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Schools, 1950

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Wollongong's School-boy Champion to Join Empire Games Team

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 5

Wollongong schoolboy champion, David Johnson, of Keira street, will be a member of the Australian Empire Games team to go to New Zealand next month…

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School Children Don't Want To leave

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

There is n sonoor for poor children in Birmingham, in the English Midlands, whoro the pupils are so interested in their art…

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Coal Board to sponger school camps

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

The Joint Coal Board has decided to continue its sponsorship of school term camps for the children of…

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A well organised school omnibus system aided American education

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

Contributions to U.S. education of the "world's largest transportation system," bring well-equipped centralized schools within easy reach of youth in outlying areas. WESTWARD, with the sun…

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Good Progress With New Classroom At Albion Pk. School

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 5

Good progress is being made with the erection of the long-awaited second portable class-room, at Albion Park Public…

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Kiama School of Arts

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 3

A meeting of Kiama School of Arts Committee was held on Friday, 13th inst. The Mayor (Ald. W. R. Holden) presided and there were…

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Overcrowding Expected At Some Schools

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Over-crowding and inconvenience in some school rooms would be inevitable in this year's record…

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School-term Camps for Mineworkers' Children

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 3

Once again the Joint Coal Board, in co-operation with the Department of Education and the National Fitness…

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Record Rolls Of Pupils Arid Teachers

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday,—A record number of State school teachers and pupils will commence the 1950 school year…

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School-term Camps for Mineworkers' Children

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 4

Once again the Joint Coal Board, in cooperation with the Department of Education and the National Fitness…

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Five-year-olds May Not Find School Room Today

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. — State schools will reopen tomorrow. The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) said today there…

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Famous Author of a Schoolboys' Story

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 2

ONE bitter Saturday afternoon in the depth of an English winter, while enjoying the hospitality of a tradesman and his…

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No Rush on Primary Schools; Problem at Wollongong High

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

There was no immediate indication that primary and infants' school enrolments in the district would be greater than in past years, when the schools resumed yesterday…

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Prefabricated Schools For Australia

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).—Twenty-ftve pre-fabricated aluminium schools for shipment to Australia will be despatched next…

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School Notes

Kiama Independent · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 6

We wish to welcome to the staff of Kiama Central School, Miss M. Cooper, from Rose Bay, newly appointed Headmistress of the Infants'…

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"Back to School" Week

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 1

FOR MOTHERS and hundreds of Greater Wollongong children, this week has been "Back to School" Week. Memory Studios photographer secured these shots for the "Mercury" at Wollongong schools…

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Bishop O'brien Opens New Infants' School

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 2

"The Catholic people build their own schools because they believe children should have a religious background to…

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Night School Grants From Jt. Coal Board

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said tonight that where evening colleges in predominately coal…

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Bishop Praises Spirit of Catholics New School Opened

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

"In these days when so much is being said about the need to decentralise population and create new settlements in Australia the people who live in the crowded cities would profit by a…

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New School Opened

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

Bishop Eris M. O'Brien, D.D., officially opening the new Infants' School at the Littles Flower Parish, West Wollongong…

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