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1 CONT Marriage registry no. - 12728.
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1 CONT Percy was a worker, like all RODDA folk, who would work from
1 CONT daylight till dark and then follow other interests long into the
1 CONT night. They were the type of people who considered that work was a
1 CONT privilege, not a chore, and would attack each new project with the
1 CONT greatest of enthusiasm. At age 12 years, he worked on the farm, when
1 CONT his brothers went to the War. As a farmer, Percy won prizes for his
1 CONT Jersey Cattle and always liked to have good equipment with the
1 CONT object of doing everything in the latest way possible. He imported
1 CONT the automatic wire-tying hay baler in a photo from America, the
1 CONT first of its kind in the area. Round about 1946, when the building
1 CONT industry started to move again, after the war, Perce took on
1 CONT building, but he found that the waiting time for roofing tiles ran
1 CONT into months, so he set up a cement roof tile factory in Sale. Ben
1 CONT RODDA and Jack HILL, helped manage the factory, while Percy and a
1 CONT labourer actually laid the tiles, as far afield as Orbost to the
1 CONT Mornington Peninsula. The business was called Gippsland Tile Works
1 CONT and it was sold in 1950 to the BENNIE family. For some years he did
1 CONT contract harvesting in between times. He retired to live in Bendigo,
1 CONT but always had a garden
1 CONT and fowls, as an added interest. His favourite form of
1 CONT transportation was his Indian motor bike and side car. He was a keen
1 CONT member of the Sale Masonic Lodge and MArk Masons. One of the
1 CONT proudest moments of his life was when he was made a life governor of
1 CONT the Freemasons' Homes. He died at his home in Burrowes St, Golden
1 CONT Square, Bendigo at the age of 79 years.

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