Arthur Jones
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Jones was a shearer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born at Lower Barnes, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Early days Murphy was born at Worcestershire, England, to Thomas Jones and his wife Mary Anne and was educated in Wolverley. As a child he moved to Canada but returned to England. He then travelled alone to Australia arriving in March 1911 where he became a "gun" shearer in the Hunter Valley and in January 1916 arrived in Queensland. In 1924–25 he demonstrated his shearing abilities at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in England and he was able to shear 200 sheep in an eight-hour day.
