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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1923

532 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 27

Easter Holidays. Public Schools' Vacation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 March 1923 · page 5

The Minister' for Education announced to-night that it had been decided that all public schools throughout the State shall close at noon on Thursday for the…

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Gold Bangles. Stolen From School Children. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1923 · page 4

May Smith, 18, married, was charged at the Prahran Police Court on five counts of having stolen gold bangles from school children. Accused asserted that…

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Teaching Sedition. Socialist Sunday Schools. Bill in House of Commons. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 March 1923 · page 5

In the House of Commons, amid Ministerial cheers, a Bill, introduced by Sir John Butcher, to prevent the teaching of sedition to the young, was read a first…

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Teachers' Removal Expenses

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Newcastle District Teachers' Association, resolutions were adopted urging the central executive to use every endeavor…

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Over-crowded School

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1923 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Casino Parents and Citizens' Association, reference was made to the necessity for the extension of the district school buildings…

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"Disgrace to Civilisation" School Accommodation. Dearth of Teachers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1923 · page 3

"Thousands of pupils are being taught in the corridors, sheds and infested buildings, that are a disgrace to civilisation." These words were used by the Minister…

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"Intolerable Scenes." Farm Workers' Strike. Strikers Invade Farms. Schoolboys and Pensioners at Work. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1923 · page 3

What the "Daily Mail" describes as intolerable scenes in the fields and farmyards of England mark the progress of the strike of agricultural laborers…

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Number System. Aid to Arithmetic. Eatonsville Teacher's Invention

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 April 1923 · page 2

On Saturday last, in the Lismore Public School, Mr. E. C. B. Kearns, of Eatonsville Public School, by invitation of the executive of the Lismore branch of…

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Upper Orara. Parents and Citizen. Association. Unsatisfactory Conditions at School

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 2

At the last meeting of the [?] and Citiz[?] Association, [?] Orara, after Mr. Hoschke, the president, introduced the new teacher, Mr. Hay, also…

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Boat Capsizes. Schoolteacher Missing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1923 · page 3

D. J. Williams, head teacher of the Pambula Public School. and John Severs, and ov[?]man, while crossing the Pambula River in a boat on Friday morning…

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Rural School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 2

Mr. Roy S. Vincent, M.L.A., has been informed fay the Education Department:—"I refer to your personal representation, on behalf…

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Denominational Schools. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 5

The annual conference of the New South Wales Catholic Federation has instructed the incoming executive to wait upon the Acting Premier and to request…

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School Fire Inquiry. Queanbeyan

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 5

An inquiry is being held into a fire which destroyed the Public School and school residence at Sutton on Saturday The teacher was away…

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Winter Schools for Farmers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 3

The Department of Agriculture announces that arrangements have been made for the annual winter school for farmers to be held at Hawkesbury…

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Country Schools. a Worried Minister. the Apprenticeship Problem, Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1923 · page 5

The Minister, for Education, in opening the annual. conference of the Australian Teachers' Federation said, he had been told there were children of nine years of…

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Deplorable School Conditions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 4

When the ex-Minister for Education (Mr. Mutch) surprised the public with an account of the deplorable condition in which he found many of the public…

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Teachers' Conference. State System of Apprenticeship Permanency of Teaching Staffs Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 5

At the Teachers' Conference to-day a State system of apprenticeship, under a special Government Board of Control, comprising representatives of the…

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Letters to the Editor Tyringham School

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 2

Sir,—In a rece[?] issue you state that a correspondent has ridiculed my statement that the Tyringham school is in the wrong place. I have set…

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Fernbrook Road School

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 2

Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., has been advised by the Education Department as follows:—"Sir.—I refer to your personal representations on behalf of…

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Horticulture in Our Schools

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 7

Mr. Berman, in introducing the Minister at the opening of the Teachers' Horticultrual Autamn Show, mentioned that the society had been on the verge of…

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