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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 16, 1937
Page
1
On Monday the Braybrook Council decided on health officer Dr Chas ine's recommendation to pay threepence per rat tail handed to the ice office for three weeks starting next day. The aim is a short sharp campaign to clear the district of rat menace. Dr Byrne noted a pair of rats could produce up to 840 offspring per year, while rabbits cap at 450.
Spalding's Sports and Social Club hosts its annual cabaret ball at the Spalding Social Hall Ballarat Road on Thursday. The event aims for maximum enjoyment with a conventional yet fresh program, running from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Double tickets cost 10/6 and reservations are with Miss H. Wright, Sunshine 104.
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts natural beauty with artificial enhancement, noting differing views on aesthetics between Febis and boys in a brief exchange.
Sunshine district touted as thriving with 50 Braybrook Shire factories employing 3770 men and 571 women producing goods worth £4,404,299 per year. Government figures place Braybrook eighth among metropolitan municipalities, suggesting Sunshine’s strong industrial future despite shopping-centre impressions. The piece notes Sunshine’s proximity to Footscray and rising housing growth alongside a call for residents to learn local commerce.
William McLean and Thomas McArdle receive ten shillings fines for motorcycle silencer and foreshot path bicycling offences. Frederick Hemsworth fined thirty shillings for a truck carrying passengers on the wrong side. Constables Power and Bourke cited as informants. Updates include staff transfers, travel plans of Mr W. R. McKay and Mr J. O. Beynon, and a dismissed obstruction case against William Graham. Subscriptions to Braybrook Shilling Fund noted.
More than 350 dancers attended St Mark's Ball featuring twelve debutantes led by Marion Clifton Eunice McBean and Millie Howard. Elsa Haas and art Rivers provided music while Miss Florence Bell and Doug Gibson won on the spot dance prize.
At the Sunshine Horticultural Society meeting on August 11, Mr Barker will lecture on soil treatment. The public is invited as his technical knowledge and local experience will guide residents on garden preparation.
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