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Schools, 1851

5 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Government Gazette. Friday, January 10, 1851. Denominational Schools. Distribution of the sums voted by the Legislative Council for the support of the Denominational Schools for 1851. Church of England Schools.—diocese of Newcastle

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1851 · page 4

Salaries to Teachers, and Local Boards of Inspection, for 1851: Newcastle—salary, £50—local board, Rev. C. P. N. Wilton, Beresford Hudson, Esq.[?] Charles Bolton, Esq…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury. He is in yellow stockings, most villanously crossgartered, like a pedant that keeps a school in the church.—SHAKESPEAR

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1851 · page 2

SIR—As you have copied in your paper the Rev. W. B. Clarke's statement about the Bathurst gold field individualized by Mr. Hargraves, and about sundry other gold fields yet to…

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Council Papers. Denominational Schools. Third Annual Report from the Denominational School Board. FINANCE

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 November 1851 · page 4

Of the vote placed at their disposal in support of the schools of the respective denominations for 1850, the board appropriated nine-tenths to the payment of teachers' salaries, and one-tenth…

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Council Papers. National Schools. Third Report of the Board of National Education in New South Wales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 1

The Board of National Education have agreed to the following report:- 1. In submitting our third annual report, we beg permission, in the first place to refer to the…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, November 25, 1851. Denominational School Board

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 1

His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint Arthur Savage, Esq., R.N., to be a member of the Board for the temporal regulation and management of the…

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