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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1904

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Subsidising Schools. Education Act Not to Be Altered. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 5

Sir John See on Tuesday last wrote to the Minister of Public Instruction (Mr. Perry), enclosing a copy of a resolution recently carried by a meeting of Protestants in Newcastle…

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Subsidising Schools Education Act Not to Be Altered

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1904 · page 1

Sir John See on Tuesday last wrote to the Minister of Public Instruction (Mr Perry), enclosing a copy of a resolution…

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Concerning Ears in Schoolrooms

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1904 · page 4

Defective hearing is a symptom frequently seen in the schoolroom about which teachers should know something. Pupils are sometimes considered backward and stupid…

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School of Arts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 4

The regular monthly meeting of the committee of the Murrurundi School of [?]ts was held in the institute on Tuesday evening, when there were present…

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Subsidising Schools. Education Act Not to Be Altered. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 9

Sir John See on Tuesday last wrote to the Minister of Public Instruction (Mr. Perry), enclosing a copy of a resolution recently carried by a meeting of Protestants in Newcastle…

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Catholic Schools Picnic

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 2

The children attending the Convent of Mercy High School and St. Xavior's Primary School, Singleton, were entertained at a picnic on Saturday in the…

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Model Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 February 1904 · page 4

Brief mention was made in our telegraphic messages yesterday of the proposed model schools scheme. Consideration has, it appears, been given for…

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District Model Schools. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 February 1904 · page 3

THE Minister for Education, having had under consideration the recommendations by departmental officers for the establishment of District…

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Public Instruction. Distriot Model Schools

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

The State Government has had under consideration for some time certain recommendations made by officers of the Public Instruction De…

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School of Arts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

II is notified by advertisement in another column, that a special general meeting of the subscribers to the Murrurundi School of Arts will be held in the institute…

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The School of Experience

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 6

Stevenson says in his essay on "Youth and Crabbed Age" that when the old man reproves the youth and points his folly by saying, "I thought so, too, when I was your age," he is…

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Schoolboy Honour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1904 · page 7

A lesson in the evils of talebearing and how an English schoolmaster regarded it, in convoyed by Irving Montagn, the war artist, in a reminiscence of his schooldays…

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Dungog School of Arts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of members of the local School of Arts was held on Monday night last. There was a good attendance of members, and the…

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Garden Work at State School's

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 February 1904 · page 5

It is learned from the Minister of Education that excellent work is being done by the teachers of public Schools, especially in the country districts, in giving thie puplls practical lessons in garden work…

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New Law and Medical Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 3

The King, who was accompanied by Queen Alexandra, yesterday inaugurated the law and medical schools in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge…

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Garden Work at State Schools

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 11

It is learned from the Minister of Education that excellent work is being done by the teachers of Public Schools, especially in the country districts, in giving their pupils practical lessons in garden work…

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Centenary Demonstration. United Sunday School Service

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 4

ON Sunday afternoon a United Sunday School Service was held in the hall of the Singleton Mechanics Institute in commemoration of the…

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Education in Public Schools. To ths Editor-of the Chronicle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

SIR,—I have been favored with a sight of the new syllabus that has been issued by the Department of Public Instruction, and I think on the whole it is a…

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A School for Burglars

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 3

A "burglar college," we read, has been accidentally discovered in Philadelphia by the explosion of a nitro-glycerine charge with which the "professor" of the institution was…

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"Done" by School-children

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 3

"When I was running circus," said the retired showman, "I nover, lost an opportunity of advertising. I always had my eye on the main…

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