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Broken Hill & the Far West · Schools

Schools, 1917

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South Australia. Teachers' Conference. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 July 1917 · page 4

The Teachers' Conference was continued to-day, and was addressed on "Liberty as Applied to Education and Economics in the Primary schools" by…

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South Australia. Teachers' Conference Resolutions. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 4

The teachers' conference closed its sittings to-day. Motions were carried that in large centres no school should be credited without an available…

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Proposed Registration of Teachers. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 2

At yesterday's sitting of the Teachers' Conference, speakers urged the registration of all teachers to ensure competency. They also urged a…

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Sunday School Union

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 July 1917 · page 2

The executive of the recently formed Barrier Sunday School Union met at the Sulphide-street Methodist School Hall on Monday night. The president,…

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South Australia. Teachers' Conference Resolutions. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 July 1917 · page 6

The teachers' conference closed its sittings to-day. Motions were carried that in large centres no school should be [?]ed without an available…

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Examination of School Children. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 3

Of 247,[?]85 children examined in the State by the medical inspectors of the Education Department, 147,079 were suffering from physical defects needing…

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Lutheran Schools Closed. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 4

All Lutheran schools in South Australia, except the Koo[?]a Mission School near Denial Bay, hare been closed under the Act of the last session…

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Woodwork in Schools. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 4

The Education Department is preparing for the establishment of woodwork in schools in Adelaide and the suburbs as adjuncts to the primary…

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Schools' Football Match

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 4

The Central School defeated the North School on the Central School ground to-day, scores being: Centrals, 1 goal; Norths, 5 points…

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Conrgegational Sunday School Concert

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 1

The Druids' Hall was well filled last night, notwithstanding the inclement weather, when a scholars' concert in connection with the Congregational…

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In Australia. German Schools in South Australia. What an Inspection Revealed. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 1

The Director of Education (Mr. M. M. Maughan) states that an inspection of German schools showed that the descendants of the peasants who…

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Schools to Close on Australia Day. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 4

All public schools in the metropolitan are are to be cloted on Australia Day…

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The Idle Infants' School. To the Editor

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 July 1917 · page 4

Sir,—I have noticed that "The Miner" has, from time to time, made inquiries of the local authorities as to when we might expect the infants'…

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Unemployment in Melbourne. Soup Distribution in State Schools. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 July 1917 · page 2

According to the assistant secretary of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council, over 8000 men and women, mostly skilled workers, are unemployed in…

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South Australia. German School Buildings Taken Over. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 4

The South Australian Education Department has rented a number of buildings formerly used as German schools…

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Barrier Sunday School Union

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 4

The recently formed Barrier Sunday School Union will be officially inaugurated on Wednesday (to-morrow) evening, when a public gathering will…

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Victorian Schools Raise £200.000. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 2

Victorian State schools have raised £200,000 for war relief funds since the outbreak of war…

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Public Schools Gardens. Grants From the Progress Association

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 August 1917 · page 5

The efforts of the Broken Hill Progress Association some four years ago in the way of arranging children's playgrounds and seaside excursions will…

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The Public Schools. Furniture for the Morganstreet Infants School

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 2

Mr. M. M'Taggart the District Engineer, stated this morning that he had received advice from Sydney that the furniture for the new…

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Schoolteachers' Protest. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Monday 6 August 1917 · page 2

The Public Schoolteachers' Union has passed a resolution protesting against the proposed interference with the secular principle in the education…

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