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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 13, 1936
Page
6
An advertisement for Blake's Hairdressing Salon at Next McGrath's lists Ladies Hairdressing by Competer G V with permanent wave from 15 shillings. It details services including Marcel Wave Water Wave Reset Shampoo and Wave Hot Oil Shampoo Marcel retouch with varied pricing and three chairs claimed as no waiting.
Aunt Judith writes to children about a screen version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. She explains the tale of Puck and the ass head mistaken loves, praising the film's beauty and noting Shakespeare as once a child. She also notes Corner improvements and offers encouragement to Corner members.
A reader challenge lists books and asks for their authors. The items include A Tale of Two Cities The Coral Islands Treasure Island Wild Horse Mesa The Scarlet Pimpernel Tiburon, with a prize for the first correct respondent.
Reading club lists titles like St Elmo Vanity Fair The Ringer Last Days of Pompeii Ivanhoe and Tanglewood Tales. Closing date is Monday March 23 with a few days left to enter. Participants must write the titles represented by abbreviations such as ML C for Legislative Council and D D S for Dental Surgeon.
Edward Crosbie writes from Roslyn St Albans to Aunt Judith greeting chums of the Corner and congratulating Jack Hook on winning the Big Smile competition. He sends a poem The Prayer of Sir Thomas Browne and a few jokes with a weekly thought about bringing a smile to everyone.
A satirical list redefines common words with bizarre, humorous equivalents. It humorously claims a mandate is a Chinaman and a fissure is a fish seller, while misdefining cloth, spaces, and medical terms. The piece reads as playful linguistic inversion.
A warm Sunshine column invites readers, especially children, to keep sending jokes and letters to Aunt Judith for a chance at weekly prizes. The piece blends playful Q&A with a vivid sea voyage scene where Johnny meets Pip, learns to swim, and begins a friendship aboard a ship as dawn breaks over England and the ocean sails ahead.
Johnny realizes the ship has sailed him from England and contemplates what people at the North of England farm and the orphanage will think. Bob guides him to the ship canteen where sailors toast the mascot and feed him. Jack Melton’s absence remains noted as Johnny prepares for sleep in a hammock aboard the deck.
Deputy Director R Lawson notes many newspapers arrive with insufficient postage at Melbourne depot. Rates vary by destination: within the Commonwealth New Zealand Fiji one penny per six ounces or fraction. United Kingdom and Irish Free State via sea seven pence per six ounces or fraction. UK via America or France seven pence per six ounces or fraction. other parts of the British Empire four pence per four ounces or fraction. elsewhere one penny per two ounces or fraction. Printed papers not registered use printed paper rates. postage determined by weight and copies per wrapper. The remark ends with a quip about a girl with teeth like pearls and an oyster.
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