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different designs which had similar features. They predominantly were elevated, with steeply pitched roofs. The bedrooms were grouped around or adjacent to the central living area. Asbestos louvres and screened walls allowed for airflow throughout the house. Of his remaining houses, the heritage-listed
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Burnett spent the later part of his life sketching the clientele in public bars throughout Alice
Springs. He was known for his signature dress, which included knee-high woollen socks with tartan tabs from Scotland. He did not take kindly to comments about his socks. Burnett became a Licentiate of the
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Architect Grade One in the Works and Services Branch of the Department of the Interior. He commenced work in the newly created Darwin office. His role was to design a series of tropical houses for senior public servants and military personnel. He produced several
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Burnett was born in Pao T'eo, Shansi
Province of China, on 16 June 1889. The son of missionaries (his father from the Isle of Wight, England, his mother from Cardigan, Wales), he spent part of his youth at the China Inland Mission School in Chefoo. At 15 years of age, he began work with the
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Florence Mary Draper-Bentley in Shanghai on 8 December 1914. After separating in 1934, Burnett moved to Australia. His wife and two children moved to Scotland. He was known to say that he was "the happiest of married men as his dear wife lived 12,000 miles away".
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who had won it. Burnett ordered the fight recommence under the supervision of a local policeman and adjourned the case. They were then fined five
Shillings and told that it would be cheaper to confine their fighting to the youth club from now on.
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architectural firm Smedly and Denham in
Shanghai. He went on to work in Singapore, Japan and China. Some of this buildings are thought to be influenced by the colonial architecture of Malaysia and Singapore.
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