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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 21, 1947
Page
8
Announcement lists Ivy May the second daughter of Mr and Mrs Gibson of Arthur Street St Albans to Charles James eldest son of Mrs and the late Mr J Farmer of Leongatha. The note marks a forthcoming marriage between two families and places involved.
Laura Narburgh daughter of A and Mrs Narburgh of Sunshine will wed Arthur Jowett son of G and Mrs Jowett at St Marks England Street Sunshine on February date. Audrey Hunter daughter of Mr and Mrs Meroc Hunter will marry Ronald Wilson son of Mr and Mrs Ao Wilson at St Johns Church Footscray on February date.
A garbled collection of memorial notices from a community paper lists multiple in memoriam items for individuals named Ferguson and Paterson. Wording honors deceased spouses, parents, siblings, and sons with dates around February and years including 1939 1946. Readings include expressions of grief, remembered faces, and familial tributes from wives, children, and siblings across Scotland.
A fragmented Victorian era style notice page lists an in memoriam for a mother, then a flood of local sales ads and classifieds in Sunshine. Items include nursery furniture, prams, a boatload of goods, guns, tools, beds, a cooker, and a sewing machine, with various owners and street references such as Thorpe Street and Main Street, Sunshine.
A Braybrook Shire meeting on February 1 1947 adopted By-Law No 76 amending Nos 68 and 72 to designate new shopping areas in Adelaide Street King Edward Avenue Suffolk Geelong and Raleigh Roads as residential. A copy of the By-Law is available for inspection during office hours at Shire Hall Sunshine free of charge.
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