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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 07, 1952
Page
3
A Friday Sun article urges Sunshine City Band to pursue a joint pavilion with a Sunshine Football Club project. It compares sites at Stanford and Wright Etrovix with Murclay Reserve, arguing a combined hall and pavilion would cut costs, provide dressing rooms, a social venue, and speed up a long sought permanent meeting place for the band.
Maxwell Dent of Kensington faced a charge of driving on the wrong side after a collision with a motorcycle driven by Domenico Sepunito of Deer Park on September 2 in San Crescent. An interpreter testified Sepunito rode on his correct side. Dent claimed the motorcycle was on the wrong side and he swung wide to avoid it. Police observed marks indicating the car crossed the centre line. The court heard Dent’s defence that there was no case to answer for being on the wrong side without justifiable cause.
Four urns valued at £60 were stolen after a kiosk at White City was broken into.
The St Albans A L P branch will hold a general meeting at the Mechanics Institute on Thursday November 13. It is the first meeting in some time and high attendance is expected with a special invitation to new residents supporting Unior's cause.
The usual monthly meeting of the Alfred Clarke Memorial Kindergarten is to be held in the local hall. All interested are invited to attend.
The Sunshine Council backs a Municipal Association push to designate gardening as an apprenticeship trade. The move aims to formalize training in garden work within the local trades framework.
Photographers offer services for block making plants and social events. Contact Ronald Diff at 6 Cornwall Road or MW 9617 for details and bookings.
Labor sections report all branches represented and machinery ready for operation by nomination day. Arrangements for halls and polling defined, rolls being printed, and absentee voting options outlined for those omitted from final rolls.
Arrangements for a grand baby show on 20 November to benefit the Sun Shine Community Chest. Several sections with a prize for the happiest baby. Entry forms available at local chemists and Baby Health Centres.
Next Sunday at St Mark's Sunshine and St Peter's East Sunshine the annual Preparation Sunday for Temple Day will be held. Prayerful thought will focus on scriptural direct method of church finance. Archdeacon Hedley Raymond of North Melbourne will preach. The St Mark's choir will perform suitable choral works for the occasion.
Donors to Sunshine Band Building Fund include M. H. S. Taylor five shillings, Mr. W. Singleton two shillings two pence, Mr. J. Tyquin two shillings two pence, and C. Steedman two shillings two pence.
Regret was expressed at the passing of Tuesday on Mrs Isabella Beynon a longtime Sunshine resident aged 78 who settled in Sunshine fifty years ago and recently lived with her daughter in Essendon. She had been in ill health for several years and funeral details are at Footscray Cemetery after a service at Sunshine Baptist Church where she was a foundation member. The late Mrs Beynon leaves three daughters Adeline Gwen Lyra and two sons Oswie Frank with her husband predeceased three years ago.
Charles Victor Norman died suddenly on October 2 at his Ridley Street home aged about 42 years. A foreman in the blacksmithing department at H V McKay Massey Harris for 42 years, he collapsed while changing a car tyre. He had lived in Sunshine for 42 years and attended the funeral of a nephew at Springvale Crematorium. Rev T R Vizard led the service. he leaves a widow and three grown children.
John Francis Taafe of 3 Tyler Street Sunshine died yesterday at Royal Melbourne Hospital aged 0 years. He leaves three daughters and four sons. He survived his wife by five months. they had resided in Sunshine 28 years and he worked at Massey Harris before retiring nine years ago. Funeral held today at Footscray Cemetery.
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