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MR WILLIAM NEAL GILLIES. PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND. (Pies* Association —By leleqrnph—Copyngnt j BRISBANE. February 9. (Received Feb. 9, at 9 p.ra.) Mr W. N. Gillies, a former Premier of Queensland, died suddenlj'. Mr William Neal Gillies was born in 1868. He was chairman of the Public Works Commission in 1916, Minister of Justice in 1918, Secretary for Agriculture and Stock from 1919 to 1925, and Premier, Vice-president of the Executive Council, and Chief Secretary and Treasurer of Queensland in 1925. He resigned the Premiership in 1925, and had since been a lay member of the Queensland Board of Trade and Arbitration. SENATOR HENRY JOSEPH CLORAN. OTTAWA, February 8. (Received Feb. 10, at 0.15 a.m.) The death is announced, after a long illness, of Senator Henry Joseph Cloran ; aged 75.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Mr Henry Joseph Cloran, who was born in Montreal in 1855, was editor of the Montreal Post and True Witness from 1882 to 1887, and was president of the Press Association of tb Province of Quebec. He wa s Crown Prosecutor from 1890 to 1892, and was called to the Senate in 1903.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20329, 10 February 1928, Page 7
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186OBITUARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 20329, 10 February 1928, Page 7
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