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My father James [Jim] Thomas Garvin was born in Bendigo in 1905, he was educated at the Working Man's College, later renamed Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In May 1926 Jim started work, as a Survey Assistant, in Yallourn. At this time Single Staff accommodation was provided in four man tents at the Western Camp with meals provided in the Staff Mess, which was still in operation in 1948. In March 1929 Jim was appointed as an Engineering Assistant to the Construction Branch Yallourn, at a salary of 7 pounds a week.