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Ministers Responsible for Agriculture Since Parliamentary Government Commenced in October 1856 and Heads of the Department of Agriculture/PISA/PIRSA Ministers responsible for Agriculture since Parliamentary government commenced in October 1856 and Heads of the Department of Agriculture/PISA/PIRSA Dates Government Dates of Minister Ministerial title Name of Head of Date range portfolio Department Department of Head 1856– Boyle Travers 24.10.1856– Charles Bonney Commissioner of Crown 1857 Finniss 21.8.1857 Lands and Immigration 1857 John Baker 21.8.1857– William Milne Commissioner of Crown 1.9.1857 Lands and Immigration 1857 Robert Torrens 1.9.1857– Marshall McDermott Commissioner of Crown 30.10.1857 Lands and Immigration 1857– Richard Hanson 30.9.1857– Francis Stacker Dutton Commissioner of Crown 1860 2.6.1859 Lands and Immigration 2.6.1859– John Bentham Neales Commissioner of Crown 5.7.1859 Lands and Immigration 5.7.1859– William Milne Commissioner of Crown 9.5.1860 Lands and Immigration 1860– Thomas 9.5.1860– John Tuthill Bagot Commissioner of Crown 1861 Reynolds 20.5.1861 Lands and Immigration 1861 Thomas 20.5.1861– Henry Bull Templar Commissioner of Crown Reynolds 8.10.1861 Strangways Lands and Immigration 1861 George 8.10.1861– Matthew Moorhouse Commissioner of Crown Waterhouse 17.10.1861 Lands and Immigration 1861– George 17.10.1861– Henry Bull Templar Commissioner of Crown 1863 Waterhouse 4.7.1863 Strangways Lands and Immigration 1863 Francis Dutton 4.7.1863– Francis Stacker Dutton Commissioner of Crown 15.7.1863 Lands and Immigration 1863– Henry Ayers 15.7.1863– Lavington Glyde Commissioner of Crown 1864 22.7.1864 Lands and Immigration 1864 Henry Ayers 22.7.1864– William Milne Commissioner of Crown 4.8.1864 Lands and Immigration 1864– Arthur Blyth 4.8.1864– Arthur Blyth Commissioner of Crown 1865 22.3.1865 Lands and Immigration 1865 Francis Dutton 22.3.1865– Henry Bull Templar Commissioner of Crown 20.9.1865 Strangways Lands and Immigration Portfolios web.doc 1 1865 Henry Ayers 20.9.1865– Henry Bull Templar Commissioner of Crown 23.10.1865 Strangways Lands and Immigration 1865– John Hart 23.10.1865– Lavington Glyde Commissioner of Crown 1866 1.11.1865 Lands and Immigration 1.11.1865– John Bentham Neales Commissioner of Crown 28.3.1866 Lands and Immigration 1866– James Boucaut 28.3.1866– William Milne Commissioner of Crown 1867 3.5.1867 Lands and Immigration 1867– Henry Ayers 3.5.1867– Lavington Glyde Commissioner of Crown 1868 24.9.1868 Lands and Immigration 1868 John Hart 24.9.1868– William Townsend Commissioner of Crown 13.10.1868 Lands and Immigration 1868 Henry Ayers 13.10.1868– Lavington Glyde Commissioner of Crown 3.11.1868 Lands and Immigration 1868– Henry 3.11.1868– Wentworth Cavanagh Commissioner of Crown 1870 Strangways 12.5.1870 Lands and Immigration 1870 Henry 12.5.1870– Wentworth Cavanagh Commissioner of Crown Strangways 30.5.1870 Lands and Immigration 1870– John Hart 30.5.1870– Arthur Blyth Commissioner of Crown 1871 10.11.1871 Lands and Immigration 1871– Arthur Blyth 10.11.1871– William Townsend Commissioner of Crown 1872 22.1.1872 Lands and Immigration 1872 Henry Ayers 22.1.1872– Edwin Henry Commissioner of Crown 4.3.1872 Derrington Lands and Immigration 1872– Sir