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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-03-05 human Ken McInnes updated 2025-03-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007630b.htm person D'Alton John St Eloy AACR2 1867 15 August 1936 Place of Birth Stawell, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia Civil engineer Municipal engineer John S. D'Alton CE FIIS was engineer and secretary of the Meekatharra Road Board - the largest road district in the Commonwealth - from 1911 until his death in 1936, during which he was responsible for increasing the length of roads in the district to 2,000 miles. He also influenced the construction of the railway from Meekatharra to Wiluna, and formulated a plan for the irrigation and exploitation of the vast north west of Western Australia. Earlier he had been the engineer and town clerk, for Northam and then for South Perth. While at Northam Council, he saw the erection of the electric power station and the Avon weir, and while at South Perth, he lobbied for the repair or replacement of the Canning Bridge. 1895 1895 Career event - Granted Certificate of Competency as Engineer and Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1890 VIC 1896 1896 Life event - Moved from Victoria to Western Australia 1896 1902 Career position - Engineer, Town Clerk, Northam 1902 1906 Career position - Engineer, Town Clerk, Municipality of South Perth 1906 1908 Career position - Engineer, Town Clerk, Northam 1911 1936 Career position - Secretary and engineer, Meekatharra Road Board D'Alton, John (c. 1829 - 1904) 'D'Alton, John St Eloy', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology D'Alton, John St Eloy Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Newspaper Article: Late John S. D'Alton - Interesting career Anon Late John S. D'Alton - Interesting career 1936 Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette 3