"Strike" Threat At Ourimbah School
Children in second class at the Ourimbah Public School will be kept away from school unless a new room is provided for them. This was decided at a meeting of the Ourimbah P and…
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The High School Page
Today we commence our Spring vacation, a break between two hard terms which is welcome to both pupils and staff. The headmaster extends good wishes for a happy respite to all, in anticipation of the hard examination grind in third term, which opens on Tuesday, September 12…
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Acquisition of an area of land at present occupied by the Gosford Primary School will be the objective of a Gosford…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mainly Social Former Gosford RSL President To Wed In Canada ... Three Twenty-first Birthdays Celebrated . . . Brisbania P and C Association's Fancy Dress Frolic . . . New Schoolroom Opened At Terrigal
Former Gosford RSS&AILA President Geoffrey Harcourt Dixon, elder son of Mr and Mrs E. H. Dixon, of Narara, is to be…
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The Education Department has granted £125 towards the erection of a weather shed at the Spencer Public School…
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Commencement of work on a new classroom at Ourimbah Public School this week is expected to end parents threat of a strike. Parents of children in second class had threatened…
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Gosford High School exstudents will field a strong team against the school's first grade football team at…
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Gosford Primary School this week completed its changover from the top school in Georgiana Terrace to the school of Arts block in Mann Street. The Headmaster, Mr G. A. Walpole, said yesterday, there…
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We returned to school this week after our Spring vacation. It was pleasant to meet old friends and to discuss the various holiday activities. We know that this will be a hard term and that the examinations, which we all must face, determine our prospects for next year. Good luck everybody and now—to…
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Mrs George MacDonald, who is co-author with her husband of Freeing Democracy," will address a public meeting in the…
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The distribution of orange Juice to augment the free milk supply to schoolchildren has been advocated by Mr J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Ex-Students Injured In Football Match Against High School
Five footballers were injured in a match between Gosford High School's first grade team and ex-students at Erina Oval on Saturday. All were members of the ex-students' team. Those injured were:…
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A team of 52 girls went to Newcastle to represent our school at the Northern Girls' High Schools' athletic carnival. They were enthusiastic and hopeful, but their chances of success were not very high, owing to an epidemic of mumps which had already weakened our ball games' teams. The fifth year girls also…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Some District Schools In An Appalling State" Mr Jackson Hits Out In Parliament
"In my electorate are several schools at which tiny tots begin their educational life in appalling conditions in open sheds at all seasons of the year," said Mr H. E. Jackson, MLA for Gosford, in his maiden speech in the State Parliament…
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Waile, &s secretary of the NSW Citrus Growers' Council, I appreciated the…
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The Trial Leaving Certificate Examination commenced last week. Expression of opinion, on papers so far encountered, range from eulogy to despair. The examination serves many purposes and the results will be a sufficient pointer to prospects for the Leaving Certificate…
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Bill Phillips junr, Gosford High School pupil, won the Wyong under 17 junior tennis singles championship…
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On Saturday last 183 pupils of the Junior School and 6 members of the English staff travelled to Sydney to see enacted 'A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mainly Social Training School Exhibit Of Work
An exhibition of the work being done at the Mt. Penang Training School for Boys at Gosford will be held at the Training…
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Last week, two interesting Assemblies were held. On Monday, Mr L. Graham, president of the Gosford Chamber of Commerce, and Mr R. Parsons, visited the school, where Mr Graham addressed upon "The United Nations." This was to introduce to the children the importance of United Nations Day,…
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