ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors thank Miriam Attwood, Cathryn Baker, Stuart Brier, Michael Collins, Leigh Martin, Sandra Shaw, Peter Swann and Optometry Queensland Northern Territory for access to their historical archives.
Notes
a Presumably he was not indentured to his father RC Brier due to limitations imposed by the 1924 Apprenticeship Act, which restricted the number of apprentices at a particular workplace based on the number of employees.