Ernie Evans

Ernest "Ernie" Evans (6 March 1892 – 28 February 1965) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Having trouble transporting the cane, he organised the local farmers into forming a company to build a train line to the Mulgrave sugar mill.

[1] On 31 October 1914[1] he married Winifred Ellen Cronin (died 1974)[2] at Christ Church in Bundaberg and together had three sons and a daughter.

His opponent for the Labor Party was the Deputy Premier and Minister for Transport, Ted Walsh.

[4] Evans went on to represent the electorate until his death eighteen years later, turning it into a safe Country Party seat.