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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1904

230 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 12

Letter to the Editor. Greta School Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 4

Sir,—In your Thursday's issue appears a report of the children's picnts held in the dreta Park on Saturday last, wherein your correspondent states there were between 200 and children. This…

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Disaster at a Girls' School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 September 1904 · page 3

A disaster occurred at a girl's Public school at Pleasant Ridge, Ohio, yesterday. During an intervals in the lessons an outhouse collapsed. Nine of the girls who were…

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Mulbring Public School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 September 1904 · page 2

On Saturday the annual picnic and a very interesting exhibition of school work and other articles was held in connection with the Mulbring Public school, finishing up with…

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Tolstoy As Schoolmaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 4

There is a very interesting glimpse of Tolstoy in his capacity of schoolmaster in Mr. Ernest Crosby's little volume, "Tolstoy as a Schoolmaster," which has just been published. "Among…

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Disaster at a School. Nine Girls Killed. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 2

A dreadful disaster occurred yesterday in the town of Pleasant Ridge, near Cincinnati, Ohio (U.S.A.). While a number of girls, who were…

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Mulbring Public School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 10

On Saturday the annual picnic and a very interesting exhibition of school work and other articles was held in connection with the Mulbring Public school, finishing up with the Mulbring Public school, finishing up with…

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Kurri Public School. Opening Ceremony

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 October 1904 · page 4

The Government township of Kurri Kurri, situated in the midst of the South Maitland [?] was on fets on Saturday, the occasion being the opening of the new Public School by the Hon. B. B. O'Conor,…

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A Schoolboy's Paradise

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 October 1904 · page 3

There is no English school in Vigo, so on English resident lately visited a Spanish institution with the intention of sending his son there, He was shown (during school hours) into the…

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Religion in Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1904 · page 3

The English Church Union Congress which opened yesterday at Liverpool is the largest on record. Lord Halifax, the president, in his opening address, said that the…

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Sports at Cessnock. Opening the New School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 October 1904 · page 2

The township of Cessnock presented a busy scene of excitement yesterday, when a day's sport took place, and also the official opening of the new School of Arts. Weather conditions were all that could be…

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The Celestial Schoolboy. He Must Bless Confucious!

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 5

Each Chinese schoolboy must furnish his own stool and table for school work, and "our Precious Articles," which are the ink slab, and…

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Scone Grammar School

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 2

It is notified in our business columns that the next term at the above school begins on Monday next, 10th instant…

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The Celestial School-boy. He Must Bless Confucious

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 3

Each Chinese schoolboy must furnish his own stool and table for school work, and "our Precious Articles," which are the ink slab, and…

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Kurri Public School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 9

The Government township of Kurri Kurri, situated in the midst of the South Maitland coalfields, was en fete on Saturday, the occasion being the opening of the new Public School by the Hon. B.B. O'Conor,…

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School of Arts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1904 · page 2

A special general meeting of the School of Arts members was held in the meeting room of that institution on Friday night last, some thirty at…

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Public School System. Further Report by Commissioners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 October 1904 · page 8

Professor G. H. Knibbs and Mr. J. W. Turner, who on April 11, 1902, were appointed a special commission to proceed to Europe and America for the purpose of…

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The School Books

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1904 · page 2

As thick as flies round a treacle cask, come deputations to Minister. Mostly they desire to see public money diverted their way. They wish the Government…

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In School

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 4
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Worn out by a long series of appalling French exercises wherein blunders were as the sands of the sea, a hapless high school teacher…

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School of Arts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 2

The regular monthly meeting of the Committee of the local School of Arts was held in the institute on Tuesday owning, when there fere present Messrs. A. Busby…

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