocate of all healthy outdoor sport. Mr. Porter married in June, 1887, Catherine, daughter of the late Mr. 'William Tyler, of Cole-ford, England, and has a son and a daughter.
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FRANCIS JOHN WAYMAN, Director of the Ceylon Bureau, Surrey Chambers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, was born at Liverpool on March 15, 1869, and is the son of the late Rev. James Wayman, of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, one of the foremost Congregational ministers in the north of England, and President of the North Lancashire Liberal Federation. The Rev. Mr. Wayman was the founder of The Blackpool Times, now the leading Liberal organ in the Fylde division of Lancashire, and also one of the founders of the National Liberal Club in London. Mr. F. J. Way-man’s mother, who died during his early boyhood, was a daughter of the late Captain Francis Eldon Jenkins, of Dublin, and a member, on her mother’s side, of the Galway Joyces, one of the oldest families in the west of Ireland. Mr. Wayman was educated in London and abroad. Returning to the Old Country, after a brief journalistic experience in Lancashire, he proceeded to London at the age of twenty-two, and read with the late Mr. M. Alexander and Mr. W. J. Lucas, of Wimbledon, with a view to entering the Inner Temple as barrister, but he abandoned law and continued newspaper work. He later acted as London correspondent to The Weekly Irish Times and Evening Telegram, St. John’s, Newfoundland. His attention was next claimed by the first halfpenny morning paper in London, The Morning, now The Daily Express, on which he occupied the position of News Editor until 1898, when he went to Ceylon as Assistant Editor to The Ceylon Standard. Five months after, on the death of Mr. Windus, he was apointed Editor of the same paper. On account of his failing health, in 1900 his medical adviser, Dr. Fairlie, now of Harley Street, London, recommended a trip to Western Australia as likely to be of benefit to him. Mr. Wayman accordingly visited the Western State, and was so delighted with the salubrious climate, at the same time recognizing the great possibilities of opening up trade relations between Western Australia and Colombo,
that upon his return to Ceylon he commenced an agitation for reduced fares between the two countries. By representing the enormous advantages of Western Australia as a health resort for Anglo-Indians, and by continuous agitation during the following five years for cheap tickets between Western Australia and Colombo, Mr. Wayman at length had the satisfaction of seeing the mail steamship companies granting the reduction of fares upon the lines he urged. In January, 1905, he resigned his position as Editor of
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Francis John Wayman.
The Ceylon Standard on account of his health and went on a tour through Europe, the United States, and South Africa. Not finding complete restoration to health he was advised to proceed to Western Australia, where he arrived in the latter part of 1905, joining the literary staff of The West Australian, of which he remained an active member for two years. In 1907 one of Ceylon’s leading commercial men, Mr. Walter Shakspeare, F.R.C.I.. visited Australia and suggested that the work which Mr. Wayman had carried out in Ceylon could best be supplemented by a representative bureau in Australia. The result was that in March, 1908, the Ceylon
Bureau was opened with considerable eclat at Fremantle, Mr. Wayman becoming Director and giving a public luncheon to celebrate the event. Shortly afterwards it was considered advisable to remove the offices to the capital, and with the establishment of the Bureau in Perth tourist traffic and commercial relations between Ceylon and Western Australia increased enormously, this State sending more visitors in proportion to population to Ceylon than the rest of Australia combined. Mr. Wayman was the originator of the annual Ceylon dinner at Perth, which at once became one of the social events of the year. He has entire control of the Ceylon Bureau in Australia. He is the representative in Western Australia for The Times of Ceylon, one of the leading papers east of Suez, the editor of which, Mr. F. Crosbie-Roles, F.R.C.I., is most keenly and sympathetically interested in Australian-Anglo-Indian work. Mr. Wayman is a contributor to The West Australian under the noms de plume “Nauticus,” “F.J.W.,” and “Anglo-Indian,” is a Justice of the Peace and a public speaker, frequently taking the platform as a lecturer on various questions. In October, 1906, he married Miss Helen Louise Williamson, of Croydon, Surrey, England, a grandniece of General Sir Edward Huthwaite, long associated with the famous military colleges at Addis-combe and Sandhurst. Mr. Way-man resides at Mount Lawley, where he named his place “Peradeniya,” after the famous Royal Botanical Gardens near Kandy, Ceylon.
HOURIGAN & DEMPSEY, barristers and solicitors, Samson’s Buildings, 33, Barrack Street, Perth. (Richard Edward Hourigan, LL.B., and Richard Francis Dempsey, LL.B.) RICHARD EDWARD HOURIGAN was born at Geelong, Victoria, in 1869, and received his education at the Christian Brothers’ College, Wakefield Street, Adelaide. At the close of his schooldays he was articled to the legal profession under the Hon. P. McMahon Glynn,
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M.H.R., barrister and solicitor, of Adelaide, and also became a student in law at the University of Adelaide, where he obtained his LL.B. degree in 1893. In 1896 he arrived at
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Mr. Richard Edward Hourigan.
Perth, and was admitted to the Bar in Western Australia in March of the following year. For two years he carried on practice at the mining towns of Kalgoorlie and Kanowna, and in September, 1899, returned to
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Mr. Richard Francis Dempsey.
his native State, being admitted to the Victorian Bar in May, 1900. Mr. Hourigan established himself in his profession at Geelong, where he remained until March, 1906, when he again sailed for Western Australia,
and in April resumed practice at Kalgoorlie. A couple of years later he came t-o Perth and opened his present offices in Samson’s Buildings, Barrack Street, where ha has since continued. As his practice increased Mr. Hourigan found it necessary to obtain assistance, and a correspondence with Mr. R. F. Dempsey terminated in the arrival of that gentleman in Western Australia. Mr. Dempsey had graduated in laws in the Adelaide University and had been managing clerk in the office of the Hon. P. McM. Glynn, M.H.R., Adelaide, for eleven years. He left the office of that gentleman to join Mr. Hourigan. Following the admission of Mr. Dempsey to the local Bar in March, 1911, a partnership was arranged, and the firm has since condrcted business under the style of Hourigan & Dempsey.
Captain ADOLPH RUDOLPH WILLIAM BUTTNER, Administrative and Instructional Staff Officer, stationed at Kalgoorlie, was born at Ravenswood Junction, North Queensland, on December 4, 1881, and is the eldest son of Mr. F. W. A. Biittner, mine manager, of Charters Towers, Queensland. He attended the Central State School at Charters Towers, and at thirteen years of age was appointed a pupil teacher of that institution. Six years later he received the appointment of assistant teacher in the same school, where he remained until the early part of 1911. His first military experience was gained in the Kennedy Infantry Regiment, which he joined as a private in 1901, and by degrees rose to corporal, sergeant, and colour-sergeant. In 1906 he was appointed provisional second lieutenant, which promotion was succeeded by a lieutenancy in the following year. Six months later he passed successfully his examination for captain and was duly gazetted to that rank in the Kennedy Infantry Regiment, in which he held the appointment of Adjutant. Before leaving the militia for the permanent staff he passed for his Majority. He was transferred to the permanent staff after passing the necessary examination in December, 1910, with the rank of Lieutenant and holding the army rank of Captain. This transfer took place on February 1, 1911, and Captain Biittner served on the Instructional Staff in New South Wales until early in 1912, when he was further trans-
ferred to Western Australia. Whilst resident in New South Wales he attended lectures at the University of Sydney and was awarded from this institution the Certificate of the Department of Military Science. He has had considerable connection with rifle shooting circles in Queensland, and was a member of the Kennedy Rifle Club during the whole of his period of connection with the Regiment there. He is a lover of outdoor sport generally and a strong advocate
Captain A. R. W. Btjttner.
for healthy athletic exercise. Captain Biittner is a member of the Naval and Military Club, Barrack Street, Perth.
Lieutenant ARTHUR GEORGE SAUNDERS, of the Physical Training Instructional Staff of the Commonwealth Military Forces, is a son of Mr. M. J. Saunders, civil engineer and contractor, of Wicklow and Dublin, Ireland, where he was born on May 30, 1884. He received his educational training at various academies, concluding his scholastic career at King’s Hospital School, and subsequently entered the Civil Service of Ireland, where he remained until 1901. He then joined the Hussars, and at a later date became fencing and gymnastic instructor in this Corps, with which he continued for over seven years. In 1909 he came to Western Australia and accepted the post of Physical Director to the Young Men’s Christian Association in Perth, resigning to enter upon his present duties of Instructor of Physical Training in Western Australia
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in 1911. He is a competent instructor in all branches of physical training, and teaches according to the most modern methods employed on the Continent, boxing, fencing,
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Lieutenant Arthur George Saunders.
swimming, and life saving, etc., with very successful results. He is an expert rider and a good shot, and holds the award of merit from the Royal Life Saving Society. He makes a hobby of his work, and devotes his spare time to further study in the various branches of training, procuring the latest, most up-to-date works on the subject, and keeping himself in touch with everything that may promote the ends towards which he is working.
WILLIAM BOXALL, dental surgeon, Barrack Street, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Alfred Boxall, brewer, of Lithgow, New South Wales, and comes of an old English family. Born at Invercargill, New Zealand, on November 18, 1861, he received his education at various schools in the Victorian capital and in his early teens became articled to the well-known Collins Street dentist, Mr. D. McGregor. Having assiduously applied himself to the practice of dentistry under this gentleman, he continued with him in all for eleven years and spent a subsequent three years in Sydney with Drs. Arthur Cox and Bennett. In 1897 he came to Western Australia, and proceeding to Kalgoorlie carried on an extensive practice in this
centre for fourteen years. At the end of that period he left the goldfields and established himself at 134, Barrack Street, Perth, where he has since practised his profession and has built up a good connection. Mr. Boxall is an honorary life member of the H.A.C.B.S. He belongs to the Celtic Club and is Vice-President of the Perth Rifle Club, his favourite recreation, however, being motoring, in connection with which the Automobile Club claims him as an adherent. In 1893 he married May Josephine, daughter of the late Mr. James O’Brien, of Daylesford, Victoria, and unites with this lady in the assistance of many charitable objects. Mrs. Boxall is well known throughout the community for her wide sympathies and practical in-
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Mr. AVilliam Boxall.
terest in charity bazaars, entertainments, etc., which is extended to the efforts of all communions, although the Roman Catholic Church claims her special adherence. Their family consists of three sons and two daughters.
JOHN JOSEPH HIGHAM, J.P., was born at High Street, Fremantle, on September 14, 1856, and is a son of the late Mr. John Henry Higham, who arrived in Western Australia in 1853. He first attended a local State school, afterwards continuing his studies at the Bishops School, in Perth, and at a later date was sent to the Camden Collegiate School of Sydney, New South Wales.
In 1876, having completed his scholastic course, he returned to his native State and entered upon a mercantile career in the business house, then conducted under the style of M. Higham & Sons, which he, as surviving partner, carried on until 1890. In that year, disposing of his interests, he opened business on his own account at Packenham Street, Fremantle, establishing a special connection with the newly-discovered goldfields, and carried this on for some considerable time. He is now concerned in house, land, and general estate agency and valuing business on a large scale, and has admitted into partnership his son, Mr. Frank G. Higham. For many years Mr. Higham was connected with the municipal life of Fremantle, representing the business ward of the municipality at the Council table; and in 1896, upon the death of the late Hon. W. E. Marmion, he became an aspirant for political honours, and was returned to represent Fremantle district, retaining the seat until he withdrew from active Parliamentary life. He has always identified himself with public and educational movements and has been chairman of the Technical School Advisory Board for some considerable time. He has also acted as Trustee of the Fremantle Cemetery Board. He received his commission of Justice of the Peace from the Forrest Government in 1897. In 1882 he married Edith, daughter of the late Mr. John Bateman, of Fremantle, and has four sons and a daughter. FRANK GAYTON HIGHAM, partner in the business of J. J. Higham, was born at Fremantle on November 21, 1886. He received his education at the Fremantle Grammar School and at the Scotch College, Claremont, at the close of his studies joining the well-known firm of G. AVood, Son, and Co., with whom he remained for nearly six years. He then accepted the position of travelling representative for the Union Stores, Limited, which he resigned to enter upon the duties of accountant to Messrs. Frank Manford & Co., and two years later was admitted into partnership with his father in the land and estate agency business at Fremantle. Mr. F. G. Higham owns his own motor launch, the “lone,” on which he spends his leisure hours, and in earlier days he was very fond of sailing, but has now given up that form of diversion in favour of the motor.
PEET & COMPANY, Limited, estate and financial agents, 46, St. George’s Terrace, Perth. This progressive firm has been associated with the development of the City of Perth for a lengthy period. It was established as far back as 1894 with offices in William Street and has steadily extended its operations until at the present time they reach to the remotest parts of the metropolitan area. The firm is agent and attorney for several land companies and syndicates, the business in connection with which entails the management and distribution of ninety-six estates in the city and suburbs, beside which it is interested in large areas at Roleystone, Kelm-scott, Jandakot, the Harvey, and other localities. In addition to the ordinary transactions in the sale of houses and lands it has a special auctioneer (Mr. W. H. Dunn) to conduct that department of the business and an architect (Mr. A. E. Clarke), who attends to the planning and erection of homes which are financed more or less upon the instalment plan, this feature in connection with land business practically being introduced into this State by Mr. Peet when he settled in Perth. JAMES THOMAS PEET, the head of the firm, was
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Mr. James Thomas Peet.
born at Nottingham, England, and after concluding his scholastic career at Taunton’s Endowed School Southampton in 1882 he joined the Ordnance Survey in the same town, of which Sir Charles Wilson, K.C.B., R.E., was Director-General, South-
ampton being the head office of the Government survey of the British Isles. Subsequently he was drafted to the division of detailed survey field work at Yeovil, Chard, llmin-ster, and other districts, gaining valuable experience in this way for his later career. After a period as draughtsman in the photo-zinco-graphic department of the Southampton office, in 1887 Mr. Peet sailed for Queensland and was employed for a time as draughtsman in the Survey Department of that State. Drawn to Victoria by the attraction of the Melbourne Exhibition and the land boom, then at its height, Mr. Peet joined Messrs. Chafiey Brothers as draughtsman in connection with their Mildura and Renmark irrigation schemes. After completing this agreement he entered upon land agency business as Manager for Mr. Callaghan, of Swanston Street, Melbourne, at that time the leading land agent of Victoria. In 1891, while still resident in Melbourne, he formed a partnership with Mr. Austin Bastow, J.P., who in after years became a well-known resident of Western Australia and sometime Mayor of Subiaco. Three years later the present Company was founded in Perth, the offices at a later date being transferred from William Street to St. George’s Terrace, where it operates at the present time. In 1898 Mr. Peet was appointed sworn valuator and in the following year Government land agent, and is now admittedly first in his line of business in the State, his knowledge of the land in the city and surrounding suburbs being of a most comprehensive character and including acquaintance with the fauna and flora of each locality. It has been aptly said that a day spent with him as guide is as good as a Western Australian history lesson to the intending investor.
