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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1950

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Prefab. Schools Speed-up Record Attendance Expected in 1951

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 3

The Education Department is speeding up prefabricated classrooms to accommodate the record school attendance…

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School News & Views

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 3

AT the school dance on Wednesday night all present joined in wishing Mr. Norman Dunkley all the best in his new…

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Schoolteacher Before Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 3

Evidence that a schoolteacher had told him that the caning of an 11-year-old pupil was a "regrettable incident," was given by a detective at…

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Member Will Press for School

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 2

Mr. Les Doohan, secretary of Singleton Chamber of Commerce, has had a reply from Mr. D'Arcy Rose, the State…

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School’s Attendance Rises

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 4

Attendance figures at Maitland Public School have now risen to 85 per cent, of the total number of pupils…

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Kurrr School Of Arts Trustees Proud of Progress

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 1

In the annual report presented to a meeting of the Kurri Kurri School of Arts, the trustees stated they were proud of the progress made…

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High School Teams Here To-morrow. Football for University Shield

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 2

At Muswellbrook on Saturday next (to-morrow) two matched in the University Shield Rugby League competition for schoolboys will be…

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Summer School For Working Women

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 5

Newnham College. famous college for women at Br[?] Cambridge University, is to hold a summer school from July 29 to…

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High School Getting Back to Normal Pupils Overcome Setback Caused By Flood

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 2

Conditions at Maitland Boys’ High School are gradually returning to normal. Attendance figures are now almost as high as before the flood-, allowing, of course, for the epidemic of influenza…

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Dairymen Keen on Central School Proposal

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 2

Dungog Branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council on Thursday strongly supported a proposal by Dungog C.W.A. that the Education…

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High School Sport

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1950 · page 3

Owing to the interruption caused the floods, a modified sports programme has been undertaken for high schools in the northern…

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Paterson School of Arts Report

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

In the 82nd annual report of the Paterson School of Arts, the secretary (Mr. W. Dobson) submitted a comprehensive survey,…

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School News & Views By "MONITOR"

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 3

MAURICE LESTER and Colin Cameron have left school. Maurice has started training with the Joint Coal…

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Teacher Fined £2

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — Cyril Clifford Jopling, headmaster of Belmont public school, was convicted on a charge of having assaulted an…

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Maitland Public School Examinations

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 3

Results of the half-yearly examinations at Maitland Public School were released to-day. In the various sections first…

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Cessnock High School

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 4

CESSNOCK, Friday.—Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens’ Association decided to ask the Minister for Education to paint and repair…

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Auxiliary’s Great Help to Boys’ School

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 4

In his report to the Maitland Boys’ High School Women’s Auxiliary, at the monthly meeting, the headmaster Mr. R. F…

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Vacy School of Arts

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 2

Due mainly to sickness and the unpleasant weather, there was only a fair attendance at the annual meeting of the Vacy School of Arts…

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School News & Views

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 3

High School boy "Mac" Bignell can well walk around with "a plum in his mouth." The other…

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Way to Overcome Teacher Shortage The Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 4

Dear Sir, I read a letter in your paper some weeks ago under the name of Leo Gatty. Mr. Gatty was dealing…

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