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Lawlers, Western Australia

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Notable residents
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Lawlers is a ghost town on the Old Agnew Road, {{convert|982|km|mi|0}} northeast of Perth, in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.

Gold was discovered in the area by Anderson, Hall and Heffernan, a party of prospectors that left Cue in 1892. Patrick Lawler and his party arrived in 1893 and had little success until they left and returned in 1894.^[1]

The townsite was surveyed and gazetted in 1896 and named after Patrick Lawler.^[2] A ten stamp battery was established about {{convert|4.5|km|mi|0}} northwest of town in 1899 on a five-acre lease. A police station/courthouse was built the same year; it was closed in 1927, reopened in 1938, then closed permanently in 1950. In 1996 it was used as an office by the gold mining company Plutonic Resources.

At its peak, Lawlers was the state's third-largest town with a population of 8,000. It had a separate local government area (the Lawlers Road Board) until 1929, when it was divided between the Leonora-Mount Malcolm and Mount Margaret Road Boards.

Notable residents

Dan Mackinnon, a prominent pastoralist, was chairman of the Lawlers Road Board from 1928 to 1929.^[3]
Charles Maley, a future state MP, managed a brewery in Lawlers in the early 1900s, and also served on the Lawlers Road Board.^[4]
Emil Nulsen, another future state MP, was secretary of the Lawlers branch of the Australian Workers' Union in the late 1900s.^[5]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://members.westnet.com.au/caladenia/ghosttowns/L.pdf|title=Morowa District Historical Society|year=2009|accessdate=17 November 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312060738/http://members.westnet.com.au/caladenia/ghosttowns/L.pdf|archivedate=12 March 2011|df=dmy-all}}
2. ^{{LandInfo WA|c|L|17 November 2010}}
3. ^Mackinnon, Donald de Burgh D'arcy (Dan) (1900–1963), Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
4. ^Charles Crowther Maley – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
5. ^Emil Nulsen – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 January 2017.

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