HEINRICH WALTER BEVIL-AQUA, mortgage and investment broker, sworn valuator, attorney, and agent for absentees, etc., Weld Cnambers, Perth, was born at Blum-berg, South Australia, on March 14, 1868. His boyhood was spent in the south-eastern districts of the State and at Lyndoch, where he received his early education. Upon the conclusion of his scholastic career at Whinham College, North Adelaide, he entered the office of his father, Mr. P. M. H. Bevilaqua,
for a few months, and in 1883 joined the staff of the old Bank ol South Australia, where Mr. H. D. Holmes, now General Manager of the Western Australian Bank, Perth, was engaged in the Branch Inspector’s Department. After a varied
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Mr. Heinrich Walter Bevilaqua.
experience at the head office and at country branches he was transferred in 1891 to the newly-established business of the Bank in Melbourne, but foreseeing the financial crisis which led to the absorption of that institution by the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, and coming under the spell of Western Australia through personal and press reports, he relinquished the service in May, 1891, and came to Perth under engagement to the Western Australian Bank, of which Mr. II. D. Holmes had assumed management. Determined to make the most of the forward movement that had begun in the Western State Mr. Bevilaqua worked early and late in the interests of the Bank under the immediate supervision of Mr. Holmes, and in the course of fourteen years occupied practically every responsible position in the head office under that of General Manager. On account of a suggestion by the Board of Directors following the discovery of defalcations by one of the staff, that he should accept the management of a country branch, he resigned his position of accountant on June 30, 1905, and joined the firm of Peet & Co., Limited, estate and financial agents, Perth. After a close connection with this progressive com-
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pany, on July 1, 1907, he retired from the more active management of the firm’s affairs and commenced business on his own account at Forrest Chambers, as mortgage and investment broker, in February of that year, still retaining an interest in Peet & Co., Limited, and continuing to act as one of their directors. In February, 1909, the increase of the business demanded larger and more central premises and removal was made to the front offices in Weld Chambers, at present occupied by him. Mr. Bevilaqua does little advertising, but as the outcome of his endeavour to give constituents the best and most straightforward advice dictated by his experience the business has gradually expanded and become an important factor in the development of the city, suburban, and country districts. Through the principle of encouraging the reduction of liabilities on the banking or instalment plan many of all classes are being enabled to free their homes and holdings in a way not generally found possible heretofore. In addition to being a Director of Peet & Co., Limited, Mr. Bevilaqua is on the local directorate of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company and of the Western Australian Tobacco Manufacturing Company, Limited.
JAMBS BREBBER, J.P., is a son of Mr. George Forbes Brebber, general merchant, Glenkindie, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, in which county he was born. He received his education at a public school, and at the close of his studies entered into the building trade. In 1877 he proceeded to Glasgow, and in the following year was appointed Secretary of the United Trades Committee. Upon the failure of the Glasgow Bank in 1879 Mr. Brebber left for London, where he received the appointment of Secretary to the United Trades Council in 1881, and was elected by the General Council of the Association to represent them in Manchester in 1885. During the winter of 1882-3 he served on the Islington branch of the Lord Mayor’s Committee for the distribution of a fund of £91,000 among the poor of London. In 1887 he took passage for Western Australia, two years later leaving the Western State for Victoria, where he remained for some four years. In 1893 he re-
turned to Perth and in 1897 entered into business as a land and estate agent. Mr. Brebber is also a sworn valuator, his business address being 656, Hay Street. He early evinced a strong interest in municipal matters and received election to the Perth City Council in 1897, serving as a member of this body for nine years, in 1901 filling the office of Chairman of the City Decorations Committee at the time of the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York, for which service he was accorded a letter of thanks from the Council. He entered Parliament as representative for the North Perth constituency in 1906, retaining the seat for three years. He received his commission of Justice of the Peace for the Perth magisterial dis-
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trict in 1906. Mr. Brebber is a member of the Caledonian Society, in which he has been Chief for two years and Secretary for a similar period.
JOHN GEORGE MILNER, F.F.I.A., J.P., land and estate
agent, William Street, Perth, was born at Balmoral, in the western district of Victoria, in 1868. He is a son of the late Mr. John Milner, an Ex-Mayor of Buninyong, Victoria, his parents having moved to Ballarat when he was an infant, and subsequently to Buninyong, made famous by being the first place where gold was discovered in that State. Mr. Milner received his primary education at a State school and afterwards
at Grenville College, Ballarat, from which institution he passed the Civil Service examination in 1885 and the matriculation examination of the University of Melbourne in the following year. Shortly after leaving school he was successful in the
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Mr. John George Milner.
examination for the clerical division of the Railways Department, but preferring commercial life obtained a position with the firm of Mac-meikan & Co., estate agents, etc., of Collins Street, Melbourne. He remained for ten years with this firm, and during this period occupied several important positions in connection with public companies, and was elected a Fellow of the Federal Institute of Accountants. In 1894 he proceeded to Hobart on behalf of the National Wool Company, and in 1895 and 1896 visited several districts of New South Wales for Golds-brough, Mort, & Co., Limited. While filling this engagement he received an offer to join his old employers in Perth a.nd arrived at Fremantle in August, 1896. Twelve months later he accepted the position of manager for Peet & Co., Limited, which position he retained for over seven years, when he founded the present firm of Milner & Co., estate and financial agents, in Perth. In 1906 he was appointed a sworn valuator under the Transfer of Land Act, 1893. Mr. Milner has always taken considerable interest in political and municipal affairs, and was one of the founders and the first President of the East Ward Ratepayers’ Association of North Perth,
which inaugurated the Greater Perth movement and other important matters. After holding this position for eighteen months, in November. 1905, he was elected Mayor of North Perth, defeating Mr. R. S. Haynes,
K.C., the previous occupant of the mayoral chair. At the close of his first term of office Mr. Milner was re-elected by a large majority, and in the following year he was again returned, on this occasion enjoying a walkover. On March 9, 1906, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Perth magisterial district. He has filled many positions in the Masonic fraternity and is a Past Master of the order. A prominent playing member of the Williams-town Cricket Club in Victoria he has always been a supporter of all forms of outdoor recreation. In 1898 he married Ellen, youngest daughter of Mr. George Paine, contractor of Newport, Victoria, and has two sons and two daughters.
HENRY CARINGTON SEWELL, J.P., head of the firm of
H. C. Sewell & Co., land and estate agents, 42, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. William Sewell, of Cannonbury, Balwyn, Victoria. He was born at Hamilton, Victoria, and acquired his
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Mr. Henry Carington Sewell.
scholastic training at the Kew High School and the University in that State, upon its conclusion entering the Commissioners’ Branch of the Melbourne Savings Bank, in which service he continued until his de-
parture for Western Australia in 1896. Upon arrival he went to Kalgoorlie, where he commenced business as a land agent in 1904, transferring the scene of his operations to Perth. During the lifetime of Sir Arthur Stepney he held the Baronet’s power of attorney and managed his estates in Western Australia. His first connection with public life began at Kalgoorlie, where he was elected a member of the Roads Board, and in 1904 he filled the position of Chairman, retiring from the Board upon his departure for Perth. In 1910 he received his commission of Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the Perth Golf Club and finds recreation in this ancient pastime. He married Katherine, eldest daughter of the late Captain Butcher, of Albany.
CHARLES EDMUND STRODE HALL, agent for the Manning Estates in Western Australia, is a son of the late Captain George Hall, of the 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, and Governor of Parkhurst Prison, where the gentleman under review was born on February 6, 1861. His maternal grandfather was Colonel George Gawler, K.H., the second Governor of South Australia, who was the first to combine the powers and duties of Resident Commissioner and Governor, having been gazetted to both offices. Mr. Strode Hall was educated at Christ’s Hospital, London, and obtained the premier pass from the Royal Mathematical School. He has followed various callings during the course of his lifetime, for a number of years being engaged in marine pursuits. He holds a master mariner’s certificate and was connected with the Orient Company prior to the inauguration of steamers on that line. He occupied certain public positions in the Federated Malay States, whence he first arrived in Western Australia in May, 1884, on which occasion he remained for six months. In the following year he spent a similar period in the State, during which time he was engaged in the pearling industry in the Nor’-West. His next visit was in 1894, when he was travelling between Western Australia and Singapore for a Singapore firm, and in February, 1898, he left the coast, and from that time onward was resident in the Federated Malay States and Singapore until he finally settled in Western Aus-
tralia in March, 1911. Immediately preceding his arrival here Mr. Strode Hall was Secretary to the Selangor Turf Club, and has held many similar positions. He married on May 26, 1897, Florence A. Manning, daughter of the late Sir Wal-
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Mr. Charles Edmund Strode Hall.
laoe Bickley, Bart., well known for many years in Fremantle as Mr. Wallace Bickley, never having used the title, and widow of the late Mr.
L. S. Manning, of Davilak, Fremantle.
WALTER MERVYN PETERS, farmers and land selectors’ agent, and auctioneer, Cathedral Avenue, Perth, is a son of Mr. Frederick Augustus Peters, and was born in 1868. The early years of his life were spent with his parents in South Africa, and he was present at the siege of Pretoria in 1881 as Officer’s Orderly under command of Major Bainbridge, being again associated with military life during the Boer campaign of 1899-1904, when he was identified with the Intelligence Department, subsequently being selected by the Natal Government to act as guide to the Transvaal Cape contingent during its march to Zululand in connection with the native rising of 1906. All through life Mr. Peters has been closely associated with farming pursuits, and has had a great deal of practical experience in dry-farming methods, which are claiming the attention of the agriculturists of to-day. In 1908 he arrived in
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Western Australia and took up
4,000 acres of land in partnership with another gentleman in the Kellerberrin district, but ultimately sold out his share in this property. Recognizing the growing need for an advisory head outside of the
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Mr. Walter Mervyn Peters.
Lands Department, Mr. Peters established a Farmers and Selectors Agency to act in conjunction with the department and to aid its efforts in obtaining suitable settlers for the development of the country. The Agency takes the newcomer in hand upon his arrival in the State, and Mr. Peters’ long experience enables him to give the best possible advice in regard to land selection. The many letters of thanks which he has received from satisfied and grateful clients testify to the fact that the Agency is filling an important niche in the economy of the State. Mr. Peters holds the agencies for the Cyclone Fence Company, the Commercial Union Assurance Company, the Mount Lyell Railway and Chemical Company, Limited, and the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia. Outside of business pursuits he takes a lively interest in the moral and general welfare of the community, and holds the office of Social Secretary to the Y.M.C.A., being also Vice-President of the Cricket and Lacrosse Clubs in connection with the same institution, the latter club possessing the premier team in B Grade. He is also Vice-President of the Perth Branch of the Overseas Club, and acts as superintendent of the Burs-
wood Congregational Sunday-school. Mr. Peters married Frances, daughter of Mr. A. T. Goodchild, of Diamond Field fame, who obtained the 33rd degree in Freemasonry, and has a son and three daughters.
UGO EDMONDO BERTOLI, land selectors’ agent, Barrack Street, Perth, was born in Switzerland in 1865, and received his education in Victoria, having come to Australia with his parents at the early age of four years. Pie trained for the teaching profession and for three years was engaged as junior master in the State schools of Victoria, relinquishing this service to engage in farming pursuits. In conjunction with his father he followed this in-
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Mr. Uoo Edmondo Bertoli.
dustry in the Charlton district of Victoria for about seven years, during which period he obtained an excellent practical knowledge of agriculture. In 1892, leaving his adopted State for South Australia, he took a position as correspondent to an Adelaide firm, and five years later came to the Western State, where he entered the Lands Department of the Government Service. After continuing in this connection for fourteen years in December, 1910, Mr. Bertoli established himself in business on his own account. Having risen from a junior post to that of Assistant Undersecretary in the Lands Department he had gained a wide experience in business matters connected with land
and his practical knowledge acquired during earlier years has also stood him in good stead and fitted him in a special way for the general demands of his business. Mr. Bertoli resides at Queen’s Park and at one time occupied the office of councillor in the local municipal body, which seat he retained for two years.
