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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1950

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Belmont School To Cost £150,000

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 2

The cost of the new secondary school at Belmont would be more than £160,000, the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) advised…

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Another 23,000 New Scholars

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday—New enrolments in Government schools, when tuition was resumed to-day, are expected to total 23,000—the…

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School Holidays Are Over An Appeal to Parents (To the Editor.)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 6

Sir,—Today the long school vacation ended and students from the Infants to High School standards have recommenced their studies. Of these…

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Record School Enrolment. Department Faces New Problems. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 2

Parents queued up from an early hour to-day to enrol children at State schools, which re-opened to-day. There had been reports that because of…

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School Appointments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 1

Miss S. Shanahan succeeds Miss M. Galamanski, transferred to Penshurst, in the primary department at the Muswellbrook School…

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Queues for School Enrolment

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Parents queued up from an early hour today to enrol children at State schools, which reopened to-day…

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School Teacher Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 3

Mr. W. Dawes, who was previously at Springwood, has bean appointed to take charge of lona public School, Woodville…

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Presentation To School Teacher At Woodville

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 5

After a period of seventeen years as headmaster of lona School, Woodville, Mr. E. Jones has been transferred to Marshall…

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Schoolboys' Own Exhibition in London

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 3

The Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held in London in January, set out to allow the immense possibilities there are in various careers. Many more boys attended this year and to cope with this both the Royal and Now Horticultural Halls,…

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School Bus Service Blandford—murrurundi

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 1

Mr. R. B. Nott, M.L.A. for Liverpool Plains, forwards the following official letter, dated 24th January, 1950, apropos of the…

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Scone District Rural School Staff Changes. HEADMASTER

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 1

Mr. D. Quinlan, from the Kendall District Rural School, replaces Mr. E. Lake, transferred to Cessnock. SUPER PRIMARY…

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Staff Changes at High School

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Fairly wide staff changes in the staffs of Maitland’s high schools are announced. Deputy headmaster of Maitland…

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To-day’s Leader : Back To School— Back To Work Hydrogen Bomb Work to Continue Truman Emphasises The Nation’s Responsibilities

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, February 1.-President Truman yesterday directed that work be “continued” on the hydrogen bomb, which is reported to be many times more powerful than the atomic bomb…

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EDITORIAL Back to School-Back to Work

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

BACK to school week is in effect a back to work week, for somehow or other the work of the country, and of the city, too, does not seem to be properly geared until the school bells ring…

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Singleton Schools Enrolments Up Shortage of Accommodation at High School

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Most Singleton schools to-day reported an increase in the number of pupils enrolled in comparison with last year. Several schools are confronted with the problem…

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School Changes at Muswellbrook

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 3

MUSWELLBROOK, Thursday. — Miss S. Shanahan succeeds Miss M. Galamanski, transferred to Penshurst, in the primary department at…

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Singleton School Enrolments

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 5

SINGLETON, Thurs.—Singleton Intermediate High School now has an enrolment of 20 teachers to cope with the…

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Aluminium School Buildings

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Feb. 2.—Twenty-five prefabricated aluminium schools, for shipment to Australia will be despatched next week by the…

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Complaints On School Deficiencies

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 7

THE STATEMENT by the President of the New South Wales Teachers' Federation (Mr. Lewis) that officials of the…

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Film at Methodist Sunday School

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 2

Following the Christmas vacation the Mait[?] dist Sunday School [?] on Sunday…

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