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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1939

1,368 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 69

Director Gives Advice Primary Pupils

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 11

The Director of Education in a circular letter to 60,000 parents of children who are completing the primary course, calls attention to…

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School Football Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 16

In a match at Waverley Oval Queensland primary schools Rugby League team defeated New South Wales primary boys by 15 points to…

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Euchre Party Horseshoe Bend School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 2

There was a record attendance at the weekly euchre party in aid of the Horseshoe Bend Parents and Citizens' Association. The prizes in the ladies…

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Heating for Kurri Schools

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 1

Following representations by Mr. G. Booth on behalf of the Parents and Citizens' Association, relative to heating of the…

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Cessnock Caledonians Under 14 School Boys

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 4

Owing to the altered fixtures for the Hugh Connell Shield game, no competition fixtures will be played to-morrow…

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Pokolbin School of Arts

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 6

The Pokolbin School of Arts held its annual meeting on Tuesday. There was a good attendance of both old and new…

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Cessnock Teachers' Association. Address by Mr. McGUINNESS

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 10

Last Saturday Mr. A. McGuinness, deputy president of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation, addressed members of…

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West End School Function. Juvenile Ball

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 5

The Parish Hall was a blaze of colour when the youngsters of West End School staged a Ball…

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Cessnock Teachers' Club

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 7

The Annual Ball of the Cessnock Teachers' Club was held at the Parish Hall on Wednesday last, and those who…

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The School Proposed Infants' Block

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 7

The Minister for Education has called for a report in connection with a propoeal to make provision for the erection of an infants' block at the…

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School of Arts. Proposed Lease of Main Hall

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 1

At Tuesday night's meeting of the School of Arts committee it was decided to adopt a proposal to take steps to lease the main hall, and a…

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Study Circle Primary School Aid NUMBER—PERSON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 5

Nouns and pronouns are given gender, number, person and case. What a crowd of details to consider in grammar! But then everything worth while is packed with detail…

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No Distinction Children At Public Schools Good "Mixers" Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 7

The secretary of the teachers Federation. Mr. Hendry, discussing to-day the charge of class-distinction in travelling among…

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Singing School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 4

Messrs. S. G. Amm, D. Lyall, K. Edmonds, C. Onghley, L. Irvine and T. Hogan, teachers of the district, visited Dungog last Monday to attend…

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Rural School at Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 11

Following representations by the members of the Parents and Citizens' Association, asking that separate accommodation be provided for infants…

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Interstate School Football NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 7

Queensland beat New South Wales 3-nil in the interstate school Rugby League match at the Newcastle Sports…

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School Opening Hours Grafton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 10

After discussing a proposal that, in summer, the school should start at 8 a.m. and close an hour earlier ir the afternoon, the High School Parents…

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Muswellbrook School of Arts Main Hall To Be Leased MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 5

At the first meeting of the newly-elected committee of the School of Arts, officers were elected for the ensuing term as follow: President, Mr…

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LOCHINVAR School of Arts Annual Meeting Lochinvar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 8

The 34th annual meeting of the committee of Lochinvar School of Arts was held in the institution, Mr. Roy Ekert, the retiring…

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School Notes Pars. From York and Hunter Streets. (Contributed.)

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 4

Lions and unicorns have been fighting for political crowns. Mr Stevens has declared he wouldn't have this. Mr Spooner averred he…

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