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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 15, 1926
Page
7
Local listing offers complete four pair phones midget sets with accessories including variometer sets phones and valves. Also insulators coils formers crystals whiskers condensers and related items. City prices quoted and inquiries invited to town.
The Sunshine Golf Club hosts a Saturday stroke event with 40 players in mixed foursomes. A May 20 Sunbury visit is planned. an umbrella and mashie are missing details. Winners in the foursome include Mrs Bell and Mr Hutchinson with 84 11 handicap 34 gross. many pairings and scores follow, noting rain affected attendance and tea served by Mrs Clough.
Hon J G Barrett told a sobering story at a Sunshine public gathering. Seven years earlier in Murray temperance work he met a former minister now pushing liquor licenses. The license was granted and the man, once a clergyman, laments that his son is a heavy drinker, a consequence Barrett links to his father’s choice. The Advocate misnamed speakers, Coppety noted.
A large Prohibition League meeting at the Presbyterian Church Sunshine urged blocking a hotel license for Sunshine. Rev F Tamagno presided as Hon J G Barrett warned a license would fuel liquor traffic across several towns. A formal protest was urged, funds sought, and a committee elected to lead the anti hotel crusade with next meeting at the Sunshine Methodist Church.
Residents of St Albans defend the avenue of gum trees on the principal street amid rumors of removing them for a transmitting line to Sunbury. Authorities assure no such plan exists, urging preservation and continued beautification of the trees.
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