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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Schools

Schools, 1891

142 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 8

Public School Festival

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 16 July 1891 · page 2

A festival in connection with the public schools of the colony, will beheld during the week ending September 25…

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Proposed School Festival

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 July 1891 · page 3

The Minister for Public Instruction. Mr. J. H. Carruthers, has proposed that during the month of September a festival week be held in connection with the…

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The Rainville School. to the Editor of the "National Advocate."

National Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1891 · page 2

SIR,—I wish, through the columns of your widely circulating journal, to draw the attention of the Department of Education, to what I consider an urgent…

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Sensible School Inspectors

National Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1891 · page 1

It is the season for school inspectors' reports (observes the London Daily Chronicle), and much fun is extracted from them at the expense of our juvenile learners. But sometimes an inspector is found who…

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Orange Peelings. an Old Identity Gone.—school of Arts Officers.—return of a Native Medico. Monday night

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 July 1891 · page 2

Mr. P. Boyle, an old identity of the colonial gold fields, and for many years landlord of the Diggers' Arms, Orange, died suddenly at about 12 o'clock last…

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Porson at School

National Advocate · Saturday 1 August 1891 · page 5

Professor Porson when a boy at Eton School discovered the most astonishing powers of memory. In going up to a lesson one day, he was accosted by a boy in the same form: "Porson, what have you got…

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"Truth" and the School of Arts. to the Editor of the "National Advocate"

National Advocate · Monday 3 August 1891 · page 2

Sir,—Kindly allow me, through your columns, to voice the feeling of a number of democratic members of our School of Arts who desire to protest against the…

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School of Arts. Committee Meeting

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1891 · page 2
Also in Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of the School of Arts was held last night, when there were present:—Messrs. W. G. Thompson (in the…

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Bathurst Girls' High School

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 August 1891 · page 3

Mr. Carruthers, in answer to Mr. F. B. Suttor, satd that there were 49 pupils in attendance at the Girls' High School at Bathurst, and that the schools,…

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Gainsborough's School-boy Days

National Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1891 · page 1

It is pleasant, for instance, to learn that the painter himself used to say of this time, that "there was not a picturesque clump of trees, nor even a single tree of any…

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Public School Cadet Force

National Advocate · Monday 17 August 1891 · page 2

A battalion parade of the Cadets attached to the Bathurst Superior Public, Milltown Public, and Kelso Public Schools took place on the Bathurst…

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Local and General. Successful Pupils

National Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1891 · page 2

The following pupil teachers have gained promotion by examination :— Miss Sarah E. Mortimer to Class I, Mr. Ernest R. Churches to Class II…

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Arbor Day in Bathurst. Demonstrations at Milltown and Kelso. Large Assemblages of School Children. the Cadets and Band. the Mayor at Milltown. Planting the First Tree. Addresses and Singing

National Advocate · Saturday 22 August 1891 · page 2

So far as the Public Schools in Bathurst , Milltown and Kelso are concerned, Thursday may be described as a slaughter day, inasmuch as the parents…

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Provisional School at Back Swamp

National Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1891 · page 2

Mr. W. P. Crick has forwarded as a letter received by him from the Department of Public Instruction, relative to an application made by him for a…

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Arbor Day at Country Schools

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 August 1891 · page 2

Correspondents send us the following account of Arbor Day proceedings at the schools mentioned:— BOLTON VALE…

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Truant School Children

National Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1891 · page 2

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. Paul and Simmons, J's.P., Truant Officer Cusack proceeded against a number of parents for having…

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The Rockley School of Arts

National Advocate · Friday 28 August 1891 · page 2

Mr. W. P. Crick writes informing us that in answer to his letter the Minister of Public Instruction has notified him that the list of private contributions…

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A Public School Teacher Charged

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 1 September 1891 · page 2

A public school master at Sunnyside, near Tenterfield, has been charged with an assault on one of his scholars…

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A School of Mines

National Advocate · Monday 7 September 1891 · page 2

The administrative council of the South Australian School of Mines have set an example which might well be followed by the governing bodies of similar…

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