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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1918

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School Buildings. Work of the Year

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1918 · page 9

The Architect of the Education Department was furnished the Minister with a report of the work done in connection with school buildings during 1917. Three hundred and…

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Pokolbin Public School. Valedictory to Mr. Knoblanche and Family. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1918 · page 13

Mr. H. J. Knoblanche, who, until recently, was in charge of the Pokolbin public school, was, with his wife and family, farewelled by the Pokolbin people on Thursday…

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Proposed School at Lorn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1918 · page 4

Mr. P. Board, Under-Secretary to Department of Education, has written as follows to Lieut-Col. Nicholson, M.L.A., in regard to request for an infants' school at…

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Anzac Day Celebration. School [?]Onfires Disapproved

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 April 1918 · page 2

The suggestion of Mr. Orchard, Minister for R[?]lting, that Anzac Day should be celebrated by bonfires in the grounds of the public schools throughout the…

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Co-operation of Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 April 1918 · page 6

An appeal has been sent out to every school in the State to raise at least one recruit by the end of the month. The schools are also asked to raise £20 or any part or…

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St. Andrew's Sunday School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 2

The teachers and scholars of St. Andrew's Sunday School, on Sunday last, presented Miss Gladys Brown with a bible, and a case containing…

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Co-operation of Schools

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1918 · page 5

An appeal has been Sent out to every school in the State to raise at least one recruit by the end of the month. The schools are also asked to raise £20 or any part or…

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High School Sports. Challenge Events

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1918 · page 9

At the quarterly sports meeting of the Newcastle High School, the following challenge events against Maitland Boys' High School were decided.—One hundred…

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Agricultural Schools. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 April 1918 · page 2

The Agricultural Department announces that winter schools at the Hawkesbury College will be held from June 18 to July 13. Two courses will be…

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H.S. Bend Infants' School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1918 · page 6

At a meeting of parents and friends held at the Horseshoe Bend infants' Public School on Saturday afternoon, it was decided time an effort be made to raise funds in connection with…

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Schools' Red Cross Effort

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 6

There are no more energetic and enthusiastic workers in the patriotic field than the Public School children. The scholars of the West Maitland Superior Public School…

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School Holiday on

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 6

The Minister for Education (Mr. James), recognising that the work among the schools for Red Cross day was so great and so widespread, decided on Monday that all the…

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Anzac Day at the Public School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 6

it is customary for the work of the Public School to be coloured by the nature of suen [?] as Anzac Day. [?] will be [?] the west Maitland school to-morrow…

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St. Paul's Sunday School Tea Meeting and Prize Giving

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 7

Last evening the school room of St. Paul's was filled with a happy lot of children; who had gathered together for the annual tea meeting and to received prizes…

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Girls' High School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 April 1918 · page 4

Anzac Day was appropriately and enthusiastically celebrated by the Girls' High School in their assembly room this morning under the presidency of the principal, Miss…

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Marist Brothers' School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 6

At the Marist Brothers' School the celebration of Anzac Day took the form of a feature to the boys by Pte. Harry Ryan, who returned name last week. The boys of both…

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School Children's Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 4

In connection with the Popular Man Competition the children of the East Maitland Public School have been working industriously in support of their candidate. They have…

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Superior Public School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 4

Enthusiasts in all that concerns the [?] fare of their country and the soldiers at the front, the West Maitland Superior Public School has done excellently for the [?]…

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Morpeth School Recruit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1918 · page 4

Mr. D. J. Marshall, head master of the Morpeth Public School, advises that the school has received one recruit for Captain Carmichael's Thousand…

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School's Notable Effort

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 April 1918 · page 4

The total cash received from the scholars of the West Maitland Superior Public School since inception of the War Savings Scheme in October has been £243/13. The Sixth…

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