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Broken Hill & the Far West · Schools

Schools, 1929

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Rhodes Scholars Nearly 200 at Oxford Successes by Australians

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 3

Rhodes scholars from the four quarters of the globe are gathered at Oxford University. The number regularly in residence for either the…

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Transfer of Teachers Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 2

The following list of transfers and appointments of teachers, mistresses, and first assistant teachers has been made available:—…

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Sporting Adelaide Jockey Injured While Schooling Iraville Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 3

In schooling Iraville at Victoria Park this morning C. Smale suffered a nasty fall. He was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital. No bones were…

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Teachers' Conference Procession of Chairmen Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 3

An extraordinary position arose at the Federated School Teachers' Conference to-day, three delegates occupying the chair within the space of a…

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School House at Nambucca Destroyed by Flames Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

Bush fires were responsible for great destruction in the south coast district. At Nambucca the school house, the teacher's residence and post office…

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Soviet War on Religion Carried Into the Schools Must Train Communists (Special to "The Miner.") Riga, January 10

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

"School children must be taught to wage active war against all forms of religious influence," states the official foreword of the new education…

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Missing Sydney Schoolgirl Believed to Be at Hay Awaiting Identification Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 1

Although she denies that she is the missing schoolgirl, the police are convinced that a girl who has been located at Hay is Katherine Dyke…

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Missing Sydney Schoolgirl Is Located at Hay Identified by Mother Hay

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 3

The girl recently located here was yesterday definitely identified as Katherine Dyke, aged 13 years, a schoolgirl, who disappeared from her…

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Latest News Issue Serbian Girls and Fashions Protest in a School at Rules of Headmaster

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 4

The headmaster of one of the girls' high schools in Belgrade (states the correspondent of the London "Observer" in that city) paraded all the…

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Deeds of the Anzacs Charge of Deletion From Victorian School Books Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 2

A charge was made against the former Hogan Labor Government by Mr. J. Crainey at the annual meeting of the Victorian Returned Soldiers'…

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Reduced Railway Fares Country School Children

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 2

The Railway Department has decided to grant a confession to enable children who reside 200 miles or more from Sydney to visit the seaside. The…

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The High School New Appointments

Barrier Miner · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 1

The following are the appointments to the High School for the new term beginning on Monday:—Mr. A. A. Buckett, B.A., from Hay High School…

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Resumption of Schools

Barrier Miner · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 3

All local schools will reopen after a vacation of seven weeks on Monday. The Church on England Hostel at Wilcannia begins a new term on…

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Schools Reopen

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 2

After a vacation of seven weeks all public and Catholic schools will resume on Monday. At the High School Mr. N. R. Mearns will be in charge, at the…

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Barrier Miner Monday, February 4. 1929. School Starts Again

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 2

The Christmas holidays are over, and the schools have resumed work for another year. This morning boys and girls were streaming in at the gates…

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Resumption of Schools the Teaching Staffs

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 2

All public and Catholic schools reopened to-day after a vacation of seven weeks. The changes in the teaching staffs of the various schools…

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Assault on Schoolboy Aged Man Arrested Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 1

In broad daylight yesterday, a sixyear-old schoolboy was criminally assaulted at Kogarah while on. his way to school. The victim's screams were…

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Action Against Teacher for the Recovery of £473 Verdict Given for £400 Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 4

A remarkable case "was heard in the District Court to-day when Alice Flynn, spinster, of Neutral Bay, brought an action against a young…

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School Sports High School Results

Barrier Miner · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 3

Tho inter-house competitions at the High School in cricket, vigoro, and tennis were continued yesterday.- Cricket…

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The High School Courses

Barrier Miner · Friday 8 February 1929 · page 2

From "Mother of Six":— Now that school has restarted, may I inquire if a child attending the High School can take more than one course…

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