Henry Ayers 4.3.1872– Thomas Reynolds Commissioner of Crown 1873 22.7.1873 Lands and Immigration 1873– Arthur Blyth 22.7.1873– William Everard Commissioner of Crown 1875 3.6.1875 Lands and Immigration 1875– James Boucaut 3.6.1875– Ebenezer Ward Minister of Agriculture and 1876 25.3.1876 Education 1876 James Boucaut 25.3.1876– Thomas Playford Commissioner of Crown 6.6.1876 Lands and Immigration 1876– John Colton 6.6.1876– Ebenezer Ward Minister of Agriculture and 1877 26.10.1877 Education 1877– James Boucaut 26.10.1877– Thomas Playford Commissioner of Crown 1878 27.9.1878 Lands and Immigration Portfolios web.doc 2 1878– William Morgan 27.9.1878– Thomas Playford Commissioner of Crown John Daniel 1.6.1881– 1881 24.6.1881 Lands and Immigration Custance (and 1887 Professor of Agriculture, 1881– 1901) 1881– John Bray 24.6.1881– Alfred Catt Commissioner of Crown 1884 16.6.1884 Lands and Immigration 1884– John Colton 16.6.1884– Jenkin Coles Commissioner of Crown 1885 4.2.1885 Lands and Immigration 4.2.1885– Thomas Playford Commissioner of Crown 16.6.1885 Lands and Immigration 1885– JohnDowner 16.6.1885– James Henderson Howe Commissioner of Crown William Lowrie 1887–1901 1887 11.6.1887 Lands and Immigration 1887– Thomas 11.6.1887– Jenkin Coles Commissioner of Crown H.H. McMinnies 1887 1889 Playford 27.6.1889 Lands and Immigration (appointed but retired) 1889– John Cockburrn 27.6.1889– Thomas Burgoyne Commissioner of Crown 1890 2.5.1890 Lands and Immigration 2.5.1890– James Henderson Howe Commissioner of Crown 8.7.1890 Lands and Immigration 8.7.1890– John James Osman Commissioner of Crown 19.8.1890 Lands and Immigration 1890– Thomas 19.8.1890– William Copley Commissioner of Crown 1892 Playford 6.1.1892 Lands and Immigration 6.1.1892– Thomas Playford Minister of Agriculture and 21.6.1892 Education 1892 Frederick 21.6.1892– Peter Paul Gillen Commissioner of Crown Holder 15.10.1892 Lands and Immigration 1892– Sir John 15.10.1892– William Copley Minister of Agriculture and 1893 Downer 12.5.1893 Education 12.5.1893– John William Castine Minister of Agriculture and 16.6.1893 Education Portfolios web.doc 3 1893– Charles 16.6.1893– John Alexander Minister of Education and 1899 Cameron 13.4.1898 Cockburn Agriculture Kingston 13.4.1898– Richard Butler Minister of Education and 1.12.1899 Agriculture 1899 Vaiben Solomon 1.12.1899– Thomas Burgoyne Minister of Education and 8.12.1899 Agriculture 1899– Frederick 8.12.1899– Egerton Lee Batchelor Minister of Education and 1901 Holder 15.5.1901 Agriculture 1901– John Jenkins 15.5.1901– Laurence O’Loughlin Commissioner of Crown 1905 (Liberal- 31.3.1902 Lands Conservative) 1.4.1902– Richard Butler Treasurer Agriculture, Arthur James Perkins 1902–1904 1.3.1905 Commissioner of Crown 1902–06 Secretary of Lands and Immigration Agriculture, 1902– 1906 1905 Richard Butler 1.3.1905– Richard Witty Foster Commissioner of Public Agriculture (Liberal- 26.7.1905 Works Conservative) Minister of Agriculture 1905– Thomas Price 26.7.1905– Laurence O’Loughlin Commissioner of Crown Agriculture, William Angus 1904–1910 1909 (Labor) 5.6.1909 Lands and Immigration 1902–06 Director of Minister of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture, 1906– Minister Controlling the and 1975 Northern Territory Intelligence, 1906–08 