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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 20, 1942
Page
3
A call for national unity across classes to boost war production and resist aggression. It argues for cooperative industrial reform, fair treatment of workers, and a new postwar social order grounded in democracy, Christian understanding, and collective action. It urges study groups and public engagement to implement these changes.
Obituary notice records the death at Braybrook of a 62 year old resident on February 1. Funeral was well attended on Sunday and the remains were interred in Footecray Cemetery. Floral tributes were numerous and the giver named G. W. 3 William.
The Sunshine Housewives Association heard Mrs. Burton advocate nursery school expansion to free married women for war industry. She cited UK and Australia push for more nursery schools, two-shift work, and government support. The Sunshine Nursery School Committee was formed with Mrs. Doak as secretary to back wartime employment through child care.
Anniversary Sunday will be celebrated at the local Presbyterian Church at 2 45 p.m. Special singing will be by Sunbury Choir soloists and the Rev J A Moscript will preach. The Social Club plans a social evening in Mechanics Hall tomorrow night replacing a canceled St Albans Red Cross event, continuing fort nightly from tomorrow. The Progress Association holds its usual monthly meeting tonight in the Mechanics Institute likely to attract above average attendance.
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