S. B. DEVENISH & SON, auctioneers and accountants, land, commission, insurance, and financial agents, James Street, Guildford. STEPPIEN BALDWIN DEVENISH, Senior Member of the above progressive firm, is the second son of the late Mr. Henry Thomas Dev-enish, of Guildford, Western Australia, and was born on October 17, 1852. He was educated at Perth and Guildford, and upon leaving school at the early age of fourteen years entered the service of the late Henry Gray & Co., merchants, of Gerald-ton, and subsequently the well-known firm of Padbury, Loton, and Co., merchants, of Perth and Guildford, with whom he was connected for over fourteen years. When quite a young man Mr. Devenish had some experience in pearling at Shark Bay when this industry was in its infancy, and has vivid recollections of stirring events and hardships endured while there, finishing up with
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Stephen Baldwin Devenish.
a tramp overland from Shark Bay to Geraldton, a distance of over 230 miles, in company with Messrs. Fred, and Charles Piesse, of Katanning. Mr. Devenish established the present business at Guildford about fourteen
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years ago, and by close attention to the demands of his clientele succeeded during the ensuing years in developing the germ of land agency with which he commenced to a concern of the present comprehensive character. He is Secretary to the Swan Building Society, and though having little time to spare for the obligations of public life has acted for many years as auditor to the local Municipal Council. He is an enthusiast in the 'vulture of roses and can boast of over 200 varieties in his beautiful garden at Guildford. Mr. Devenish married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. James Brittain, of Western Australia, and has three sons and two daughters living.
The BARTLETTO STUDIOS, 673, Hay Street, Perth. The value of photography as a national asset cannot be assessed in so many pounds, shillings, and pence. By means of its multiple processes the public mind has been wonderfully enriched. Light has been shed upon the history of the years, the pulses of the world’s inhabitants made to throb, and posterity placed under a heavy debt of gratitude, from which it has no desire to escape. The origin of photography may be traced to the early part of the nineteenth century, and upon the foundation thus laid down has been raised and perfected a wonderful structure of art. Photography to-day is a combination of art and science, holding little in
Reception Room, Bartletto Studios, Perth.
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Mb. F. Guy Manneking.
ing from old and faded photographs is work which here is probably carried to a finer point than in any other part of Australia, and so skilfully are the lights and shades handled by the artist that one finds
The Bartletto Studios.
common with the elementary efforts in black and white which caused our ancestors to marvel greatly. The negative received from the hands of the expert operator is but a skeleton, which, passing to the retoucher, undergoes a transformation almost as complete as that sustained by the chrysalis, resulting in the marvellous portraiture which is a source of constant delight to the beholder. In the wide field of modern photography no firm is more worthy of premier position than Bartletto, which, since its inception in Perth in 1897 has mastered the art in all its intricacies and established an unimpeachable
reputation as the most advanced portrait photographers in the Commonwealth. Bartletto Studios specialize in every branch of photography, and their India proof work, printed on platinum and mounted on vellum, is particularly beautiful; in fact, the whole of their productions are worthy to rank with the best American, English, and Continental portraiture. Enlargements and copy-
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it difficult to realize the total absence of colour. The firm is also an exponent' of fine-art photography in miniatures and colour work, which when finished in aqua tint cannot be surpassed for delicacy and absolute charm. The slight photographic basis is cleverly combined with the skill of the arrtist, resulting in a study exquisite in its pervading daintiness. The studio galleries and entrance are crowded with examples of the firm’s photographic art, and the directors always appreciate a visit from persons of culture and taste, at whose service they readily hold themselves disposed, knowing full well that the artistic sense will revel in the personal observation and gather a more comprehensive view of the delicate nuances than it is possible to outline in cold type. F. GUY MAN-NERING, in whose hands is centred the general management, is a Victorian, having been born in that State in 1870. He joined the firm of Bartlett Brothers, photographers, Bendigo, in 1885, since when he has been actively connected with photography with various firms. In 1898 he came to Western Australia, and in conjunction with Mr. Bartlett founded the present firm, which early became recognized as the leading studio in Perth.
ALBERT CLERK, Government Auctioneer, Trustee Chambers, Perth, was born in Victoria in 1850. He was educated at Haileybury College, England, and at the close of his schooldays engaged in pastoral pursuits, with which he was connected for many years. In 1888 he came to Western Australia and took over the management of a large livery and letting stables, which he conducted successfully until 1893. At this period he joined in partnership with Mr. Theo. Lowe and continued in this connection for about three years, subsequently being associated with Mr. Samuel Grimwood in business in TattersalTs Horse Bazaar. On April 5, 1900, he was appointed Government Auctioneer in the above concern, and having dissolved partnership with Mr. Grimwood carried on his own business as stock and station agent in conjunction with the duties attached to this position. Since his appointment Mr. Clerk has conducted many large sales, which have included important opening sales at centres where townships have since ww
sprung up in different parts of the State. Mr. Clerk also holds the appointment of Auctioneer in Western Australia for the Commonwealth Government, and has charge of the sales in connection with the Post Office and the Customs Department.
AUGUST KNAPP, B.O.A., optician, 25, Barrack Street, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Hermann Knapp, Professor of Languages and Mathematics at the Brisbane Grammar School. He was born at Manchester, England, on August 31, 1873, and at an early age left for Queensland, where he received his education. Upon leaving school he was articled to Mr. Alfred Clarke, optician, of the firm of Messrs. Flavelle Brothers & Roberts, of
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Mb. August Knapp.
Brisbane, with whom he remained for three years, during which period he obtained a thorough acquaintance with all the details of the mechanical part of the business. Suffering from indifferent health he relinquished his studies and proceeded to the Darling Downs, where for six years he was identified with pastoral life on a sheep station. Having regained his normal strength he entered Campbell’s Steam Joinery Yard as machinist, and continued in this connection for about six months. Mr. Alfred Clarke having decided to establish himself in practice in Perth, Western Australia, at about this time, invited Mr. Knapp to accompany him, and the latter accepting the offer arrived
in this State in 1897. Two years later Mr. Clarke admitted him into partnership, and in April, 1900, upon the departure of his principal from Western Australia, Mr. Knapp took over the business on his own account, and has conducted it successfully ever since. He is thoroughly conversant with all branches of his profession, having an expert knowledge of refraction and all anomalies connected with the sight, and occupies a position in the forefront ranks of similar practitioners in Western Australia. He was elected a member of the British Optical Association in 1900, and is optician to the Home of Peace, Subiaco; to the National Rifle Association ; and to the Hospital foi Sick Children, Perth. In 1904 Mr. Knapp married Maude Willis, sister of Mrs. C. S. Toppin, of Perth.
JAMES NEILSON, optician, 747, Hay Street, Perth, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1860, where also he received his scholastic training. At the close of his schooldays he served a seven years’ apprenticeship with Messrs. Marshall and Co., of Edinburgh, with which firm he continued for several years. Coming to South Australia in 1888 he was connected with Mr. F. Basse’s establishment until leaving
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. James Neilson.
for Western Australia in 1903. Opening at his present address in Hay Street he has successfully carried on the practice of his profession, his comprehensive training having given him a practical knowledge of
every department of his business. Mr. Neilson is honorary optician to the Perth Children’s Hospital and to the Waifs’ Home, and attends to a considerable amount of honorary work in addition to these appointments and the demands of his ever-increasing connection.
WILLIAM HENRY MONTAGUE BROWNE, optician, Wellington Buildings, Perth, is a son of Mr. W. T. Browne, a chemist of Dimboola, Victoria, and. was born at Ballarat, Victoria, on June 16, 1884. He pursued his educational studies in his native State, and at their conclusion entered his father’s business with a view of studying pharmacy. In conjunction with this he also' studied under Dr. W. Chisholm Ross, ophthalmic surgeon, with the intention of uniting the two professions, and continued his course of training until 1901. He then entered the service of Messrs. Edward Tobin and Co., opticians, of Melbourne, where he was specially instructed in the subjective and objective methods of sight-testing. During this period he made himself proficient in retino-scopy and ophthalmoscopy, two most important methods of determining errors of refraction. In 1903 he proceeded to Sydney to extend his ex-
Bartletto, Perth
Mr. W. H. M. Browne.
perience, and here became connected with the well-known firm of Fairfax and Roberts, of that city, relieving Mr. Arthur Roberts, who was starting on a holiday trip. Subsequently Mr. Browne opened in business on
his own account, but ill-health forced him to relinquish operations, and he spent some time in Queensland with the firm of Berliners, Limited, opticians, from which service he resigned to enter upon pastoral pursuits in the Northern Territory tablelands, hoping by an open-air life to regain his full vigour. In 1907 he arrived in Wyndham from the cattle country and accepted a position with Messrs. Frost & Shipham, of Perth, and after opening consulting-rooms at various country pharmacies and arranging systematic visits decided once more to start business on his own behalf. His rooms in Wellington Buildings, Perth, are fitted with all the latest appliances in connection with the most up-to-date methods of sight-testing and spectacle-fitting. During his wide experience Mr. Browne has devoted particular attention to the study of defects of the refractive media of the eye, whereby brain fag, insomnia, and neuralgia are produced. He also gives special care to the strengthening of children’s vision by means of properly-prescribed glasses, thus preventing squint and obviating the necessity in later life of an operation, which in many instances proves abortive. Mr. Browne is a member of the Commercial Travellers’ Association. In 1911 he married Milli-cent, daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Keech, of Redhill, South Australia.
DONALD JOHN CHIPPER, funeral director, Hay Street, Perth, and Adelaide Street, Fremantle, was born at the former city in 1868, and pursued his scholastic studies at the Government Boys’ School. Subsequently he apprenticed himself to Mr. John Summers, coach builder, wheelwright, and undertaker, and after continuing with this gentleman for five years began business on his own account in 1888. In the first instance opening as a coachbuilder and undertaker, in 1892 he relinquished the former branch of the business and has since carried on solely as a funeral director. For the past twenty-three years Mr. Chipper has occupied the same premises where he now conducts his business, and which are situated in Hay Street, Perth, and in 1892 he established a branch business at Fremantle. Besides being a member of the Masonic craft and a Past Grand Lodge officer he is Senior Grand
Trustee of the Grand Lodge of the United Ancient Order of Druids, of which also he was first Grand President when the Charter was granted for a Grand Lodge in Western Aus-
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Mr. Donald John Chipper.
tralia in 1901, having been a foundation member of the order since its inception in 1891.
WILLIAM CHARLES BOWRA, of the firm of Bowra & O’Dea, was born in Perth on September 9, 1856, and is third son of the late Mr. John William Atlee Bowra, watchmaker and jeweller, of Howick Street (now Hay Street East), Perth. The late gentleman at one time was connected with Her late Majesty Queen Victoria’s Indian forces, and came on service to Western Australia, afterwards purchasing his discharge in India and settling down in this State. He married a lady who had seen the Swan River Settlement in its infancy, having arrived as an infant in 1829 by the “Caroline,” the fourth vessel to land emigrants at the Western Australian port. The subject of this memoir pursued his scholastic studies under the late Mr. W. Adkinson in the State School on St. George’s Terrace, which has since developed into the Perth Technical School. At fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to the wheelwright trade at the now defunct Vulcan Foundry, and continued about ten years, becoming well versed in different branches of foundry work. In his early twenties he left this employ to undertake the
duties of foreman for the Western Australian Manufacturing Company, retiring from this position when the firm relinquished its operations about ten years later. In 1890
Bartletto. Perth.
Me. AVilliam Chakles Bowea.
he accepted the management of the late Mr. Joseph Sowden’s foundry in Hay Street, from which he resigned a year later to enter upon a similar appointment in the Pioneer Carriage Works owned by Mrs. W. Wimbridge. He was fond of applying his expert knowledge of machinery in the direction of original experiment, and invented a machine which was used in the manufacture of a bottling rack. Owing to a defective clamp while working this machine he lost two fingers of his left hand, and on account of this disablement was forced to discontinue the work to which he had hitherto devoted the whole of his life. He therefore started in business as a coachbuilder and undertaker, and met with such marked success in this line of trade that within a couple of months he joined issue with Mr. O’Dea, and has since pursued a very prosperous career. Ultimately the firm disposed of the •coachbuilding branch of the business and since has devoted its attention solely to the work of undertakers. Mr. Bowra is an enthusiast in the matter of fruit culture, and his •orchard at Cannington, known as “Brooklyn Farm,” which is under the management of his second son, is sufficient testimony to the success of his methods. He has over 1,000 ■trees, chiefly apples and stone fruits,
which have proved most profitable, and also grows vegetables with satisfactory results. He combines poultry farming with his other industries, and spends what leisure he can command in the garden surrounding his home at Clifton Street, North Perth, where choice varieties of roses, sweet-peas, etc., credit him with exceptional skill as a floriculturist. He is a member of the Perth Horticultural, the Royal Agricultural, and the Cannington Agricultural Societies and is also connected with the Free Gardeners and the Independent Order of Oddfellows. A member of the Masonic craft and Club he has held office in the fraternity. In 1878 Mr. Bowra married Hannah Tichbon, daughter of Mr. Henry Tichbon, one of the oldest pioneers of the State, now residing at East Perth. He has two sons and four daughters.
