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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1934

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High School Premiers Won by High School

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 September 1934 · page 2

In the final of the Ketter Cup competition for B grade players, which was played at the Delinga courts yesterday afternoon. High School defeated Delinga…

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Homework Effect on School Children Test in Tasmania. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 September 1934 · page 5

A report which has been furnished to the Government, on the effect of homework on the health of school children, may result in homework being abolished…

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Appalling Loss Of Life In Japan OVER 1200 Deaths in Typhoon More Than 500 School Children Killed Wind Attained Velocity of 150 M.P.H. Nearly Five Thousand Buildings Demolished Trains Blown Off Lines by Force of Wind 70,000 Homes Inundated by Tidal Wave Tokio

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 September 1934 · page 5

The typhoon which swept across Japan was one of the most intense ever recorded. Loss of life was appalling. Late reports show that 1067 persons were killed in Osaka, including 532 schoolchildren, and that 3057 persons were injured, while 180 are missing…

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School of Arts Proposed Improvements

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1934 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of Coffs Harbour School of Arts the sub-committee appointed to go into the matter of enlarging and improving the…

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B Grade High School Premiers Delinga Defeated in Final

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1934 · page 2

The final of the B grade of the Grafton and District Tennis Association's competition between High School and Delinga's…

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Teachers' Plight Doomed to Spinsterdom "Immoral" Says One of Them

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 September 1934 · page 3

After 20 years' experience in girls schools (writes Miss L. A. E. Packer in the "Sunday Referee," England) the attitude of Educational Committees to…

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Coff's Harbor School of Arts Building Improvements. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 September 1934 · page 1

At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Coff's Harbor School of Arts, presided over by Mr. J. P. Hammond, the sub-committee recently appointed to go…

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School Sport

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 September 1934 · page 2

The Hooke Cup, which has caused much local interest and keen athletic competition between High School teams annually at Taree since 1921,…

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Summer School Institute of Political Science

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 September 1934 · page 1

Copies of the programme for the third summer school to be conducted by the Australian Institute for Political Science in conjunction with the Constitutional…

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School Teachers in America

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 8

A school teacher, writing from America to a friend in Parkes, states that conditions there are even worse than they appear in the cables. She had not received…

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Calliope Teacher Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 3

A very large a and representative gathering of parents well-wishers met at the Calliope schoolroom last Friday night to bid farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Coombs…

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High School P. and C. Association

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the High School Parents and Citizens' Association will, he held on Thursday at the High School at 7.30 p.m. Mr. C. Stoner…

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Letter to the Editor Naming of Calliope School

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 7

Sir,--I have just read Mr. Matthews notes concerning the naming of Calliope school. The school was given the name of Calliope by the first teacher, Miss…

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Dorrigo School Sports Fraser Shield Retained Children Suffer From Cold. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 1

The annual district schools sports were conducted in a bitter westerly. Several competitors were affected by the cold. One child had to be wrapped in blankets, and…

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District Schools

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 October 1934 · page 2

The Dorrigo branch of the Teachers' Federation has endorsed the idea of a competition for all district schools at the next Dorrigo Show as outlined…

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Successful Pupils

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 4

Pupils of Mrs. Alda Orr Morris were very successful at the South Grafton Methodist Flower Show on Wednesday last. Miss Bronwen Apps, aged six years,…

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Educational District Rural School, Maclean Electric Light

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 6

The Domestic Science building has been installed with electric light and will now be available for socials and other school functions at night. A small gate will…

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School Exams. Intermediate and Leaving Grafton High School Candidates

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 4

High School students are at present studying hard for the intermediate and Leaving examinations. The Leaving commences on October 31 and the…

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Royal Visit Exhibition at Lismore Holiday for School Children

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1934 · page 4

The Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, has granted a special school holiday for the Richmond and Tweed districts, for Wednesday, November 28, to enable…

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Schoolgirl's Death

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 October 1934 · page 4

An inquiry into the death of Irene Bertha Maxwell, 12, who received fatal injuries when she was thrown from a horse at Bushby's Flat, on September 25…

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