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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 04, 1937
Page
5
World champion Walter Lindrum will give an exhibition of billiards snooker trick shots and a lecturette at the Sunshine Club next to the Savings Bank this Friday June 4. Admission is free to members and friends.
Dr. A Lowe urged presenting Braybrook shire land near Melbourne for worker housing to ease inner suburban congestion. Council approved inquiries with the Slum Abolition Committee while critics cited the Advocate article on Sunshine. Businessmen praised the dialogue and noted potential funding leverage for local development.
A community medical advert announces a physician welcoming both new and old patients. The doctor treats curable diseases of all genders with free diagnoses, inviting calls, letters, or phone inquiries, and notes daytime and afternoon hours.
A reader presses for expanded train service and later last trains to serve Sunshine and eastern suburbs. They urge Sunday hourly trains, earlier city arrivals, longer evening runs, and a petrol electric loop from Sunshine to Newport to cut travel time and boost workers’ access.
The letter praises local coverage and lists Sunshine as hosting a modern primary school and a technical school for boys, Albion with a new building for its children, and additional schools at Deer Park Braybrook and St. Albans including a Catholic primary school in Sunshine.
A letter to the editor argues for greater female education across subjects including trades and notes a prospective new girls school. The writer criticizes the town’s focus on sports as insufficient to change local opinion about Sunshine in bush town.
At the Loyal Sunshine Lodge in Sunshine town hall about 100 gathered for a half year social. Sister Whiting received a past officer s emblem and Keith Mousley earned a Past Grand s collar. Grand Secretary W H Best made a surprise visit as ten new financial benefit members were initiated. Officers and delegates were elected for the coming term and seven more names remained on the membership proposition book.
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