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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools

Schools, 1896

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Baptist Sunday-School Anniversary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 2

ANNIVERSARY services in connection with the Baptist Sunday-school will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow, a specially attractive programme, which appears in our advertising columns, having…

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Baptist. Sunday-school Anniversary

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 February 1896 · page 2

THE secretary arrives were held yesterday is the Town Hall. As meeting arrive there was a large [?] The [?]…

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Baptist Sunday-school

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1896 · page 4

VERY successful anniversary services in connection with the Baptist Sunday-school wore held in the Town Hall on Sunday last. Services wore hold morning, afternoon, and evening, and there was a…

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Spring Valley School

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 February 1896 · page 5

With reference to the petition for the erection of a weathershed at the above school, presented by Mr. O'Sullivan, that gentleman is informed by the department that in view of…

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Spring Valley School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 4

WITH reference to the petition for the erection of a weathershed at the above school, presented by Mr. O'Sullivan, that gentleman has been informed by the department that, in view of the small…

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A Schoolboy's Freak

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1896 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A boy named William Underwood, aged 12 years, was committed for trial at the Cobden Police Court to-day on a charge of playfully setting fire to the Port Campbell North…

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Mummell Public School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1896 · page 4

THE Bungendore correspondent of the Age says:—Mr. H. E. Laws, teacher of the half-time schools at Creekborough and Fell Timber, has received well-deserved promotion to Mummell school…

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The Humours of the School. the Wrong Boy

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 March 1896 · page 1

A village schoolmaster was told by the parson that he intended to bring a friend next morning to hear the boys . put through their paces in religious…

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Roman Catholic. Schools Picnic

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 2

IT has been decided to treat the children attending the various Catholic school in the city to a picnic on the showground on St. Patrick's Day, 17th instant. After Vespers…

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School Teachers and Rent

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 2

A circular has been received by public school teachers, issued at the instigation of the Public Service Board, stating that 4 per cent. will be deducted from the amount allowed for rent if living in…

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Schools Picnic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 2

A meeting was held in the school-room of the Patrieiun Brothers on Sunday evening in connection with a proposal to give a picnic on the show-ground on St. Patrick's Day to the children attending the…

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Schools' Picnic

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1896 · page 2

St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in Goulburn by a monster picnic of school children on the Agricultural Society's ground. The picnic, which was given to all the…

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Public School Prize Fund Concert

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 March 1896 · page 2

The concert In the Mechanics' Institute on Friday evening, in aid of the Burrowa Public School prize fund, was in point of merit highly successful. The programme…

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Pupil Teachers Promoted

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 March 1896 · page 2

THE following paper [?] have gained [?] to class I by examination:—Her[?] J. Dallas, [?] publis school; David J. [?]ball, Crockuell' Rore [?]…

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S. Nicholas' Sunday-school

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 March 1896 · page 2

The annual prices was aranged for Friday in the poties [?] kindly lest by Mr. Georiger. [?] but in [?] of the [?] of the [?] the pirce…

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The Teaching of Shorthand in Schools

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 2

Perhaps ho branch of learning has received so much attention during the last year or two as shorthand. Shorthand is no longer regarded as a…

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Girton Training School

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 March 1896 · page 2

A FEW years ago no establishment in the city was more generally known than the boys' school, Hurstville College, Afterwards it became a private residence, but recently it…

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Eastgrove Sunday School

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 March 1896 · page 2

On Friday evening, last a concert organised by Mrs. Baker, superintendent, was held in the schoolroom, Eastgrove. A large number of persons were present, and Mr. E. S…

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Fire at Run of Water School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 4

ON Saturday last Mr. H. O'Brien, Coroner, held an inquest as to the origin of a fire at the Run of Water Public School. The inquest was held in the school-room and lasted from 11 o'clock till nearly 6 o'clock…

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Superior Public School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 March 1896 · page 4

AN asphalt tennis court has lately boon laid down at the Goulburn Superior Public School, Bourke-street. On Friday afternoon last the children and parents assembled to witness the ceremony of…

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