Sunshine Swimming Club Aims High After Successful Year
The Sunshine Swimming and Life Saving Club held its annual meeting at the town hall on October 27. President George Nicholson reported growing senior membership, improved status, and a push to win the Sunshine Maribyrnong shield. The club ranked twelfth in premiership, won the Treadwell shield with 227 points, issued four awards and 19 bronze medallions, and donated £5 12s 6d to the executive. Members praised young women supporters and brothers Wild as backbone figures. two carnivals in 1926 and 1927 were credited to secretary and treasurer, with Roach providing voluntary instruction. The club plans further growth, sending life savers to Henley in 1926 and 1927, and hopes Albans will form a club next year. The financials showed income £126 16s 8d, outgo £106 0s 11d, and assets £80. The auditor commended the books. Election results named Nicholson as president again, with Wild as secretary and treasurer, McPherson captain, and a broad slate of officers and committee members.
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Sunshine Swimming and Life Saving Club
Town Hall
George Nicholson
Brothers Wild
W Roach
Henley
Albans
McPherson
Bers
New Heights
Hts
Dedrick
Foreign football controversy and local soccer claims
A letter from a reader accuses outsiders of replacing national football with imported soccer, citing a local teacher and Australian players. The correspondent urges the football club to report to headquarters and seek ministerial action, noting the Sunshine Technical School mix and a technical schools soccer competition.
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Sunshine Technical School
Soccer Association
Dinkum Aussie
League
Association
Advocste
Club Membership Fees Debate at Committee Meeting
The president urged full committee attendance for the season and authorized officers to convene as needed. W R Wild proposed cutting junior tickets to one shilling, but he opposed a club with a bob membership fee. The group settled juvenile fees at 2 shillings, adults at 5, with ladies declining a lower rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Wild
McPherson
Wild
Foxes and Foxe error in a Presbyterian letter
A reader rebukes Rev. F Tamagno for claiming George Fox wrote the book on Martyrs. The letter clarifies that John Foxe authored it, and notes further misuses of the term Scotch for Scots. The writer also comments on Scottish language and regional behavior.
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F. Tamagno
Doomsdale
George Fox
John Foxe
Cobbett
Jack
Melbourne doctor urges focus on male migrants over females
Dr Springthorpe, back from Europe, told the Legacy Club that postwar famine left English youth undernourished at Harrow and Eton. He blamed wartime food rationing but noted young ladies look well. He suggested migration officers target the more virile sex.
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Springthorpe
Melbourne
Europe
Legacy Club
England
Harrow
Eton
Bruce
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Sunshine Swimming & Life Saving Club
Shire Council
C. N. McKay
C. G. Carlton
F. Haydon
F. Jackson
J. Hillhouse
R Feeney
The
Shire
Dr. H. Skewes
W. Glendenning
E. Drayton
Dr. Fisher
Meeers. C. Mennesdorffer
R. H. James
A. Robinson
Cecil McKay
P. Frith
Victor McKay
Cecil H. Wild
Wilfrid R. Wild
RM. McPherson
H. A. Dedrick
B. Newland
G. Clemson
W. Enever
T. Goldsworthy
H. Brooks
J. Hitlhouse
H. Rautman
O. H. McPherson
G. H. Wild
Mesdames Peel
Goldsworthy
Stenhouse
Hiscock
F. Fawcett
N. Clark
A. Coats
E. Elston
J. Milne
G. Bult
A. Simall
Sunshine Theatre
Kenneth Harlan
Valencia
Bayard Vieller
Julian Eltinge
Madame Behave
Johnny Hines
Richard Talmadge
Man
McWhirter
Arica
Lam
Victoria
Sunshine Radio Store
C. M. Dubbeldan Fistpctierd
Sunshine
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