Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1938–1941

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 32nd parliament held their seats from 1938 to 1941. They were elected at the 1938 state election,^[1] and at by-elections.^[2][3][4] The Speaker was Reginald Weaver.^[6]

Name	Party		Electorate	Term in office
George Ardill		United Australia	Yass	1930–1941
Guy Arkins		United Australia	Dulwich Hill	1915–1930, 1938–1941
Joshua Arthur		Labor	Hamilton	1935–1953
Jack Baddeley		Labor	Cessnock	1922–1949
Henry Bate		United Australia	South Coast	1926–1941
Jeff Bate [c]		United Australia	Wollondilly	1938–1949
Charles Bennett [h]		United Australia	Gloucester	1934–1941
George Booth		Labor	Kurri Kurri	1925–1960
Malcolm Brown [k]		Country	Upper Hunter	1931–1939
Michael Bruxner		Country	Tenterfield	1920–1962
Arthur Budd		Country	Byron	1927–1944
Frank Burke [i][j]		Labor/Industrial Labor/Labor	Newtown	1917–1944
Joseph Cahill		Labor	Arncliffe	1925–1959
Robert Cameron		Labor	Waratah	1927–1956
Bill Carlton		Labor	Glebe	1935–1941
Harry Carter		Country	Liverpool Plains	1927–1941
Bill Chaffey [m]		United Australia	Tamworth	1940–1973
Frank Chaffey [h][m]		United Australia	Tamworth	1913–1940
Daniel Clyne		Labor	King	1927–1956
Mat Davidson [g][j]		Labor/Industrial Labor/Labor	Cobar	1918–1949
Billy Davies		Labor	Illawarra	1917–1949
Doug Dickson		Country	Temora	1938–1960
John Dunningham [a]		United Australia	Coogee	1928–1938
David Drummond		Country	Armidale	1920–1949
Bill Dunn		Labor	Mudgee	1910–1911, 1911–1932, 1935–1950
Hilton Elliott		Country	Ashburnham	1932–1941
Griffith Evans		Country	Lachlan	1938–1943
Clive Evatt [e][j]		Industrial Labor/Labor	Hurstville	1939–1959
Herbert FitzSimons		United Australia	Lane Cove	1930–1944
William Frith		Country	Lismore	1933–1953
George Gollan		United Australia	Parramatta	1932–1953
Bob Gorman [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Annandale	1933–1950
Robert Hankinson		Country	Murrumbidgee	1932–1941
Frank Hawkins		Labor	Newcastle	1935–1968
William Hedges		United Australia	Monaro	1927–1941
Roy Heferen [p]		Labor	Barwon	1940– 1950
Robert Heffron [j]		Industrial Labor/Labor	Botany	1930–1968
Ted Horsington [g][j]		Labor/Industrial Labor/Labor	Sturt	1922–1947
Walter Howarth		United Australia	Maitland	1932–1956
David Hunter [n]		United Australia	Croydon	1940–1976
Joseph Jackson		United Australia	Nepean	1922–1956
Matthew Kilpatrick		Country	Wagga Wagga	1920–1941
Gus Kelly		Labor	Bathurst	1925–1932, 1935–1967
Hamilton Knight		Labor	Hartley	1927–1947
Bill Lamb [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Granville	1938–1962
Jack Lang [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Auburn	1913–1943, 1943–1946
Joe Lawson		Country	Murray	1932–1973
Carlo Lazzarini [j]		Industrial Labor/Labor	Marrickville	1917–1952
John Lee [h]		United Australia	Drummoyne	1920–1927, 1941–1947
Christopher Lethbridge		Independent	Corowa	1937–1946
Herbert Lloyd		United Australia	Mosman	1929–1941
Stan Lloyd [h]		United Australia	Concord	1932–1941
Alexander Mair		United Australia	Albury	1932–1946
Clarrie Martin [f][j]		Industrial Labor/Labor	Waverley	1930–1932, 1939–1953
Lewis Martin		United Australia	Oxley	1927–1941
Claude Matthews [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Leichhardt	1934–1954
James McGirr [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Bankstown	1922–1952
William McKell		Labor	Redfern	1917–1947
Harrie Mitchell		United Australia	Burwood	1938–1941
Cecil Monro		United Australia	Georges River	1932–1941, 1950–1953
Mark Morton [c]		United Australia	Wollondilly	1901–1920, 1922–1938
Arthur Moverly		United Australia	Randwick	1932–1941
Thomas Mutch [a]		United Australia	Coogee	1917–1930, 1938–1941
Maurice O'Sullivan		Labor	Paddington	1927–1959
Hubert Primrose		United Australia	North Sydney	1932–1941
John Quirk [d]		Labor	Balmain	1917–1938
Mary Quirk [d][l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Balmain	1939–1950
Albert Reid		Country	Young	1927–1930, 1932–1941
Alfred Reid		United Australia	Manly	1920–1922, 1925–1945
John Reid		Country	Casino	1930–1953
Athol Richardson		United Australia	Ashfield	1935–1946, 1946–1952
Murray Robson [h]		United Australia	Vaucluse	1936–1957
D'Arcy Rose [k]		Country	Upper Hunter	1939–1959
Bill Ross		Country	Cootamundra	1932–1941
James Ross [h]		United Australia	Kogarah	1932–1941
Edward Sanders [h]		United Australia	Willoughby	1925–1943
James Shand [h]		United Australia	Hornsby	1926–1944
Tom Shannon [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Phillip	1927–1954
Colin Sinclair		Country	Namoi	1932–1941
Eric Solomon		United Australia	Petersham	1932–1941
Eric Spooner [h][o]		United Australia	Ryde	1932–1940
Fred Stanley [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Lakemba	1927–1950
Bertram Stevens [n]		United Australia	Croydon	1927–1940
John Sweeney		Labor	Bulli	1933–1947
Norman Thomas		United Australia	Bondi	1932–1941
Arthur Tonge [l]		Labor/Labor (N-C)/Labor	Canterbury	1926–1932, 1935–1962
Alwyn Tonking		United Australia	Orange	1932–1941
Vernon Treatt		United Australia	Woollahra	1938–1962
Jack Tully		Labor	Goulburn	1925–1932, 1935–1946
Harry Turner [b]		United Australia	Gordon	1937–1952
Roy Vincent		Country	Raleigh	1922–1953
John Waddell [f]		United Australia	Waverley	1932–1939
Ben Wade [p]		Country	Barwon	1932–1940
Bruce Walker Jr [h]		United Australia	Hawkesbury	1932–1941
Reginald Weaver		United Australia	Neutral Bay	1917–1925, 1927–1945
James Webb [e]		United Australia	Hurstville	1932–1939
Arthur Williams [o]		Labor	Ryde	1940–1956
George Wilson		Country	Dubbo	1932–1942
Cecil Wingfield		Country	Clarence	1938–1955
Alfred Yeo		Country	Castlereagh	1932–1941

