Joseph Albert Hughes died of heart failure at Charters Towers, Queensland, January 9th, 1922, at the age of 47.
From 1902 to 1906 he was employed by the Brilliant & St. George Gold Mining Co., at Charter’s Towers, which he left in the latter year to take up an appointment as junior demonstrator in chemistry and assaying at the Charters Towers School of Mines. He had been a pupil at that school, and his subsequent career was bound up with it, for in 1907 he became the senior demonstrator in chemistry and assaying, and on the transfer of Mr. George J. Saunders to Brisbane, in 1913, he was appointed lecturer in chemistry, metallurgy, and assaying, with full charge of the department, a position which he was still occupying at his death.
In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society, London, and in 1910 became a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. Hughes was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1913.
Vol. 33, Trans IMM 1923-4, p.534