MICHAEL O’DEA, of the firm of Bowra & O’Dea, which has been established for over twenty years in the City of Perth, was born at Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, on September 16, 1863. He is the second son of the late Sergeant M. O’Dea, of His Majesty’s 44th Regiment of Foot, who served through the Crimean war and was twice wounded. Coming to Australia with his parents in the year 1865 the gentleman under review received his education at the Roman Catholic School in Perth, and at twelve years of age was apprenticed to the blacksmithing trade. After continuing in this calling for some time he joined Mr. Bowra in the coachbuilding business, with which, like many others at that time, they combined the business of undertakers. The partnership was formed in 1892, and within a few years the growth of the latter branch of the concern had assumed such large proportions that, by mutual consent, the coachbuilding business was disposed of and the firm has since devoted all its energies to the directing of mortuary arangements. Apart from his business Mr. O’Dea has gained considerable distinction as a marksman, and was a member of the first Western Australian rifle team to visit Victoria, besides being champion rifle shot of the State on three different occasions. He was one of the early members of the Metropolitan Rifle Volunteers which subsequently became the Perth Infantry, and saw over a score of
years’ service in connection with this corps. He has been the winner of a large number of trophies for rifle-shooting and is always recognized as one of the authorities in this department of sport. At the time of the Diamond Jubilee festivities in connection with the reign of Queen Victoria Mr. O’Dea was among those chosen to represent this State in England, on which occasion with his commanding officer, he had the distinguished honour of being presented by Lord Roberts to Her late Majesty at AVindsor. Upon his return to Western Australia, owing to pressure of business affairs, he resigned from the volunteer service and has since devoted his leisure chiefly to advancing the interests of the Hibernian Society in this State, his membership in this body having extended over twenty years. He has held the highest offices in this Society, whose representative he has been on various occasions in Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, and was also one of the founders of the Celtic Club, at the present time (1912) filling the presidential chair. With that love of country which marks the true “Sons of Erin” he is ever ready to hold out a helping hand to any of his compatriots in time of need. A prominent adherent of the Roman Catholic Church he was closely iden-
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Mr. Michael O’Dea.
tified with the building up of the many important institutions which have marked the progress of the denomination in this State. He is a warm supporter of those athletic
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sports in which as a youth he excelled and is a splendid judge of amateur “form.” Mr. O’Dea. married in 1888 Mary, eldest daughter of the late Mr. George Hayman, of Perth, and has a family of five daughters and three sons.
WILLIAM JONAS GREEN, of the firm of Arthur E. Davies & Co., undertakers, of Fremantle, is a son of the late Mr. John William Green, an early pioneer of the Victorian State, who was a prominent figure in Ballarat at the time of the Stockade Riots. Born at Melbourne, Victoria, on June 24, in the year 1850, the gentleman under review received his education at the Collegiate School of Ballarat, and after a concluding course of study at the capital turned his attention to land surveying. He passed the necessary examinations entitling him
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Me. Willi a ii Jonas Gkeen.
to a certificate of competency, hut subsequently abandoned this profession in order to join his father in business pursuits. Owing to the disastrous results of the Victorian land boom, he left that State for Western Australia in 1898 and settled in Perth for a couple of years. Eventually Mr. Green arranged to take over the business of Messrs. Arthur E. Davies & Co., of Fremantle, which he has since conducted at that centre. The claims of this
concern absorb almost the whole of his time and attention and leave him but little leisure to devote to outside affairs, but in the past he identified himself with most of the leading movements of his time in Victoria. The Literary Institute of Fremantle, however, has secured his services as Vice-President and member of its
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Mr. Jasper Green.
Council, and in this institution he evinces the deepest interest. The St. Kilda Trades Club claims him as one of its founders and owes to him in conjunction with others its position as one of the most progressive and successful organizations of its kind in the State. In his youth Mr. Green found recreation on the cricket field, and was a batsman of no mean ability. He is a Vice-President of the Fremantle Cricket and Football Clubs, and takes his own recreation on the bowling green, being a member of the Fremantle Bowling Club. In 1880 Mr. Green married Selina, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Florence, of Melbourne, and has four sons and eight daughters. His son, Jasper, who is in the business with his father, was born in Melbourne, and after concluding his education in Perth spent six and a half years with the firm of Messrs.
G. Wood, Son, & Co., wholesale merchants, where he received a good commercial training, eventually becoming connected with Mr. Green, sen., as already stated.
GEORGE ARTHUR BATE-MAN, successor to Messrs. Dunn and Co., carriers, St. George’s Terrace, Perth, is a son of Mr. George Barnes Bateman, of London, England, where the subject of this sketch was born on March 18, 1867. He received his preliminary education in his native city, concluding his studies at Tunbridge Wells, and at the close of his schooldays engaged in seafaring life for eighteen months. At a subsequent period he went to Canada and applied himself to horse-breeding and cattle-raising pursuits for five years. In 1888, after a short visit to London, he came to Western Australia, and soon after arrival left Perth for the Greenbushes district, where he commenced prospecting in the tin-mining area between Green-bushes and the Collie River. Mr. Bateman continued in this line of life until 1895, when he proceeded to the goldfields, and was among the early arrivals at Kannalinung, about 25 miles from Coolgardie, becoming associated with many mining ventures in the district. Returning to Green-bushes in 1900 he established a carrying business between that centre and the nearest railway station, and also took over the mail contract, which he held for ten years. Mr. Bateman always displayed a very keen interest in local affairs and was a member of the first Progress Association, being elected President at the inception of this body. When the Roads Board was formed he was elected Chairman, and held this office for a number of years. He was also for two years Chairman of the Health Board, and occupied a similar office in connection with the Cemetery Board. He was a member of the Water Supply Board and of the Recreation Committee, always lending his support to all movements for the promotion of healthy outdoor sport. He is also interested in Friendly Society work and is associated with the Masonic craft and with the Order of Oddfellows and the Druids’ Lodge. Mr. Bateman was married to Helen, daughter of Mr. Thomas Bank, of Fremantle, son of Captain Bank, the first pilot of that port, and has a family of five sons and four daughters.
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DENIS KEANE, East Perth, is a son of Mr. John Keane, of Currans, near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, where he was born on March 1, 1870. He was educated at the National School in his native town and spent his youth in farming pursuits on his father’s property. Owing to the agrarian strife in that part of Ireland, of which Mr. Keane, sen., was a victim, he decided to try his fortunes under the Southern Cross, and arrived in Western Australia early in 1892. He turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, but upon the outbreak of the Coolgardie goldfields was one of the foremost to proceed to the scene of the find. Here he laboured in quest of the precious metal for a few months, when the later find at Hannan’s was reported. One of the first ten prospectors on this field he followed up alluvial-digging, dryblowing, etc., with fair success for some time, but owing to the water famine of 1893 he deserted the nlace in common with hundreds of others. About this time a find was reported at Siberia, in this State, and Mr. Keane joined a party journeying thither. Great hardships and privations,
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Mr. Denis Keane.
however, chiefly from want of water, caused them to relinquish the enterprise and a return was made to Coolgardie, where the subject of our notice continued the development of a lease. For three years from 1905 he devoted himself to prospecting through the northern
Coolgardie gold-fields, covering many hundreds of miles in this way, making small finds, securing interests, and otherwise operating in the mining industry. The rough life, poor food, and exposure in all extremes of weather finally affected his health, and taking up his abode at Coolgardie he opened the first dairy to be established east of Northam. The townspeople numbering at that time about 5,000, this enterprise met with decisive encouragement and he carried on a thriving business for two years. The population then diminishing, he sold his interests and came to East Perth, where he purchased a similar business, which he has since enlarged and still conducts with considerable success. Among other ventures in which he has embarked are a good grazing property within a score of miles of the city and various real estate investments about the suburbs. Mr. Keane is a member of the Wanneroo Roads. Board and takes a deep interest in the affairs of that body. He is a foundation-member of the Celtic Club and has served on the Committee of this body for several years. In 1899 he married Minnie, daughter of the late Mr. John Leahy, of Middleton, County Cork, Ireland, and has a family of three sons and three daughters.
PETER GEORGE MAC-17 A M A R A is a son of the late Mr. Peter Joseph Macnamara, of Limerick City, Ireland. He was born at Bendigo, Victoria, on June 8, 1876, and received
his education at St. Francis School, Melbourne, and at the Christian Brothers’ College, East Melbourne. Leaving school at the ago of eighteen he entered upon a commercial career in a general store and hotel at Elmore, where he remained for five years, during which period he mastered every detail of the business of country storekeeping. In 1898, believing that brighter prospects awaited the man bold enough to strike out for himself in the rising State of Western Australia, he left his native State for newer shores, and upon arrival proceeded at once to Kalgoorlie, where he secured a position with the well-known firm of Bricknell &. Sons.
Three years later he came to Perth and opened business on his own account in Newcastle Street having purchased one of the branch houses of Messrs. Hughes & Dohemy. This
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Mr. Peter George Macnamara.
enterprise was rewarded with brilliant success and resulted in the establishment of first one and then another branch until eventually he had three other concerns of the same nature in the city and its vicinity, all in full swing. At a later date he disposed of all these businesses, and purchased the Newcastle Club Hotel, which he has carried on with marked success, and of which he is-still proprietor. The same spirit which in his youth prompted him to strike out for himself and later led him to seek his fortune on the far-distant goldfields of the West has also operated in his subsequent business ventures, and he has made a bid for Fortune’s smile in the agricultural industry of his adopted State. Upon his 3,000-acre farm at Booralaming, near Dowerin, he is giving his attention to wool-growing and the raising of cereal crops, and is also experimenting with artesian bores. The boon to the district generally, should this scheme of irrigation prove successful, can hardly be estimated, and the settlers will be under a great debt of gratitude to its inaugurator. Mr. Macnamara is building his country home on this estate, and is Vice-President of the Progress Association of Booralaming and the surrounding districts. He is
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a keen horseman, and in circles of snort is always to the fore where hunting is concerned. He likes a well-bred animal of whatever class, and usually has a couple of horses or a champion dog to exhibit at the various shows held to encourage high-class breeding. In 1910 he took a trip to the land of his progenitors and visited all the principal cities of the Continent where he saw much to delight and interest him. Mr. Macnamara is a member of the Celtic Club.
View from the Balcony, Hotel Esplanade.
The HOTEL ESPLANADE. It has been frequently asserted—and with a good deal of truth—that the Swiss are a “nation of hotel-keepers,” but that they no longer hold a monopoly of the rare science of ministering to the requirements of the itinerant traveller is to-day evident in the fair City of Perth. Conducted on the most approved Continental lines, the Hotel Esplanade has inaugurated a new era in the art of hotelkeeping. Pacing the magnificent reaches of the Swan River, the beauties of which have long since made Western Australia famous, the setting might well have been chosen by “the wise men of the East,” so gorgeous is the surround-
Photo by C. P. Farr.
ing scenery. To the visitor the picturesque surroundings are a source of constant delight, and the general feeling of restfulness so eagerly sought by the jaded traveller remains undisturbed by the jarring discord peculiar to the progress of a thriving commercial city. In the summer months the hotel is swept by
the refreshing ozone from the broad reaches of the Indian Ocean but a few miles distant, making it a delightful retreat even in the hottest of weather. The establishment recently has been extensively added to, thoroughly renovated, and furnished most sumptuously. Extensive additions, including thirty-four well-lighted and airy bedrooms, two new lounges, commercial room and electric lift, have been made, the dining-room on the first floor has been extended and the balcony lengthened to 160 ft., making a very fine promenade. The view from here is superb. To the west the Swan flows lazily under the shadow of Mount Eliza, while to the east woodland vistas greet the eye, flanked by the distant low-lying hills of the Darling Ranges. Bathing, fishing, boating, yachting, and innumerable other forms of sport may be indulged in on the River and facilities are provided so that visitors may enjoy these health-giving recreations with the maximum of comfort. Access to the lounges, writing- and reading-rooms, billiard-room and lavatories is gained from the reception-hall, the entrance to which is from the Esplanade. The dining-room is handsomely decorated and furnished on the Continental
Photo by C. E. Farr.
View of river swan and Mount Eliza from Balcony, Hotel Esplanade.
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Photo by C. E. Farr.
Balcony of the Hotel Esplanade.
plan, the napery and cutlery in use being of the very best. The drawingroom is luxurious to a degree, and it is here that the acme of elegance and comfort has been attained. The cuisine, arbiter of the fate of most hotels, has received special attention, and is in the hands of a highly competent chef. The daily table d’hote is a distinctive feature, and the house is a favourite rendezvous of the elite of the State. With all these advantages the popularity of the establishment is not to be wondered at. In the past it has accommodated many distinguished -—even Royal—visitors, among them the Duke of Teck and suite. Madame Melba, Madame Calve,
Madame Clara Butt and Mr. Ken-nerly Rumford, Monsieur Kubelik, and other stars in the musical firmament have also expressed their appreciation of the comforts to be had at this modern hostelry. The
close proximity of the hotel to the stately Law Courts has made it the home of the Federal Judges during their periodic visits, to the State, and it has been made the headquarters of the members of the official staff of the Commonwealth military forces. The Hotel Esplanade is centrally situated and within a few minutes’ drive of the Perth. Railway Station. The management is under the personal supervision of Mrs. Beavor, who has had much experience in catering for the requirements of the travelling public, having devoted the greater part of her life to mastering the million details so essential to the successful conduct of a really first-class hotel.
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Hotel Esplanade, from the Bowling Green.
