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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools
11 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
THE fifteenth annual meeting of the Grafton School of Arts, was held in the hall of the Institution, on Friday evening last. There was a fair attendance of members, and considerable interest was manifested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—There is one paragraph in your report of the Annual Meeting of the subscribers of the Grafton School of Arts, that has astonished me not a little. I allude to that in which is embodied the substance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Will you allow me the privilege of your space to reply to a letter, signed "A MINISTER," in your issue of this day. In the first place it is stated that my remarks in the debate upon making "all ministers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—As one who takes some little Interest In the cause of public education, and of public morals, may I be permitted, through your columns, to ask at whose Instance, or by whose authority the midwinter holidays, usually given in all the schools of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Huntly Police Court yesterday, a case was heard of some interest to school teachers and others engaged in the work of instruction. A schoolmaster named E. S. Scott, of the State school, Goornong, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONE of those delightful social reunions, which tend so much to bind with bonds of "perdurable tightness," the different casts of society together, took place at the School of Arts, on Wednesday orening last, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE pupils of the Public School met at the Schoolroom, on Friday afternoon last, to receive their prizes, pievious to breaking up school for three weeks, for the Christmas vacation. There were about thirty or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Education is the breaking-in of the young to the purposes and duties of society. IT is related of the celebrated Dr. JOHNSON, that upon an occasion he received an invitation to partake of tea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE annual pic-nic came off on Thursday last. After the children had regard themselves with the good things provided for the occasion, various sports were commenced by the juveniles, such as croquet, &c., on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS school closed for the Christmas vacation on Friday lost, on which day prizes were distributed, and the children and friends entertained at a picnic, at which all present enjoyed themselves to their heart's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR town has not escaped the general heat, and well I know it, as Friday last reduced me a mere lath of a man by seven lbs. avoirdupois. On that awful day, an examination of the children of the Lawrence…
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