Hello Marg. I assume that this is a 'series' which you are starting to provide to us. Thanks for it/them. I am not aware of HALLS P.O. Directory. Would you have a date for it please Marg? Skimming through this one on East Maitland, and seeing the name EVATT as an hotelier, reminded me that "Doc" EVATT had come from an East Maitland hotel family. I just looked him up again on adbonline (the Australian Dictionary of Biography on-line), and in case anyone else might be interested, here is an extract from the start of his entry at this URL: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140124b.htm " EVATT, HERBERT VERE (1894-1965), politician and judge, was born on 30 April 1894 at East Maitland, New South Wales, fifth of eight sons of John Ashmore Evatt, a publican from India, and his Sydney-born wife Jane 'Jeanie' Sophia, née Gray. His father, the amiable but ineffectual scion of a well-connected English family, died when Bert was 7, and his Irish-Australian mother shouldered the task of encouraging an intellectually gifted family. Bert attended East Maitland Superior Public School and from 1905 Fort Street Model (Boys' High) School, Sydney, matriculated brilliantly in 1911 and entered St Andrew's College, University of Sydney (B.A., 1915; M.A., 1917; LL.B., 1918-each with first-class honours), where he achieved excellent results in mathematics, logic, philosophy and English, and won a swag of medals and awards. ..." Thanks once more. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "MargM" <[email protected]> Subject: [HV] Info on East Maitland from Halls NSW PO DIR MAITLAND (EAST). ... HOTELS > > Dawson > > G. H., "Junction" > > Evatt J., "Bank" > > Hain J. A., " Willow Tree" > > Pithers J., " Windsor Castle" > > Rohan M., "George and Dragon " > > Redman G., " Hunter River " ...

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [HV] Info on East Maitland from Halls NSW PO DIR Hi Ray. >I assume that this is a 'series' which you are starting to >provide to us. No just odd bits of random info >Thanks for it/them. I am not aware of HALLS P.O. Directory. >Would you have a date for it please Marg? Its one of the many misc directories put on to CD by Archive CD Book OPPs sorry I forgot to type in the year .Its 1895 Bye MargM Hunter Valley List Admin