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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1880

17 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

The Man Who Saw the President About a School-house

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1880 · page 6

THURSDAY afternoon there was one man in the crowd around the City. Hall who said he must have a personal interview with the President if it broke his suspenders. He had come twenty-eight miles in a…

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Grafton Public School.—presentation of Prizes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 2

A NUMBER of ladies and gentlemen, including the members of the local board, assembled at the Public School on Thursday afternoon, to witness the distribution of prizes to the scholars. Mr. S. S. Smith, the…

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School Board and Snake

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 April 1880 · page 4

A SERIC-COMIC paper, "ordered to be printed by the Legislative Assembly of New South Wale, March 11th, 1880," has just been issued from the Government…

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Presentation at the Grammar School

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1880 · page 2

ON Friday afternoon last a pleasing ceremony took place at the Grammar School, on the occasion of the presentation by Mr W. H. Thomas, late C.P.S. of Grafton, of his silver medal, gained at last Christmas…

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REGUlATIONS for the Public Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1880 · page 4

THE following are the principal regulations for carrying out the provisions of the Public Instruction Act of 1880 made by his Excellency, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council…

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Entertainment at the School of Arts. To the Editor of the Argus

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 21 June 1880 · page 2

SIR,--I see by your notes on the entertainment on last Wednesday evening, that there is to be a dramatic performance on Wednesday week, and a similar statement appeared in the…

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Regulations for Evening Public Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1880 · page 3

THE following regulations for evening Public schools have been made by his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, in accordance with the 37th section of…

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The New Public School Inspectors. (From the Herald, August 11.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1880 · page 3

IT was announced a few days ago that several gentlemen had been appointed Inspectors of schools under the Public Instruction Act. Some of them had been connected as teachers with schools in the…

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Have School Teachers the Right to Marry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1880 · page 4

THE Hull School Board has just had a knotty point to solve. One of the female pupil teachers absented, herself from her duties for a day on the plea of illness, but it turned out…

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Regulations for Provisional Schools Under the Public Instruction Act of 1880. (From the Gazette, August 17.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1880 · page 1

1. APPLICATION for the establishment of a Provisional School must be made in the form contained in the Schedule appended hereto. 2. A Provisional School may be established in any…

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The Schoolmaster Abroad in England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1880 · page 3

THE London correspondent of the S. M. Herald says: —The officials of the Education Department have had some real plums placed before them in a report on the Train Colleges for Schoolmasters. The report itself…

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Trade Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1880 · page 3

IT is admitted on all hands that it is necessary to have trade schools to supply the deficiency caused by the decay of the old apprenticeship system; hence, one or more trade schools are to be met with in almost…

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Public School Teachers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1880 · page 3

THE operation of the regulations under the new Public Instruction Act, we learn, has had the effect of considerably enlarging the enrolment and attendance at the Public and Denominational schools of the…

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Teachers' Salaries. Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 20th Novomber, 1880

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1880 · page 2

REV. Sir,—Adverting to the interview which the Lord Bishop of Sydney, the Dean, the Rev. E. G. Hodgson, A. Gordon, Esq., A. Stuart, Esq., and yourself had with the Minister of Public Instruction on…

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Common Schools in the United States

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 4

A VERY general discussion is being waged as or whether our common schools are a blessing to a curse. The attack upon them is led by Mr. Richard Grant AVhito, a well known scholar and…

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Grafton Grammar School

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1880 · page 2

The annual speech day celebration and distribution of prizes took place in the School of Arts on Friday evening last the hall being crowded to [?]. The chair was occupied by Mr. Norito who opened the [?]…

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Grafton Grammar School

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1880 · page 2

"SPEECH-DAY" of the above school is looked forward to by the general public, as well as by pupils, with considerable interest, and the large number of the former who crowded the hall of the School of Arts on…

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