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Illawarra · Schools

Schools, 1883

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Kiama Wesleyan Sabbath School Anniversary

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1883 · page 2

ON Sunday last, the 14th instant, the services in connection with the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Kiama Wesleyan Sabbath School were preached, morning…

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Wollongong Grammar School. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1883 · page 2

SIR.—With reference to the very impertinent, and consequently foolish, and by no means over veracious notice over the name "H.N. Montagu" which appeared in the last issues of the Argus…

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Sunday School Anniversary

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1883 · page 2

THE celebration of the anniversary of the Foxground Wesleyan Sunday-school, postponed from the previous Thursday in consequence of the wet weather, was held on…

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Miscellaneous. Standards of Proficiency in Public Schools

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1883 · page 4

THE important question of the standards of proficiency in public schools has lately been considered by the conference of public school inspectors. Those…

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"Home Lessons" in Schools

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1883 · page 4

Some commotion has been created at Bradford among many of the parents of children attending Roard schools in consequence of…

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Immorality in State School

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 November 1883 · page 2

A Melbourne telegram to the Sydney Daily Telegraph say:—The excitement consequent on the Rev. D. Jones Hamer's charges of wholesale immorality amongst the children attending the…

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Mount Brandon Public School

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1883 · page 2

THE second annual treat in connection with the above school took place on Friday, 9th November. The weather was all that could be desired, and notwithstanding the…

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Presbyterian Sabbath School

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1883 · page 2

THE anniversary picnic in connection with the above school took place on the Blowhole Point on Wednesday, 14th instant. The children assembled about 11, and at 1…

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Wollongong Public School

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 December 1883 · page 2

The annual celebration in connection with the Public School in this, town took place on Friday last, and proved very successful. In the forenoon several gentlemen appointed for the purpose…

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Wollongong Grammar School

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 December 1883 · page 2

The distribution of prizes in connection with the Wollongong Grammar School took place on Wednesday afternoon, in the presence of a fair number of parents and friends of the pupils. The…

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