Porter (Cr) Clarence
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Clarence Porter was Councillor for Gawler South Ward in 1934.
Mr C. Porter (The Chronicle Newspaper extract)
Mr Clarence Porter, who died at his home, Gawler South, was born at Lyndoch in April 1871. He was the third son of the late, Mr. John Porter, miller, of Narridy, and received his education at Watervale Boarding School, Mr Coles, teacher. Removing to Gawler, Mr Porter was apprenticed to Jas. Martin & Co. as a fitter and turner, and he followed on with the Perry Engineering Company until 1908, when he was appointed foreman at Whitehill Ltd., Adelaide.
As an artisan, he was secretary of the Trades and Labor Council from 1911 to 1913, was for 43 years a member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and secretary for 11 years, and Gawler representative in the Central Committee.
As a townsman of Gawler for 40 years, he served 16 years as a councillor in Gawler South District Council and was three times chairman. He renewed council associations in 1933 and was a representative in the first council constituting Greater Gawler area.
As a youth, he was a fine exponent of football, being captain of Centrals and Association teams, and for a hobby took up floriculture. He was for 43 years associated with the Gawler Institute. In April 1897, he married Miss Bertha Day, second daughter of the late Mr Richard Day of Reeves Plains, and of the family there survive Mrs K. F. Tite, Adelaide; Mr Reginald Porter, Glenelg; Mr Kingsley Porter, Gawler.
At the Gawler corporation Council meeting on Monday, councillors stood in one minute's silence as a tribute to his memory. 1
[Transcribed by Allen Tiller]
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