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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1941

484 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 25

New School Courses

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 August 1941 · page 4

The Guyra Parents and Citizens Association has decided to ask the Minister for Education to reconsider suggestions for a mobile technical unit,…

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Saluting Flag Teachers Should Also. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1941 · page 5

The New Zealand Federation of School Committees Association to-day recommended compulsory saluating of the flag by school teachers on the…

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Trial Period Abolition Of Cane Teachers' Discretion. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1941 · page 3

The question of corporal punishment in schools has been adjusted, following a discussion to-day with the Minister for Education (Mr. Evatt) and the…

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Casino School Additions

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 August 1941 · page 4

At Wednesday night's meeting of the Casino [?], and C. Association the president (Mr. F. W. Johnston) reported having received advice from…

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Railway Cruise Schoolgirls Visit Grafton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 September 1941 · page 4

Eighty-nine schoolgirls, most of them from metropolitan schools visited Grafton yesterday in the course of a railway cruise of the North Coast and…

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Radio Makes School a Pleasure Heather Gell and "Music Through Movement"

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 September 1941 · page 6

School children in New South Wales may not be caned in the future. If the Minister for Education (Mr. Evatt) has his way the cane will go into the museum. Whatever the results of sparing the rod may be, the Minister's proposal indicates a remarkable development in modern…

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School Oculist's Visit to Inverell

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1941 · page 2

As a result of a request made by the Inverell and District P. and C. Association Council, the hon. secretary (Mr. H. C. Cooper) has received a…

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Diamond Jubilee Woodford Leigh School Arrangements Nearing Completion

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1941 · page 6

The main business of the recent meeting the local P. and C. Association concerned arrangements connected with the staging of the school's diamond jubilee…

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Grafton Public School P. and C. Association

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 4

Members of the Grafton Public School P. and C. Association are reminded that the monthly meeting of the association will be held in the…

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Schoolgirls' Cruise

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 4

The Mayor of south Grafton (Ald. M. V. McNamara) told members of the South Grafton Council at their meeting last night that last Tuesday he had…

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Schools Resume

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 September 1941 · page 4

After a vacation of a little over a fortnight the State schools reopened yesterday. For some of the school children it means nothing but another…

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Burned to Death Victorian School Teacher Married Only Four Months. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 4

Leslie Jack Gilbert, 23, school teacher of Yeallangip North, near Warracknabeal, was burned to death last night when trapped in a burning house…

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Corporal Punishment in Schools Misconception Arisen?

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 6

Some misconception seems to have arisen concerning the question of corporal punishment in State Public Schools which resumed this week…

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Corporal Punishment the Minister for Education and the Teachers'

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 4

Mr. C. R. Evatt after a brief period in office as Minister for Education has decided to abolish corporal punishment in departmental schools…

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School Cadets The Sawtell Camp

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 1

A very instructive and enjoyable camp of the Coffs Harbour High School Senior Cadets Corps has just been concluded at Sawtell. Some…

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EDUCATION Minister At Casino School Additions to Cost £7000. LISMORE

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 4

Additions to the Intermediate High School at Casino costing £7000 were inspected by the Minister for Education. Mr. Evatt, to-day, the Minister…

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CORAMBA School Of Arts Will It Be Closed?

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the Coramba School of Arts subscribers was set down for last Friday night, but as the attendance was less than half the quorum required, a…

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Air Training Four New Schools All in Queensland. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 2

The formation of four new air training schools in Queensland was announced by the Air Minister to-night. The opening of a wireless air gunners'…

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WOOLGOOLGA Public School Teaching Staff Reduced

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 2

Because of the depletion in the ranks of the teaching staff at Woolgoolga Public School through the vacancy caused by the transfer of Miss F. Hales to Smithtown not being filled,…

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New Lismore School

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1941 · page 4

When laying the foundation stone of the new school at East Lismore on Friday, the Minister for Education (Mr. Clive Evatt, K.C.) paid tributes to…

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