Sunshine Remembered Founder of Sunshine and Early Growth
The early Braybrook district name Sunshine honors H. V. McKay who moved his Braybrook Implement Works here after 1903. By 1926 the town’s growth stalled after a promising start with Spaldings Wunderlich and Nettlefolds, but McKay’s legacy endures in a town whose population rose from 2,000 in 1914 to about 10,000 by 1934, with building permits and rental demand signaling future expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. V. McKay
Braybrook
Ballarat
Braybrook Junction
Sunshine
McKay
Birmingham
Australia
Spaldings
Wunderlich
Nettlefolds
Hugh Victor McKay
Shire of
Braybrookshire Council
Druid lodge notes on finances members and sports
At the next lodge meeting Druids will discuss finances with emphasis on decisions for absentees. Reports on ill members are given and visitors welcomed from Ivy and Trafalgar lodges. The Victorian Amateur Athletic Association aided by volunteers runs summer programs at Olympic Park with many clubs. A cricket club gathering followed by a supper featured prizes, remarks, and closing maxims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. P. Watson
Rae
Ellens
Antony Wm. Carter
Chas Bennett
J. Noble
L. Pilgrim
Bro. D. Rule
Ivy
Nelson
Ivy Leaf
Trafalgar
Sunshine Druidic Circle
Bro. Milne
Lumbago
Druids Central Sports Committee
Bro. J. King
No. 12
Bro. King
Victorian Amateur Athletic Association
V.A.A.A
Olympic Park
Nelson Lodge
Sunshine
Druids Lodge
Eucire
Brown
Roskilly
Bunting
Smith
Thorpe
Grenfell
Oliver
Yarraville
Chas. Smith
Sam Alwyn
Bro. W. Gamin
All Aboard Group Forms Sunshine Branch Meeting Notes
The Sunshine branch of All Aboard held its July meeting with Mrs Nuttall presiding. Members planned monthly sessions on the second and fourth Tigursdays, agreed to collect for charity, and discussed aiding inmates at Mont Park Asylum. Douglas Elliott of 3AW spoke at the inaugural gathering and urged community support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine
Douglas Elliott
Sunshine Branch
Nuttall
Lawrence
Jackson
Douglas
Mont Park Asylum
Sunshine Group
Oak
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lado
Dominoes
Robinson
Druids
Humane
G. W. Pennell
A.N.A
Sunshine Theatre
the Star
Victor Jory In
Bangle River
Warner Oland
Charlie Chan
the Opera
Walter Huston
Dodsworth
King OF Hockey
Wild Bill Hickok
Calamity Jane
America
DeMille
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