Maurice Hynes

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = '''The Hon''' | name = Maurice Hynes | honorific_suffix = | image = Portrait of the Honourable Maurice Patrick Hynes - Queensland politician.jpg | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Townsville | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 12 May 1923 | term_end1 = 27 March 1939 | predecessor1 = William Green | successor1 = George Keyatta | birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|9|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Mackay, Queensland, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|3|27|1886|9|29|df=y}} | death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | resting_place = Toowong Cemetery | birth_name = Maurice Patrick Hynes | party = Labor | other_party = | spouse = Margaret Josephine Hennessey (m.1907 d.1964) | occupation = Trade union organiser, labourer | relations = }}

'''Maurice Patrick "Mossy"<ref name=adb>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hynes-maurice-patrick-6785 Hynes, Maurice Patrick (1885–1939)] – ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''. Retrieved 15 February 2015.</ref> Hynes''' (29 September 1886 – 27 March 1939) was an Australian politician.

He worked in northern and western Queensland as a railway worker, stockman and waterfront labourer before moving to Mackay where he became a sugar industry worker.

He was the Labor member for Townsville in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1923 to 1939. He was also Secretary of Labour and Industry from 1932 to 1939 in William Forgan Smith's government.<ref name=qp>{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3422746967|accessdate= 15 February 2015}}</ref>

Hynes died in 1939. He was accorded a state funeral<ref name=funeral>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39025382 |title=DEATH OF MINISTER FOR LABOUR. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=28 March 1939 |accessdate=15 February 2015 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> which proceeded from St Stephen's Cathedral to the Toowong Cemetery.<ref>[https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=185994 Hynes, Maurice Patrick] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215071330/https://online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=185994 |date=15 February 2015 }} — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 6 June 2012.</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-qld}} {{s-bef|before= William Green}} {{s-ttl |title= Member for Townsville|years=1923–1939}} {{s-aft|after=George Keyatta}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

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