Carter Avenue Nunawading

Going through mums estate recently I came across an impassioned letter of my father to Nunawading Council pleading with them not to aquire 9 of the house blocks he created when he subdivided his old orchard west of McCulloch st , which was our home ( 43) . Dad was always poor and he was destined to stay that way . Well poor in the way of cash flow ,  but we were always rich in other ways . Rich enough to share on his model'  always sharing the little we had and the rich bonus of ag produce that noone paid you enough for .

That wasn't the worst of it because the Education Department compulsorily aquired most of the rest of his orchard and poultry farm ( to the west of NS section of  Carter ave ) leaving him to , not only build the road,  but provide a house block to get back into McCulloch Street.