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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1946

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School Concerts At Greta

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 4

GRETA: Two entertaining concerts were held in St. Mary’s school. The first was given by the…

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Excellent School Concert At Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 3

KURRI KURRI: The annual school concert of Kurri Kurri Public School drew a capacity house at the King’s Theatre and…

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Secularisation Attacked Annual Speech Day At Morpeth

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 2

The secularisation of education had resulted in the loss of the real purpose of education, said the headmaster (Mr. B. Tollis) in…

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School Holidays And Traffic

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sat—The NRMA and RACA make a special plea to both motorists and parents to exercise cars regarding the…

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Vacy School Prizes

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 5

The annual prize distribution took place at the breaking-up party, held at the Vacy School on Thursday…

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Cessnock High School Prefects, 1946

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Monday 16 December 1946 · page 4

BACK BOW—J. Lennard, J. Maguire, C. Almond, J. Hafey, Joan Walpole Valerie Laws, Audrey Edwards, Olga Jones, Shirley Portens…

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Tuck Shop At Public School

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1946 · page 2

The Minister for Education has submitted to the F. and C. Association a plan of alterations to be effected to the building proposed to…

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Quirindi High School Prizes

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1946 · page 4

QUIRINDI: In his annual report at Quirindi High School speech day, the headmaster (Mr. A. W. Stacey) said that the…

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School Morals Probe In Victoria

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 December 1946 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Minister for Education (Mr. Fields) has ordered a probe for moral delinquents in Victorian…

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Dungog Public School Dinner and Presentation of Certificates

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 4

A very enjoyable time was spent in the Parish Hall last Thursday morning at the annual 6th Class breaking-up dinner and presentation by the…

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Criticism of Careless Parents by Teacher Some Connived and Lied to Cover Truancy

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 2

Parents had put their boys to work, deliberately connived at absence, and lied religiously to cover truancy and all kinds of delinquincy,…

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State Must Double Education Expenditure Appeal By Teachers’ President

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Government must at least doable its expenditure on education, declared the president of the N.S.W. Public School Teacher’ Federation (Mr. S. P Lewis) at the annual conference of the Federation…

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Increase In Rhodes Scholars’ Stipends

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON. Dec. 18—The Rhodes Scholarship Trust is faced with the need for increasing-scholars’ stipends by £100 sterling to £500…

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Largs School Christmas Party

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 2

LARGS, Wednesday.—For the first time since pre-war days a Christmas party was held at Barge Public School it was a…

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Convent School Sports

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 5

BRANXTON: Infants of St. Brigid’s Convent School Branchton, were tendered a Christmas tree on the occasion of the…

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Maitland Girls High School Honours to Raymond Terrace

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 3

Raymond Terrace pupils were well among the leader in various honours at the recent speech day at the Girls' High School Speech Day awards:…

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Court Rules Against Prizes For Teachers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 December 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY Thursday—Mr. Justice Roper held that the scheme. for giving monetary prizes to teachers at Bankstown Central School,…

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Public School Break-up

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 4

The children of the Merriwa Public School were entertained by the P. and C. Association at a breaking-up party in the School of Arts on Wednesday…

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Interesting Facts About High School

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 6

An interesting little publication come[?] to us from the headmaster of the Boys’ High School, entitled “All About M.H.S.”…

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Site for Girls’ High School

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 4

The West Maitland Parents and Citizens’ Association last night decided to suggest to the Minister for Education that…

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