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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools

Schools, 1906

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Is Our Public School System a Failure? (To the Editor. Yass Courier)

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

SIR,—Under the above heading, there appeared in your issue of tho 9th inst[?] a letter signed James Gillespie, which I feel sure, has voiced the exact…

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School of Arts

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

The monthly committee meeting of the School of Arts and Mechanics Institute was held at the room on Tuesday night last. Mr. S. Shute…

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A Free Meal School

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 3

Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Secretary for Home Affairs, says there is no confirmation of the statement made by Mr. Augustus Birrell, president of the Board of Education, in the…

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Starving School Children. London, March 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 2

The select committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the question of providing free meals for starving school children has resolved that official reports on…

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Goulburn District School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 2

Mr. P. Shortland, B.A., has been appointed assistant at the Goulburn District School, and left on Tuesday night for his new duties. He has been practically the sports master at…

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Teachers in Conference

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 2

Tuena, Wednesday.—A school of method and conference of teachers was held at the local Public School last week, under the supervision of Inspector Mackenzie. Friday was…

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Young District School. Public Meeting

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 2

WE hope there will be a representative gathering of parents at the meeting which is to be held in the boys department of the local school, to-night, at 8 o’clock. Mr…

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Teeth of School Children

Goulburn Herald · Monday 26 March 1906 · page 2

THE Dental Association of New South Wales which recently undertook the work of examining the teeth of school children, made a start on Friday with the Cleveland-street…

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Young District School

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 3

A public meeting convened by advertisement was held at the boys' room, Superior Public School on Friday evening last for the purpose of devising means to assist on…

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The Local Public School

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 2

In response to an advertisement a public meeting was held in the Boys Department of the local Public School on Friday night last in order that certain matters in…

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Sydney College of Music. Yass Pupils Successful

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 2

The Y.M.C.A. Hall, Sydney, last Monday eight was not large enough to hold al[?] those who turned up to the twelfth annual distribution of medals, badges and…

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The Ladies' Column. Nursery Notes. Are School-children Overworked?

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 4

"Give children overdoses of book-learning, and in all probability you will stifle their originality". A business man dreads bringing…

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The Trail of the Serpent. Book the First. a Respectable Young Man. CHAPTER I. the Good Schoolmaster

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 4

I Don't suppose it rained harder in the good town of Slopperton-on-the- Sloshy than it rained anywhere else. But it did rain. There was scarely…

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Goulburn Public Schools Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 2

At the Bourke-street public school this (Saturday) morning the annual meeting of the. Goulburn Public Schools Association was held…

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Young District School

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 2

In continuance of our brief report in last issue of the public meeting held in the school on Friday night last. Mr. Carroll, the principal of the school,…

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Goulburn Public Schools Association. Annual Report

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 April 1906 · page 2

THE fourth annual meeting was held at the Bourke-street school on Saturday. Mr. Inspector Flashman presided, and there was a large attendance…

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Ex-schoolmaster's Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 2

At the Coroner's Court, King-street, on Monday, Mr. W. Clarke, P.M., Acting City Coroner, conducted an inquest on the body of Joseph Michael Kelly, 39, an ex-schoolmaster,…

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Subsidy to Schools of Arts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 2

Bathurst, Monday.—At a meeting of the School of Arts committee to-night a communication received from the Education Department stated that the Minister considered it…

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Schools of Art Subsidies. Reduction and Discontinuance

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1906 · page 3

THE Bathurst School of Arts committee is in receipt of a communication from the Public Instruction Department intimating that it is the intention of the Minister for Education to…

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Subsidies for Schools of Arts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 2

Mr. B. B. O'Conor, Minister for Public Instruction, made a statement on Wednesday respecting a communication from the department to the Bathurst School of Arts, intimating that it is his intention to…

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