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Hunter Valley · Schools

Schools, 1954

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Methodist School Anniversary

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 2

Singleton Methodist Sunday School held its annual anniversary in the Methodist Hall and good congregations…

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Sunday School Attendance

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 2

SINGLETON: The poor attendance at the Methodist Sunday School is deplored by the secretary (Mr. David Hill)…

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Around the... SCHOOLS

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 2

Maitland Girls’ High School has announced the fifth year list for 1954. prises for first place in each subset have been introduced for the first time…

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Schoolboy On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE: A 13-years-old schoolboy, was charged with murder yesterday in the Children’s Court after…

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Frolic For Convent School

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 4

A fancy dress frolic, in aid of St. Joseph’s Convent School, East Maitland, was held at the school…

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Two Rhodes Scholars From Aberdeen

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 3

Aberdeen Primary School has become one of the few schools in Australia to have produced two Rhodes Scholars. This year's scholarship went to Bob Solomon. Another Aberdeen student, Bill…

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High School Boy’s Record in Sport

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 5

A fifth year student at Maitland Boys’ High School, who was last week awarded bines in both cricket and football,…

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20 Cadets In School Pass Out Ceremony

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 3

Twenty cadets, who are leaving Maitland Boys’ High School this year, received certificates of efficiency at…

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Maitland Boys In Northern School Team

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 7

FOOT Maitland Boys’ High School students have been chosen to play in the Combined Northern High Schools’…

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Farewell dinner at High School

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 4

Fourth year pupils of Singleton Intermediate High School were hosts and hostesses on Wednesday…

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J. F. Leadership School Great Success

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 2

From the 13th to 20th October, the Guest House at Blackhead, near Taree, Was the scene of a very successful Leadership School for Junior Farmers…

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Sunday School Anniversary at Ward's River

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 4

St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church at Ward's River was filled to capacity last Sunday night on the occasion of the…

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Sunday school pupils form honour guard at girl's funeral

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 November 1954 · page 2

Children from Warkworth Sunday School carrying posies of flowers formed a guard of honour at All Saints' Church Singleton, yesterday afternoon, in a last tribute to their friend,…

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Beekeeping School at Hawkesbury Agricultural College

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. E. H. Graham, MLA, announced recently that a…

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Stop Closing Bush Schools City Drift Worsened

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 5

The N.S.W. Government should stop closing little bush schools. It should reopen many of the 468 it had closed…

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Around the . . .SCHOOLS

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 2

Third year boys at Maitland High School started internal intermediate examination on Monday. The headmaster (Mr. Russell Hodge) said results would be available in about a fortnight’s time…

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Superintendent's birthday honoured by Sunday School

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 2

During the Sunday School session at the Warrena Methodist Sunday School last Sunday, the…

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Money stolen from High School

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 1

Thieves broke into the headmaster's office at the In termediate High School over the week-end and stole a…

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Increase in School Subsidies Wanted

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 3

An increase of 50 per cent in the amount of subsidy, granted by the Education Department…

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Playing Fields for London Schools

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 9

Shortage of playing-space for schools within the London area is being solved by the provision by the London…

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