Maurice Hynes

Maurice Patrick "Mossy" Hynes was an Australian politician.
He worked in northern and western Queensland as a railway worker, stockman and waterfront labourer before moving to Mackay where he became a sugar industry worker.
He was the Australian [Labor Party (Queensland Branch)|Labor] member for Townsville in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1923 to 1939. He was also Secretary of Labour and Industry from 1932 to 1939 in William Forgan Smith's government.
Hynes died in 1939. He was accorded a state funeral which proceeded from Cathedral of [St Stephen, Brisbane|St Stephen's Cathedral] to the Toowong Cemetery.