Thanks Jeannie for your advice. I am due for a trip to Melbourne to the PRO. It is in North Melbourne and not as easily accessible as it was in Laverton. I hope Alma records will be as interesting as your Vaughan School. Thank you to you too Tom, I will contact both schools, not sure which one of them my father and his siblings would have attended. Also the Maryborough Genie Group will be worth contacting. Your mention of school poems brings to mind some that we used to sing, unfortunately some of them not too flattering about certain teachers characteristics. Thank you both for being so helpful. Once again I have to say this is a great List. Cheers Joan