I commenced with Priestley & Morris, having replied to an advertisement, at the end of July 1940 at fifteen shillings ($1.50) a week. And I went out on audits!! Sargents (meat pies), Mark Foys with their attractive building in Liverpool Street, Rosehill Racecourse and the manufacturers of Akubra Hats - Dunkerley Woollen Mills.

We all wore suits (double breasted was fashionable), ties and Akubra fur felt hats. We were issued with waterman fountain pens and took a bottle of green ink out on audits. My recollection is that we initialled a copy of every piece of paper received by the Accounts Department of a client company - sales dockets, delivery dockets, invoices for purchases, creditors statements etc.

Memory of
Lex McCorquodale FCA