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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 15, 1952
Page
3
The article argues a growing Victorian education crisis requires public protest and government funding. It notes improvements in methods and facilities but warns insufficient buildings finance and teachers threaten children’s access to proper schooling. It emphasizes citizen responsibility to push for action.
Mr G. Kirby was re elected president and Mr J. Crockatt became secretary. Mr E. Flynn takes position of assistant, with Mr White acting treasurer. Treasurer R Grant is seriously ill. Presentations to Mrs T Ellaworth and Miss Ellen for help with the ladies quartiney. Several members died this year and sympathy offered to Mr Grant. A social committee will be formed with the band to build a fund and advance the project. Mr Kirby was thanked for lending the property for the meeting and the buffet tea was by Reg Hand.
Frank Leworthy of 20 Alder Street South Caulfield was fined £2 with 2 shillings sixpence costs at Sunshine Court on Tuesday for parking in a prohibited area outside the White City Coursing Ground.
A Sunshine Court heard two truck drivers tested for speeding near Deer Park on June 16. Cimelo Cassar 45 Leicester St Fitzroy was fined 5 pounds after admitting speeds of 40 to 45 mph in a 35 mph zone saying I haven’t got a speedo. Ghigo 472 Latrobe St Melbourne also faced a similar charge and was fined after warning the police to give him a chance.
Misa McKenzie has spent two and a half years in Britain studying pianoforte technique with Franz Reixstein. She has given many recitals in England and Scotland and made solo broadcasts for the B B C. She especially enjoyed Glasgow studio broadcasts and feels the tour benefited her musically and personally.
A Ballarat Sunshine traffic officer stopped a car with a home made front plate and a falsified registration label on April 13. Driver Norman Maxwell Charles, 26 West Footscray, appeared in Sunshine Court facing five charges. He was convicted on all counts and fined £13 total for unregistered vehicle, unlicensed driving, possessing a deceptive registration label, and possessing plates without authority.
Frederick John Jams, 69 Nelson St., Neill, was fined £3 on Tuesday at the Sunshine Court for driving a truck with no number plates or registration label. The incident occurred after his vehicle was intercepted on Ballarat Rd., Albion.
Constable J Hearn testified in Sunshine Court on Tuesday that driver Clifford Charles Ford faced three charges for a mobile crane with no sidelight or vehicle lights and unconnected headlights. Ford, of 91 Barkley Street East Brunswick, was fined a total of £6.
Constable J Heard testified about a Braybrook bus with a non working tail light at an oncoming stop on Ballarat Road. Robert Horkings of Yarraville faced two charges but was convicted only of the tail light offence and fined two pounds with the obstruction charge dismissed.
John Cabbin aged 18 of 18 Hutchinson Street Sunshine was charged at the Sunshine Court on Tuesday with riding an unregistered motor cycle and with being an unlicensed driver. He was fined a total of £5.
Archibald Kenneth Medwell of Benga Avenue Dandenong was fined £5 at Sunshine Court for excessive speed on Ballarat Road on 14 May. Police evidence showed Medwell reached 45 mph in a 35 mph limit amid rain and a very wet road.
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