1908 In 1907, Peter returned home to Toppo, where he renewed contact with his family and met his youngest brother, 11-year-old Galli, for the first time. His mother was in mourning for her husband Giovanni who died the year before. Tony his middle brother had trained as a Marble & Mosaic worker in Paris.
While in Toppo, he laid a Mosaic floor in his mother's Kitchen possibly with Tony's help.

He had already booked his passage from Italy to Australia and, on May 6 1908, Peter arrived in Sydney with ten shillings in his pocket. Within three days of his arrival, Peter had arranged accommodation at Mrs McCabe’s boarding house at 242 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, and a job as a tile layer for GE Crane and Sons. In October that year, Peter commenced his own working operations at 16 Regent Street, Redfern, and Melocco Bros Pty Ltd was born.