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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1913

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Treat for London' Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1913 · page 5

King George has entertained 5000 teachers of London schools and many scholars at a garden party at Buckingham Palace…

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School of Arts Debating Society

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 July 1913 · page 4

The usual weekly meeting was held last evening there being a fair attendance of members, presided over by Mr. Vincent Doherty. It was decided that a letter of thanks should be…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 2

This forty-sixth annual meeting of members of the School of Arts was hold on Tuesday night, when there was a small M tendance. The president (Mr. J. W. Humphries)…

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School of Arts Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 4

The committee meeting convened for last night lapser for want of quorum in attendance being messes.H.J.Brown president,W.J.Miller, vice-president,L.S.Day,…

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An Incident in a Great Man's School Days

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 July 1913 · page 8

When Lord Byron was a boy he was sent to school at Eton. Here he had as fellow scholar Sir Robert Peel, and the two lads were great friends. One day a youth who wass…

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The Late Mr. J. W. Turner. Fifty Years of School Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 July 1913 · page 3

Mr. J. W. Turner, Superintendent of Technical Education in New South Wales, who died at his home, "Tarana," Junction-road. Summer Hill, early on Thursday morning,…

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Underpaid Employments. School Teachers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 9

If one desires to know the true status of national education one cannot do better than tarn to the simple record of the teachers we employ. Not many people, I think…

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School Teacher Vanishes. Strange Disappearance

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 5

The mysterious disappearance is reported of a school teacher, who came to Tamworth with the object of attending tbp class for military instruction which…

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School of Arts. Annual Meeting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 2

The annual meeting of members of the School of Arts was held in the hall of the institution on Tuesday night, when the attendance was…

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Continuation Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 4

The very necessary now departure, in the development of our public educational system of continuation .schools is not securing anything like the enrolment at of pupils that is…

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Largs School of Arts. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 2

The adjourned half-yearly meeting [?] Largs School of Arts was held on T[?] evening last. The president (Mr. L. F[?]erson) presided, the attendance being[?]…

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Teachers Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 4

The inaugural general meeting of the Secondary Teachers Association of the Hunter District was held yesterday at the Newcastle High school, There was a very…

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280 Schoolboys in a Fire. Escape in Night Clothes Down Canvas Chutes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 July 1913 · page 12

Two hundred and eighty schoolboys, many in their night clothes, escaped from a fire at 2.30 on the morning of June 5 at St. John's School, Leaderhead. About 100…

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School Teacher Drowned. Missing Fourteens Days

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 July 1913 · page 2

The extraordinary disappearance of Mr. Walter Cecil Murphy, a school teacher of Colonna Public School, Black Springs, Baraban, who arrived at Tamworth on the 11th…

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Fire in a School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 July 1913 · page 4

A fire invested with suspicious circuit stances occurred in St. Xaxler's Catholic schoolroom early yesterday morning. Shortly after 6 o'clock some Chinese, who were…

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School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 5

The following officers of the Cessnock School of Arts have been appointed for the ensuing year:— President, A. E. Westcott; vice president, P Crampton; secretary, H. E. Southwell; treasurer,…

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School of Arts Debating Society. Fraternal Greetings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 4

The weekly meeting of the society was held last evening, when there was a fair attendance of members, presided over by Mr. Cavalier. Mr. O'Hearn, a member of St. John's Young…

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Bullahdelah School of Arts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 3

Following is the Committee's report of the above institution read at the annual meeting held last week. Ladies and Gentlemen,— In…

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Dungog School of Arts. Annual Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 9

There was a good attendance of the members of the Dungog School of Arts on Monday night last, when the President Mr. R.L. Fitzgerald,…

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Scone School of Arts. Annual Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 July 1913 · page 2

The 45th annual meeting of the above-named Institution was held on Thursday evening last, When there were some twenty present, and…

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