[7] Initially working on the family farm, he then became a clerk at the City Electric Light Company.
[8] Meredith then became a teacher, initially at a small Anglican school called St Christopher's in Brookfield, which had been established by Fr Robert Bates, Rector of All Saints, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane.
[11] This was only three years after the Mount Lamington volcanic eruption which destroyed the school, and at the time it was still being rebuilt.
[12] Meredith trained for ordination at St Francis' Theological College, Brisbane and was ordained deacon in 1961 and priest in 1962.
[13] He served a short curacy at St Thomas', Toowong in the Diocese of Brisbane from 1961 to 1962 and then returned to Papua & New Guinea as a missionary in the Papuan Peninsula from 1962 to 1966.