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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1937

672 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 25 of 34

Visit of Mr E. R. BREAKWELL. B.A., B.Sc., Supervisor of School Argiculture

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 6

Mr. Breakwell, who is very well known to many people in this town and district, was in Dorrigo during the week end and on Monday visited…

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School News

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 6

The last term of the year began last Tuesday week. Unfortunately the school is as yet far from full strength owing to the prevailing…

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School Column a Shipwreck

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 6

It was early spring and the weather was so delightful when the 'Glory' left the harbor, that little did the passengers guess what trouble was…

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School Matters P.& C. Meeting Staff Changes Resented

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 3

At a meeting of Coffs Harbour P. & C. Association last night, reference was made to the fact that of a total staff of 19 at Coffs…

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Successful Pianoforte Pupils

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1937 · page 4

The successful pianoforte solo competitors in the musical section of the Grafton Methodist Spring Flower Show, viz., Norma Campbell, Lola…

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Coff's Harbor P. And G. Association Furniture for New School Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 September 1937 · page 8

The monthly meeting of the Coff's Harbor Parents and Citizens' Association was held in the School of Arts last night; In the absence of the president…

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Nasal Spray To Prevent Paralysis School Children Treated. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 September 1937 · page 5

More than a score of Collingwood boys and girls were treated with a nasal spray at the Vere street State School, Collingwood, to-day, as a…

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Talkies in Schools

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 September 1937 · page 4

Arrangemnets are being made at Waratah and Adamstown to give sound film demonstrations in connection with teaching work. The executive of the…

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Cower Ind. Lab. Candidate Attacks A.L.P. Denominational School Issue Taree

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 September 1937 · page 4

Mr. T. McCristal, Independent Labor candidate, who is opposing the Leader of the Country party and Minister for Commerce, Dr. Page, for…

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Schoolboy's Excuse for Shooting Teacher. Toledo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 5

Robert Snyder, 12-year-old schoolboy, who last week shot the principal of his school, Miss June Mapes, 59, told the police that he fired the…

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To Be Closed Upper Copmanhurst School

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 September 1937 · page 4

Mr. A. S. Henry, M.L.A., has received the following letter. from the Minister for Education:--"I have had under consideration…

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Excellent Performance By S. Grafton Convent Pupils Large Crowd at Annual Juvenile Ball

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 4

The pretty old-time dance, the Lancers, gracefully rendered by the children of the South Grafton Convent School, was one of the features of the…

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High School Scholarships

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 8

Notice of motion advocating the provision of high school scholarships for the children of the district was given at the last meeting of the Casino…

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School Sport

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 5

Vigoro.—Page House defeated Vincent House by 50 runs to 28. Gwen Bennett and Sylvia Darley made the highest scores, with 16 runs…

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School Column an Appreciation

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 4

We are deeply indebted to Mr. Hobbs who has donated to the school a complete set of "The Children Encylopaedia." in ten volumes. [?]…

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Higher Education For Country Children at Dorrigo Public School Interesting Lecture

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association on Tuesday night was well attended, there being about 50 ladies and gentlemen…

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High School Sports The Annual Championships Another Successful Day

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 1

Coffs Intermediate High School Annual Sports, held on the Showground on Wednesday last, were so well organised that a very…

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Wrote to Queen London Schoolboy School to Be Pulled Down. London, September 11

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 8

Upset because his school was to be pulled down, Stanley Beton, 13-year-old scholar of St. Matthew's School, Bayswater, London, wrote to the…

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"Head of the River Inter-School Rowings Modern Trojan Galleys

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 12

The proposal of Mr. J. B. Walsh, of the District Rural School, Maclean, for an annual head, of the river butcher boat face contested between the various…

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Lower Lawrence School Children to Visit Grafton

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 October 1937 · page 4

The Parents and Citizens' Association of the Lower Lawrence Public School are arranging an educational trip to Grafton for the pupils of the local…

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