Jill Buchanan was a trainee reporter at the Winchlea Gazette. She found the job exciting, though also hard work at times.
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Disabled Joyce Landon’s one aim in life was to be a famous concert pianist – but her mother refused to give her any support or allow her to play the grand piano at home. Only Joyce’s grandmother helped her but then she became seriously ill. Though she had managed to get into the local School of Music and pay for her uniform herself, she was devastated when her gran died.
Pam Quentin’s father was seriously injured by a shark when pearling and young Pam took over the running of his schooner “Black Pearl.” Unknown to the pearlers, someone else wanted sole possession of the rich oyster beds. By beating two stones underwater, this mysterious man could attract, sharks and, dressed in a sinister shark skin suit he could lead them wherever he wished.
A humour strip, each story had it’s own title.
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Due to her her father’s disappearance, Rhona Lamont and her mother were forced to move to a poor neighbourhood , while Rhona, an ex-public school girl, attended Hill Street Council School. The girls there were most unfriendly, and to make things worse, a man named Sam Runcorn arrived with an I.O.U. signed by Rhona’s father, and threatened to reveal Mr Lamont’s hiding place unless the debt was paid.
Princess Tamora of Teru left her home in the sunny South Seas to come to school in England. Her parents, the King and Queen of the island, had been so impressed with Jane Taker a missionary from England who had visited the island many years before:, that they decided to educate their daughter at the same school . Tamora and her seven handmaidens arrived at the school causing quite a sensation. Tamora has mean ideas tat don’t fit with the English school.
Jenny Pearce, a girl juggler from Liverpool, had traveled to New York looking for stage work. She was registered with a little-known theatrical agent, Sam Bartok, and he tried to find jobs for her—but neither of them realised that H. K. Zigfell, the most famous showman in America, was searching for Jenny so that he could give her a part in his new show.
Sandra Deane starts as an apprentice hairdresser she grows in confidence and soon becomes an assistant, then a hair stylist in her own right and opens up her own hair salon.
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Humour strip about a young trouble-making girl Tina.
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Connie Meridew was keeping her colt, Quicksilver in a builder’s yard owned by her father. Heather Dawson, a schoolgirl enemy of Connie’s, set the council on Connie, who sent her a letter saying the housing was unsuitable and she would need to remove Quicksilver, so Connie ad to go about finding him a new stable.