Original sentence: "It's nothing against Howard's father because everyone was doing it,"."There was no disgrace in it.After the war, Lyall worked as a fitter and turner for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR), until retrenched in during the Depression.Dozens of people did it".Even a one-armed lift operator at Burns Philps' office in Sydney was a big plantation owner on paper.Lyall with his father Walter Howard ran two petrol stations where in later years John Howard worked as a boy.Sir John Middleton, a former PNG MP and son of returned Australian serviceman  planter Max Middleton said
Edited sentence: According to a Sydney Morning Herald report published on 7 January 1989, there were some suspicions in the Howard family that Lyall was a member of the New Guard, an unofficial paramilitary organisation which stood for "unswerving loyalty to the throne, sane and honourable government, suppression of any disloyal and immoral elements in government, industrial and social circles, [and] the full liberty of the individual".After the war, Lyall worked as a fitter and turner for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR).During the 1930s, Lyall was retrenched from CSR.Lyall Howard has been described as a shy and gentle,  strong on self-reliance, but not an outwardly affectionate man.Lyall and his father Walter Howard then ran two petrol stations where John Howard worked as a boy.The 1928-29 Auditor General's report stated that in the Howard's case, there is "no doubt whatever that dummying exists", but said "the offence is not so open and the pretence is better maintained" compared to other cases.With the assistance of Treasurer Ted Theodore, the Administrator pursued the Howard case for many more months, but eventually declared he was "satisfied with the bona fides of the Howards"