Tlie AUSTRALIAN HOTEL, Murray Street, Perth. Originally known as the Oddfellows’ Hall, and utilized by that body for their fraternal meetings, this building eventually was purchased by Mr. Guilfoyle, who obtained a hotel licence in 1892, and has since expended about £4,000 in extending and renovating the premises. Under the direction of the genial boniface the house has attained considerable popularity, and in order to keep pace both with his rapidly increasing connection and with the progressive spirit abroad in
ate in this direction, and this central area become the hub of the city of Perth. On the eastern side of the hotel stand the magnificent commercial premises of Messrs. Boan Brothers’ drapery establishment, to which the proprietors have made large additions, and it is to bring his enterprise into line with these important improvements that Mr. Guilfoyle has determined to erect a new and palatial hotel in keeping with the general aspect of the adjacent buildings, and which shall add its own quota to the architectural
struction of which is now being undertaken, and which will undoubtedly lead to a great influx of visitors from the Eastern States, has brought home to Mr. Guilfoyle’s progressive mind the necessity of a really first-class hotel where tourists and others may secure all those modern comforts which the traveller of the twentieth century expects to find in the capital cities of the world. The projected tramway-line along Murray Street will lead to a convergence of traffic in this direction, and its advantage in width should lead to its becoming
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Mr. J.
public and private enterprise, Mr. Guilfoyle has decided to launch out on a still more extended scale. In 1911 the Commonwealth Government selected for the site of the new post office building and Government offices that block of land adjoining the Australian Hotel, and reaching from Wellington to Murray Streets, where in due course handsome buildings will be erected for Government purposes at an outlay of many thousands of pounds. With the completion of these important structures there can be no doubt that the general stream of traffic will gravit-
Guilfoyle'S Australian Hotel. Murray Street,
value of the quarter of the metropolis which it graces. It is intended that the new hotel shall be known under the old and time-honoured name of the Australian Hotel, which was selected in the first place by the proprietor with a view to its national significance and also to the importance of having a title which might be recalled with ease by visitors to the Western Australian State. The close proximity of the Perth Railway Station, which at no distant date will immensely increase in importance as he western terminus of the great Transcontinental Railway, the con-
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the main thoroughfare of the metropolis. Mr. Guilfoyle’s property is freehold, and to make way for the proposed new hotel the old structure will be entirely demolished, and in its place will rise a fine building ot five storeys, in addition to a basement 10 feet deep. This erection will have a frontage of 52 feet to Murray Street with a depth of 157 feet. Entrance will be gained from the latter street by a broad inviting hallway, from which an imposing staircase will lead to the upper floors. Three electric lifts will be installed, one to be entirely reserved for the use of
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guests, a second for the management and the staff, while the third will be utilized for the handling of goods. On the ground floor, but entirely apart from the residential side of the house, will be situated the bars, handsomely fitted out and stocked with the finest variety of liquors obtainable. The basement will be devoted to a bond store and a free
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. John Guilfoyle.
store, and in its cool recesses the stock will find suitable storage. The drawing-rooms will be on the first floor, luxuriously furnished and appointed, likewise sitting-rooms and a number of bedrooms; while the second, third, and fourth floors will comprise solely sitting-rooms and bedrooms. On the fifth floor an interesting innovation for Australia will be made. Here at the rear of the building is to be installed the kitchen, which will be fitted with gas-stoves and coal ovens and the hundred and one utensils and requisites necessary to the preparation of the present-day menu, an arrangement which will banish all objectionable odours. To the front of the fifth floor and extending the whole length of the building will be the dining-room, appointed on Continental lines with tables for two or more up to a dozen, while a special table d’hote will be available for the professional and commercial men of the city. The room will be handsomely decorated and furnished, and the t^ble napery, cutlery, and china will be the finest of their kind. For guests desiring to dine privately four rooms will be set aside on the other
floors, and these will be served by means of a dumb waiter. There will be a garden roof covered with granolithic, where in the summer months guests will be able to inhale the life-giving breezes which wend their way inland from the broad expanses of the Indian Ocean. Smoke-rooms will be available for gentlemen, and .every floor except the fifth will have its own bathrooms, beautifully finished in tiles and white enamel and provided with hot and cold water and all conveniences. The lavatories will be in keeping with all the rest of the establishment and will leave nothing to be desired in their appurtenances. The kitchen staff will occupy apartments on the top floor, and the services will be secured of a first-class chef, who will have a suite of rooms adjoining the kitchen. The handsome scheme of decoration and furnishing will embody the most modern ideas, and in order that the consummation of the whole project may lack nothing to render it second to none in the Commonwealth Mr. Guilfoyle shortly intends to take a trip to England, the Continent, and America, where the great hotels of the older countries will receive his special attention, and all that arrests him as worthy of imitation or modification to suit the exigencies of our southern clime will be incorporated into his plans for the great enterprise. In the erection of the hotel Mr. Guilfoyle is making every allowance for the possibilities of the future, and the colossal nature of the undertaking proves how strong is his faith in the ultimate development of the Western Australian State. The fapade of the building, which will comprise about 180 rooms in all, will be a handsome design in cement, and to some extent will be made to harmonize with the frontage of Messrs. Boan Brothers’ great emporium, adjacent to the hotel. JOHN GUILFOYLE is a son of the late Mr. Michael Guilfoyle, of Scarriff, County Clare, Ireland, and was born at that place on September 27, 1858. He received his education in Whitegate School, County Galway, under Mr. Quirk, and at fourteen years of age went on his father’s farm, where he became acquainted with all the practical side of farming. Before attaining his majority he left the place of his nativity and came to Western Australia in company with a younger brother, Mr. Michael Guilfoyle, of Perth. His first employment was found on the railway line, which
was then in course of construction between Champion Bay (now Geraldton) and Northampton, his duty being to take charge of the explosives which were used in connection with such work. Two years-later he became attached to the sawmilling trade in Jarrahdale, and afterwards joined the staff employed in the construction of the railway between Fremantle and Guildford and thence on to York. After some time in the service of the Government Railways Department, in 1885 he resigned this connection and took over the Victoria Hotel on Melbourne Road, which business he conducted for four years, giving it up to open in business as a general contractor. For three years he carried on this business in Perth, and erected many of the early cottage, homes round about the metropolis. In 1892 Mr. Guilfoyle was approached by Mr. Charles McNess with a suggestion to apply for an hotel licence for what was then the Oddfellows’ Hall in Murray Street, and thus he ultimately became the proprietor of his present successful house, the “Australian,” which is-now one of the best known and leading hotels in the State. After two. years Mr. Guilfoyle relinquished the personal conduct of the business
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Mr. W. T. Guilfoyle.
and took a contract from the Government to erect a telegraph line between Beverley and Broome Hill. This completed he embarked on an enterprise of purchasing stock, provisions, and general merchandise in the Perth markets, and transporting
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them to the new goldfields of Cool-gardie and Kalgoorlie which were then being opened up. Having successfully tendered for the Government mail service of Fremantle he carried on in this line for three years, and in 1902 again took over the management of the hotel, which he had leased for eight years. Under Mr. Guilfoyle’s able supervision the popularity of his house rapidly increased, and arangements are now being completed by which the hotel will be reconstructed at a cost of about £18,000. Mr. Guilfoyle is a member of the Celtic and Tatter-sail’s Clubs, Perth, and is a supporter of most manly outdoor diversions. In 1885 he married Mary Ann, daughter of the late Mr. William Carr, of Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, and has six sons ■and a daughter surviving. His ■eldest son secured the B.A. degree at Oxford, and is now a medical student at Middlesex Hospital, London, while the second is connected with him in the business.
HENRY GREVILLE, Metropolitan Hotel, Perth, is a son of the late Mr. Henry Greville, of Shankill Castle, County Dublin, Ireland, and Warwick Castle, England. He was born at Ballarat, Victoria, on March 17, 1872, and received his scholastic
Bartletto, Berth.
Mr. Henry Greville.
training in his native city and at Echuca and Melbourne, where he started his commercial career. He gained a valuable experience in the catering business in Victoria and
took control of some of the leading concerns of the kind in that State before leaving for Western Australia in 1896. The establishment of a business on similar approved lines at the Murchison soon spread his reputation in the rising country, and a subsequent ten years at Kalgoorlie and Boulder placed him among the leading business men on the goldfields. He was instrumental in forming the syndicate in which he is still largely interested, which built the Cremorne Gardens, the Stadium, and other places of public amusement in the gold-mining centres, and purchased the lease of the Duke of Cornwall Hotel at Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie, the proprietorship of which he retains at the present time. Coming to Perth in 1903 Mr. Greville at once secured the contract for catering for the Western Australia Turf Club, and subsequently he took over the lease of the Metropolitan Hotel, Hay Street, and by his first-class conduct of the business is now doing perhaps the largest hotel trade in Western Australia. The gentleman under review is a strong supporter of the mining industry and has large interests in various developing propositions all over the State, particularly on the Yilgarn, where he is the largest shareholder in the Lady Edeline Gold Mine. He is well known as a sporting man and holds membership in the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Racing Clubs, Tattersall’s, the Western Australian Turf Club, and the Hunt Club, and is Vice-President of the Mandurah Hunt Club and of the Boulder City Football Club. Mr. Greville married Olga, daughter of Mr. Alfred Martins, of Bendigo, and has a son and two daughters.
CHRISTIAN FREDERICK MOURITZEN, of the Perth Hotel, is a son of the late Mr. John Mour-itzen, of Copenhagen, Denmark, in which town the subject of our notice was born in 1862. Until the age of nineteen he pursued a varied course of study in his native place, where he completed his scholastic and technical education. He became a student of architecture at the well-known Technical College at Copenhagen and obtained the medal for efficiency. After three years in this institution he proceeded to South Africa, where he spent a couple of years in the railway service of that country At the end of that period
he set sail for Australia, and landing at Queensland proceeded straight to Charters Towers, from which centre he engaged in the practice of his profession and carried out some large contracts. About this time the Croydon goldfield was discovered, and Mr. Mouritzen following the rush erected a saw-mill in the vicinity of the find and took contracts for the supply of milled timber for the mines. Tiring of this occupation, he left Northern Queensland and paid a visit to the southern portion of the State, where he continued for a few
Bartletto, Perth.
Mr. Christian Frederick Mouritzen.
months. In the early part of 1892 he came to Western Australia and entered the Civil Service as draughtsman, subsequently being promoted to Inspector of Works in the Architectural Division. Having served about seven years in this department he resigned and entered once more upon contracting work, and supervised the erection of various important buildings, among which may be mentioned the large Government Printing Offices in Murray Street. In 1901 Mr. Mouritzen took over the lease of the Federal Hotel at Fremantle. In 1907 he revisited the land of his birth, returning to Australia in 1909. He next, in conjunction with Mr. Jolly, purchased the Perth Hotel, of which he is now the sole proprietor, his partner having retired in 1911. Mr. Mouritzen is a man of many and varied interests, and has lately purchased a sheep-run at Burracoppin which bids fair to become a very profitable investment. He has also a large stake in the mining industry in the Yilgarn dis-
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trict. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Mount Lawley Bowling Club. In 1887 he married Jenny, daughter of the late Mr. Peter Berg, of Copenhagen, and has a family of two sons and two daughters.
The ROYAL HOTEL, situated at the corner of Wellington and William Streets, Perth, within a stone’s throw of the Central Railway Station, is a handsome brick structure two storeys high. Its central situation makes it very popular with visitors from the various agricultural centres of the State, and this attrac-tion is enhanced by the excellent t r e a tm ent they receive during the period, long or short, of their stay.
The hotel contains 53 bedrooms, with three reception-rooms on the first floor and smokeroom and diningroom on the ground floor.
The furnishings are elaborate and in good taste, all is spotlessly clean throughout, and a sense of comfort pervades the whole atmosphere. The house is fitted with the most modern conveniences, among other advantages hot and cold water being always obtainable, and the yard has been completely covered with granolithic pavement. The domestic arrangements are entirely in the hands of Mrs. Jones, who is an adept in ministering to the requirements of her guests. The cuisine is under her direct supervision, and everything possible is done to make the hotel “a home from home.” There are three bars, and only the very best liquors are kept in stock. A special feature xxa
in connection with the wholesale department is the delivery of orders direct to the home. W I LL I A M HENRY JONES, the proprietor, has had considerable experience in the hotel trade. He is a South Australian, having been born at Salisbury, in that State, on March 16, 1865, and is a son of Mr. Thomas Jones, of Somerset, England, now resident at Geraldton. At the close of his schooldays he entered the office of Mr. W. L. Dickson, of Port Adelaide, with whom he remained for four and a half years. He then came to Western Australia, arriving in 1886, and for about four years filled the position of purser on ves-
sels of the Adelaide Steamship Company running between Albany and Port Darwin. 'He then joined the firm of Tolley & Co., wine and spirit merchants, being their nor’-west representative for twelve months, during which time he gained a thorough knowledge of the great nor’-west and subsequently took over the management of the Geraldton Hotel, which he retained for three years. In partnership with Mr. J. Inglis he carried on the Freemasons’ Hotel for five years, a period followed by eighteen months at the Club Hotel, when he purchased Mr. Inglis’ interest in the Miners’ Arms Hotel at Peak Hill. After conducting this
house for sixteen months Mr. Jones sold out and came to Perth. In the metropolis he conducted successively the Globe Hotel and the Grand Hotel (now the Hotel Perth), and then purchased the lease of the Royal Hotel, over which he now presides. Shortly after he entered into possession the present handsome building was erected—a considerable addition to the architecture of the city. Mr. Jones has been a member of the Perth Roads Board for eighf. years and is connected with the Masonic fraternity, his mother lodge being the Geraldton Lodge, No. 3, W.A.C. He is a Past President of the Board of Benevolence and is now Hon. Treasurer of the Perseverance Lodge, No. 45, W.A.C., and Past First Principal of the Perth Royal Arch Chapter. He was the founder of football at Geraldton and for four years was playing Captain of his team, besides which he took a leading part in sporting matters there and was a popular townsman. He married for the second time in 1895, his present wife being Rose Anna, daughter of the late Mr. George Simpson, of Geraldton, by whom he has two sons. By his first marriage he had issue a son.
MICHAEL MULCAHY, of the National Hotel, Fremantle, is a son of the late Mr. Daniel Mulcahy, of Kingswell, Tipperary, Ireland, where also he was bom on October 31, 1862. His education, com-
menced at Tipperary, was concluded in Limerick under the tuition of
Photo by C. E. Farr.
Mr. W H. Jones' Royal hotel, corner Wellington and William Streets, Perth.
