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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1922

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School Staff Changes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 4

Miss Dickin, kindergarten teacher in the infants department of the West MAitland Superior Public School, having resigned, her position has been…

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Parents and Citizens. West Maitland Superior Public School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 7

The annual meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association connected with the West Maitland Superior Public School was held last evening. The…

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High School Boys' Success

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

Five out of six challenge events were won by pupils of the Maitland Boys' High School at the inter-high schools' swimming carnival held in…

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School Broken Into. Two Boys Arrested

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 5

A couple of lads broke into the Cessnock Superior Public School during the week and made off with quite a number of the school library books. The police…

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School Girl's Death. the Authorities Concerned. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 14

The authorities are concerned regarding the death on Sunday, from meningitis, of Eileen Thrussell, a school girl, in Gloucester-street,…

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Bursary Fund. High School Old Girls Union Enjoyable Entertainment

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 11

The High School Old Girls' Union, winch has a splendid record of charitable work performed each Christmas season, when many families, not in the…

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Parents and Citizens. Nillo Infants' School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 14

The annual meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association connected with the Nillo Infants' School, Lorn, was held at the school, Mr. W…

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Cadet Training. Condemned by High School Principal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 13

Speaking in advocacy of the Boy Scout movement, Mr. A. S. Cusbert, headmaster of the Armidale High School, criticised the cadet training…

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Parents and Citizens. West Maitland Superior Public School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Parents and citizens' Association connected with the West Maitland Superior Public School was held on Tuesday. The…

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School Teachers. and Board of Trade Increase

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 3

Surprise is expressed among the school teachers at the action of the State Public Service Board in withholding the board of a trade…

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Fire at Singleton. Attempt to Destroy a School. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 4

The Fire Brigade, received a call to an outbreak about 5.45 last evening in Hunter-street, the location being the infants department of the Superior…

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Baronet's Heir and Schoolgirl Romance Ends in Divorce Court

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 4

London, Saturday.—The mutual fascination of a baronet's heir and a schoolgirl culminating in a secret marriage has had its aftermath in the…

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Youthful Incendiaries Four Fires in Public School

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 3

Four outbreaks of fire, clearly of an incendiary nature, were discovered in the infants' Department of Singleton Public School in Hunter-street…

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State Subsidy. Claim of Catholic Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 7

The case for State support for secular teaching in Catholic schools was presented at the annual meeting of the Lithgow branch of the…

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Schoolboy's Sudden Death

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 2

Robert Lanagan, aged 13, of Willough by, on returning home from school on Tuesday afternoon, complained that he had been punched by some other boys…

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Garden Fete. Caretta School Pupils' Effort

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 5

At the residence of Mrs. G. Atkin, of Lorn, this afternoon, a garden fete was held by the Caretta school pupils' branch of the Junior Red Cross…

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"The F. B. Forward School of Music."

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 3

During Mr. Forward's absence from Cessnock the above will be carried on as usual by Miss Emerton, the well known Teacher and Composer of…

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School Teachers. and Board of Trade Increase

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 13

Surprise is expressed among the school teachers at the action of the State Public Service Board in withholding the board of a trade…

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School of Arts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the School of Arts committee took place on Tuesday night last. There were present:—Messrs. J…

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High School Pupil's Success

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 4

Miss Elsie Marheine, daughter of Mr. W. Marheine, of Merewether, has gained the degree of Bachelor Arts at the Sydney University, graduating in…

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