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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1936

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Schoolboy Drowned Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 4

When three members of a picnic party from Croydon State School got into difficulties in a choppy sea at Seaford, Gordon Simmonds, 14, was…

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Jumpers Schooled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 9

Robin, with J. Gollop in the saddle, gave a brilliant exhibition of pumping over six standard hurdles at Randwick yesterday morning. Others to…

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Sport Fixtures Boys' High School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 6

The cricket matches between the Maitland and Newcastle Boys' High Schools first and second elevens will be concluded to-morrow. The first…

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School Bags Too Heavy

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 2

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) has decided, after inquiry, that in many cases the weight of school books carried by children…

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School of Arts Library. Donation of Books

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 1

The following books, donated by Mr. J. P. Gordon, have been added to the Cessnock School of Arts Library:—…

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Teachers' Federation Election of Officers

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 5

Mr. L. V. Hall presided at the annual meeting of the Cessnock branch of the Teachers. Federation of Saturday morning. There was a…

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Students for Teachers' College

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 4

The Department of Education has notified the following students of Cessnock High school that they have gained entrance to the Armidale…

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CRICKET High Schools' Match

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 February 1936 · page 7

The match between Maitland Boys High School second eleven and Newcastle second eleven, was continued at Robins oval his afternoon…

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Cessnock Show Erection of Grandstand School Exhibit Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 February 1936 · page 2

The Department of Education has notified the Cessnock Show committee that a school holiday has been granted, for the opening day of the show on…

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ELECTROCUTED Live Cable Near School Mother and Son Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 February 1936 · page 5

A woman and her son were electrocuted, and two other children were seriously burned when they touched an electric cable which had fallen on…

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Weston Male Voice Concert Musical Treat in Methodist School Hall

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 February 1936 · page 1

The concert given by the Weston Male Voice Choir in Singleton Methodist School Hall on Monday night was an unqualified success. The hall…

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School Bursary Broke Scholar SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 1

The Bursary Endowment Board has awarded a secondary school bursary to Allan R. Picton, of Broke, near Singleton. The bursary is subject to the…

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Fell at School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 7

Gordon Germon, 13, of George-street, Homeville, received a punctured wound tot he left knee when he fell over while playing in the West…

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Insanitary School? Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 10

Tamworth Municipal Council at the fortnightly meeting on Tuesday night adopted a recommendation that West Tamworth public school should be…

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New Public School

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 3

At the recent meting of the P. & C. Asstn it was decided to urge the necessity of the new school and point out that the present school had no damp course in it, and ' mond. . .... M ,,…

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School Notes Addition to School Library

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 2

A handsomely-bound set of volumes of "The Modern World" encyclopaedia has been added to the scuced library, which will bring the…

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Classics in Schools "Too Much Study."

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 2

A defence of schoolboys' "two-pennies" and a plea for less insistence' on the "classics" in schools, is made by Dr. H. G. Stead, Chief…

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School of Arts New Books

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 6

The following new books have been added to the School of Arid Library:—The Stranger From Cheyenne by…

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Cessnock Show Arrangements. School Holiday

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 5

The Department of Education has notified the Cessnock Show Committee that a school holiday has been granted for the…

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CRICKET Schools' Competition, Marists Win

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 February 1936 · page 11

Marist Brothers beat Homeville yesterday in the primary schools' competition. Homeville 26 (Parrey 6; Connolly…

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