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Messrs. Fitzgerald and O’Grady, noted for their success in training students for the Civil Servioe of Ireland. Leaving school he assisted his father in stock-dealing pursuits in Ireland for three or four years, and in 1885 came to Queensland, where he settled on the Darling Downs for a short time and considerably enlarged his knowledge of stock. Mr. Mulcahy next spent two and a half years on “Alice Downs Station,” 12 miles distant from Blackall, and owned by the Messrs. Whittingham Brothers, and here he gained an insight into the general management of sheep, cattle, and horses as handled on an Australian station. The opportunity having arisen to take a large fencing contract on “Broadmeare Station,” near Taroom, on the Dawson, he accepted it, and upon the completion of this work proceeded to Brisbane, where he entered the Telegraph Department for a time. With a view of acquainting himself with the hotel business, he spent nearly three years in the Imperial, Royal, and Queensland Club Hotels in Brisbane, but being attracted by the mineral discoveries of Western Australia left Queensland in 1892 and proceeded via Perth to
the Murchison goldfields, where he spent some time prospecting round the Nannine district. Returning to Perth he was among the first to find his way to Coolgardie upon the report of the rich find in that locality, and followed all the subsequent rushes with considerable success. In 1892 Mr. Mulcahy joined his brother, Mr. Daniel Mulcahy, who, a year subsequently, had nurchased an interest in the Commercial Hotel, Fremantle, and prospered in the hotel-keeping trade. The brothers afterwards assumed proprietorship of several thriving hotel businesses, and also entered into pastoral pursuits in the Murchison district as joint proprietors of “Milly Milly Station,” the area of which exceeds one and a half million acres. The Messrs. Mulcahy continued in partnership in these varied enterprises until 1911, when by mutual consent the connection was dissolved, the gentleman under review retaining the sole ownership of the National Hotel, Fremantle. This is one of the best-known houses in the port, the premises being of a palatial character and the catering and general management (under Mr. F. T. Farrelly) bearing a first-class reputation. In 1912 Mr. Mulcahy
took a lease of the Shamrock Hotel, Hay Street, Perth. He is a prominent figure in sporting circles in Western Australia and has owned horses of the best blood, one noted performer being “Bete Noire” by “Haut Brion” (imp.) — “Spite” (imp.) At the present time (1911) he has two very promising yearling colts in “Old Tipperary” and “New Tipperary,” by “Positano” from “Bete Noire” and “ ’Frisco Queen.” He also owns the brood mare “Lady Flo,” which at time of writing is in
Sartletto, Perth.
Mb. Michael Mulcahy.
foal to the successful South Australian sire “Pistol” (imp.) by “Carbine.” The national characteristic of patriotism is very strongly developed in Mr. Mulcahy, and no movement for the betterment of Ireland is carried on without his generous support. He is a life member of the Celtic Club, Perth, and was one of the founders of this popular institution. In 1898 he married in Donohill, Ireland, Margaret, daughter of Mr. Timothy Cranley, of Gurtnacoola, in Tipperary, and has four daughters and two sons.
HOTEL MELVILLE, Apple-cross. Few hotels in the Australian Commonwealth can boast of a panorama such as greets the eye from the gentle slopes of the Peninsula, the crown of which is taken up with the fine pile of buildings familiarly known as the Hotel Melville. From the spacious verandahs facing the western reaches of the Swan magnificent vistas unroll themselves in all
Photo by C. Tj. "Farr.
Mr M. Mulcahvs National Hotel. Fremantle.
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directions, and when the eye has satiated itself with the entrancing river views it can turn to the beautiful woodland scenery which runs for miles inland, only to lose itself in the hills and valleys of the distant Darling Ranges. Across the beautiful translucent bosom of Melville Bay the frowning cliffs of King’s Park rear themselves, while to the north the spires and rooftops of the city of Perth conspire to make the scene one of almost Oriental grandeur. On the left hand Lucky Bay opens out in glorious vistas, which in turn give way to wooded banks, the softening hues of which are a source of endless delight to the roving eye. Around the eastern corner flows the sluggish Canning River, with its manifold glimpses of kaleidoscopic beauty, the whole presenting a scene of incomparable loveliness. The structure which now does service as the hotel was originally intended as a summer residence for Governor Sir Arthur Lawley, but in the end was not used for that purpose. This was in 1902, and some time later, it having been decided to use the premises as an hotel, a licence was obtained and extensive alterations and additions made to bring the building into line with the most up-to-date requirements. The Hotel Melville embraces some forty rooms in all, thirty being devoted to bedrooms, and is one of the finest and best-appointed residential hotels in the Commonwealth. The building is handsomely furnished, is well lighted by acetylene
to tne goidhelds and country residents impart new life. The bracing air and the multiplicity of other advantages tend to render the Hotel Melville one of the finest riverside
resorts in the Commonwealth. The dining-room is capable of seating 100 people, and comfortable drawing, reading, and smoking-rooms are available to visitors. The spacious grounds surrounding the hotel are largely availed of by picnic parties, Applecross being a popular rendezvous with Westralians. In the summer months concerts are held on the lawn every Sunday evening, and on the evenings of all holidays, and a
the yachting and swimming carnivals and motor-boat races during the season. The domestic arrangements of the Hotel Melville are in the capable hands of Mrs. Evans, and under her
excellent supervision nothing is wanting. A splendid table is kept, the menu being prepared by a first-class chef. A vegetable garden is cultivated, ensuring a plentiful supply for table uses, and a cow is also kept. The sanitary arrangements are most complete, a septic tank having been installed and water laid on throughout the establishment. The bar is heavily stocked with the best liquors and spirits, and
Photo by C. E. Farr.
General View of hotel Melville from Melville Water.
gas, and stands in its own grounds, comprising 7 acres. The walks and drives which lead up to this picturesque hotel afford in themselves relief to the jaded city dweller and xxa2
first-class programme is provided by the best local artists. Swimming, boating, and fishing may be indulged in ad lib., while many a pleasant hour may be whiled away watching
the general management, in the hands of Mr. Richard Evans, the proprietor, leaves nothing to be desired. Billiards also may be indulged in, two of Alcock’s tables
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being provided for the purpose. The Hotel Melville may be reached either by road or river, the former mode of transit providing a most enjoyable drive of about seven miles, via the Causeway. The distance by river is five miles, and a regular service of speedy motor-boats is always available, the journey occupying less than thirty minutes. A telephone service is also available, the hotel being linked with the Perth Exchange via Applecross.
HOTEL CONTINENTAL, Claremont. This well-known and popular hotel is situated on the banks of the Swan River, about midway between Perth and Fremantle, the driving distance from the metropolis being about six miles. It is a two-storey building constructed of solid brick and stone, and stands on its own grounds, which cover an area of four acres. From the balconies, which overlook Freshwater Bay, a magnificent view may be commanded of the fine river reach extending from Peppermint Grove on the west to Apple-cross and Point Walter in a southeasterly direction. The approach is made attractive by the presence of a large and well-kept lawn, with borders of luxuriant floral growth, and cyprus-trees of thick and heavy foliage afford a grateful shade from the fierce rays of the sun during hot summer days. The interior contains about thirty-five bedrooms, with two
sitting-rooms, drawing-room, smoke-room, and a large dining-room with seating capacity for eighty-five persons. Adjacent to the hotel and situated in the grounds is a bungalow for the use of married people with families, where the accommodation
Mb. Thomas Dijnn.
comprises ten bedrooms, a lounge, and sitting-room. The entire hotel recently has been renovated and refurnished throughout on a sumptuous and lavish scale, special attention being paid to artistic effect, while every detail necessary to personal comfort has been considered, the result being satisfactory in the highest
degree. In the rear of the main building about an acre of ground has been applied to the cultivation of vegetables, fruit-trees, and vines, the products of which keep the table bountifully supplied with fresh fruit and garden stuffs. There is also a large and airy fowl-run, while an adjoining paddock provides ample pasture for the cow, from which wholesome supplies of milk are obtained for the use of the house. The table appointments and cuisine are of excellent quality and agreeably varied, cleanliness being the keynote throughout, and the whole domestic menage is under the supervision of Mrs. Dunn, who overlooks nothing which may minister to the comfort of her guests. The stable and motor accommodation is large and well-arranged, and a new motor-car for the convenience of hotel residents is liberally patronized by the many guests who have given the hotel its premier reputation in the metropolitan area either as a permanent residence or a holiday resort. Recreation of a diversified nature may be obtained in the vicinity of the hotel, the river affording splendid facilities for swimming, boating, etc., whilst tennis and other sports may be indulged in within easy distance. The Hotel Continental recently had been taken over and is now under the proprietorship of Mr. Thomas Dunn, late of St. George’s Terrace, Perth, who for over twenty years has been well known in Western Australia as the successful conductor of the business of Messrs. Dunn & Co., carriers, of Perth.
JAMES JOSEPH HAGERTY, of “Quamby,” Bernard Street, Claremont, was born at Quamby, Tasmania, on April 6, 1869, being a son of the late Mr. Patrick Hagerty, of County Cork, Ireland. He received his education at the State School in his native village and at the age of thirteen went to work on his father’s farm, since which period he has devoted the greater part of his life to agricultural and pastoral pursuits. At twenty-five years of age he left the “Apple State,” determined to avail himself of the possibilities offering in the Golden West, where for nearly three years he turned his hand to various kinds of work. Eventually Mr. Hagerty settled down on the eastern goldfields, and in partnership with Mr. S. Bryan carried on the business of
Mr. T. Dunn’s Hotel Continental, Claremont.
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condensing water for the miners and general public before the water supply scheme to the fields was consummated. Upon the completion of this system about five years later, in 1893, he left the mining districts and purchased a farm at Cuballing, and has continued the development of this property almost up to the present time, devoting his energies to mixed farming pursuits. In 1911 he disposed of this estate and is now living in retirement at Claremont, but he still retains a large landed interest round the Kellerberrin and Quairading districts, and owns an hotel in the latter place, the first in the settlement, which was erected by him some three years ago. For many years Mr. Hagerty was a lead-
Bartletto, Perth.
Me. James Joseph Hagerty.
ing member of the Irish National Foresters and is a member of the Celtic Club of Perth. Mr. Hagerty married in the year 1904 Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Murphy, of Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
ANSELL FREECORNE, “Aber-feldie,” West Perth, was born at Misckowie, Poland, on the first day of the Jewish new year in 1849, and is a son of the late Mr. Joseph Free-corne, of that place. He was educated in his native country, but while yet in his early teens, owing to the death of both parents, was thrown upon his own resources and proceeded to London, where he spent some years in acquiring the language.
In 1880 he emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and went to work at the tailoring trade, which he had learned while in London. After five years in the Mother State he came to Western Australia, arriving in Perth in August, 1885. Here he established a tailoring business, and was the first merchant in the western metropolis to place a plateglass window in his shop. For fifteen years he carried on in this line, and retired in 1900 after a successful business career. Mr. Freecorne has always been a keen investor, and has shown his faith in the possibilities of his adopted State by placing all his investments in Western Australia. He has large landed interests all over the city and suburbs and at Esperance, and among other profitable ventures was the purchase of ground at Claremont, upon which he built the Continental Hotel about fifteen years ago—now one of the most picturesque hostels in the State. Mr. Freecorne gives his generous support to all charitable institutions, and is known in connection with various public movements. He was one of the founders of the Helena Vale Race Club, and acted on the committee of that organization for some years. In 1884 he married Joan, daughter of the late Mr. W. Allister, of Dunfermline, Scotland, and has a son and three daughters.
WILLIAM CLAUDE WITTE was born at Fremantle, Western Australia, on February 9, 1885, being a son of the late Carl Witte, of Hamburg, Germany, who died soon after his arrival in this State, at which period the gentleman under review was in his early infancy. Mr. W. C. Witte received his scholastic training at the Christian Brothers’ College and the Scotch College, Perth, and at nineteen years of age entered the Imperial Service by joining the clerical division at the Royal Mint in the same city. A couple of years later he' turned his attention to pastoral pursuits, and in order to obtain experience proceeded to the Nor’-West, where he spent some time on various stations in that district. In 1907 he purchased a property comprising 4,500 acres on the Arthur River in the South-West, and carried on mixed farming pursuits for about two years, when he received an advantageous offer and decided to dispose of his interests in the estate. He has since passed his time in
travelling, and has visited all the States of the Commonwealth during the past two or three years. Though taking a warm interest in most forms of sport, his special attention has been given to rowing, and for three years he represented Western Australia in the Eastern States as a member of the Interstate Eights. He has been winner of many trophies, his first triumphs dating back to the days when, as a lad at school, he showed his prowess with the oars on the blue waters of the Swan. He is a member of the Western Australian Hunt Club, and a recognized follower of the hounds, his fondness for horses leading him to those haunts where our equine friends occupy pride of place. In 1908 Mr. Witte married Grace, daughter of Mr. R. A. Friedrich, of Perth, Western Australia, and has one daughter.
ANDREW MALCOLM McKNIGHT was born at Maryport, England, on January 21, 1868, and educated at the Oakbank School, Glasgow. He gained his first insight of commercial work with the firm of Robert Kirk, family grocers, etc., at a later date becoming associated with his father in the grocery business. In 1888 he came to South Australia and found employment with the firm of Huddle-stone & Co., grocers, of North Adelaide, but soon he proceeded to the "Silver City,” where he spent three years as manager for Walsh & Sons. Leaving Broken Hill he added to his store of experience during the next two years, and in 1896 wended his way to Western Australia. For the ensuing four years he held a number of positions with various firms, finally accepting the position of wholesale traveller to the New South Wales Fresh Food and Ice Company at Perth, which he filled for five years, when he transferred his services to the well-known firm of Henry Berry & Co. In the municipal life of the district in which he resides Mr. McKnight has always evinced a keen interest, and in 1910 was elected to represent South Ward in the local council. He makes a study of all matters affecting the welfare of the municipality, and is a strong supporter of all movements tending to its advancement. The Masonic community claims him as a member, and he was the first Secretary to the Commercial Travellers’ Lodge of Western Australia. He married in 1899, and has a son and a daughter.
