Harold Boas OBE was a town planner and architect in Western Australia.
10 Facts About Harold Boas
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Harold Boas served as an elected member of the Perth City Council on three separate occasions, presided over the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission and was the foundation president of the Town Planning Institute of Western Australia.
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Harold Boas was born on 27 September 1883 in Adelaide, South Australia, the third son of noted Minister and Rabbi, Abraham Tobias Harold Boas and his wife Elizabeth, nee Solomon.
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On 29 March 1911 Harold Boas married Sadie Cohen at the Brisbane Street Synagogue in Perth.
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Harold Boas was chairman of the State government's Metropolitan Town Planning Commission from 1928 to 1930 and was a member of the Town Planning Association of Western Australia from 1914.
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Harold Boas was an inaugural member of the State division of the Town Planning Institute of Australia.
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In 1932 Harold Boas stood unsuccessfully for the Western Australian Legislative Council as an anti-secessionist candidate during the debate prior to the 1933 secession referendum.
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Harold Boas founded and edited the Australian Jewish Outlook, a short lived anti-Zionist monthly, in May 1947.
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However, the periodical went out of circulation after little more than a year as Harold Boas had overestimated the level of support for it.
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Harold Boas was president of the local branch of the United Nations Association, representing Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry at the United Nations conference in Bangkok in 1950.