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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1890

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Reserve for Public School Purposes. Land District of Glen Innes

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 July 1890 · page 7

No. 12,024, within the resumed area of Ranger's Valley Holding; area, 8 acres. No. 12,025, within the resumed area of Ranger's Valley Holding; area, 8 acres…

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Reserve for Public School Purposes. Land District of Glen Innes

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 July 1890 · page 4

No. 12,024, within the resumed area of Ranger's Valley Holding; area, 8 acres. No. 12,025, within the resumed area of Ranger's Valley Holding; area, 8 acres…

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Reserve for Public School Purposes. Land District of Glen Innes

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 2

No. 12,024, within the resumed aroa of Ranger's Valley Holding; area, 8 acres. No. 12,025, within the resumed area of Ranger's Valley Holding; area, 8 acres…

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Fires in Public Schools. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 4

SIR,—Public schools as a rule are built with fire places and chimneys in them, but, unfortunately for the children, are not built with fires in them. I was given to understand that the teachers of…

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Original Correspondence. the Blandford School. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 4

SIR,—The assertion of Canon Selwyn in his address to the Synod of the Diocese of Newcastle as reported in your issue of the 24th inst., that "a more glaring miscarriage of justice can scarcely be…

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Public School Teachers

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 1

THE Minister for Education, in reply to Dr Boss on Wednesday evening, said it was a fact that in his department female teachers as a rule received smaller…

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Original Correspondence. Maitland High Schools. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 4

SIR,—Allow me to draw the attention of your readers to several facts which belong to the debated question as to the proper sites for our Boys and Girls' High Schools…

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West Maitland School of Arts. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 7

On Thursday evening, the half-yearly meeting of members of the West Maitland School of Arts was held in the hall of the institution. The attendance was not large, owing no doubt to the unfavourable…

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Condition of a Public School. an Alarming Report

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 1

MR ALEXANDER DAVIS, a well-known Gilmore farmer, has written a letter to the Tumut School Board calling attention to the deplorable condition of the…

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Largs School of Arts

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 August 1890 · page 2

The thirty-first half-yearly meeting of the members of the Largs School of Arts, was held in the hall of the above institution, on Thursday night, 24th July, 1890. There was a fair attendance, and…

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A School Girl's Essay

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1890 · page 6

Mr. Henry Barker's store of amusing juvenilia has by no means been exhausted. He contributes an article on "Noivete and Humour in School Girls" to the forthcoming number of Howe Chimes,…

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School of Arts

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 16 August 1890 · page 2

A COMMITTEE meeting of the above was held on Monday evening. There were present: Messrs. E. Solomons (Vice-President), in the chair; J…

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The Public School Cadet Corps Review

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1890 · page 7

We have been requested to publish for the general information of cadets, the following circular in reference to the forthcoming review of Public Cadets on Moore Park on August 23:—…

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Serious Charge Against a Schoolmaster

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 August 1890 · page 2

A SANSATIONAL CASE is being heard on the civil side of the Supreme Court at Perth (W. A.). A schoolmaster, named Pearson, is suing a farmer, named…

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STANHOPE. (From our correspondent.) Arrour Day at the School

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 3

On Wednesday last Arbour Day was celebrated at the Stanhope Public School, and if the Arbour Days held in other districts have proved as successful as at Stanhope, then without doubt the action…

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Official Correspondence. THE Hon. A.J. Gould has kindly handed us the following letters for publication:-SCHOOL at Oakvale. Department of Public Instruction Sydney, 15TH August, 1890

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1890 · page 3

Sir,- I am directed to state that the letters presented by you on the 8th inst. from the Rev. E. Huband-Smith and others renewing a request for the establishment of a school…

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The Public Schools Cadet Encampment. (From the Echo.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1890 · page 3

The Public schools cadet encampment on the Agricultural Society's Ground at Moore Park is now in full working order, all the lads having arrived and settled down in their new quarters. Between…

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School of Arts

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1890 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee was held on Monday evening. There were present: Messrs. E. Solomons (in the chair) J. Hayes, T. F. Flanagan,…

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Arbour Day at Aberglasslyn Public School. (From a correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 September 1890 · page 4

The inauguration of tree planting and beautifying the school [?]—termed arbour day—was very successfully carried out on Friday last at the above school. Active preparations had been going…

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Official Correspondence. Provisional School. Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 13th September, 1890

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 September 1890 · page 3

Sir.—With reference to the renewed application (forwarded by you) for the establishment of a Provisional School at Warkworth road (Oakvale), near Jerry's…

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