THE CITY MEWS LIVERY AND BAIT STABLES, 876, Hay Street, Perth. Proprietor, J. W. Croasdale. This well-known business was established in the year 1905, the original premises occupied being located in William Street, and from a small beginning has grown to its present dimensions, which entitle it to premier position among similar business enterprises in Perth City. From its inception the firm obtained a strong hold upon public patronage, and in a very little while the proprietor was compelled to seek larger quarters. For this purpose the site in Hay Street (opposite the Star Skating Rink) was secured, and on it was erected the present commodious and convenient headquarters, which were taken possession of in January, 1906. This central position has enabled Mr. Croasdale satisfactorily to cope with the requirements of the travelling public, and as a result his business connection has steadily expanded as year succeeded year. The equipment is extensive and complete in ail the details necessary to maintain the well-earned reputation of the stables as the depot of stylish and up-to-date turnouts. The plant comprises four waggonettes, two victorias, two landaus, two broughams, one hansom (all of which are fitted with rubber tyres), and a drag capable of seating twenty-four persons. The horses, nine in number, are stabled in roomy boxes, and their well-groomed coats and healthy appearance indicate the attention which has been given to their welfare. To meet the demand for faster means of transit Mr. Croasdale in February, 1911, purchased two 20-h.p. “Ford”
Photo by C. TS. Parr.
Mr. J. W Croasdale’S 30-h.p. E.M.F. Motor Car.
Bartletto, Perth.
Mb. John William Croasdale.
Victoria, he settled in Western Australia, which he now looks upon as his adopted State. In 1912, finding his health in an indifferent state, Mr. Croasdale took a trip to England, leaving his business under the control of his son John, who for some time past has actively assisted in the management of the concern.
motor-cars, an innovation which met with considerable favour amongst his patrons. Subsequently he disposed of one of the “Fords' ’ arid purchased two 30-h.p. “E.M.F.” motor-
reputation for its reliable and punctual attention to engagements, and the whole concern is conducted on such business-like lines as are bound to ensure its continual success and
Landau from the City Mews Livery Stables.
cars, and these powerful and comfortably-upholstered cars are available to the public both day and night at the ruling rate of Is. per mile, while for long distances special terms may be arranged. Expert chaffeurs are provided and the comfort of travellers is considered to the last degree. The vehicles sent out by the firm are perfectly equipped, and none but thoroughly capable men are em-played as drivers. A specialty is made of arrangements for weddings and similar occasions and theatre and picnic parties are also catered for. “The City Mews” bears an enviable
popularity. JOHN WILLIAM CROASDALE, the proprietor, is a native of Lancashire, England, and came to Australia in 1892. After spending two years in Melbourne,
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
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Abbott, Captain J. 666 Bon Ton Limited
Abrahamson, Captain J. G. 725 Bowra, W. C. ...
Adams, A. 693 Boxall, W.
Addenbrooke, J. B. ... 575 Bradley, B. T.
Albany Bell 740 Bradshaw, T. ...
Aldrich, F 513 Brady, R. E. ...
Alexander, S. B. 649 Braidwood, Councillor D. H.
Allen, F. B., M.A., B.Sc 488 Brebber, J.
Allen, F. B., M.A. 489 Brennan, Councillor J. C.
Allen, J. F 566 Brennan, J.
Allnutt, E. 719 Brennan, The House of
Anderson, A. ... 693 Briggs, Hon. H., M.L.C.
Anderson, J. T., L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.F.P.S. 520 Briggs, H. F. ...
Andrews, C. R. P., M.A 488 Brimage, T. F. O.
Angwin, Hon. W. C., M.L.A. 323 Broadbent, H.
Ardagh, Hon. R. S., M.L.C. 324 Brockway, W. St. C.
Arnold, Councillor W. J. ... 558 Broomhall, J. J.
Atkins, L. F. 649 Brophy, Inspector M. H.
Atkinson, R. C. E., M.A., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Broun, F. T., M.L.A.
F.R.I.P.H 524 Brown, A. W.
Australian Hotel, The 760 Brown, Councillor D.
Brown, H.
Baker & Moore 734 Brown, W.
Baker, Councillor G. C. 559 Brown, W. B. ...
Barker, H. G. ... 719 Browne, W. H. M. ...
Barlee, A. H. ... 426 Brownlie, J.
Barrett, P. J. 557 Bruning, Councillor B. D.
Bartlett, N. S. 435 Buchanan, Major W. M., Y.D.
Bartletto Studios, The 752 Burke, U. W.
Bateman, G. A. 756 Burkett, G. W.
Bateman, J. & W. ... 685 Burnside, Hon. R. B.
Bath, Hon. T. H., M.L.A. ... 319 Burt, A. E., R.M.
Battye, J. S., B.A., LL.B. ... 532 Burt, A. E
Battye, Major C. 400 Burt, O., I.S.O.
Beasley, H. 499 Butcher, W. J.
Beatty, T. J. ... 382 Butt, Councillor L. R.
Bell, Albany 740 Biittner, Captain A. R. W.
Bennett, S. 614 Buzacott, Senator R.
Bentley, J., M.B., Ch.B 520
Bertoli, U. E. 751
Bessell-Browne, Major A. J., D.S.O. ... 402 Cameron, A. D.
Bevilaqua, H. W. 748 Campbell, J. R.
Bird, A. G 621 Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel J
Birks, A. N 606 Campbell, Major J. ...
Black, E. A. 432 Campbell, T. C. :..
Blanchard, D. F., L.R.C.P. & S., L.F.P.S. 525 Canning, A. W.
Bleasby, Lieutenant R 471 Cargeeg, G. H.
Blurton, J. C. H. ... 712 Cargeeg, R
Boan Brothers 696 Carpenter, W. H., M.L.A
Boan, H. 697 Carter, Captain F. B.
Boas, H. 633 Carter, Councillor R. B.
Bold, W. E 540 Carter, F. W.
Bolton, H. E., M.L.A. 340 Carter, T
Bon Marche, The, Limited ... 700 Cavanagh & Cavanagh
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738
754
747
649
699
576
541
749
548
703
702
324
576
334
546
562
413
528
340
649 564
355
475
476 754
650 559 400 592 713 366 370 481 514
356 541 746 305
630
514
408
409 566 435 704 560 340 405 549 604 664 625
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Cavanagh, J. C. ..................
Chinn, H.................................
Chipper, D. J.
Church, J.
City Mews Livery & Bait Stables, The Clare, Captain C. J., C.M.G.
Clarke, Hon. E. M., M.L.C.
Cleary, Captain A............
Clerk, A.
Clifton, G.
Clifton, J. M.
Clifton, R. C , I S O.
Cogan Brothers . .
Colebatch, Hon H. P., M L.C. .
Collett, F. W.
Collett, Lieutenant-Colonel H B.
Collier, Hon. P., M.L.A. . ...
Collins, W. McR.
Collyer, A. F.
Colonial Mutual Life Assuiance Society, Limited, The Colonial Stores, The Conigrave, J Fairfax Connell, R
Connolly, Hon. J. D., M.L.C.
Connor, Hon. F., M.L C. ....
Connor, J M B Conway, J. T Cooke, Councillor J.
Cooke, F. V. .
Cornell, Hon. J., M L.C. . . . .
Cowan, J., P.M . .... ...
Cox, A. E.
Croasdale, J. W Ctercteko, G. D
Cullen, Hon. J F., M L.C. . . ...
Cumpston, LB. .......
Cumpston, R. S Curlewis, H B
Daglish, H.
Daly, Councillor B.
Darker, J. W.
Davies, D. R., M.A.C.D.
Davis, Hankinson, & Co.
Davis, Hon. F., M L.C.
Dean & Co., E.
De Gruchy, P. J De Largie, Senator H. Dennehy, R. J Despeissis, A. J.
Devenish, Councillor H. A. Devenish, S. B., <& Son Dickson, J. M.
Dodd, Hon J. E., M.L.C Doland, J. A. .
Dooley, B W., M.L A Doscas, Councillor J.
Douglas, Councillor A Douglas, N.
Dowley, E P., R.M.
Downes, R. H. B.
Downey, Councillor W. J. C. Downing, H. P.
Dowson, Lieutenant H Drabble, Councillor W. Drake-Brockman, Major E. A.
Drew, Hon. J. M., M.L.C. PAGE 322
Dufiy, F. J. . 577
Dunn, W. H. 646
Dwyer, W., LL.B., M.L.A. 341
Eagle, R - 382
Bales, J. Herbert 631
Eaton & Lamb 644
Economic Stores Limited 698
Eden, S. D. 601
Edwards, Lieutenant P M. 406
Elder, Shenton, & Co., Limited .. 665
Eliot, L. S., 1.S.0 425
Ellery, Councillor A. 568
Emery, G. 454
Emu Brewery, The 728
Evans, E. A. . . 470
Evans, E. S. 473
Evans, Lieutenant W. D. 569
Everett, Captain R W. 404
Eveiett, Lieutenant G C 406
Eves, G. L . . 617
Ewing, J. 638
Fairbairn, R., l.S.O. .. . . 370
Fairweather, W. 652
Farrar, G. E. . 498
Faulkner, J. . 501
Fielding, C. H , Limited 694
Findlay, A. C 652
Finlay, J . v. 652
Fitzmaurice, J. S. 385
Flintoff, Major T 400
Foley, G. J., M.L A 341
Forbes, R. S 730
Forbes, W J. Waldie 624
Ford, Rhodes, Carter, & Davies ... 642
Forrest, Right Hon. Sir J., P.C., G.C.M.G., LL.D. >
M.H.R 308
Forster, G C. D 601
Foster, Councillor J. C. 541
Fothergill, E. H. 666
Fowler, D. & J., Limited .. 682
Fowler, Hon. J. M., M.H.R. 309
Foxworthy, Lieutenant J. H. 645
Foy & Gibson Proprietary Limited 695
Franklin, Councillor J. T. . . 541
Fraser, Hon. C E., M.P 310
Fraser, M. A. C. 515
Freecorne, A. . 767
Gale, C. F 515
Gamble, R. A. 653
Gardiner, J. P., M.L.A. . . . 342
Garland, Captain R. R. 404
Gawler, Hon. D. G., M L.C 326
George, Councillor J. 542
George, W. J., M.L.A. 342
Gibbs, H. D 475
Gibson, Councillor S. 542
Gill, F., M.L.A 342
Glaskin, J. S. . 635
Glide, J. L . 704
Glover, A. W. . 620
Glyde, G. F 433
PAGE
627
478
754
680
768
389
324
721
753
480
414
431
707
325
608
398
320
644
680
616
688
662
527
325
325
441
431
549
445
326
367
628
768
709
326
634
731
376
356
550
499
601
650
326
608
384
305
632
442
571
751
414
322
335
341
564
560
469
369
632
560
592
471
563
401
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
773
PAGE
Glyde, S. S................................ • • 722
Good, F. D.......................................... 373
Gordon, A. T. M.................................... 420
Gracie, J. H........ . • ••• ••• 730
Green, A. .......... .. ... 375
Green, A. E., M.L.A................................. 343
Green, W. J......................................... 756
Gregory, Hon. H. ... .. . 357
“Greig” ..................................706
Greville, H................................ . 762
Guilfoyle, J. ... ... ... .. . 761
Guthrie, H................ ... 653
Gwynne, L. H. ... ... ... ... .. . 472
Hackett, Sir J. W., M.A., LL.D., M L C 327, 583
Hagerty, J. J. ... . . . . . . 766
Haines, 0. L., & Co. ... . . ... . 643
Hall, C. E. S.................................... . 750
Hamersley, Hon. V , M.L.C. 327
Hampton, H. G. 479
Hankinson, F. W. 651
Hann, H. . . . 516
Harald & Co. . . . . . . . . . . 708
Hardman, R. ... . .. .. 380
Hardy, H. T........................................ .636
Hare, Captain F. A. .... 527
Harper, C. ... . . . 561
Harper, N. W., M.L.A. . . . . 343
Harrison, P. W. ... . 623
Harris, Scarfe, George P., & Co., Limited . 676
Hatswell, C. H.......................................653
Hawke, G. R. W...................................... 501
Hawkins, J., & Son ... ..... . 654
Hawtin, J. V. . . 501
Hayes, E. J. . . . 729
Haynes, A. R., M.B., Ch.M. . 598
Haynes, Hon. S. J. . . . .. 335
Haynes, R. S., K.C. . .. .593
Healy, Councillor J. . . 550
Hoarder, Councillor D. ... ... . 568
Hedges, W. N., M.H R. . . 310
Heitmann, E. E., M L.A. ... . . .. 344
Henderson, J. W. . .. .. ... •• 638
Henderson, Senator G. .. 306
Henning, H. McA. . ... . 593
Hevron, P. J. . . ... . . 569
Hewby, A. G. . . ... 446
Hicks, J. S., M.D. (Lond.), L.S.A. 357
Hickson, G. F. . 499
Higham, F. G. 747
Higham, J. J. . 747
Hill, Councillor GW.... . . .564
