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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1939

1,368 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 69

Rural School Staff Changes At Quirindi QUIRINDI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1939 · page 5

A number of changes has taken place in the teaching personnel at the Quirindi Rural School. Miss G. Bull,' from Mullumbimby,…

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In Maitland Student Teachers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 5

Four students of the Armidale Teachers' College, Messrs. L. McMonagle and B. Quinn, and Misses J. Craig and H. Thompson, have begun a…

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Accommodation at Schools Arranging to House Classes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 5

The accommodation question at the Maitland Girls' High and the West Maitland Primary Girls' Schools, which was expected to…

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Position of Married Women Teachers Criticism of Dismissals

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 February 1939 · page 2

The country committee of the Teachers' Federation on Saturday criticised the Education Department for its treatment of married women…

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Singleton and District High School Teacher's Criticism of Conditions Unsuitable Buildings Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 2

"I am a 'digger' and I have lived in some queer, dirty, filthy places, and as a teacher I have worked under difficulties, but I have never before had to teach in such rotten…

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High School P. & C.

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 1

Members of the Cessnock High School P. and C. Association are reminded that the usual monthly meeting will be held…

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School Leaving Age. Increased in Queensland

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 3

Much agitation has taken place in Now South Wales in recent years with a view to having the school leaving age increased from 14 years,to 16 years,…

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Local and General. Karuah School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 2

The Minister for Education hag written Mr. C. E. Bennett, M.L.A., as follows: Following on your personal representations on behalf of the…

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New Headmaster Condemns School Building P. AND C. Association to Call Public Meeting

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 3

In an interesting address to members of Singleton Parents and Citizens' Association at the annual meeting on Monday night, the new headmaster (Mr M. C. I. Levy) made soma frank and outspoken comments regarding the condition of the…

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Nillo School Mothers' Club Meets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 7

The Mothers' Club at Nillo, Lorn, held its annual meeting in the school. A most satisfactory year was reported. During the year a storeroom was…

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Cessnock High School Central Library Movement

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

At its meeting on Wednesday night Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens' Association further considered the…

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School of Arts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

Very little business called for attention at the monthly meeting of the School of Arts committee on Tuesday last. The matter of the proposed…

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Aberdeen News School of Arts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 8

The monthly meeting of the committee was held in the supper room on Monday night. Those present were:—Messrs S. Smith (Chairman), A…

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Inter-school Debates Maitland Proposal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 6

The possibility of debating competitions in which teams from boys' and girls' high schools of the north will take part has been mentioned…

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Study Circle Get Thorough Grasp of Meaning of Words Primary School Aid

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 3

Words have a history, for some are old, very old, and others quite new. Words may come and words may go, but our language, like the brook, goes on for ever…

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The School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 4

School commenced on January 31 with a change of staff. Mr. C. Bensley has been in the North Sydney Hospital three weeks…

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Aberdeen School of Arts

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the committee of the above was held in the supper room of the School of Arts on Monday night. Present: Mr. S…

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Convicted of Manslaughter of Schoolboy Jury Recommends Mercy

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

Henry Bray, 52, horticulturist, was at Ballarat yesterday convicted of the manslaughter of Bruce Williamson, a school boy, on December 28. The jury…

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New Baronet Will Remain Teacher

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 6

Although he is a baronet, Sir William Aian Fairne-Cuninghame, of Ayrshire, will concinue teaching at St. Jonn's Preparatory School,…

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Protest at Closing of School

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 5

A strong, protest will be made against the closing of the Ourimbah Creek Primary School. Scholars now have to go 10 miles…

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