Mr Donald Stewart FRASER (1895 - 1965)**

Date of Birth: 01/01/1895 Place of Birth: Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia Date of Death: 20/08/1965 Place of Death: Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 19 Jan 1953 5 Feb 1962 9yr(s) 18day(s) Member for Gordon 19 Jan 1953 6 Feb 1956 3yr(s) 19day(s) 37th (1953 - 1956) Member for Gordon 10 Feb 1956 16 Feb 1959 3yr(s) 7day(s) 38th (1956 - 1959) Member for Gordon 20 Feb 1959 5 Feb 1962 2yr(s) 11mth(s) 17day(s) 39th (1950 - 1953)

Political Party Activity

Liberal Party. Member of Killara branch, lost preselection for 1962. Stood as an Independent

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Journalist and executive. Educated to secondary level; became a journalist in Perth with United Press Limited (R.S Simpson and Company), editor c. 1922; traveller for Vacuum Oil Company; salesman at Skipper Bailey Motor Company, Perth; publicity manager for Austin Cars; advertising manager for Riley (Coventry) Limited; went to Ceylon as a sales director for a firm of car distributors c1937; appointed as executive director of the Building Industry Congress from 1945 until 1962; member of New South Wales Building Advisory committee from 1945 until 1949, of New South Wales Production Advisory committee from 1949 until 1952 . Director of a number of co-operative building societies, chairman of Modern Homes group and Ku-ring-gai Corporation. president of Rose Bay branch of the Returned Serviceman's League; vice president of India League; member of Journalists' Institute and Australian Journalists' Association.

Military Service

Served in 2nd Australian Imperial Forces, 6th Division, invalided out after eighteen months, then lecturing to troops and boat building

Personal

Married (1) Ida Olive May on 4 March 1922. Married (2) Margaret in c.1929. Presbyterian. Funeral at Northern Suburbs crematorium from Pymble Presbyterian church.

Additional Information

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