Hine, J. .630
Hiscox, G. . ... . . .. 570
Hitchcock, J, K. . . 664
Hobbs, J.............................................742
Hobbs, Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. T., V.D., A.D.C. ... 398
Hobbs, Smith, & Forbes . . .. ... . 624
Hocking, H.......... ... ..... . 619
Hocking, S. E. . 590
Holland, Councillor H. J. . 558
Holman, J. B., M.L.A. . 344
Holmes, R. H. ... . 669
Hope, J. W., F.R.C.P 523
Hope, W. H....................................... . 471
Horner, F.......................................... 476
PAGE
Hossack, J. D. . 654
Hotel Continental 766
Hotel Esplanade, The .. 758
Hotel Melville 764
Hotel, The Australian 760
Hotel, The Royal 763
Hourigan & Dempsey 745
Hudson, C. 720
Hudson, C. A., M.L.A. . 345
Humble, The late Major J. A. E. .. 409
Hume, IS. S. ... 468
Humphries, D. G. 725
Irvine, Captain C. J. 720
Irving, Colonel G. G. H ... 397
Jackson, Lieutenant R. E. 407
James, Councillor J. H 565
James, Q. H. . 646
Jamieson, Councillor A. . . 570
Jenkins, Hon. A. G , M.L.C. . . 327
John, G. G. 691
John, The late W T. 553
Johnson, Hon. W D., M.L.A 321
Johnson, The late G. .571
Johnson, W. G. .572
Johnston, E. B., M.L.A. 345
Johnston, G. H. 617
Johnston, H. F. ... . . 434
Jones, Councillor F. . . 551
Jones, W. H. ... . . . 763
Jull, M. E 419
Keane, D. . . 757
Kennedy, W. E. . ... ... 376
Kessell, A. Colenso .. 417
King, H. S 451
Kingsmill, Hon. W., B.A., M L.C. 328
Kirwan, Hon. J W., M.L C. .. 328
Knapp, A. 753
Kopke, F. .. . . 651
Lander, T., M L.A. ... 346
Langsford, J. W. .. 336
Law, R. O. 655
Lawrence, W. C. . . 529
Lawson, F. W. ... 497
Layman, C. H., M.L.A. ... 346
Leane, Captain A. W. ... 405
Lefroy, Hon. H. B., C.M.G., M.L.A. ... 346
Leschen, C. P. J. .. 427
Leslie & Co. . 667
Le Souef, Major E. A. ... 402
Lewis, C. J., M L.A ... 347
Liebe, F. W. G. 655
Light, E E. 469
Lloyd, J. J. 381
Lofthouse, J M 739
Longmore, J. 516
Lynch, Senator P. J. . 306
Lynn, Hon. R. J., M.L.C. .. ... 329
Lyons & Hart ... 744
PAGE
McBean & Deason ... 709
McCormack, W. H. ... 712
McDonald, J. J., M.L.A. . 347
McDowall, C., M.L.A. 348
McGibbon, S. J. 640
McKenzie, Hon. C , M.L.C. 329
McKenzie, Hon. R. D , M L.C. 330
McKnight, A. M . 767
McLaren, F. J. 548
McLarty, E. A. 446
McLarty, Hon E., M.L.C. 330
McLean Brothers & Rigg .. 678
McMahen, J. M. 737
McMaster, Captain R. T. 410
McMillan, Hon. R. F. 365
McNeece & Son, J 635
McNulty,'T. S. . ... 440
Macaulay, S., L.R.C P , L.F.P.S.G., L.M. . 597
Macfarlane & Co., Limited 711
Macnamara, P. G. . . 757
Maddocks, O. S. 412
Mahon, Hon. H., M.H.R. . . 311
Maitland, A. G. 458
Major, S. 714
Makutz, B. 742
Male, A., M.L.A. 348
Manford, Captain F. ... 409
Manford, F., & Co. . 668
Mann, E. A. ... ... 453
Mannering, F. G. 753
Manning, Councillor J. D. ... . 561
Marwick, W. ... . 336
Mason, The late Clayton T., I.S.O 412
Massey, W .. 655
Mathews, C. J. . 453
Matthews, V. J. 672
Mellor, A. J. . . 620
Mills, Captain J. B. . . . . 404
Mills, Lieutenant G. A. .. 411
Mills, Lieutenant W. C. ... 406
Mills, W .. 552
Milner, J. G. ... ... ... 749
Milner, P. H ... 526
Mitchell, Hon. J., M.L.A. .. .. 348
Mizen Bros. ... ... . . ... 656
Mofflin, H. E. ... 562
Molloy, T. G. A. . 539
Monger, F. C., M.L.A. . 349
Montgomery, A., M.A. .. 452
Montgomery, S. H. R , MB, Ch.B. 519
Moody, J. F 440
Moore, Sir N. J., K.C.M.G. 358
Moore, S. J. F., M.L A. 349
Moore, W. D., & Co 684
Morris, C. G. . 431
Morris, W. H. 475
Morrison, Captain J F. . 721
Moseley, F. A 480
Moss, Hon. M. L., K.C., M.L.C. . . 331
Mouritzen, C. F. . . .. x 762
Moxon, W. E.... . . 664
Muir, J. ... 496
Muir, J. C ... 387
Mulcahy, M ... 763
Mullany, J. F., M.L.A .. 349
PAGE
Munro, A. C. . . .. • 670
Munsie, S. W , M.L.A. . . 350
Munt, C. A. . .... 494
Mutton, E. S. ... 389
Nanson, J. L., M.L A . 350
National Bank of Austialasia, Limited, The .. 612
National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, Limited, The . .. ... . . 613
Needham, Senator E .. 307
Neilson, J. . ...... .. 753
Nelson, A. ..... ... 656
Nelson, W. A . . . . 631
Noble, J. H. . . . 594
North, F. D., C M G. .. . ... 513
O’Brien, Hon. B. C , M.L.C. . . 331
O’Brien, P. V. . . . 452
Ochiltree, Councillor J. L. . . . . 542
O’Connor, C Y , C.M.G. . . 495
O’Connor, M , BA, M D , B.Ch., B A.O 597
O’Dea, M . ..755
Odell, W. P. 432
O’Donoghue, J. . . 657
Oldham & Cox . .... 628
Oldham, H. ... .... . . 497
Oliphant, A. M. . . . . . 669
O'Loghlen, P , M.L A . . 350
Ord, D. B. 516
O’Reilly, M. F. . . ... 473
Orr, O. T..............................................413
Otto, M. H. J. . . . ... . .. 646
Owen, E. T .. ... . .. .. 426
Owen, W. Lambden, R.M. ... . ... 369
Padbury, W. .. ...... . ... 689
Paget, 0. F., M.D., B.C................ ... 552
Parker & Co. . . .. .. .. ... 704
Parker, F. R. . . 705
Parker, H. H...........................................567
Parker, Major F. M. W., D.S.0..........................399
Parker, Sir Stephen H........................ ... 365
Parry, G. H. ... . . ... ............ ... 633
Paterson & Co., Limited ... ... ... . . . . 690
Paterson, D. .. ... .. . . . ... 690
Paterson, W. . . 445
Patrick, Hon. W., M.L.C.................................332
Payne, G. F. ... ... ... .. . . .. ... 594
Payne, J. H. . .. . . . . . ... . 681
Pearce, Hon. G. F. ... ... ... ... ... 308
Pearson, J. S. ... ... ... ... ... .. 594
Peet & Co., Limited ....... .. 748
Pennefather, Hon. R W., B.A., LL.B., M.L.C. 332
Peters, W. M. . . .. . . ... . . . 750
Pether, H. J............................................428
Pidgeon, J. . . . ... ...... .. 470
Piercy, F. J. . . . . . ...... .. 571
Piesse, A. E., M.L.A. ... ... ... . ... 351
Piesse, A. N., M.L.A....................................351
Piesse, A. W. ... . . ... .. ... . 381
Piesse, Hon. C. A., M.L.C.............................. 333
Piesse, Lieutenant H. V. ... ...... ... ... 407
Piesse, The late Hon. F. H., C.M.G. .. .. ... 358
Pitman, H. C. . ... . . ... ... ... 657
Platt, H. J.............................................645
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
775
Plummer, F. R. Poole, G. T. ... Porter, J. W. Pottenger, J. G. Price, W., M.L.A. Prockter, H. J. Prout, G. E. ..
Pye, Burkett, & Co.
Quality Shoe Stores Quinlan, Hon. T. F.
Randell, Hon. G.
Randell, S. J.
Randell, W. G.
Rankin, A.
Rankin, Morrison, & Co.
Ratazzi, C. P. L.
Rea, Councillor F. R. I.
Rendall, The late J Reynoldson, W. C.
Richardson, A. It Richardson, C. G.
Richardson, J.
Ridley, B. W.
Ridley, P.
Rigg, H.
Roberts, W. H.
Robertson, Major J E.
Robertson, R. Hope, M A Robertson, W. E.
Robinson, Councillor W. D Robinson, P. F.
Robinson, R. T.
Robinson, W. C.
Robson, Councillor C. H B Roche, Councillor A.
Roe, A. S K , P M.
Rolland, R A.
Rooney, W. J , B.A.
Rooth, Hon. J.
Rosenstamm, B Rowley, H.
Royal Hotel, The
Royal Insurance Co., Limited, The Rudderham, E Rushton, C B Ryan, M.
Samson, L., & Son Sanders, J. D.
Sanderson, Hon. A., M.L.C. Sandover, A.
Saunders, J. R.
Saunders, Lieutenant A. G. Saw & Grimwood, jun.
Saw, W. A...................
Sawkins, Councillor W. . . Sayer, W. F., K.C. . Scaddan, Hon. J., M.L.A. . Scott, A. H.
Scott, James ...
PAGE
Sedgley, F. E. .. 659
Seed, W. P., M R.C.S , LRCP 544
Sewell, H. C. 750
Shafto, T. A . . 545
Shenton, E. . . 558
Sherard, C. A . . . 480
Sherwood, A T. 414
Sherwood, Major T. 408
Shillington, J. . 474
Sholl, R. A., I S 0. . . 380
Short, J. T . .467
Siebenhaar, W. . 517
Simpson, Councillor W. . . . 543
Simpson, E S. 460
Simpson, F. W. 427
Smith & Govder 641
Smith, C. A. 473
Somerville, W. . . 373
Sommers, Hon. C., M.L C. . .... 333
Stang, A . . 595
Steere, F. W. 725
Stevens, F. W B. 721
Stevens, G. P. .. . . . 386
Stewart, Captain J. E. Ferguson 404
Stone, Hon Sir Edward A. 364
Stott & Co ’s Business College 671
Stott, E. C., & Co. . 670
Stow, F. L., LL.D. .. .. 480
Stratford, J. J. . . .. .. 722
Strelitz Bros. . . ... 665
Strelitz, P. ... 595
Strelitz, R. ... 596
Strickland, Lieutenant-Colonel J. C , V.D. 397
Strickland, Sir Gerald, K.C.M.G . 301
Stubbs, B J., M.L.A. . . 352
Stubbs, S., M.L.A. . . . 353
Summerhayes, E .... 625
Sumpton, Councillor W. J . . 551
Sutton, G. L . . .. .. 441
Swan Cake & Biscuit Factory, The 743
Swan, H. G., M L.A . 353
Taggart, H. P. .. 428
Taplin, W R .. 732
Tatham, Councillor J 544
Taylor, G., M L.A. . 353
Taylor, J. H. G. 719
Terry, E. W. . . 729
Thomas, W. L., M.L.A. 354
Thompson, J., B.E 495
Thomson, A 383
Tmdale, J. H. . . . 609
Todd, Captain T. J., D.S O. . 409
Tomkinson, E. H. . 568
Toppin, C S. ... 420
Trethowan, H. C. ... . 500
Troode, E. S. P. . ... 415
Trott, J. D. . . . . . 576
Troy, Hon. M. F., M.L A............... . 338
Tuckfield. Councillor H. J .. ... 563
Turkey, P. J., M.L A 354
Turville, Councillor C. E ... . 566
Underwood, R. H , M.L.A. . . 365
PAGE
604
624
744
616
352
633
645
643
710
359
337
426
562
557
641
594
543
712
502
444
433
657
637
664
470
658
401
489
634
572
570
575
472
551
561
368
498
489
366
'672
545
763
617
658
468
384
681
659
333
663
713
746
618
481
565
479
318
442
659
PAGE PAGE
Vincent, R. P. .. ... ... 544
Vincent, W. H ...................................... 679
Vowles, T.......................................... 382
Walker, C. W....................................... 669
Walker, Hon. T., M.L A. ... . .320
Walsh, H. R................................ . ... 621
Walsh, J................................... . . 660
Walsh, Sub-Inspector J. J. . . 528
Watson, A. . . . . 668
Waugh, E. W. .... 647
Wayman, P. J. 745
Weir, R. E. . 443
West Australian Boot Manufacturing Co., The . 732
Western Australian Bank, The .. . . . . 611
White, Captain A. R. . .. 410
White, D., & Co..................................... 737
White, Lieutenant-Colonel A. T., V.D . 399
White, S. ... . . . ... . .. 648
Whitely, J. F........................................376
Whysall, F...........................................379
Wicken, P. G. . ... . . . .. 432
Wigglesworth, J. . .... .. .. 546
Wilding, Hon. T. H., M.L.C. . . 334
Wilkinson, Captain H. A. F., A D.C. ... 403
Wilkinson, Councillor H. ... 552
Williams, D. E., L.R.C.S. & P. . 524
Williams, H. . • 697
Wills, Geo., & Co. . 672
Wills, G. & R , & Co................................ .674
Willson, G. E.........................................377
Wilson, A. A., M.L.A..................................355
Wilson, Captain T. C. . . . .. ••• 403
Wilson, Hon. F., C.M.G., M.L.A.......................338
Wilson, J. A. C., M.A C.D., D.D S. . . . 600
Wisdom, Major E. A., M.L.A. . . . 355
Withnell, W. G...................................... .573
Witte, W. C. . . 767
Wittenoom, Hon. Sir E. H , K.C M.G., M.L C. ... 334
Wittman Motor Supply Co , Limited 692
Wolf, W. . . 636
Woodward, B. H. .. ... . . 533
Woodward, H. P.............................. . . 459
Wright, A. J., L.D.S. . . 599
Wright, Powell, & Cameron . . 629
Yeo, S. J.......................................... .620
Young, G. M............................... . . 471
Zimpel, W. .. •• • ■ 735
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