1. Coogee MLA John Dunningham died on 26 May 1938. UAP candidate Thomas Mutch won the resulting by-election on 25 June.
2. Gordon UAP MLA Harry Turner's election victory was overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns on 25 August 1938. He won the resulting by-election on 24 September.
3. Wollondilly MLA Mark Morton died on 28 September 1938. UAP candidate Jeff Bate, the son of South Coast MLA Henry Bate won the resulting by-election on 12 November.
4. Balmain MLA John Quirk died on 13 December 1938. His wife Labor candidate Mary Quirk won the resulting by-election on 14 January 1939.
5. Hurstville UAP MLA James Webb died on 14 February 1939. Industrial Labor Party candidate Clive Evatt won the resulting by-election on 18 March.
6. Waverley UAP MLA John Waddell died on 15 March 1939. Industrial Labor Party candidate Clarrie Martin won the resulting by-election on 22 April.
7. Two Labor MLAs, Mat Davidson (Cobar), and Ted Horsington (Sturt) resigned from the Labor Party and joined the Industrial Labor Party in April 1939.
8. 10 United Australia members crossed the floor to censure Stevens ministry for proposals to cut government spending in order to restrain a growing deficit.^[5]
9. Labor MLA Frank Burke (Newtown) resigned from the Labor Party and joined the Industrial Labor Party in June 1939.
10. Industrial Labor was readmitted into the Labor Party at a unity conference on 26 August 1939.
11. Upper Hunter Country MLA Malcolm Brown died on 29 August 1939. Country Party candidate D'Arcy Rose won the resulting by-election on 7 October.
12. Nine Labor MLAs – Jack Lang (Auburn), Bob Gorman (Annandale), Bill Lamb (Granville), Claude Matthews (Leichhardt), James McGirr (Bankstown), Mary Quirk (Balmain), Tom Shannon (Phillip), Fred Stanley (Lakemba) and Arthur Tonge (Canterbury), left the Labor Party in 1940 to form the Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist), in the second of the Lang Labor splits. They rejoined the party in 1941, following a federal intervention in the NSW branch to remove the influence of Communist sympathisers on the state executive.
13. Tamworth UAP MLA Frank Chaffey died on 9 July 1940. His son UAP candidate Bill Chaffey won the resulting by-election on 10 August.
14. Croydon UAP MLA Bertram Stevens resigned to unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of Lang at the 1940 election. UAP candidate David Hunter won the by-election on 7 September.
15. Ryde UAP MLA Eric Spooner resigned to successfully contest the federal seat of Robertson at the 1940 election. Labor candidate Arthur Williams won the by-election on 14 September.
16. Barwon Country MLA Ben Wade resigned to unsuccessfully contest the federal seat of Gwydir at the 1940 election. Labor candidate Roy Heferen won the by-election on 25 October.
17. The changes to the composition of the house, in chronological order, were: Dunningham died,^[a] Turner's election overturned,^[b] Morton died,^[c] Quirk died,^[d] Webb died,^[e] Waddell died,^[f] Davidson and Horsington joined the ILP,^[g] 10 UAP crossed the floor,^[h] Burke joined the ILP,^[i] ILP readmitted into Labor,^[j] Brown died,^[k] 9 MLAs split from Labor,^[l] Chaffey died,^[m] Stevens resigned,^[n] Spooner resigned,^[o] and Wade resigned.^[p]

See also

• Third Stevens ministry
• Mair ministry
• Results of the 1938 New South Wales state election
• Candidates of the 1938 New South Wales state election

References

1. Green, Antony. "1938 District List". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
2. Green, Antony. "1938-1941 By elections". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
3. "Part 5B - Members returned for each electorate" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
4. "Former members of the New South Wales Parliament, 1856–2006". New South Wales Parliament. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
5. "State finances" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). New South Wales: Legislative Assembly. 3 August 1939. pp. 5700–5720. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
6. "Part Ten - Officers of Parliament" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2020.^[q]