Harry Aliferis's Bondi Junction butchery. With father-in-law Evangelos Dermatis, and 5 staff members.

Evanagelos is the suited gentleman on the extreme left.

Harry Aliferis was born on 13.11.1914, in Lahi, Greece.
His wife, Maria (nee, Dermatis), is from Neapolis.
[Both villages located in Southern Greece, opposite Kythera].
Current address: Dover Heights, NSW.
[Both alive, as of Oct 2004.]

Harry Aliferis came to Australia in 1938 aged in his early 20s, having been sent by his father who saw few opportunities for him in Greece. On arrival, Aliferis worked as a cleaner in a butchers's shop.

In 1941 he started in partnership in a butcher shop on Albion Street, Sydney. Having acquired sufficient skills by the late 1940s, he set himself up in a butchery at 425 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction.

In another entry under History, subsection, Archive/Research, entitled, "Cinema Research 11: Appendix 11: Harry Aliferis, and the Hellenic Talkies Coy Australasia", the following history on Harry's involvement with Cinema is revealed.

"It was at this address that the Hellenic Talkies Coy Australasia could be found from 1951 to 1955. Realising that there were a number of Greek people in Sydney and other major centres, Aliferis, who was assisted by his father-in-law and his own brother, imported five Greek dialogue films from Finos Films in Greece. They cost £2000 for the hiring and screening rights."

A number of Kytherians entered the butchering trade in this era, and I include this entry here, in an endevour to encourage families of these butchers to post information and photographs to kythera-family.

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