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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools

Schools, 1906

418 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 9 of 21

Reply to School Children

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 2

My Dear Children,--To tell you that I am extremely grateful for your beautiful address and for the filial and dutiful sentiments which it expresses, would only poorly…

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State School Teachers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

A deputation consisting of the executive of the Public School Teachers' Association waited upon the Minister for Education on Friday to lay before him certain…

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Training the Young. Sound, Sensible Talk. Mr. D. Eraser, district school inspector, delivered the following address to the district teachers at Gundagai on Saturday:— “A Few Ideals.”

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

By the word “Ideals” I mean the highest conception that our minds are capable of. Our ideals should be high and holy; and we should be full of splendid enthusiasm…

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Farmers' Winter School

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 June 1906 · page 3

THE winter school for farmers at the Hawkesbury College starts to-day. About sixty farmers, dairymen, and orchardists arrived, and were allotted rooms. The…

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Abolishing School Fees

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 21 June 1906 · page 2

The State Premier was able to announce in his pre-session speech on Monday night that the excess of revenue this year in the Treasury would be…

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Household Recipes Ifecially Writer by Miss Any Nonro Principal Cookery School, Technical College. Sydney to Pickle Beetroot

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 2

Ingredients:—6 bestroots, 2 pints vinegar, 1/2oz. ginger and sugar, 1/2oz, peppercorps, 1 blade mace, 2 dozen colves. Method.—Wash the beetroot carefully…

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Public School Matters

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 June 1906 · page 4

Mr. H. Cook, who for some years had charge of the Kingsdale school, has been transferred to Bungonia, and his place has been filled by Mr. Laws. The Department of Public…

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Young District School

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 23 June 1906 · page 6

A MEETING of subscribers to the Young District School Educational Fund was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening, .Mr. Learmont (Mayor) in the…

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Bishopthorpe High School

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 June 1906 · page 2

THE authorities and the pupils themselves are to be congratulated on the success in the recent theoretical examination conducted by the Royal Academy of Music (London)…

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The Remission of School Fees, and Alleged ‘Catholic Taxation.’

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 25 June 1906 · page 2

Under the significant heading “Mr. Carruthers to tax Catholics,” a metropolitan contemporary the “Catholic Press,” in its issue of Thursday last, has…

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Public School Matters

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 2

The Public High School in connection with the local District School is now in thorough working order. A staff of expert teachers has been appointed, English, languages,…

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Bishopthorpe High School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 4

At the recent musical examination conducted by the Royal Academy of Music (London) in theoretical work the following girls secured…

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School Holidays

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 2

The News Letter says:—School teachers who used to get four weeks’ holiday at Christmas, two at midwinter, and two at Easter, and who joined in the agitation for…

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G.E. Sunday School

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 2

We are pleased to note that Mr. J. Tozer J.P., has taken over the superintendency of the above school and under his capable efforts it is…

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Educational. Exhibition of School Work

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 2

society a room on Monday night. Mr. E. C. Instruction the teachers of this district have decided to forward to the exhibition of school work to be held in Melbourne and Christ…

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Roman Catholics and the School Fees

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

The "Catholic Press" this week explains the Roman Catholic view of the proposed abolition of school fees. "By [?] the fees the cost of State…

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Winter School for Farmers

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 3

THE opening lecture on Wednesday, given by the principal of the Hawkesbury College, at the Winter School for Farmers, dealt with commercial fertilisers and their legitimate…

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Household Recipes Specially Written by Miss Amy Monro Principal Cookery School, Technical College. Sydney. Apple Chutney

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 5

Ingredients:—2lbs brown sugar, 2 qts vinegar, 4½lbs good cooking apples weighed after peeling and coring, 1½lbs raisins, 1oz of ginger and mustard seed, ¼…

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The Abolition of School Fees

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 2

THE “ Courier ” for many years has strongly opposed the abolition of school fees, always contending that the public never asked for it, and…

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Panic in Schools

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 July 1906 · page 4

An extraordinary panic arose yesterday in 20 schools in New York owing to a report being circulated that doctors intended to cut the tonsils of thousands of foreign and…

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