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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1929

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School of Arts. Annual Meeting at Forster

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1929 · page 6

The report read at the 51st Annual Meeting of Forster School of Arts revealed a condition of great progress during the 12 months ended…

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A Great Singing Teacher

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 3

Niecola Porpora, who was born at Naples in 1686 and died eighty years later, remains one of the most famous of all teachers of singing. And he…

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New Girls' High School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., who has been consistently urging the Minister of Education, Mr. Drummond, to build a new Girls' High…

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Presentation of School Sports Trophies

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 2

A successful sports meeting was [?] Bow[?] Park on Wednesday 17th. July, by the Super Primary and Sixth Classes of the…

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Muswellbrook Rural School. Farm Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 2

Considerable progress has been made at the school farm lately. A large, area has been put into cultivation and variety trials with wheat, oats and…

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School of Arts. Annual Meeting To-night

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 5

The animal meeting of the School of Arts will be held to-night. I'm Availing still through the waning years,…

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Morpeth School of Arts. Annual Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Morpeth School of Arts was held in the hall of the institution last evening. There was very fair attendance of…

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Football School Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 7

An exciting match took place on East Maitland Park, between St. Ethel's and East Maitland Public Schools. The two teams played well…

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Kearsley School Sports' Day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 1

During the afternoon of Arbor Day, a basketball team of girls from West End School visited and defeated Kearsley School by 6 goals to…

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Kearsley School Consignment of Books

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 1

The Kearsley School reading section will be helped by the arrival or about three hundred new books from Sydney. The books came to hand…

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Kearsley School Arbor Day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 1

Arbor Day was celebrated at Kearsley Public School on Friday morning last. Sixteen trees and shrubs have been planted in the…

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Run of Misfortune School Boy Breaks Leg Second Time in Six Months

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 4

Young Ralph Adams while at school to-day fractured a leg. The same leg was fractured only six months ago. The Adame family…

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Maitland District Schools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 9

The fixtures for the Maitland district school's competition for the Kerr Shield on Friday next are as follows: Homeville v St. Ethels, West Maitland…

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Free Milk. for Cessnock School Children. Next Week

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 2

Alderman J. H. Duggan's scheme of free distribution of milk to school children should be in operation towards the end of next week…

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School 'Howlers'

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 4

The London "University Correspondent," in announcing the winner of its annual prize for the best collection of school "howlers," gives a selection…

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Donation from High School Boys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 6

The secretary of the Maitland Hospital has received a letter from Master T. Collett, of the Boys' Hostel, Boys' High School East Maitland…

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Use and Abuse. of School Homework

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 3

In referring to Sir Truby King's recent remarks, the opinion was expressed in Sydney yesterday by a headmaster that the amount of…

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High School Play Day

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 4

The fourth annual "Play Day" of the Maitland Boy's High School will be held in "West Maitland Town Hall, on Monday Next, July 29, at 1.30 p.m…

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High Schools Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 7

Yesterday Maris Bros. High School met Broughton College in the 10 st. division and Newcastle in both the 8st. 7lb, and 7st. 7lb. divisions. In…

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School Vacations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 4

All schools under the Education Department will enter upon their winter vacation to-morrow week, August 2. The primary schools will…

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