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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 10, 1936
Page
5
Items of interest outline weekly store activities, urging careful attention to prices and customer needs. It emphasizes making shopping easy and building trust between customers and staff through attentive service and reliable value.
Weekend specials advertise hose and silk stockings with various grades and shades. Offers include pure silk hose with X gradings, dull sheer lisle, heavy lisle fashion hose, silk stockings, and cashmere wool hose at discounted prices. Limited quantities and early sales noted.
Friday night at the State Electricity Com offices the Sunshine Football weekly gathering drew a smaller crowd due to bad weather. Master Billy Tearl won with 32 points, while ladies Mrs Storey and Mrs F Ellingsen shared top prizes, plus consolation prizes for E Crick and Mr W Trueman. The group plans may shift to larger scale events in the near future.
The Sun shine Horticultural Society held its annual meeting at Town Hall supper room on Wednesday evening electing Dr Kk Drayton as president F Bennett and J Cambridge as vice presidents J R Parsons as secretary J H Nevill as assistant secretary A Noble as treasurer and a committee including W Stark FF Higgins J McDonald J Watson H Till A Beachley H Singleton plus members Mrs Drayton Sr Mrs Parsons Mrs Smith Mrs J Hatchard Mrs Guy Mel Giggins Miss Coleston and Mr Stark as auditor The president and secretary praised the society’s progress with rising membership and sound finances A donation of £1 was given toward standard roses for Sunshine school The group planned cookery competitions for alternating meetings and a dahlias lecture on August 12 open to the public with no charge to promote horticulture in the district
The Albion Mothers' Club hosts Parma Walls dance finals with Mr and Mrs Henderson winning. Judge C Curtain unable to continue. Mr J McCrae fills in, earning committee thanks. Keilor Shire notes more ratepayers and voter list gains. Keilor Recreation Reserve gains electric lighting for dressing rooms. cost £17 covered by council, upkeep by Sports Club.
Councils approve main road rangers to handle wandering cattle as the Country Roads Board impounds stock in Keilorshire for short periods. A refund request for 18 hours’ sustenance was denied after a debate led by Drs Davis Gooch Parsons Dickson, noting penalties under the Pound Act and public warnings from the Royal Automobile Club.
In Deer Park Mrs J Burnside named vice president at a fortnightly guild meeting with Rev A Lyons delivering an address on John Wesley. Mothers' Club closes year with reports, balance sheets, and officer elections led by Mr Kennedy. Betty Loft shows progress after surgery as religious instruction returns to State school.
One legged George Bancroft of Bamfield Street San Dringham was charged at Sunshine court with sitting in a railway carriage without a ticket. A ticket checker testified he rode the 12 25 p m down train from Tottenham to Sunshine without buying a fare. He claimed a yearly ticket between San Dringham and Flinders Street. He said he needed to reach an industry at Sunshine during lunch hour and had no time to buy a ticket at central Melbourne station. The prosecutor said Bancroft was a persistent rail offender over many years. the department had shown leniency before. He was fined 20 shillings with 1 shilling 6 pence costs.
The Our Lady's Tennis Club held a parish hall evening with a full attendance and a dainty supper. Trophy winners included C Ramsdale in men’s singles and Doris Kelly in ladies’ singles with Eric Donoghue and A Ramsdale winning mixed doubles. The event featured guests from the Catholic Lawn Tennis Association and noted club progress with about 60 members.
A brief street exchange unfolds as a charity worker notes the hardship of blindness and a beggar retorts that blind people in the past often handed him counterfeit money, illustrating tension between giver and receiver in a rough urban vignette.
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