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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1940

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EDUCATION Progress Must Countiune Teachers Meet

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 4

Welcoming deiegstes at the conference of the Lustration Teachers’s federation at the Melbourne Town Hall, the Chief…

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Learn to Swim School at Cessnock Baths CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 6

All the children who joined the lean to swim campaign at the Cessnock baths during the past fortnight can swim,…

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Skull Fractured Death of Gosford Schoolboy GOSFORD

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 5

Medical evidence that death was due to drowning preceded by a severe blow on the head, causing a fracture of the skull, was given at the inquest…

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Farrer Agricultural High School First Speech Day Dux Honors to Gresford

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 5

Robert I. Johnson, of Gresford, gained the distinction of sharing with two others, John Potter and Adrian Manuel, dux of the Farrer…

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Leaving Certificate Results. Muswellbrook Pupils

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1

MAITLAND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Peggy Loos: English. (B), Maths I (B)., modern history (B), ancient history (B), art (B)…

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Sunday School Resumes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 5

After being in recess for three weeks the Aberdare Presbyterian Sunday School commences another year on Sunday morning in confident…

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Teachers Want Higher Leaving Age Prevent Dead-end Jobs

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 8

The raising of the school leaving age to 16 would materially assist in solving the problem of juvenile unemployment, delegates claimed at the…

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School Planned Destitute Polish Children From Abroad (From a special Correspondent) (By Air Mall) LONDON, Dec. 28

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1940 · page 2

Madame Olen Malbourwake, founder and chief of the Polish Girt Gulde movement, may start a school for polish children in…

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Healthy Open Air Schools

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1940 · page 5

The open air school as the idea environment for children has been advocated by Dr. J. R. Mitchell, school medical officer of…

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Schools of Art

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 1

A visitor to Australia said he was agreeably surprised on his first visit to Australia to see the number of Schools of Arts…

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Convent School Dance

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 2

Organised by Miss Beth Burton, a dance held in the Convent School Hall on Friday night in aid of the funds of St. Mary's Catholic Church was a…

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Rhodes Scholars War Work in England (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, January 17

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 3

Two Oxford Rhodes Scholars, M. R, Thwarts (Victoria), and C. J. Parker (Queensland) have been granted commissions as sub-lieutenants in the…

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Teacher of Dancing

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 5

We have pleasure in announcing that Mr. J. Fullbeck, leading dance teacher of the Coalfields, will commence ball-room…

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Schoolboy's Plucky Act. Saves Child From Drowning

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 5

Diving fully clothed into the river at Coff's Harbour on Christmas Day, Raymond John Harrison (11) rescued a child…

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Odd Leaves From an Old Diary Upper Hunter School Cricket

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 3

Unlike its two predecessors, this "leaf" must be read E. & O.E. as a leaf of memory, only without any background…

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One for Teacher

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 7

A teacher was impressing upon her class, the fact that you cannot subtract one thing from others unless they are of the same denomination…

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Farrar High School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 2

In our report of the Farrar High School speech day, which was abridged from our Tamworth contemporary the Dux of the school, robert Ian…

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Mr. Kevin Ryan Inspector of Sydney Catholic Schools SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 1

Mr. John Connolly, formerly of the Education Department, having retired from the position of Inspector of the Sydney Catholic schools, which…

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Teacher Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 4

Mr. A. Showier, who has been at the Maitland Junior Technical School for 12 years, has received a transfer to Dulwich Hill…

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