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Portrait of Joseph Henry Grice, circa 1930s, Photographer unknown

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Portrait of Joseph Henry Grice, circa 1930s

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Photographer unknown

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"J. H. Grice. Alderman 1921 - 1924. 1926 - 1927. Mayor 1927 - 1930. Chairman First Constituted Water Authority 192- [final digit damaged]."--Inscription on mounted board of photograph"Kirkley's, Southport."--Signature on photographJoseph Henry Grice was elected an alderman of the Southport Town Council and in 1926 became Mayor of Southport for a three year term. He was also chairman of Southport's first water authority. Grice was one of the first motorists to follow the wagon tracks and hack his way through the bush to Southport in 1912. Grice was a Brisbane jeweller and he drove to Southport regularly to entertain business associates who travelled by boat to the Grand Hotel at Labrador. In the early 1920s he sold the family business and bought the Grand Hotel. The Depression years of the early 1930s broke Joseph Grice while proprietor of the Grand Hotel. He took his family back to Brisbane and re-established himself as a successful businessman and became Mayor of Redcliffe in 1943. He died in Brisbane aged 88 in 1965

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