Happy The Bride the Sun Shines On

Mr. Thomas Henry Bath,. who was re-elected for the Brown Hill constituency, is well-known on the Goldfields, and for some time occupied the position of editor of, “The Worker.” A native of Hill End, a New South Wales mining town, he spent the greater part of his youth at that place and received his education at the public school.  Then the discoveries in West Australia attracted his attention, and at the age of 21 he left New South Wales for this State and immediately made his way to the eastern goldfields.  He experienced no difficulty in securing work on the mines, and, prior to this time of his first return to Parliament he was engaged in the various callings connected with mining pursuits. He was always associated with trade matters on the fields, and eventually was appointed secretary of the Trades and Labor Committee. While filling this position he was selected to stand for the Hannans seat in the Legislative Assembly, subsequent to the death of Mr. John Reside in 1902.

At the general elections in 1904 Mr. Bath was accorded he honor of a walkover for the new constituency of Brown Hill.  At the commencement of that session of Parliament, Mr. Bath was appointed to the position of Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Assembly, but relinquished that office when he accepted the portfolio of Lands and Education when the Daglish Ministry was reconstructed.