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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1940

432 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 22

South Grafton Public School

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 4

The Mayor and Mayoress of South Grafton, Ald. and Mrs. Carl T. Schwinghammer, and the president of the South Grafton branch of the Red…

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Empire Day Celebrations Grafton High School

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 4

Empire Day celebrations at Grafton High School will take place next Friday, May 24, in the Assembly Hall of the school…

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Empire Day Ceremony at High School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 2

A very impressive ceremony was held at Coffs High School this morning to celebrate Empire Day on one of the most…

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Empire Day School Celebrations Grafton and South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 2

All Public Schools in Grafton and South Grafton will be celebrating Empire Day to-day. At the Grafton High School the…

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Tamworth Chosen Air Training School to Start on September 21 Federal Govt's Decision

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 7

Tamworth has been chosen as a centre for the establishment of an elementary trailing school for pilots under the Empire Air Scheme…

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Grafton Public School Empire Day Celebrations Impressive Addresses

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 6

"One of the effects of the present war will be the expansion of primary and secondary industries in Australia," stated Mr. C. G. Wingfield, M.L.A., at…

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Empire Day on the Clarence "The Allies Will Conquer" Confidence Is Dominant Note Vigorous Messages of Courage and Hope Schools Celebrate Empire Day At Grafton

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 6

On the occasion of the celebration of Empire Day at the schools of Crafton and district yesterday in a tern of high confidence in the ability of the Allies to win this war and maintain the freedom for which the British democracy is famed all over the world was the dominating note, and the…

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Coffs School Cadets

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 2

A very pleasing note comes from Barker College, Sydney, concerning the four N.C.O's of Coffs High School Cadets who recently attended a [?]…

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£555,000 for Schools This Year's Estimates Grafton High School Included. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 4

Capital expenditure on new schools and the reconditioning of existing schools for the current financial year would total £555,000, said the Minister…

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Opinions of Our Readers Union Sunday School

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 7

Sir,--In your issue of 17th inst., you give a report of a meeting of the Grafton branch of the United Protestant Association in which it is…

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Schoolboy Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 4

William Gordon Connor, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Connor, of Duke street, Grafton, suffered an injury to the head as the result of a fall when playing at…

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Food --Guns Sweeping Changes Schools As Factories 800 Food Zones in Britain London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 5

A series of sweeping new measures to prepare the home front for any emergency ahead range from the conversion of schools into shadow…

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School Additions

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 2

The headmaster (Mr. C. Betts) of the Dorrigo Public School has been authorised by the Dept. of Education to accept the tender of Mr. G. Cork…

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School Column Dorrigo Public School

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 2

Empire Day was fittingly celebrated at the Dorrigo Public School on Friday, May 24. At 9 a.m. the school assembled to witness the breaking…

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New Infants' School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 2

At Coifs P. & C. Meeting last night correspondence referred to a poposed new public school building for Cofis Harbour, and Mr. Marshall said he…

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GLENREAGH Empire Day Impressive Ceremony at Public School

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 2

A most impressive ceremony was held at the Glenreagh Public School on Empire Day. The school assembled at the flagpole, where the Union Jack…

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ULMARRA Empire Day Public School Celebrations

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 7

At the Empire Day celebrations in the Ulmarra Public School, the proceedings were conducted by the children under the chairmanship of…

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Coffs High School Waste Saving Campaign

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 3

A committee of boys at Coffs High School have on their own initiative sent circulars to all schools in the district with the object of collecting…

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United Protestant Assn. Shorthand and Typewriting in High Schools

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 2

In reply to the North Coast Council of the United Protestant Association, the Director of Education writes: "I wish to state that the matter of…

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Grafton Public School P. and C. Association

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 4

Members of the Grafton public School Parents and Citizen's Association are reminded that the monthly meeting will be held in the…

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