Diver leslie charles (1 risultati)

Boards. 1st Edition. Quarto, maroon buckram boards with gilt title upper board and spine, b&w frontis plate, map, folding plate, pp 228 plus appendices and index. Fine condition. Leslie Diver (1899 - 1995) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1952 to 1974, and was President of the Legislative Council from 1960 to 1974. He was born in Perth, and worked for a period as a farm labourer and contractor before buying his own farm at Yorkrakine in the wheatbelt in 1924. He was knighted in 1975. "From Plough to Politics" is a very detailed interview which was conducted for the Battye Library Oral History Programme, covering his early years in Perth and his farming work, through to his long career in politics. Introd. Hon. G.C. MacKinnon (illustratore).…