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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1878

12 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Increase of Teachers Salaries

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1878 · page 6

THE Council of Education has authorised the issue to the teachers of circulars, of which the following are copies:— "Council of EDUCATION OFFICE,…

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School of Arts. Annual Meeting

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1878 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the School of Arts was held in the large hall of the institute on Friday evening. Mr. T. page, one of the Vice-Presidents occnpied the chair, and there was a fair attendance of…

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Suicide of a Schoolboy

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1878 · page 3

EARLY on Tuesday morning a shocking and very sad case of suicide on the part of a schoolboy was discovered to have taken place on the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway at Richmond. At about ten…

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Grafton Grammar School. Honour List. Easter Examination,1878

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1878 · page 2

N.B.—Only the first three or four names in each class appear in the Honour List. READING.—Class I. not examined; H. Avery, F. Thomas, Engort; III. E. Cameron, Dowson, Hampe…

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Sir Henry Parkes on Schools of Art

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1878 · page 3

IN reply to an address presented to him by the committee of the Molong School of Arts, Sir Henry Parkes, after a few prefatory observations, said—I do not for a moment hesitate to say that I, in my early…

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Grafton Grammer School. Michaelmas Examination

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 4

The fallowing is the honour list for the Michaelmas quarter. Only the first three or four names in each class appear. Classes I and [?] were not examined. LANGUAGES…

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The Schoolmaster Abroad

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1878 · page 3

Scene.—A Great Statesman's Snuggery. Interlocutors.—Bizzy and DIZZY. BIZZY (blowing a cloud): Very pleasant sitting 1 Dizzy: Extremely so! Gortsehakoff, though, didn't…

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South Grafton School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 October 1878 · page 2

THE Annual Meeting was held on Friday evening: a fair number of members attended. Minutes of last annual meeting were read and continued. The Secretary read the appended annual report and Treasurer's…

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The Grafton Public School

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1878 · page 2

THE folllowing correspondence has been handed to us for publication We may mention that the Chairman of the Local Board inspected and insted the water in the well, which he states is both plentiful and good,…

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South Grafton Public School. to the Ediotor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1878 · page 2

SIR,—I am rather surprised that steps have not been taken to provide a shed for the children who attend this school. There are a number who have to walk a distance of quite two miles; these, of course, have…

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Grafton Public School. Presentation of Prizes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 4

ON Thursday the annual presentation of prizes to the pupils of the Grafton Public School took place in the large schoolroom. In one of the smaller schoolrooms a number of drawings, and a large collection of…

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Grafton Grammar School

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 4

ON Wednesday evening last a crowded audience attended the School of Arts, in response to Mr. Macintosh's invitation, to witness the second annual literary entertainment provided by the pupils of the Grafton…

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