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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 20, 1931
Page
1
A Sunshine court heard Albert Dionne of Suffolk Road battle horse owner Arthur Waterman after a car repair dispute turned into a public melee. Waterman was fined 20 shillings, with £4 damages and costs, seven days Rostag.
Beaybrook Shire Council receives notice that government unemployment relief funds totaling £4,002 are available to repair Raleigh road and McDonald's road, with £200 and £6100 allocated respectively. Work to be carried out via council labor and local quarry materials, aiming to connect Miller's round with the Werribee boundary and provide a passable route to Sunshine residents.
Braybrook Gounec opposed new licenses as part of a long running agitation. Ficken Halliday and Wellelland Ply Ltd had filed for a new license, but the Maidstone and Braybrook Progress Association protested. The council, adhering to a policy against new licenses, voted to refuse the application.
M. 8. Gardiner of the Guiding Star Hotel Brooklyn was fined at Toots cray after admitting possession of an unregistered pistol. He said he bought the weapon to frighten his wife and mother in law.
Five year old Alexandria Pettiprew died after being struck by a motor car near Albion railway crossing on Thursday afternoon. Father Gavan Duffy said he slowed to cross the line and hit the child as she ran from the south. Dr. Charles Byrne pronounced life extinct and the body was moved to the morgue. The girl lived with her mother and grandparents at the Albion railway gate house.
Members of the Sunshine State School Mothers Club meet next Wednesday to arrange the opening of the new school set for April 11. Old committee members are invited to attend as determined efforts aim to have the school declared a higher elementary status to accommodate seventh and eighth grades and avoid transporting pupils to Wilkaistown.
Shire Secretary Mr Thargreaves said council officers tasked with valuing properties are capable of considering local conditions and ratepayers will be treated sympathetically. Each ratepayer receives valuation notice and can appeal if unsatisfied. An outside valuer lacking Sunshine district knowledge would not match a local expert.
Nice range of new season wools with skeins priced 51d and 71d. Paton’s and Baldwin’s 2 3 and 4 ply skeins 91d. Special line of pure silk and rayon hose and silk underwear at low prices. Miss A Luke 215 Hampshire Rd Sunshie.
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