Clarence Goode

He served as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Minister of Agriculture in the Crawford Vaughan Labor government from 3 April 1915 to 14 July 1917[1] in what was criticised as the "Family Ministry" (Attorney-General John Howard Vaughan being the Premier's brother and Clarence his brother-in-law).

[5] Goode claimed to have been largely instrumental in establishing the wartime wheat scheme, which saved the farmers of Australia at that time from financial ruin.

That, and initiation of the Australian Shipping Board, brought him into close association for nearly two years with some of the most able businessmen in Australia.

Goode was appointed general manager of the British Australian Cotton-growing Association, a position he relinquished in November 1923 to take up cotton growing at Miles, Queensland, in part on the recommendation of one of his brothers who had moved to that State.

His experience was disappointing however, and he returned penniless to South Australia ten years later, residing in a rented house at 301 Military Road, Henley Beach.

He advocated radical alterations to the system by constitutional methods, quoting Henry George's remark that a country could not go on permitting men to vote and forcing them to tramp, nor educating boys and girls and refusing them the right to earn an honest living.