On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:09:53 +1000, Paul Blair wrote: >I'm trying to unpick someone's age. > >I know he started work with the PMG (as it was) at the 'earliest age for >a telegram boy' > >13? 14? 15? 16? > >This would have been around the end of WWI, to put it into a time context. > >TIA > >Paul The legal school leaving age in the state concerned. Any chance he would still have been employed by the Commonwealth on 30th June 1927, if so I can give you the idea of when he started? Cheers, Tom [Tom Perrett] <tomp@st.net.au>