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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1888

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South Grafton School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 5

THE regular monthly meeting of the committee was held on Thursday. Present—Messrs. D. Beatson (president), J. T. M'Kittrick, T. Neale. F. Morrow, H. Denning, G. Schwinghammer, F. Lowe,…

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A Japanese School-book

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1888 · page 6

JAPAN sent over to the Centennial Exhibition held at Philadelphia in 1876 a number of Commissioners mostly young men, who for intelligence compared favourably with those of any other nation. Their…

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In re Sunday Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 November 1888 · page 4

ONE of the leading clergymen in Sydney has taken for a subject to dilate upon in the pulpit the inutility of Sunday schools. He bases his objection to them primarily on the ground that they are an…

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Grafton School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1888 · page 8

THE regular monthly meeting was held on Monday. Present—Mr. Bawden (President), Messrs. Hill, Davies, Doberer, Whitford, Sanders. Treasurer reported receipts to general fund £27…

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The Appointment of Pupil Teachers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 24 November 1888 · page 3

A RECENT correspondent to the Herald, made some remarks which are deserving of some notice with regard to the method now practised in the appointment of Public school teachers. As he very justly…

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A School Teacher in Trouble

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1888 · page 2

A PUBLIC SCHOOL teacher at Marrickville has got himself into trouble. It came out in the House on Wednesday that when giving Scripture lessons the individual has been in the habit of making…

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Grafton School of Arts Enabling Bill

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 December 1888 · page 4

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—In the Assembly, yesterday, Mr. DAY moved that the Grafton School of Arts Enabling Bill be read a third time. Mr. SEE asked that the Bill be re-committed as…

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School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 December 1888 · page 3

THE regular monthly meeting was held on Monday evening. Present—Messrs. T. Bawden (president), Page, Hill, Statham, Sanders. Clarke, Laman, Whitford, Harding, and P. D. Davis…

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Sunday School Prizes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1888 · page 3

ON Sunday afternoon the scholars of both Church of England Sunday schools met at the Parish rooms where the annual prizes were to be delivered. The children of the German Church Sunday school…

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Debate on the Third Reading of School of Arts Bill

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1888 · page 8

THE debate upon the third reading of the School of Arts Bill is to the uninitiated in the mysteries of political tergiversation inexplicable. The MINISTER for PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, on a previous occasion, took…

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School of Arts for Palmer's Island

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1888 · page 2

THE first committee meeting in connection with the proposed School of Arts for Palmer's Island, took place on Saturday in the Oddfellows' Hall, when, despite the inclemency of the weather,…

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School Entertainment

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1888 · page 4

ON Friday evening the pupils attending St. Mary's Convent school gave their usual annual entertainment. Owing, no doubt, to the inclemency of the weather, the school building was only little more…

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Grafton Grammar School

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 8

THE school closed for the Christmas vacation on the 13th inst, and resumes work on the 21st January. The following is the Head Master's report…

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What Shall Public Schools Teach?

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 3

I EXPECT to meet with much opposition when I declare my conviction that our public school system will sooner or later have to be radically remodelled. It is an…

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Ulmarra Grammar School. The Head-Master's Report

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 December 1888 · page 4

AT the close of our first year's connection with the school, we think that a few words on the work of of the past year, and our projects for the coming one, will not be amiss. Our aim has been hitherto,…

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