Prime Minister John Gorton, formerly from Kerang, shows a group of Kerang High School students around his office in Canberra. The students were on a school to trip to the country’s capital. Robyn Whinfield, aged 16, is pictured in the centre, with pig-tails, and looking at the Prime Ministers desk.

Photo: Kerang New Times, Friday 22 August 1969.

John Gorton was on the Kerang Council with Horace Whinfield. They became friends with Horace replacing John Gorton as President of the council.

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