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Australia. In around 1907, Arthur Yates formally divested his interests from his brother's, although both operations shared the name Arthur Yates & Co. and they remained in close contact with their father's Manchester headquarters. Caroline Davies died in 1918. Arthur Yates employed all of his sons, Harold, Arthur, Guy, and Philip, but excluded his daughters Vera and Maud. Yates was a staunch supporter of the Farm Home in Windsor and the Boys; Home in Milleewa, Ashfield. He died on 30 July 1926 in his residence in
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