"Jim" James Horace DONEY
Born 17 February 1910 in Narrogin, Western Australia [16]
Married "Vene" Lavinia Bertha HOSKING in 1932 [66]
Proprietor of a mechanical garage and agency business Doney's Garage in Commercial Street, Coorow [P84] [5: 5-Aug-1948]
Agent in Coorow for International farm machinery and the owner of a school bus that serviced Coorow [P84]
He also ran the Coorow Power Station up until the State Electricity Commission (S.E.C.) took over [P84]
Resided with his wife and children in Bristol Street, Coorow [P84]
Said to have been obsessively tidy - his yards and business premises were always swept clean [P84]
He advertised his business in the West Australian Business Directory in 1948 and 1949 [329: 1948, 1949]
At the time he was a dealer for International Harvester Company [329]
He was also an agent for the Southern Cross Windmill & Engine Company and Neptune Oil Company [329]
His garage was telephone number Coorow-2 and his home was number Coorow-14 [329]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Sergeant in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Secretary of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1944 and 1945 [5: 20-Apr-1945]
Unanimously accepted as a member of the Coorow-Waddy branch of the Primary Producers' Association in 1946 [5: 18-Apr-1946]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society - was Secretary in 1946 and 1947 [5: 5-Apr-1946, 12-Sep-1947]
He officiated at the microphone conducting the society's annual show on 4 September 1947 [5: 12-Sep-1947]
On behalf of the society he was a quarter of a deputation to the Carnamah District Road Board in May 1948 [39: 24-May-1948]
At the deputation they requested more seating for Maley Park in Coorow and fir fence around the arena [39: 24-May-1948]
Member of Coorow Tennis Club from 1946-47 to 1949-50 [5: 13-Dec-1946, 12-Dec-1947, 5-Mar-1948, 24-Mar-1949, 24-Nov-1949]
Assisted Arthur H. DARGIN of Three Springs with the announcing at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1947 [5: 19-Sep-1947]
Member of Coorow Football Club in 1947 and 1948 [5: 23-Apr-1948]
In 1947 and 1948 he was Coorow's representative at meetings of the North Midlands Football Association [5: 23-Apr-1948]
Along with Alma and Leo CROFT he asked the Carnamah District Road Board to gravel streets in Coorow in 1948 [5: 13-Feb-1948]
Committee Member of Coorow Golf Club 1948 [5: 23-Apr-1948]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Parents & Citizens' Association in 1948 and 1949 [5: 10-Jun-1948, 30-Jun-1949]
Part of a deputation to a meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in 1949 requesting improved roads for the school bus [5]
He refused to procure a new school bus while the roads were in such a bad state [5: 30-Jun-1949]
In 1949 he was asked to supply and service in A.W.A. Radiola 5-valve vibrator radio set for the school in Coorow [5: 30-Jun-1949]
Advertised in August 1948 that he had a "3 ½ hp O.H.V. Blue Star B.S.A. Motor Bike" for sale at his garage [5: 5-Aug-1948]
The Carnamah District Road Board approved additions to his workshop in Coorow at their meeting in October 1949 [5: 3-Nov-1949]
He and his wife visited Narrogin in early 1953 to visit with relatives and friends [416: 9-Jan-1953]
During the 1952-53 financial year purchased from Mrs Gladys R. BIERMANN three vacant blocks in Caron Street, Carnamah [3]
The three adjacent blocks were 8, 10 and 12 Caron Street (otherwise known as Lots 43, 44 and 45 of Victoria Location 1936) [3]
He had a shed erected on his block at 10 Caron Street, Carnamah [3]
Sold his three blocks in Caron Street, Carnamah to the Carnamah District Road Board on 1 January 1961 [3]
During the 1953-54 financial year purchased two vacant blocks in Robertson Street, Carnamah from Thomas H. PERRY [3]
The two blocks, which were side by side, were 5 and 7 Robertson Street, Carnamah (Lots 24 and 25 of Victoria Location 1936) [3]
During the 1960-61 financial year sold 5 Robertson Street, Carnamah (Lot 24) to Edmund K. WELLS [3]
His son Vivian initially worked in his Coorow business and then moved to Moora to run their branch at 1 Padbury Street, Moora [P84]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1957 [13]
His son Ken worked and later took over his Coorow business, then running it under the name of "K. J. Doney & Co" [P84]
Later resided in Fremantle [2]
Father of Hazel, Win, Lindsay, Vivian, Joan, Ken, Barbara, Elizabeth and Colleen [45]
Died 26 February 2000; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'James Horace Doney' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 26 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/james-horace-doney [reference list] |
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