Brigadier Cleland
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Awarded CBE And Liberal Ticket for Fremantle By-election
BRIGADIER Donald Mackinnon Cleland, MBE, has been awarded the
Cbe.
Until March, when he resigned to resume his law practice in Perth, WA, he was head of the Production Control Board in Papua.
Out of all Government and military appointees wished upon Papua and New Guinea, Brigadier Cleland had the unique distinction of finding favour in the eyes of harassed Territorians. Within the limited scope of wartime regulations and red tape he gave returned planters a fair deal.
He is the endorsed Liberal candidate at the Fremantle by-election to be held on August 18. The Fremantle seat fell vacant on the death of John Curtin on July 5.
Fremantle is regarded as a border-line electorate —Curtin held it by only a narrow majority at the last general elec tion—and it is believed that Cleland has at least a 50-50 chance of winning the seat. It would be refreshing to have an Australian MP who actually had some practical experience of Territories’ administration.