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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1916

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School Children's Conveyance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 4

The Minister for Education has granted a van to convey children from Luskintyre to Lochinvar public school. Children attending the local Convent are also permitted to use…

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Sunday School Anniversary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 4

The Congregationalists will hold their Sunday School Anniversary Services to-morrow at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7.15 p.m. There will be special singing by the…

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Teachers' Association. Interesting Address

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 15

The quarterly meeting of the Maitland District Teachers' Association was held in the Superior Public School. West Maitland, on Saturday. Mr. Inspector Finney…

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Captain-chaplain Ward Farewelled by Schoolboys

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 8

Another interesting function was hold by the pupils of the Marist Brothers' School, West Maitland on Monday in connection with the farewell given to Captain-Chaplain…

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Medical Inspection of Schools

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 13

In reporting to the Minister for Education on the medical inspection of schools, Dr. C. S. willis, Principal Medical Officer, states that, during 1915, 80,617 children were…

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Inculcating Loyalty. Amongst School Children

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 9

The Victorian Minister of Education (Mr. Lawson) states that replies from the conductors of State schools to the circular asking them to include loyal observances show a…

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Country High Schools. School Farms to Be Established

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 10

In declining the Mudgee High School officially opened on saturday last, Mr. Griffith, Minister for Education, said it was the twenty-second High School now in operation in New…

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Plain Needlework. School Children

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 5

Sub-section A,—Open to girls not exceeding 15 years of age: Combinations, Lexie Ward Camisole, Belle Gardiner. Buttonhole work in calico, tweed, and…

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Teaching Flying. Some of My Pupils

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 September 1916 · page 7

It has been said by someone who obviously knew something about fight that the life of an instructor in flying is the, most nerve racking and the least desirable. The writer…

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Cessnock School of Arts. Farewell to Librarian

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 September 1916 · page 2

Mr. G. W. Parkins, who has been librarian of the Cessnock School of Arts for about 7 years, and who has resigned in order to join his family in Sydney, was farewelled by…

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School Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 September 1916 · page 4

A deputation comprising members the Women's Central Organisation [?] Women's Labour Council, and the men Workers' Union, waited on Mr. [?]…

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School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 September 1916 · page 2

Since the reorganisation of the Kurri School of Arts the institution has made rapid progress. There are about 100 financial members, and the library comprises…

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School of Arts. Committee Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 3

The usual fortnightly meeting of the committee was held in the committee room of the institution last evening. The president, Mr. H. W. Fry, occupied the chair,…

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School, Children's Concert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 6

A very Successful concert was hold in the Mechanics' institute, East Maitland, last evening, by the pupils of the East Maitland Public School, for the purpose of raising…

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Dungog School of Arts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 6

At the meeting on Monday night the chief matter dealt with was the new award, while the inspector informed the committee, covered their…

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Supply of Teachers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1916 · page 3

The principal of the New South Wales Teachers' College, in his annual report, states that last year 782 students were in attendance, Of these 976 were taking the…

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School Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1916 · page 3

A deputation comprising members of the Women's Central Organisation Committee, Women's Labour Council, and the Women Workers' Union, waited on Mr…

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Girls' School at Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 September 1916 · page 2

The next function of the Minister was the laying of the foundation stone of a new girls' school at Cessnock. The headmaster (Mr. Jacobs) and members of…

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East Maitland Public School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 September 1916 · page 4

Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson, M.L.A., has been informed by Mr. P. Board, Under-Secretary Department of Education, that a gas meter will be supplied for use at the East…

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Morpeth School of Arts Subsidy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 September 1916 · page 4

Mr. N. L. Salmon, private secretary to the Minister of Education, has written as follows to Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson, M.L.A.:—"With regard to your request that subsidy on account…

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