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NATIONAL VICTORIA

The Timber Merchants’ Association Annual Dinner

2 December 1970 • Camberwell Civic Centre

MGA TMA’s National Membership Manager was contacted by Maree, a lady whose father had worked in the timber industry for many years.

Upon her father’s passing, Maree reviewed his files and found a copy of a dinner program from a TMA annual dinner in 1970. She wanted to send it to TMA to retain a piece of memorabilia.

The menu certainly sounds like 1970!

Maree said that her father always had to stop and visit the timber yards he drove by. She commented that she remembers saying that her father worked in a wood yard, and he would correct her, “No, a timber yard. Wood you put into a fireplace.”

She was pleased to pass it on, and MGA TMA is grateful to receive this memorabilia.

Grocers Board Indenture Form

16 September 1940

This form belonged to my father, Edwin Warner who commenced his employment at Radcliff Bros, grocery store, a service grocery outlet.

His debenture was suspended on 15th January 1942 when he joined the army and served in New Guinea. The debenture was revived on 4th March 1946.

He had a long career in the grocery industry and he retired in 1988. 44 years in an industry that evolved from the customer being served to the customer serving themselves. He owned a small independent supermarket for a number of years, and later progressed through the industry from a sales representative to National Sales Manager. He represented companies like Fowlers Vacola, Gordon Edgells, McAlpins and ended his career at A.W Allens. (All these Australian companies have now vanished, taken over by multinationals)

In addition to these positions, he was for a number of years Merchandise Manager for the Saveway Food Stores (located in Abbottsford), and he was appointed by the auditors to managing Shell’s Supermarkets before the chain was sold.

Credit Warren Warner