PARTY LEADER RESIGNS.
MR. CHARLTON'S ILL-HEALTH. CANBERRA, March 29. In the House of Representatives today Mr. M. Charlton announced that he had resigned the leadership of the Federal Labour Party owing to illhealth.
Mr. Matthew Charlton was born at Linton, Victoria, in 1866, and at the age of 14 he started work as a mine tapper.soon acquired ar | interest mdustrial offices in the Lo^ral '^(Pl two yca - rs . w ° r^^ Australia Bhe went p9| to New was employed in the Bouth Waratah cot HK k ' . --MM liery. He afterwards M. Chart to A. 5 e f am f ** v ™" w ": delegate on the district board, and later was district treasurer. He was elected to the Btate Parliament for Waratah in. 1003, elected to the Federal Parliament in 1910 as member for Hunter, New South Wales, and appointed leader of the Fedral Parliamentary Labour Party la January. 1983. At the League of Nations A—ni>fr tat 1981 hs was an Australian delagata.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 7
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