Moving Picture Display of ARP at Village Theatre Toorak
Courtesy of Mr G A Kirby Sunshine hosts a program of official ARP films with Major Schotter lecture. Screened titles include England Prepared Should Death Descend Caught in an Air Raid Black Out. After a packed Sunday audience Sunshine praises the presentation and urges attendance Sunday night before city distributors. No repeat night for months. limited seating excludes under 16.
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G. A. Kirby
Sunshine
A.R.P
Major Schotter
England
Toorak
Preas
Is Your Work Listed Here
A wartime appeal lists amounts of knitted and sewn items made by several women for the Red Cross and Comforts Fund for the year ending December 1941. It urges more workers to knit or sew, inviting attendance at Shire Hall distributing rooms each Friday for guidance and to view needed garments.
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Red Cross and Comforts Fund
Shire Hall
Autumn Show Canceled by Horticultural Society
The Horticultural Society announces there will be no autumn show this year due to the wartime situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Horticultural Society
Army Week Exhibition for Australia in Melbourne
The Australian Soviet Friendship League promotes Army Week to fund four armoured ambulances for allied forces. A Melbourne display runs February 23 to 27 at Central Hall Little Collins Street with photos films equipment first aid and lectures. A China war film with Major Elliot screens February 25 and a street meeting follows February 27 inviting public welfare supporters.
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Central Hall
Little
Collins Street
Melbourne
Department of Information
China
Elliot
A.S.F.L
Australia
Sunshine Kids Should Not be Lousy
Local authorities urge delousing precautions for evacuating children in Sunshine amid vermin concerns. Emphasis on home- bathing, haircutting, and washing clothes to avoid public exposure of noncompliant parents.
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Sunshine
Younger Set Club Seeks Books and March Meeting
The Younger Set holds its first annual meeting at Shire Hall on March 2 with members urged to attend. The Buallarat road soldiers camp library needs replenishment via books and magazines left at the Advocate office. Dan Perry is made an honorary member for his support at the dances. The next dance is at the Masonic Hall on February 26 with Vic Maloney's orchestra.
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Shire Hall
Buallarat-road
Advocate
Dan Perry
Masonic Hall
Vic. Maloney
Workers Homes at Sunshine Near Occupation in Victoria
Sun shine housing trust in Victoria reports about 16 houses ready for occupation with 204 dwellings under construction. The project features pier and beam reinforced concrete construction, varied bricks and roofs, built-in fittings, and concrete street channels. Overend notes road and footpath delays on bulk housing but progress proceeds with innovative methods.
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Beat Overend
Sunshine
Federal War Workers’ Housing Trust
Housing Commission of Victoria
Department of the Interior
Qeverend
Housing Commission
Overend
Commission
Leon
ARP Training Lectures Expanded in Sunshine Shire
The Sunshine ARP warns the public that Thursday 8 pm lectures on elementary first aid for wardens and ARP services run over three nights in Shire Hall. An upcoming exam will select instructors, with classes planned in each area. Over 1000 locals have enrolled, though women’s wardens duties drew weak interest while other duties drew strong response.
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Sunshine
Shire Hall
A.R.P
Byrne
A Matter Collection Saturday Event By Sunshine Scouts
A notice announces a collection drive titled A Matter Collection Saturday to be held tomorrow Saturday, organized by the Sunshine Scouts and Gs Guides.
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The
Sunshine Scouts and Gs Guides
Next Sunday at the COA Church is the First Sun Rac
The readable fragment mentions a Sunday event at a church. It references a first Sunday rac and an EL WIL series of ad items. Details are unclear but indicate a religious event with a series of advertisements or activities planned for that day.
District Patriotic Fund meeting notes and funds
Friday's meeting in Shire Hall discussed donations to ROC AGF and PAP, repatriation details for returning soldiers, and a planned front page appeal. Treasuries showed receipts of £4021/19/5 and expenditures of £2116/16/6 with £87/0/1 balance. Isle of Man style wording preserved.
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Afovenmentioned Fund
North Shire Hall
Farsons
Sunshine
ROC
AGF
PAP
ALF
Ross Oll.a
Baéti
Red Cross Committee of Ladies
Mline
Sunshine Advocate
Red Cross
Ro Vo Seymour
Seymour
Euat Sunshine
Kenzie
Ballarat Road
Helpers Sought for Red Cross and ACF War Efforts
Sunshine appeals for volunteers to boost Red Cross ARP aid and ACF supplies amid wartime demand. Holidays and Japanese entry impact output as Militia and Allied troops require front line support. Patriotic committees urge immediate public aid to recover weeks of lost production.
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Ertey
Japan
Sunshine
A.C.F
Patriotic Committee
Ladies’ Red Cross Committee
Ladies Red Cross Committee
Appeal for Donations to Comforts and Red Cross Funds
Amid growing under arm demand more men, calls rise for Comforts Funds and Red Cross aid. Two weeks yield £44 7s 6d with £ ITAL collected since operation began last April. The committee urges more subscribers, 6d weekly or more, to sustain comforts, prisoner parcels, and Red Cross equipment, with collection through Mr R F Seymour at Seymour's corner.
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Red Cros
Red Cross
Ok Populip Soho
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Sunshine Picture Theatre
ARMY
Footscray
Forge’s
Nicholson Street
Forge
Frank Heath
A. C. Leith & Bartlett
John F. D. Scarborough
Tyes
Isteer
Flan Type
A.R.P. Services
Chieppone
Hieraterm
Reola
Castile
Pura
Sunshine and District
U.F.S. Dispensary
L. McDuff
Pheme Sunshine
John Downing
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