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- James_W._Jones abstract "Thomas Jones (5 December 1809–20? November 1892) was a civil engineer born in Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, Wales who arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on 7 July 1840. He supervised rebuild of the City Bridge in 1843 and construction of the Port Elliot to Goolwa tramway from 1853 to 1856 and the Port Elliot breakwater, then remained as engineer and supervisor until 1871 when the work was contracted to one J. McGeorge. He was appointed Surveyor for Moonta in 1872 and works supervisor for the (Yorke) Peninsula Road Board in 1875. He designed the Anglican Church in Moonta. He was the founder of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows in South Australia.One of his sons, T. Jones, succeeded him as Surveyor of Moonta.Another son James W. Jones (1843–26 April 1920) was a student at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution. He was soon working for his father on the Port Elliot to Goolwa tramway, for which his father received official criticism. He joined the State public service as a draughtsman in 1865 and was appointed Chief Surveyor then Deputy Surveyor-General in the Department of Survey and Crown Lands. He explored the area north-east of Eucla in 1880, and discovered the Kudna rockhole and catacombs, an immense network of limestone caves, lakes and underground passages under the Nullarbor Plain. He was appointed Conservator of Water in 1887 and Secretary to the Commissioner of Works in 1902. He was secretary of the South Australia branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia from its foundation in 1885 to 1894. He was elected president of the Institute of Surveyors in 1912. He was chairman and president of the Harbors and Marine Board in 1914. He was secretary of the Cheer-Up Society during the First World War.He was appointed Companion of the Imperial Service Order in 1911.His elder son, George Lindsay Jones (1868?–1896), was photographer and collector on the Calvert Expedition led by Lawrence Allen Wells, on which he perished in 1896 with Charles Frederick Wells.His younger son, L. C. Jones was in 1920 manager of the Bank of Adelaide at Port Augusta.".
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- James_W._Jones description "Civil engineer and supervisor".
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- James_W._Jones comment "Thomas Jones (5 December 1809–20? November 1892) was a civil engineer born in Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, Wales who arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on 7 July 1840. He supervised rebuild of the City Bridge in 1843 and construction of the Port Elliot to Goolwa tramway from 1853 to 1856 and the Port Elliot breakwater, then remained as engineer and supervisor until 1871 when the work was contracted to one J. McGeorge.".
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