Hi Folks Re the Muntham petition which I posted recently it has been pointed out to me by Kate Boyce that the letter to Hon W Slater MLC could not have been 1915, as indeed he was away at war in that year and was not a Member until a few years later. There's a website about his life at > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~astrovis/WilliamSlater.html As the petition had no year on it, only a date and a month, I believed from ongoing correspondence about the renovation that the year was approximately 1915, but obviously, in typical Education Department style of the time, the residents went on asking for a long, long time. Just thought I'd better make this known in case it was crucial to anyone's family tree. When I get the chance I'll search the PRO files for more clues to the year. Cheers Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia List Admin