Joseph Edward Manners died on 12th June, 1961, at the age of 63.
Mr. Manners was born in Australia but educated in England from the age of 13 at St. Paul’s School, Kensington, between 1910 and 1915. He joined the Inns of Court O.T. Corps and was commissioned with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, serving for four years in France. After demobilization in 1919 he returned to Australia to attend the Kalgoorlie School of Mines. He gained the Associateship of the School of Mines of Western Australia in 1927 and was awarded the Surveyor’s and Mine Supervisor’s Certificates of the West Australian Mines Department. During his course of study Mr. Manners worked for Ivanhoe Gold Corporation, Ltd., between 1920 and 1923 and with Boulder Perseverance, Ltd., between 1923 and 1928.
Mr. Manners left Australia in 1928 for Venezuela and worked for eighteen months as manager of Carabobo Venezuelan Gold Mines, Ltd. From there he went to Spain and from 1929 to 1932 was first assistant in the underground department of Rio Tinto Co., Ltd., Huelva, and from 1932 to 1935 chief of the sampling department. He returned to Australia in 1935 to take up the position of general manager and attorney of Boulder Perseverance, Ltd., Kalgoorlie. Mr. Manners was also appointed joint attorney of Kalgoorlie Ore Treatment Co., Ltd., and two years later became manager and chairman of the board of directors of Kalgoorlie Enterprise Mines, Ltd. He held that post until 1955 and continued to serve with Boulder Perseverance, Ltd., until 1954. In 1955 and 1956 he was also a director of Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie (Aust.), Ltd. After 1956 he retired from managerial duties and undertook private consulting work.
Mr. Manners was elected a Student of the Institution in 1924; he was transferred to Associate Membership in 1928 and to Membership in 1942. He was also a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Vol. 71, Trans IMM 1961-62, p.735
