Brothers Les and Frank Menzies go to board with their grandmother in Ballarat
to attend Humffray Street State School.
Birth of brother Sydney Keith Menzies on July 23 in Jeparit.
Phrenologist visits Jeparit:
"When I was about ten or eleven years
old, a phrenologist visited my birthplace, Jeparit, a township in the
north-west of Victoria, and, for a modest fee 'read my head'! He said
I would be a barrister and public speaker. I knew what a public speaker
was, for my father was, in a sense, the local politician and a speaker
of renown. But what was a barrister? I went home and was told. From
that day on, my course was charted and my mind clear, provided that
I could win enough free passages, that is, scholarships and exhibitions,
to bring me to port.
And so, in due course, I became a barrister …"
Sir Robert Menzies, Afternoon Light, 1967 p 316.
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