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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1948

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Football. Schoolboys' Knock-out Competition at Singleton. Merrivva Wins Cup As Runners-up

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 4

On Saturday last at Singleton a team of school boys, representing the Merriwa Public School and the Convent School, played excellent…

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Baerami School of Arts Ball

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 2

The School of Arts ball at Baerami was an unqualified success both socially and financially. The new electric lighting plant, which was…

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School of Arts

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 3

The committee met on Monday night to discuss the programme for the sports of September 11. A good deal of thought was…

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Film Night at High School

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 4

A film Maitland Boys’ High School was so popular that many parents and citizens who at attended with the pup[?]s expressed a…

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Need for New School at Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 4

KURRI KURRI: A deputation to the Director-General of Education (Mr. J. G. MeKenzle) told him of the urgent need of the…

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High School Re-union Ball at Town Hall

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 3

A night in Mexico was the theme the decorations of the Maitland Town Hall last night when the ex-stadents of the Maitland Boys’…

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£4/-/- Raised by Kirkton Public School Pupils

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 2

Pupils of Kirkton Public School last week raised £4/1/ in an Education Department sponsored United Nations Appeal for…

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Public School Hobbies’ Exhibition

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 2

Over- 600 individual entries have been received for the second annual hobbies’ exhibition at West Maitland Public School to-morrow…

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Cessnock High School Third in Kerr Cup

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 4

The team of athletes from Cessnock Boys' High School competing in the Combined High Schools' athietic championships, registered its best…

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Denman School Of Arts

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 2

DENMAN: The financial [?] ment presented at the [?] meeting of Denman Mer[?] School of Arts showed [?]…

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Vacy School’s £20 For UNO

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 August 1948 · page 3

The pupils of Vacy Public School have recently collected £20 towards the United Nations appeal for the starving children…

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Unique School Hobbies Exhibition

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 August 1948 · page 2

Opening the hobbles exhibition at West Maitland Public School yesterday, Mr. A. Howarth, MLA congratulated the children on the…

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Free Tennis Tourney For School Children

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 August 1948 · page 2

Albion Tennis Club will conduct a tennis tournament for school children of the town and district during the holiday…

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Russian Teacher Tells a Dramatic Story Tried To Escape “Not To Kill Myself”

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, August 26—Middle-aged Russian school teacher, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, who hit the headlines of the world Press a fortnight ago by jumping from a third floor window of the Soviet Consulate-General in New York, did so to escape, “not to…

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Had Scholars at Hunter Street August Examination Results

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 6

Marking of papers of the August tests conducted at Hunter Street Primary School was completed just prior to…

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East Cessnock School's Basket Ball Ground

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 7

Following a request from the East Cessnock Parents and Citizens' Association, Cessnock Council has decided to reconstruct the school's basket ball…

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Merriwa School of Arts. Meeting of Committee

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 6

The first meeting of the newlyelected committee of the Merriwa School of Arts was held on Monday night, when the following were…

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Schools' Overcrowding Dangerous

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 1

Miss P. E. Bushy, of York, England, told the Brighton conference of women teachers that overcrowding of schools was…

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15 Years Ago (From issues of "Argus" for Week ended August 29th, 1933) High School Half-Yearly Exams

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 5

Singleton Intermedate High School principal (Mr B. Robinson, M.A.) reports that the school half-yearly examinations…

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School Design in Britain Is Changing Architects Employ New Methods

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 4

Education authorities and architects are working closely together in designing Britain's new schools. This has been…

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