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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools

Schools, 1882

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The So-called Training-school at Middle Harbour

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 19 October 1882 · page 3

A reporter of the Sydney Morning Herald recently visited the institution at Middle Harbour called the Artisan's Working College and Agricultural Training-School under the…

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New Public Schools

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 24 October 1882 · page 4

It is proposed to establish public schools at Waggallalah, near Gunning, and at Towamba…

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Non-Attendance at School

Southern Argus · Saturday 28 October 1882 · page 2

Yesterday at the police court a large number of cases were called, in which parents were charged with neglecting to keep their children regularly to school, the Public Instruction Act requiring that…

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Public School, Powell Park.I

Southern Argus · Tuesday 31 October 1882 · page 2

Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 24th October, 1 82.—Sir.—With reference to the formal application, dated 12th June last, for the establishment of a Public school at Powell Park, [?]…

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Goulburn Superior Public School

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 November 1882 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

A DISTRIBUTION of prizes to pupils in the girls' department of the Goulburn superior public school took place on Tuesday afternoon, in connection with which there was a display of singing, a dramatic…

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Good-bye to School Days

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 November 1882 · page 4

THIS day three weeks whore shall we be? Out of the gates of miserie— No more parsing and no more French, No more Latin our brains to quench;…

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Site for the New Public School. Public Meeting

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 November 1882 · page 2

ON Thursday evening a public meeting was held in the hall of the Machanics’ Institute, in pursuance suance of advertisement signed by Mr. J. Russell, as chairman of the Progress Committee,…

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Public School Board

The Yass Courier · Thursday 9 November 1882 · page 2

WE are informed that a circular has been issued to the undermentioned gentleman, from the Department of Public Instruction, asking each of them to accept the office of member of the Public…

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Correspondence. Yass Catholic Schools. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Thursday 9 November 1882 · page 2

SIR, --In your issue of the 3rd instant, there appears a paragraph headed " Public School," under which you say " a petition prepared by Mr. H. Dodds, and numerously signed, has been sent to the Minister tor Public Instruction, urging that certain…

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Vass Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 November 1882 · page 2

THE anniversary of the above school has just been held. On Sunday, 29th October, the Rev. Mr. Hopkins preached two sermons from "Proverbs XIX 2. and in the afternoon of 5th…

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St. Clements' Sunday School Picnic

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 November 1882 · page 2

LONG before 10 o'clock on thfc morning of the Prince of Wales' Birthday the vicinity of St. Clement's schoolroom was thronged with young folks in eager expectation of their treat. Teachers…

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Bango Public School Picnic

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 November 1882 · page 2

ON Thursday last, the Prince of Wales' birthday, the children attending the Bango school were entertained by several of the residents of the locality at a picnic. There were about one…

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Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school Anniversary

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 23 November 1882 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon last the usual semon in connection with the anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Sabbath-school, Goulburn, was preached by the Rev. A. S. C. James of Sydney, son of the…

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Primitive Methodist Sabbath School Anniversary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 November 1882 · page 2

One Sabbath last the anniversary services were celebrated, when the Rev. A. S. C. James, of Sydney, preached appropriate and eloquent sermons morning and evening, and delivered an…

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St. Saviour's School Picnic

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 3

The anniversary of St. Saviour's Sunday school was celebrated on Thursday last by a picnic which took place in Blackshaw's paddock. About half-past nine o'clock a.m. the…

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Schooldays

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 3

O SCHOOLDAYS, happy schooldays, And ye have fled for aye! Ah me! the happy careless time Has for ever passed away…

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Berrabangalo School. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 December 1882 · page 3

SIR,-- I would call your attention to a correspondent from Berrabanglo, who complains of cruelty. Now seven of the twenty-two children attending this so-called moral school have to…

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Local and General News. Yass Public School

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 December 1882 · page 2

THE usual annual examination and distribution of prizes in connection with the above school took place on Friday last, and was the most successful, not only as regards the progress of…

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Abolition of Corporal Punishment in Girl's Schools

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 21 December 1882 · page 4

The effect on the discipline of the regulation prohibiting corporal punishment in state schools in Victoria in the ease of girls is declared by…

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