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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1924

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An Overcrowded School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 July 1924 · page 4

[?] the west matiland Superior Public school the departments sometimes ago advised that a number of a boys…

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Conveyance of School Children

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 July 1924 · page 8

The Parliamentary representatives for Newcastle have been informed by the Under-Secretary for Education that in response to…

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Rugby Union. N.s.w. Schoolboys Win

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 2

The final Rugby League Test match between teams representative of the Public schools of Queensland and New South Wales was played on the…

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Forestry Scheme. Endowment for Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 5

An ambitions forestry scheme has been entered into by the teachers and pupils of the High and Junior Technicals Schools at Castlemaine (Vic.). The…

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'A Hovel.' Condition of School. Health Officers to Inspect

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 4

The need for improvements being effected to the West Maitland Superior Public School has already been pointed out on several occasions and last…

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High School Old Boys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 July 1924 · page 7

The Maitland High School Old Boys will play G.P.S. Old Boys in Newcastle on Saturday. This is regarded as the star fixture of the day…

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Free Milk in Schools

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 July 1924 · page 2

Pupils of the Rozelle school now are being supplied with milk between 10.30 and 11 every morning. The milk is donated in part by the Farmers and…

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Subsidy for School of Arts. No Money Available

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 4

The Under-Secretary, Department of Education, replying to the representations made by Mr. W. Cameron, M.L.A., on behalf of Mr. T…

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School Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 7

Eight new pupils have been enrolled this quarter. Three are from Rothbury, two from Newcaste, one from Wickham, two infants, local…

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West Cessnock School. Important Additions. Long Overdue. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 5

Mr. M. Autiet, of Maitland, has been notified that his tender has been accepted for the additions to the West Cessnock public school. The building,…

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Pindimar and Nelson's Bay Schools

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 3

Mr. J. J. Fitzgerald, M.L.A. is in rerecipt of the following from the Under-Secretary, Department of Education, Sydney…

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School of Arts Social

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 July 1924 · page 7

The social, promoted by the ladies' committee of the School of Arts, was held in the Cessnock Hall on Wednesday night, and was in every way a…

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Morpeth School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Morpeth School of Arts will be held on 28th inst., at 8 o'clock. Business will include the reception and adoption of…

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Branxton School of Arts. Annual Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 7

The annual meeting of members was held in the institute. There was a fair attendence of members. The president, Mr. W. W…

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Forestry Scheme. Endowment for Schools

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 6

An ambitious forestry scheme has been entered into by the teachers and pupils of the High and Junior Technical Schools at Castlemaine (Vic.). The…

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High School Fees. Minister Replies to Criticism

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 14

During the opening of the school additions at Birchgrove on Saturday Mr. Quirk complained that there was no provision for the poorer children in…

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'A Hovel.' Condition of School. Health Officers to Inspect

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 5

The need for improvements being effected to the West Maitland Superior Public School has already been pointed out on several occasions and last…

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Religious Exercises in Schools Bill Negatived in New Zealand (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 July 1924 · page 4

The Religious Exercises in Schools Bill, which did not seek to have Bible instruction but Bible reading without any comment at all, was negatived by…

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State Schools. Minister Replies to Critioism

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1924 · page 3

Opening a new building for the girls school, at Hurstville on Saturday, Mr. Ley, Minister for Justice, said that the boys and girls who attended the…

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Cessnook School of Arts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 July 1924 · page 4

The Parliamentary members for Newcastle have been informed by the Under-secretary for Education that the claim lodged by Mr. R. G. Hughes…

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