1909– Archibald Peake 5.6.1909– Ephraim Henry Coombe Commissioner of Crown Agriculture, 1910 (Liberal Union) 22.12.1909 Lands and Immigration 1908–75 Minister of Agriculture 22.12.1909– Thomas Pascoe Minister of Agriculture 3.6.1910 (Honorary Minister) 1910– John Verran 3.6.1910– James Phillips Wilson Minister of Industry and Agriculture Arnold Edwin Victor 1910–1911 1912 (Labor) 17.2.1912 Agriculture Richardson (acting) William Lowrie 1911–1914 1912– Archibald Peake 17.2.1912– Thomas Pascoe Minister of Agriculture and Agriculture Arthur James Perkins 1914–1936 1915 (Liberal) 3.4.1915 Irrigation 1915– Crawford 3.4.1915– Clarence Goode Commissioner of Crown Agriculture Portfolios web.doc 4 1917 Vaughan 14.7.1917 Lands and Immigration (Labor) Minister of Agriculture 1917– Archibald Peake 14.7.1917– George Ritchie Commissioner of Crown Agriculture 1920 (Liberal- 27.8.1917 Lands and Immigration National Labor) Minister of Agriculture 27.8.1917– Reginald Pole Blundell Minister of Repatriation 29.4.1918 Minister of Agriculture Minister of Industry 29.4.1918– Edward Alfred Anstey Commissioner of Crown 19.12.1918 Lands and Immigration Minister of Agriculture Minister of Repatriation 19.12.1918– Sir Richard Butler Treasurer 7.5.1919 Minister of Railways Minister of Agriculture 15.5.1919– George Ritchie Commissioner of Public 24.7.1919 Works Minister of Railways Minister of Agriculture 24.7.1919– William Humphrey Minister of Education 8.4.1920 Harvey Minister of Mines Minister of Agriculture 1920– Henry Barwell 8.4.1920– Thomas Pascoe Minister of Agriculture Agriculture 1924 (Liberal) 3.11.1922 Minister of Irrigation Minister of Mines 3.11.1922– George Frederick Minister of Agriculture 14.11.1923 Jenkins Assistant Minister of Repatriation Minister of Town Planning 14.11.1923– John Cowan Minister of Agriculture Portfolios web.doc 5 16.4.1924 Assistant Minister of Repatriation Minister of Town Planning 1924– John Gunn 16.4.1924– Thomas Butterfield Commissioner of Crown Agriculture 1926 (Labor) 28.8.1926 Lands Minister of Agriculture 1926– Lionel Hill 28.8.1926– Thomas Butterfield Commissioner of Crown Agriculture 1927 (Labor) 8.4.1927 Lands Minister of Agriculture 1927– Richard L. 8.4.1927– John Cowan Minister of Agriculture Agriculture 1930 Butler (Liberal) 17.4.1930 Minister of Immigration Minister of Repatriation Minister of Irrigation 1930– Lionel Hill 17.4.1930– Stanley R. Whitford Minister of Agriculture Agriculture 1933 (Labor) 30.10.1930 Minister of Immigration Minister of Repatriation Minister of Irrigation Commissioner of Forest Lands 30.10.1930– Stanley R. Whitford Chief Secretary 13.2.1933 Minister of Agriculture Commissioner of Forest Lands 1933 Robert Richards 13.2.1933– Stanley R. Whitford Chief Secretary (Labor) 18.4.1833 Minister of Agriculture Commissioner of Forest Lands 1933– Richard L. 18.4.1933– Albert Percy Blesing Minister of Agriculture Agriculture Walter John Spafford 1936–1949 1938 Butler (Liberal) 8.4.1938 Minister of Local Government 8.4.1938– Albert Percy Blesing Minister of Agriculture 5.11.1838 Minister of Afforestation 1938– Thomas 5.11.1838– Albert Percy Blesing Minister of Agriculture Agriculture 1944 Playford jnr 15.5.1944 Minister of Afforestation (Liberal
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