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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 22, 1924
Page
5
A proactive sales pitch asserts Wittner's boots come with a personally backed cast iron guarantee Fair Wear or Another Pair. The brief challenges readers to decide if they can expect better value elsewhere, underscoring confidence in durable footwear and strong customer assurance.
The Local Progress Association held its monthly meeting at the Mechanics Institute with strong attendance. Members submitted 70 residents willing to take electric light, planned a deputation to electricity commissioners, and discussed opening the new school building. Other notes covered sanitary inspections, a footbridge proposal, rubbish tip arrangements, and a forthcoming Progress Associations council meeting at West Footscray. Harvest Festival services and a euchre party fundraiser were reported. Cricket notes from St Albans vs East Brunswick Ramblers followed, with detailed scores and bowling figures.
A Sunshine Progress Association letter responds to Dr Pennell's claim that the group seeks to run Braybrook Shire Council. The authors state they merely forward ratepayer requests, credit past improvements to association effort, urge council to meet evenings, and defend governance by all councillors rather than a single organizer.
Sunshine led Albert Park by 42 runs with no wickets fallen at day end as Lathhford and Heffer nan stood 21 and 17 not out. McGrath and Taylor bowled well with maidens early and five runs off the next four. Lathhford narrowly escaped dismissal and was later bowled. Heffernan and Fuller joined to push the score further.
DEER PARK an account of Mr E I Davy an early Victorian settler whose illness unsettles his family. It records his family’s emigration in 1854 from Ireland to Melbourne then Williamstown Werribee Clunes and Kerang proving agricultural roots. It notes his father Humphry Davy descendant of the famed scientist and the elder son’s long work for Mr James Tyson and on Glen Des station.
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