Jack Parker - mentioned in some of these stories was my Great Uncle. The Charlie Parker mention was Jack's father - which makes him my Great Grandfather (though I admit, I do get lost in working these things out sometimes!). In any case, Charlie was one of the few to admit being a recipient of the monkey glands.

"He was quite a character," says Jackie Parker, who has lived in Dora Creek for all of his life. "I remember during the heat wave, Doctor Jones used to sit out on the balcony in a fridge. He had this big old refrigerator and he'd be sitting there in an easy chair that was wedged into the fridge. He had a thing about the heat."

Parker was only a young boy at the time, with a bread delivery run that included the doctor's lakeside home.

"He was mainly a dentist," Parker recalls, "the old type that pulled teeth with no anaesthetic. He treated people from the area mostly just as a favour, treating most of his patients for no fee at all. He was very generous in that way."
Monkey Jones

Eraring Public School

Monkey glands