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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
6
An old classified style notice advertises Blake's Hairdressing Salon at 360 Hampshire Road with three chairs and no waiting. It lists services including ladies hairdressing, trims, shampoos, wave and retouch options with various prices and operators named Maree and Landy ov.
Aunt Judith writes to children mentioning the Big Smile Prize winners Jack Hook of St Albans and Edward Crosbie. She urges continued contributions to the Big Smile section and notes prizes can be collected at The Advocate office after December 23 with specific prompt pickup for Marjory Adams of Servante Street Sunshine.
The article extols the California Redwoods or Big Trees as noblest of trees. A hunter once found a grove and told the world, leading to the name Sequoia. Reds can reach 340 feet high and 18 to 22 feet in diameter. Some giants may be 5000 years old.
Olwen Easton and Joyce Davies tie for most words in the Word Competition, with Easton having the edge after disallowed words are removed. Each winner should visit the Advocate office to claim prizes, while entries for the What Am I competition close Monday.
Two Sunshine Corner contributors Jack Hook and Edward Crosbie submit a playful classroom dialogue. Students suggest nouns and collective nouns as a teacher guides the session. The piece includes quips about a vacuum cleaner and a murder joke amid student lines.
A fragmented column of jokes and comic skits features Aunt Judith style quips about a pretty girl, wordplay on the letter G and EB, a moon riddle, a lobster as a schoolboy, and curious theatre banter. It ends with a classroom gag about a blank essay and a father child exchange about growing.
Saturday evening at Hall family and friends gathered for a kitchen tea honoring the forthcoming marriage of Cecil Wild and Gladys Mudford. The event featured orchestra music by Mer Frank Newham and Nichols Bros of Footscray, with Billy Williams on megaphone and dancing led by Mr Lambert. Leo Anderson and Miss Gorham won a Monte Carlo during the dancing.
At Monday’s Braybrook Shire Council meeting a £25 grant to the State Relief Committee was approved after praise for the organisation’s aid to afflicted cases. A Deer Park program letter urged attention to Purlongs Lane as Dr Dempster noted the Western riding project has waited 15 years on estimates before finally being authorised.
Members of the Sunshine Harvest Works Rifle Club competed for the weekly trophy over the 900 yard range on Saturday. Conditions were tough and grass growth hampered scores. A Masson topped with 48 of 60.
The London College of Music held elocution examinations on December 9. Primary and Elementary sections had multiple successful students led by Edne Bennett, Charles Young, Joan Scott, Valda Hawkins, Dorothy Lowe, and others. All listed students study under Mrs C Breadman of 21 Unn Street, Sunshine.
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