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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 14, 1944
Page
4
A muddled OCR collage lists vacancies and wants in a town noticeboard. Entries mention a “sientieman Boarder” and private lodgings, lost items, tyre sales, and a Salvation Army event with names like Pastor A. G Rennett.
Masonic lodge notices list meetings for Loyal Hamsbins Lodge and Kobun Kurret St chapter in Sunshine with secretaries WESUUTT and Joan Murrow. Meetings set for two days next in Supper Room Town Hall and at Mack's Mall location.
The Secretary of the Board invites tenders at Exhibition Building Carlen for the supply and delivery of 7 400 cubic yards of crushed rock for the Palmer Road project in Craybrook Shire. Plans and specifications are at the Shire office Sunshine. Preliminary deposit 7 1 2 percent. Tenders close Monday April and may be accepted or rejected.
A cluttered page lists a March birth Pamela Margaret to Chuell and Vero. other entries honor a Courtney RAAF fatality in Luftwaffe era combat. Cunningham and Minter entries mourn a mother and wife with sentimental verse.
A series of arranged marriages and engagements appears in the notices, naming daughters and sons from families including Stubbings, Harper, Wilkins-Cupps, McKay, McQueen, Spencer-Williams, and related guardians. Details include proposed matches, parental lines, and locations like Sunshine and Thornbury, with calendar hints and customary phrasing.
Shire of Bray Brook proposes to borrow seven hundred pounds for permanent works funded by debentures under Local Government Acts. Interest rate up to three and three quarters percent per year, loan term ten years with twenty semi annual repayments of 41 pounds 0 shillings 7 pence. Works include road and street improvements and public works. details open for inspection at the Shire offices, Hampshire Road, Sunshine.
The Sunshine Technical School reports on junior and senior certificate candidates, Wasser awards and scholarships. Names include Meryl Barker Ann Donieon Margwne Gritiths May inte Moore Noetnw Wood and many others with details on water safety exams and resuscitation skills.
A public lecture under the St Albans Progressive Association featured Mr. A. G. Pearson discussing a new social order and Christian coalition with the Labor Movement. He argued for federal over private control of key industries and tax on wealth to reduce poverty among the employed. he stressed government action postwar and civilizational renewal.
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