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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 14, 1952
Page
8
The fragment notes that the Frest Street Bridge will be repaired fairly quickly with possible involvement from city officials and local authorities. No other details are clear from the text.
A brief notice outlines an effort to collect and recycle waste paper for hospital use. It mentions cooperation with local facilities and a scheduled collection period, urging participation from staff and residents to support waste reduction efforts.
The Hertford Road drain contract is awarded to J H Wheles. The Public Works Committee inserts a rider banning any rise or fall clause. The council has faced multiple increase grants due to rising costs. Work costs £229 10s and aims to solve drainage in several streets.
The notice lists Sunday 16 March 1952 service starts with detailed departure times across weekdays Saturday and Sunday with journey times Footscray to Sunshine 18 minutes and other legs. It notes Ballarat Road buses terminate at Sunshine and extra trips to Albion Deer Park factories.
Detailed timetable fragments for Sunshine Park and Footscray show varied departure and service times across weekdays weekends and holidays. The entries include morning and afternoon windows with multiple hourly marks, some inconsistently formatted or truncated.
Readable lines show a mixed time list with a.m. and p.m. labels for Sunday weekday and Saturday periods. The fragment lacks full context or event names. It appears to be an incomplete timetable or timetable-like data set with multiple numeric entries and day indicators.
Hockey notes show Sunshine starting practice last Saturday with keenness after last season. With several new players the squad aims for a strong showing in a higher grade. All players must attend Saturday March at 2 p.m. at the Derby Road and Graham Street rink.
Two Sunshine men were fined £1 with 10s costs after exiting an electric train on the wrong side, breaching railway regulations. Defendants named were Jack Keating aged 19 of Whitty Street and William Stanford of Benjamin Street. cases heard Tuesday.
The Sun shine Court fined and suspended licenses of three motor cyclists and one motorist for three months after dangerous driving charges. On Ballarat Road last November 13 police noted speeds of 85 mph by Kenneth Andrews, 75 mph by Geo Wallis, 75 mph by Charles Wallis, and 60 to 65 mph by Rex Pilkington amid racing traffic. Pilkington plans to appeal.
A local plea urges readers to save waste paper for the Hospitals and Charities Waste Paper Appeal. The effort supports hospital recycling programs and charitable organizations through paper collection drives.
Church notices list services at St Mark s Sunshine St John s Deer Park St Peter s East Sunshine and St Alban s St Albans with Holy Communion Matins Choral Evensong Morning Prayer Evening Prayer and Sunday School times Also mentions Vestry Meeting at 8 pm on Monday 17th and names various readers and a vicar
Church services scheduled with Rev. J. Longthorn at Deer Park and Albion and Mr. L. Collister presiding in Albion at 11 a.m. and Rev. J. B. Longthorn at 4 p.m. Harvest Thanksgiving observances listed for multiple locations.
The Salvation Army posts a Sunday schedule with a 10 a.m. Holiness Meeting and 7 p.m. Major Parkinson address by the Young Peoples Secretary. Wednesday features a 2.30 p.m. Ladies Meeting.
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