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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1949

541 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 28

Fishermen's Protest Over Bombing School Plan

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs.—Professional fishermen at Coff's Harbour are concerned at a report, that the R.A.A.F will…

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Grave Concern Over New School Drainage

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

DEEP concern is being expressed in South Grafton as to the future of the new £20,000 kindergarten school block, to which the builders are rutting the finishing touches. The concern arises from the…

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Coff's Primary School Swimming Carnival

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR.—The Pensor Cup, presented by the sports-master (Mr. W. J. Benson) for competition each year at the Coff's Harbour Primary School annual swimming carnival, was won by Flinders House…

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Story In Court Of Poisoned Schoolboy

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—A 14-Year-old schoolboy, poisoned himself with cyanide after being told that he would cyanide after being told that he would have to repeat a school…

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Immorality Among School Children

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 6

BRISBANE, Fri.—When told of the shocking immorality, among children at a North Coast council school. Mr. Justice Matthews in…

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School Number Down at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 2

MACLEAN.—A reduction of enrolment in the secondary school from 189 last year to 180 this year was reported by…

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Drainage At New Infants' School Letter to the Editor

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 2

Sir.—In a recent, issue appears a lot of criticism regarding drainage of the new infants school at South Grafton…

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Teachers Pay Tribute To Former Member

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 4

TRIBUTE was paid by the teachers of Grafton and district at the annual meeting of their association to Mr. L. J. Pankhurst, late headmaster of South Graf on Primary School, and a fine teacher and citizen. Sympathy was expressed for members…

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School Column District Rural Notes Increase in Infant Section

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 1

Building operations at Dorrigo School are progressing steadily, in spite of the difficult weather. The classroom transferred from South…

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Notes From Coffs Primary School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 5

The Swimming Carnival was more exciting than the final scores indicated. Some stirring finishes resulted…

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Three Schoolgirls Organise "Rathgar" Concert

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

Three young Grafton girls, June Kitcher, Joan Bruce and Vicki Greenaway, organised a bright and entertaining…

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Crowded Girls' School Causes Concern

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

Grave concern at the crowded conditions of classrooms and insufficient teaching staff at the Grafton Girls' School was…

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Hybrid Maize School At Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 2

Further details of the hybrid maize school to be held at Grafton from March 30 to April 1, were announced yesterday by the…

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Inter-school Sports Lack of Fool Handicaps Swimmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 March 1949 · page 3

COFF'S HARBOUR.—Teachers who accompanied students of the Coff's Harbour High School to Kempsey for the triangular contests between Coff's…

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Schools' Appeal the £100 Mark

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 2

The secretary of the Memorial Baths Fund Appeal. (Mr. H. Schaeffer), stated last night that the united schools' effort…

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Child Welfare Officer Warns Principals Of Unregistered Schools

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 2

The District Child Welfare Officer (Mr. R. Ashton) stated last night that it had come to his notice that a number of…

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Macksville Wants High School

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 4

A move is being made for the immediate establishment of a high school at Macksville. At the best attended public…

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School Column District Rural Notes

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

The Dept. of Education has notified the Headmaster that as a result of the recent Intermediate Examination, the following awards have…

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Hybrid Maize School Sees District Farms

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 2

THE Department of Agriculture's school for hybrid maize study continued yesterday, when field work was carried out at the Grafton Experiment Farm, Mr. C. M. Doust's farm, at Ulmarra, and the experimental plot of the Maclean Rural School…

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Hybrid Maize School at Grafton Concludes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 2

The Department of Agriculture's hybrid maize school concluded at Grafton yesterday, when the morning session dealt…

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