Ernest Mair [SEP] place of birth
Ernest Mair
Ernest Hartley Mair was an Australian rugby league administrator & hotelier who coached the New Zealand side on their 1926-27 tour of Great Britain.
Early years.
Ernest Mair was born on 15 January 1891 to a Scottish father and English mother in Ipswich. He played rugby league as a youth, but was much more prominent as a swimmer, becoming President of the Toowomba Swimming Association and also the Queensland Amateur Swimming Association.
In 1920 he married Mildred Readshaw and with her ran several hotels in Toowoomba
continuously until 1962. Initially a member of the Progressive Party, he served as party leader in opposition between 1922 and 1925; and resumed leadership in 1932, following the resignation of his successor, Ernest Buttenshaw. By this stage, the party was renamed as the Country Party.
The Mair formed a coalition with Bruxner, taking over where Stevens was previously in coalition with the Country Party.
This ministry covers the period from 5 August 1939 until 16 May 1941 when the 1941 state election saw the defeat of the Mair