Tom Price - T H Smeaton (Paperback, c1924) Biography of South Australian Premier

 

From Stone Cutter to Premier and Minister of Education: The story of the life of Tom Price, a Welsh boy who became an Australian Statesman.

A scarce biography written by another politician. Thomas Price (19 January 1852 – 31 May 1909), commonly referred to as Tom Price, served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia. He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with increased representation at the 1906 election, serving in the premiership until his death in 1909. It was the world's first stable Labor government. Achievements of the Price government included free state secondary schools, the formation of wages boards and a minimum wage, establishing the Municipal Tramways Trust through nationalisation, the costly administration of the Northern Territory was surrendered to the Federal government, and reform (though limited) of the upper house. The government also attained successive budget surpluses and reduced the accumulated public debt. 

It is written by his colleague Thomas Hyland Smeaton (15 July 1857 – 17 October 1927),  an Australian politician and trade unionist. 

 

Paperback, no ill., 244pp.

 

Condition: Good used, tape repair to binding - old cloth tape repair to covers and damage to bottom of spine, good binding and VG pages. Small pencil mark noted on one page, otherwise very clean.

ISBN: N/A

 

Published:  Adelaide: Hunkin, Ellis & King, undated. Circa 1924. 

 

Weight: 320 gms

 

Size: 21 x 14 cms.

 

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