Proverb : Knots well tied are easiest undone. Parable : Richard Hocking gingerly poled the punt off the bank of the Murray River with the butt-end of the oar, the intent was to ferry his expectant wife, Alice Hocking, across the Murray River to the Blanchetown side where a car was waiting to take Alice to the hospital for the birth of their child. The Mid-wife comforted and settled Mrs.Alice Hocking as best as possible in the cramped craft. Considering the advanced state of her labour, this was no easy task for either woman. Alice groaned with another prolonged contraction. “There, dear, It’s near now, we’ll soon be over the river and at the hospital”. The mid-wife soothed. Now, in those days, the government, in its’ kindness, gave a family an endowment of five pounds for every child born. At the end of The Great Depression, five quid went a long way, with the Hocking family, it went the whole hog! Fivers weren’t something you came across every day, so