Lives in Cricket No 4 - Ernie Jones

Chapter Seven Life and Work: 1912-1943 From February 1912 until November 1922, Jones was a ‘Searcher and Watchman, Grade 3’ with the Australian Department of Trade and Customs in Fremantle. His starting salary was £126 per year and rose to £174, with an additional allowance of £50 from July 1920. In 1922 Jones transferred back to South Australia with Customs, living near work in the seaside suburb of Semaphore. He might have decided to return to his old stamping ground following a further family tragedy, the death of young Ernest, aged 27, on a dance floor in Adelaide in September, 1922; he also had no immediate family left in Perth. Ernest junior had served with the Eleventh Battalion, probably at Poziers in France and returned to Australia in 1916 following gas poisoning. He resettled in 77 Bureaucracy at work. Jones’ personnel record shows he worked for Customs at Fremantle from 1912 to 1922.