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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1944

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School Athletic Championships Outstanding Success Of First Annual Carnival Representatives of 14 Schools Vie for Honours

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 August 1944 · page 3

First annual championships of Singleton and District branch of the Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association, conducted…

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Denman News Now Free of Debt. Denman Memorial School of Arts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 August 1944 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Deaman Memorial School of Arts was held in the Soldiers' Clubroom. The report stated that all the doors and windows…

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Convent School Hall

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 August 1944 · page 2

There will be a frolic in the Convent School Hall on Friday night next, August 18…

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Suggested School Sites Visit of Department Officers

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1944 · page 3

The need for holier [?] for secondary [?] and infants schools in West Maitland has been urged upon…

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Politics in School

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE Tuesday— A suburban High School teacher has been fined by the Victorian education Department for…

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Fined for Politics in School

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 August 1944 · page 1

A suburban High School teacher has been fined by the Victorian Education Department for introducing party politics and comment, into…

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School Sport

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 August 1944 · page 5

Muswellbrook Convent defeated Aberdeen Convent 18-8 in a football match played on the latter's ground on Tuesday. The locals, however, won…

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Tooloogan School

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 August 1944 · page 1

From the Department of Education, stating that with reference to the suggestion of the transferring of Tooloogan School…

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Committee’s Regret Gresford School of Arts

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1944 · page 4

GRESFORD Sat.—The annual report of the Gresford School of Arts expressed regret at the disappointing patronage accorded…

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Eccleston Concert School Children’s Success

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1944 · page 4

ECCLESTON.—One of the best concerts that has been presented in the Eccleston district was given in the Eccleston Church Hall [?]…

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Rail Men Attend Training School

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1944 · page 3

WASHINGTON: The War Manpower Commission says that the wartime schooler railroad men, the first of its kind established…

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High School Girls' Success

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 August 1944 · page 4

On Thursday last 24 girls from Cessnock High School travelled to Sydney to compete in the girls' Secondary Schools Combined Annual Athletics…

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West Cessnock Public School Spring Frolic

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 August 1944 · page 3

The West Cessnock Public School Spring Frolic was held at the Parish Hall on Wednesday night. Officials at the function were: M.C., Mr…

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S.m. School of Arts Annual General Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1944 · page 1

The adjourned annual general meeting of the above was held on 11th inst. In the absence of the President (Mr. E. J. Sherwood),…

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Branxton School of Arts

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1944 · page 2

Sir,— In your columns recently was reported the 79th annual meeting of the committee of the Branxton School of Arts and…

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Nillo Infants’ School Patriotic Work

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1944 · page 3

For the second term’s war peal at the Nilo Infants’ School, Lorn, the children raised the sum of £43, of which £30 came from…

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Training for Naval Personnel Australian Anti-Submarine School

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1944 · page 2

Royal Australian Naval ships, during the last twelve months, escorted nearly 6000 ships totalling 25,000,000 tons—more than the entire pre-war British merchant fieet— and not one ship was lost as the result of submarine action…

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Plane Hits School

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1944 · page 4

LONDON Aug, 23—The bodies of [?] children and is adults have been recovered from the wreckage of the infants’ department of…

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Scone School of Arts Effect of Wartime Restriction

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1944 · page 3

SCONE Thursday—“The 77th year of the institution’s existence has not been remarkable for any outstanding achievement…

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Rural Schools’ Work Forest League’s Appreciation

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1944 · page 3

SCONE Thurs.—A fine compliment to the work being done at the Scone District Rural School has been paid in a letter…

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