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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1904

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A Disastrous Fire. Convent Schools Destroyed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 4

A disastrous fire occurred this morning, resulting in two school buildings, near Bethlehem Convent, Ashfield, being destroyed. After an hour's hard…

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Muswellbrook School of Arts. Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 2

THE annual meeting of members of the abovenamed institution was held in the hall on Tuesday evening last, July 12th, when there were present—Mr. Edward…

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School of Arts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 2

We would remind members of the local School of Arts that the annual meeting of members, for the purpose of electing Officers and Committee for the ensuing…

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The Scone Grammar School

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 2

It is notified in our business columns of this issue that the next term at the above school commences on Monday next, 18th instant…

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Largs School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 4

The fifty-seventh half-yearly meeting of the School of Arts was held on Thursday evening, July 7th. The president (Mr. J. C. McKenzie) presided, and there was a good attendance of members. After…

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That Wickham School. New Buildings Never Asked For

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 4

In his explanation in Tuesday's "Daily Telegraph" respecting tha proposal of the Government to erect a New school, costing ,£5OOO, in…

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A Burning Schoolroom. Children Marching to the Strains of Music

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 July 1904 · page 6

Thinking that they were merely taking part in an ordinary fire drill, and unaware that on the second floor a fierce fire was raging, the 1500 children in Public School…

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Dungog School of Arts. Half-yearly Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1904 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the members of Dungog School of Arts took place in the meeting room of that institution on Friday night last…

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Russian Schoolboys the War Fever

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1904 · page 6

The Imminence of hind lighting is inspiring the schoolboys of Russia to equip themselves with weapons of death. Hundreds of cases are reported of small…

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Teacher's Tragic Death. Jumped Through a Window. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 July 1904 · page 5

The death has been reported to the coroner of a school-teacher named Ada Mary Tourney Hinde (34), a single woman, who met with a tragic and yesterday. It appears…

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Suicide of a School Teacher. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 July 1904 · page 2

A school teacher named Ada M. J. Hinde, aged 34, and single, had been suffering from influenza, and was an inmate of a private hospital at…

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Morpeth Public School. Exhibition and Sale of Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 July 1904 · page 4

In the School of Arts, Morpeth, yesterday afternoon a very interesting exhibition of school work and sale of work was formally opened by the Hon. J. N. Brunker, the object…

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Teacher's Tragic Death. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 July 1904 · page 11

The death has been reported to the coroner of a school-teacher named Ada Mary Tourney Hinde (34), a single woman, who met with a traffic end yesterday. It appears…

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Paterson School of Arts Annual Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 July 1904 · page 2

The annual general meeting of the Paterson School of Arts was held on Monday night. The attendance was large. The president (Mr. H. Corner) was in the chair, and informed the members that the…

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Some School Questions and Replies

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1904 · page 6
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Here are a few examples of replies to school questions:— Q. What do you understand by the following:— Pig iron, Bristol boards, lumber trade,…

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(Copyright.) A Race for School-house

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1904 · page 5

Monkton was a western village, built in a miasmatic wood, about a mile from a small railroad station. Back of it, divided by a swamp,…

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Poetry. the Old Schoolhouse

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 August 1904 · page 2

The little red schoolhouse is open again ; The door stands ajar and the shutters are down, The windows thro' many a newly washed…

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Football. Schools Football Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 August 1904 · page 8

The following matches have been arranged to be played on Friday afternoon in connection with the schools competition :-West Maitland Public…

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West Maitland School of Arts. the Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 4

The adjourned half-yearly general meeting of the School of Arts, West Maitland, was held in the large hall of the institution last evening. The President (Dr. J. W…

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