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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Schools

Schools, 1951

482 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 18 of 25

Strong Protest On School Delay

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 2

Unless parents protested very strongly, the Grafton Primary and Infants' School would not receive any relief in the way of urgently needed new buildings, said the president of the Grafton Mothers' Club (Mrs. B. A…

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Boy Dies In School Ground

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.-- A 13 year old boy collapsed and died after a sehoolmate accidentally bumped his…

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High School Choir For Jubilee Sports

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 7

The Coffs Harbour High School Girls' Choir, now well-known throughout the State as one of the finest country school choirs,…

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St. Joseph's Convent School Choir

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

St. Joseph's Convent School Choir, South Grafton, which was awarded the Trinity College State medal for Preparatory Grade singing, 1950, and honours in the 1951 examinations…

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Tragic Death at Local Rural School

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 1

The tragic death of Edwin John Cowell, aged 12 years, at the Dorrigo District Rural School last Friday, cast a gloom over the…

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Weird Sounds At School of Arts

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 9

What are the "thumpings" and' weird sounds issuing from behind closed doors at the School of A[?]s, each Monday…

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Primary School Notes

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 6

Wednesday sow a fine display of spring blooms in the 6B Girls' flower Show. Miss Thompson, who organised the…

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Sixty More Books For School Library

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 3

COPMANHURST.--At a meeting held in the public school, the P. and C. made arrangements for a…

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Jubilee Paintings At Upper Orara School

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 4

UPPER ORARA.--Highlight of the last meeting of the P. and C. Association was the formal presentation…

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Country Schools At Carnival

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Country schools will be well represented at the All Schools' athletic championship…

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Schoolboys Build Telescope

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 5

By their own ingenuity and initiative, schoolboys attending the Wargrave Piggot School, in Berkshire, have built their own telescope. The telescope is an eight-inch Newtonian, which can be…

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Notes From the Primary School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

A representative gathering of teachers from all parts of the district met at Coffs Harbour on Wednesday to hear the…

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Piano For Infants' School

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 8

To assist the Infants' School Mothers' Club to pay for the new piano recently purchased, the children have been asked to…

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Painting High School

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 2

Complete re-painting of the Grafton High School is expected to begin in a few days…

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Glenreagh School of Arts

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 5

GLENREAGH. -- The monthly meeting of the Glenreagh School or Arts was well attended…

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School Repairs

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 2

SWAN CREEK. -- School buildings and the residence, are undergoing painting and repairs…

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School Athletes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 3

Grafton zone P.S.A.A.A. schoolboy and girl athletes, who will take part in the school country…

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Sunday School Teachers Confer

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

A conference of Sunday School teachers representing the Anglican Parishes of Ulmarra, Maclean, South…

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Cricket Woolgoolga's Good Start in Opening Match High School Bundles Out Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 8

In the opening fixtures of the Coffs Harbour and District Cricket Association's 1951-52 season Woolgoolga gave last year's premiers, Jetty, an afternoon's leatherchasing. The country players scored 234 runs and had…

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Colville Prize For Grafton High School

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 2

On a recent visit to the Grafton High School, Mr. A. B. Colville, M.A., ex-inspector of High Schools,…

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