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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools

Schools, 1879

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Gunning School of Arts. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 6

DEAR SIR,—Will you kindly allow me space in the columns of your journal to call the attention of those whom it might concern to the following facts, viz.:—Some time ago a…

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The New Line School, &c. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 6

SIR,—I noticed in your issue of the 28th June a paragraph from your Bungendore correspondent in reference to the breaking up of our school; and that a certain…

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CORRESPONDENCE. We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by our correspondents.THE Grenfell Public SCHOOL.(To the Editor of the Burrangong Argus.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 2

SIR, — Your contemporary, the Chronicle, having published a long letter, ostensibly written by Mr. J. D. Campbell in justification of his conduct in reporting the head…

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Funeral Rites.—The Public School

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 6

THE following particulars have been supplied to us (Yass Courier) for publication from a reliable source :—Some time ago the father of an infant child that was not expected to…

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The Public Schools

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 3

IN a former issue we had a short paragraph from the Yass Courier in reference to the refusal of baptism to a dying infant, unless the father bound himself to remove one of his children from the public school…

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Education.--public Schools

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 2

WE are requested to publish the following, which was prepared for the " Gundaroo Review," a manuscript journal in connection with the Gundaroo Mutual Improvement Society:--…

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Football—Goulburn Y. Morris’ School

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 August 1879 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon last a match was played in Brookes’ paddock between teams selected from the above. The weather was favourable for the game. The Goulburn’s…

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The School Question

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 August 1879 · page 3

THE education question is exciting considerable interest in other portions of her Majesty's dominions besides New South Wales, and at the present juncture here it should be of advantage to notice what is…

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The School Question

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 1 September 1879 · page 2

THE manifesto on the education question recently promulgated by Archbishop Vaughan and three of the Roman Catholic bishops of the colony calls for discussion, inasmuch as it bears on the popular…

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The Barwang Selection and School Swindle

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 September 1879 · page 3

SOME time ago we published the particulars of something like a swindle" concerning a selection at Barwang, upon which that inexhanstible cow…

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Burrowa Flats School Seizure. (B. M. Herald, September 2.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 September 1879 · page 2

On Friday and on Saturday last a telegram giving particulars respecting some extraordinary proceedings in relation to a Public school at Burrowa Flast, appeared…

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The Closing of the School at Burrowa Flats

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 September 1879 · page 4

THE telegram from Burrowa, which we published on Friday, and the additional facts which we publish this day, furnish another proof of the necessity there is for…

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Closing of the Burrowa Flats Public School

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 September 1879 · page 2

THE following is from the Southern Argus Burrowa correspondent, with reference to the closing of the Public school at Burrowa Flats :— Some excitement has arisen in consequence of…

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Correspondence. Scripture Lessons in Our Public Schools. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 September 1879 · page 3

SIR,--The latest enunciations of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of New South Wales, through their Pastorale, are levelled, chiefly, against the reading of the Scripture Lessons by the Roman…

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Yass Public School Ground

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 23 September 1879 · page 2

IN consequence of the bungling of officials, the area of ground intended to be connected with the Public School buildings at Yass has been considerably and very unnecessarily curtailed…

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Gunning School of Arts. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 September 1879 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—Can I crave space in your valuable columns for a few remarks upon the actions of the treasurer to the Gunning School of Arts. Some time ago (as I announced…

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Reserves for Public Schools, Churches, &c

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 October 1879 · page 3

WE have received the following copy of a circular recently forwarded by the Surveyor-General to licensed and other surveyors in the country districts. The object aimed at appears to us to…

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The Schools Question

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 October 1879 · page 2

A MEETING was held in the Roman Catholic cathedral on Monday night. There was a large attendance of the members of the Roman Catholic church, the cathedral being packed. The chair was occupied…

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Public School for South Goulburn

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 13 October 1879 · page 2

On Saturday last n application was forwarded to the council of education praying for the establishment of a public school in South Goulburn. The names of…

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Goulburn Public School

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 October 1879 · page 3

THE undermentioned gentlemen have been appointed additional members of the Public School Board of the Public School established at Goulburn : — Messrs. Charles…

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