Career
Beale formed a company to import sewing machines and pianos in 1879, after which he established Australia"s first piano factory in Annandale, 1893.The factory ceased production in 1975. He served as president of the New South Wales Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of the Australian Museum, and the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac). He later conducted, at his own expense, a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Secret Drugs, 1905-1910.
The two-volume report records the criminal unscrupulousness of manufacturers and advertisers.
