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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1953

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Aborigine Girl Teacher

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 4

Evelyn Robinson, 19-year-old Aborigine girl, is the first, from the Clarence district to Obtain a teacher's certificate…

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Free Milk for Schools

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 3

SINGLETON: The Department of Education has approved the application to distribute free milk to the…

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Teachers' College head visits Roughit

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 2

Principal of Sydney Teachers' College, Dr. I. S. Turner, accompanied by Mrs. Turner, visited Mr…

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Schoolgirl Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 1

While playing in the grounds of the Beresfield Public School this morning. Dawn Sawtell, 8, of…

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Young Pupils Know Their Road Safety

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 3

Newcastle and coalfields area school children won eight of 12 prizes in a road safety essay competition…

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Arm Broken In School Ground

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 2

CESSNOCK: Jim Harris, 11, of High-street, Cessnock, fell and fractured his left [?] white playing in-the school…

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Teachers Organised In Underground

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 6

WASHINGTON: The chairman of the Senate: Internal Security. Sub-Committee (Senator William Jenner) said that the Communist Party had organised [?] New York-school teachers in a “secret…

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School Wants Telephone

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 4

Following a. decision at the recent meeting, application has been made by the . loan Parents and Citizens…

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To-morrow's Poll Booths at Court House and High School

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 6

For to-morrow's poll in the State elections the polling booths at the Muswellbrook Court House and Muswellbrook High School will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m…

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Primary School Teaching

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 2

SINGLETON: Miss Letle Coleman, a former student of Singleton intermediate High School, is practice…

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Rotary’s Help For High School Boy

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 4

The community service committee of the Rotary Club of Maitland has decided that assistance to the extent of £50…

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School milk tenders

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 5

Tenders will be called for the distribution of free milk to the local schools as soon as the quantity…

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Home Expert DRUSILLA Says — School lynches are important

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 6

When the school year begins, many mothers are faced with the problem of providing packed lunches for the children. Never allow yourself to be tempted into thinking that, if…

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T.V. Means Less Reading, But No Effect On Schooling

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 1

PARIS: A survey of television in Britain, the United States and France shows it has not effected children’s schoolwork, but has resulted in both children and adult televiewers reading fewer books…

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Special Bus For School Pupils

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2

The Hunter Valley Bus Company will ran for a trial, period a morning school [?] to service the Homevllie…

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School Needs Good Library

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2

RAYMOND TERRACE: At the first meeting for the year of the Raymond Terrace Parents and Citizens’…

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School Lunches

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 7

When school year begins, many mothers are faced with the problem of providing packed lunches for the children…

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School Floor

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 2

The floor of the main classroom at South Singleton Infants' School has been sanded. The job was done at the…

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School Of Arts At Lochinvar

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 4

Mr. L. Kauter, Chairman at a meeting of the Lochinvar School of Arts Committee, referred to the death of Mrs…

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Movable Schoolrooms At St. Ethel’s

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 2

An endeavour is to be made to have movable school rooms at St. Ethel’s Public School raised to a height above the…

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