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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1890

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Agricultural Instruction in Public Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1890 · page 3

THE Minister of Public Instruction has caused circulars to be forwarded to Public School teachers throughout the colony, directing how tuition in agriculture and horticulture is to be imparted. It…

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Grafton School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1890 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the Committee was held on Monday. Present—Messrs. Bawden (president) Page, Waterhouse, Clarke, Rush, Burt, Lardner, Hockey, Laman, and Rev. I. Mackay…

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Grafton Public School Board

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 June 1890 · page 3

AT a meeting of the Grafton Public School Board held yesterday afternoon, a letter was read from the Department of Public Instruction, informing the Board, in reply to its application for the…

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Arbor Day for Public Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 June 1890 · page 3

A CIRCULAR, with reference to the institution of an Arbor Day, has been transmitted by the Department of Public Instruction to the school boards and head teachers in the various public schools…

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Ulmarra School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1890 · page 3

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Committee was held on Monday night, to consider an offer received from the Grafton Dramatic Club, to give an entertainment at Ulmarra for the benefit of the School…

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"School."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1890 · page 8

THIS most successful of the Robertsonian comedies was staged with great success at "The Criterion" on Saturday last, and a crowded house showed its appreciation of the production in an enthusiastic…

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School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 8

THE regular monthly meeting of the Committee was held on Monday. Present—Messrs. T. Bawden (President), Waterhouse, Page, Laman, Lardner, Welsh, Clarke, Irving, North…

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Public Schools

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 8

LOWER COLDSTREAM.—The blunder in connection with the above school arose throngh an error of the Telegraph Department, by which a telegram from the Chief Inspector to Mr. D. Bowling,…

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Modern School of Realistic Fiction

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 3

THE London Daily Telegraph is responsible for the following scathing denunciation of the modern school of realistic fiction. The worst realism of the day, it remarks, is supplied in the coarseness…

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Grafton School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 3

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Committee was held on Monday evening, for the purpose of dealing with the Building Committee's report recommending a tender for taking down and re-erecting the front…

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Public School Matters

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 August 1890 · page 2

TEACHER'S APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Alban M'Lachlan has been appointed to Lower Palmer's Island Public school, and Mr. Angus Munro to Micalo Island Provisional school…

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School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 3

THE adjourned monthly meeting of the committee was held on Monday. Present—Messrs. Bawden (president), Page, Doberer, M'Donald, Clarke, Stack, Hockey, Irving, F. Lardner…

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More Schoolboy Humour

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 8

THE August issue of Chambers's Journal contains an article by Mr. H. J. Barker, in the course of which he gives some specimens of the essaywriting powers of the poorer London children…

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In Book-Land. (By the Secretary Sydney School of Arts.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1890 · page 8

I FEEL so enthusiastic over the new books now lying on my table that to-day's column comes as from the pen of an optionist. I cannot remember receiving by any one mail steamer so many books,…

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The Coramba School Picinic

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1890 · page 3

THE Coramba school held their annual picnic on Thursday last, the 25th instant, on the Baregariga Plain, when nearly 100 of the neighbours, with their children, assembled, in spite of the rain that…

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Horrible Charges Againts a Schoolmaster

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1890 · page 3

THE prisoner Isadore Mont Blake, remanded on a charge of indecently assaulting a little girl, one of the scholars at the Boonoo Boonoo provisional State school, of which the prisoner was the master,…

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School of Arts

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 October 1890 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the Committee was held on Monday. Present—Messrs. T. Bawden (President), Page, Waterhouse, M'Donald, Lardner, Burt, Hookey, Welch, Irving and Rush…

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Section VIII—School Prizes. for Giris 14 years and over 12

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1890 · page 8

Plain writing on foolscap with lines. Mabel Batty, South Grafton Public school, prize; Elvira Neale, S.G.P.S., highly com mended; Mary Connor, Lower Coldstream P.S., commended, 21 exhibits…

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Church of England Sunday School. Laying of Memorial Stone

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 November 1890 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon Bishop Turner laid the memorial stone of the Church of England Sunday school building in Fitzroy-atreet, near the Cathedral, the foundations of which are already laid. There…

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Public School Matters

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1890 · page 8

THE Minister for Public Instruction has approved of the erection of new Public school buildings at Corindi, in accordance with progressive plan B; and the architect has been instructed to the necessary…

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