Jiro Muramats
Jiro Muramats (6 September 1878 – 7 January 1943) was a
Born in
In November 1904 he applied for a Gallon License for his residence in Perseverance Street in Cossack.[5] This license was granted, but not after opposition on the grounds that he was a foreigner (despite being naturalised at this point) and also that there were already two other pubs in town.[6]
On 17 January 1905 Jiro married Hatsu Noguchi (originally from
The company also owned pearling luggers which operated from Cossack despite a number of racist policies of the state that prohibited "coloured aliens" from owning pearling licences. The pearling, combined with goods trading, and the supply of credit to many other firms, meant that by 1915 a large proportion of the freehold land in Cossack belonged to the Muramats brothers.[1]
A period of revitalisation in the pearling industry became one of defiance by a number of operators who did not join the federal government's voluntary Northern Territory Pearling Ordinance in 1931. Muramats had been granted
His wife returned to Cossack in 1946, and was its last resident when the town was abandoned in the 1950s. She later returned to Japan, and died in Yokohama on 12 August 1959 (leaving an estate in Australia of £7,670).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Catalogue entry for J. & T. Muramats records – via National Library of Australia
- OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 20 June 2007.
Print Publication Details: D. C. S. Sissons, 'Muramats, Jiro (1878–1943)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, p. 618.
- ^ "SPEECH DAYS". The Advocate. Melbourne. 19 December 1896. p. 8. Retrieved 26 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "NEWS OF THE WEEK". Western Mail. Perth. 6 May 1898. p. 34. Retrieved 26 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Advertising". The Pilbarra Goldfield News. Marble Bar, WA. 26 November 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 26 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE LICENSING ACT". Westralian Worker. Perth. 27 September 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 26 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- Hélène Attrill, ed. (2006). "Allies, Enemies and Trading Partners" (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia 2004. Archived from the original(PDF) on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2007.
Jiro Muramats[u] – disqualification under section 39(S) A406, E1945/1 [of the Act], appeal before High Court, 1923 part 1, attachment This file documents the attempt by Muramatsu in 1923 to regain his right to vote in WA. He had been enrolled before Federation, but was disqualified from voting under section 39 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act.