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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 28, 1952
Page
3
Friday, 28 November 1952 editorial urges Monash Street and Durham Railways land garage decision. Council delays cited as delaying influence from traffic authority, rail overbridge cost, and ongoing rent. author calls for a clear council choice without further delay.
Residents of Secavell Crescent Maidstone submitted a petition to Sunshine Council on Monday due to the half width road making traffic difficult in wet weather. The petition signed by 24 residents argued the street’s appearance is spoiled and urged a deputation at the next council meeting.
Health inspector Mr. G A Little found the disposal area insufficient for the effluent load, causing seepage onto Third Avenue. The Sunshine Council given 14 days to remedy the unsatisfactory disposal and bring the system into compliance.
Responsibility for the election comment in this issue is accepted by H Carlton of Dickson Street Sunshine.
The Sunshine Heights Recreation Club plans a four acre undeveloped reserve on Glenygala Road to host a playing field and a children’s playground. A committee led by Mrs Arnit See is coordinating door to door collections to raise funds for the project and council approved drawing a plan for the site.
The T. Alans Cricket Club reported three young members were threatened with a rifle by a man at Errington Reserve. Doubts arose and further inquiries will be sought from the reserve committee. The deputy town clerk cited a wife’s denial and that the alleged incident never occurred. A migrant worker to Alice Springs had not yet returned.
A letter from T R Barclay president of the Sunshine and District Community Hospital Committee thanks the Ladies Auxiliary and local bodies for helping to pay debt and provide low cost hospital care. It lists loans, patient numbers, births, bed occupancy, weekly running costs, tax deductions, and a call for renewed memberships and donations.
The Sunshine council on Monday refused permission for a timber yard off Ballarat Road near Chelsey Street in Deer Park. Dr Ainsworth cited the area as mostly built up and unsuitable for a timber yard.
Local reader G. E. Dobson appeals Sunshine citizens to fund Holiday in the Country by sponsoring 40 local children to holidays on rural Victoria farms. Donations of all sizes urged to His Worship the Mayor or to Dobson at Maidstone address, with MW 3514 available for details.
A resident letters page criticizes using Barclay Reserve for eighteen football players and proposes converting the triangular corner to a garden with shade trees and seating for elderly residents and shoppers. The rest should be set aside for future municipal buildings, argues H T Shuffrey of Sunshine.
Half the general expenses for Sunshine Council immunisation campaigns in 1953 will be paid by the Department of Health, sharing funding for public health efforts.
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