Teachers' Federation Elects Officers
Tributes were paid to the late Gunner Bob Payne, when the Teachers' Federation had its annual meeting on Saturday. He was an…
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Schools, 1942
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1000 Pupils Enrolled Catholic Schools Resume
ALL Catholic Schools in Broken Hill have resumed, and in most cases the programme for the year 1942 has already begun…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lower School Attendances Children Have Left City
ALTHOUGH it was too carly in the school year to obtain an accurate estimate, on the present enrolments it appeared that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High School Attendances Show Decline
HIGH School enrolments are down by 100 compared with last year. This year's roll numbers 900. "We actually expected a rise of 100," said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Drive For A[?]
In order to give full publicity to the latest aluminium drive being made by the City Council circulars have been issued to school children throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tibooburra News School Not Reopening
The public school at Tibooburar has not reopened nor is it likely that it will. The exodus of children of school age, coupled with those who advanced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Flag Saluting in Schools
SYDNEY, Friday. — As a national emergency precaution, flag-saluting and similar ceremonies on school playgrounds are to be discontinued,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Raid Shelters for Alma School
Air raid shelters will be built at the Alma School tomorrow. The scheme was discussed at a meeting of the P. & C. Association…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raid Precautions at Central School
In connection with Air Raid precautions in the Central School all parents are asked to attend a meeting in the boys' school on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Review Of Activities At High School
ONLY six pupils had come to Broken Hill High School on account of war conditions, stated Mr. F. C. Wootten, the principal, when he submitted a report to the annual meeting of the Patents and Citizens' Association at the school last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Raid Trenches Much Activiiy at Schools
SEVERAL hunded feet of air raid trenches have been already dug at Broken Hill schools and the work will proceed as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raid Shelters for Morgan St. School
An appeal to members to assist in the construction of air raid shelters at the Morgan Street Infants' School on Saturday was made at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.r.p. Precautions at Public School
In accordance with instructions issued from the Department of Education, trenches suitable for protection of pupils in the event of an air raid have been dug…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Precautions At Schools 6000ft. of Air Raid Trenches
OVER 6000 feet of air raid trenches will have been dug at 11 of the schools in Broken Hill by the time the hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sixty [?]Diggers" Cut Trenches At North School
SIXTY "Diggers," new style, turned up at the North School this morning, and under a blistering sun, cut great trench weals across the ground with as much stubborness and zeal as if they were digging trenches on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.z. Clerics Dig School Shelters
WELLINGTON, Monday.—Clad in dungarees and armed with picks and shovels, members of the clergy in Christchurch have begun to dig…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raid Shelters For Children At Catholic Schools
TWO underground chambers, heavily reinforced with concrete, and each capable of protecting 300 children, will provide air raid protection from anything save a direct hit at the Marist Brothers' College and at St. John's School…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Swimming Class at White Cliffs
Organised swimming lessons for the school children are in full swing now, combined with a course in resuscitation work. The pupil are entering into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →School Trenches Criticised
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Mayor of Paddington, Alderman W. F. Read, at a meeting of the council, criticised the proposal to provide air-raid,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roaring Drills At Central School Aid To Trench Diggers
AS noisy as a nest of machine guns were the four poppers on a compressor unit which drummed out a tremendous rat-tat-tat song on the tougher stretches of the air raid trenches which were being dug outside the…
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