Hon Harry Frederick Walker, Minister for Agriculture and Stock

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Harry Frederick Walker (15 April 1873 – 23 October 1950) was a company director and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Gympie, Queensland and was educated at One Mile State School, Monkland State School and the local Grammar School.

He was a miner and engine-driver in 1890 and 1897 was part of the Light Horse Jubilee Contingent in London. He fought in the Boer War and by 1906 was the chairman of the Murrarie Bacon Factory and a director of the Wide Bay Cooperative Dairy Co. In 1903, Walker had acquired a farm at Coles Creek, Gympie and by 1920 he was a farmer at Tewantin.

Walker was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for almost 40 years, most of them in opposition to successive Labor governments. He represented two different seats, the first being Wide Bay from 1907 until 1912 and

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