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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1949

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Schoolgirl’s Leg Fractured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 1

Falling off a bicycle in St. John’s school ground yesterday afternoon, Pamela Hayes, scholar, of Devonshire-street, Maitland, received a…

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Schoolgirl Suffers Electric Shock

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 3

When a trailer lorry hit an electric light pole and brought the wires down in Maitland-road. Sandgate, late yesterday, a schoolgirl suffered…

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Canterbury High School Wins At Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 5

CESSNOCK: [?]—On the annual visit to [?] School yesterday, [?] Canterbury High S[?] cebate…

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Thieves Break Into School

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 5

Thieves smashed a window and broke into the cookery section of the Maitland Girls’ High School on Tuesday night. The stole an…

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School Accommodation Ald. Adams Interviews. Minister

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 7

Ald. G. S. Adams spent much time of his holiday doing good work for the citizens and council. While in Sydney he sought information why the…

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Empire Day at Aberdeen Public School

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 5

There was an excellent attendance of parents at the Aberdeen Public School for the Empire Day ceremony, which this year took…

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Opposed to Communists As Teachers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, June 10—President Truman voiced his opposition to-day to the employment of Communists as teachers in…

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Governor Opens Gresford School Sports

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 4

Nearly 200 children from Gresford and district schools today heard Che state Governor's address at the opening of the…

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Teachers on Exchange

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 June 1949 · page 1

LONDON, June 13.—Seventeen British schoolteachers who will leave-on July 8 to teach for one year In schools in New South Wales,…

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Organisation To Assist Catholic Schooling

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 June 1949 · page 2

By order of the Bishop of Maitland (Most Rev. Or. E. Gleeson), Maitland branch of the Catholic Parents and Friends’ Association…

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Gala Night at Glen William School Centenary

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 2

Despite unpromising weather conditions a large crowd gathered at Glen William on Friday night, 20th May, for the School Centenary Celebrations…

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New Primary School

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 7

MUSWELLBROOK— Ald Adams at a meeting of the Municipal Council reported on an interview he had with the…

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Farewell to Teacher

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 4

The Hoiseslioc Ueud Parents and Citizens tendered a farewell to one of the school’s former teachers. Miss Wilson, of the…

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Bitter Complaints Against Department. High School P. and C. Association

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

Bitter complaints about the Deportment not completing the bicycle racks promised some months ago were made at the meeting of the High School…

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Apathy Of Parents To Welfare of School. Appeal Fob Support

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 5

The apathy of parents to the welfare of the senior school in the district was referred to by the President of the High School Parents and…

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Northern Upper Hunter Small Schools' A.a.a

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 2

From the snow capped ridges of the Upper Hunter to the fertile flats of Segenhoe, the budding athletes are going…

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Goitre Goes to School

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 6

Not so many years ago, the nervous, excitable pupil could not hope to escape reprimand. Similarly, the child who had no…

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Boys' High School Ladies' Auxiliary

Maitland Mercury · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 2

The retarring secretary (Mrs. McIntyre) presented the annual report of the year's activities at the annual meeting of the…

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Cessnock High School Annexe

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 4

It was impossible to complete plans for the building at the Cessnock High School to replace the annexe owing to the need for additional in…

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Student Teachers Benefit. Representations to Minister Successful

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 4

Considerable improvements in the rate of allowance paid to Cessnock students at the Newcastle Technical Teachers' Collage have been achieved…

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