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Union Street,
Toowong,
15th Nov. 1940.

Dear Mr. May,

I note that ,in today's Telegraph, it was stated that
at a meeting of West Nundah resident's , that you had suggested the
word Inala , meaning"Home of rest" as a new name for West Nundah.

As I had given you this word and its meaning , I would point
out that the said meaning is incorrect. As a matter of fact ,
the aborigine , having no permanent place of abode , had no equivalent
of the word home. Inala , or more correctly , nyinala , is the future
tense of the Yugumbir very nyina , meaning to lie or recline , and
was used by the aborigines to denote rest time ,i.e. the coming of
night. To give it the meaning of "Home of rest" would not accord
with aboriginal plilology.

Yours faithfully.

F.J. Watson