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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1950

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Record Attendances At School This Year

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Attendances at school during 1950 would reach, the record of 393,000 compared with 370,000 in 1949,…

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Yugo-Slavs Complain Of Treatment Ii Russian Schools

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 4

BELGRADE.--Complaints by Yugo-Slav Air Force cadets that they were spied upon, forbidden to speak their own…

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School Party

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

LOWER COLDSTREAM;-- The school year ended with a Christ- man tree for the children, and presents from Santa Claus for…

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Schoolboy's Build Own 'Bus'

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 4

Boys of Newtown School, Reading, built their own bus, their passport to summer happiness. With the aid of their metalwork instructor and the school electrician, the boys built the bus from spare parts taken from two derelict bakers' vans bought for £10…

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Outbreak Of Fire In School Ground

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

The Grafton Fire Brigade received a call on Saturday night to the Grafton Public School playground, to find a 20ft. high…

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Schoolboy Fisherman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 4

MACLEAN. -- Bryan Harper, of Trinity Grammar School, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. McCullough Harper, of Maclean, has a good,…

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Coffs Harbour High School Prefects for 1949

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 1

BACK ROW: Peter Coy, Kevin Harvey, Bruce Young, Don Easy, Bill Tyson, Ray Nolan, Geoff Wheeler, Ca[?]n Heber CENTRE ROW: June Jeffreys. Ruth McDonald, Dell Harwood, Annette Hawke, [?]dy T[?]wnrps Shirley Wetland…

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Japanese School For Diplomats

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

TAKIO.--A new race of Japanese diplomats, is being trained and assembled in Tokio in anticipation of an early peace…

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Two Boys Arrested After School Property Damaged

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.-- Two toys, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested and charged with being uncontrollable, following…

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CRICKET North Coast Players For Coaching School

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

COFF'S HARBOUR Mon-- The secretary of the North C[?]at Cricket Council Mr. Lionel Fowler, announced in Coff's…

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Taught At Schools 15 Miles Apart

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

Not long after he began teaching Mr. T. H. (Tom) Morris had charge of two schools out beyond Bourke. They were 15 miles apart and Mr. Morris had to do his travelling in his own time. It was done by bicycle,…

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Well Known Teacher Retires

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 9

Mr. T..H (Tom)Morris who was a teacher at Coffs Primary School before he weat toGrafton 14 years ago, has…

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School of Arts Committee

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 6

The financial statement presented at the monthly meeting of Coffs School of Arts Committee showed a credit of £1616…

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Agricultural High School Bursary

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

A bursary has been awarded Wooster, Arthur George: Glenferneigh Public School, enabling him to attend the Farrer…

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Schoolboys to Map Arctic Circle

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 2

Fifty schoolboys from Britain are now preparing to spend their summer holidays near the North Pole. They will camp for six…

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School Crowding Inevitable

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Overcrowding and inconvenience in some school rooms would be inevitable in this year's record school enrolment,…

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This School Year Will Be Record

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--A record number of State school teachers and pupils will commence the 1950 school year within the next 10 days. SCHOOLS in most of the State…

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Transport Of School Children

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 2

WOOLGOOLGA. -- The transport of school children to the Woolgoolga Public School from Skinners Mill, Double Crossing…

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Teacher Farewelled

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 4

BONVILLE.--A farewell social evening was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Garland, before their departure for Castlereagh, where…

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Farewell to Palmer's Channel School Teacher

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 6

PALMER'S CHANNEL. -- A farewell and presentation was extended to Mr. and Mrs. W. Barker prior to their departure…

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