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Illawarra · Schools

Schools, 1954

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Welcome To Teachers

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 5

A public welcome is being arranged by the District P. & C. to the two new Headmasters, Mr. W. McFaul and…

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Steady Stream of New Infants Enter W'gong Schools

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 3

Enrolments were heavy at the Wollongong Infants School yesterday morning and there was a steady stream of new five-years-olds throughout the morning…

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20,000 Schoolchildren Will See Queen

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 9

More than 20,000 schoolchildren from district schools will see the Queen on their visit to Wollongong. About 15,000 of these…

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School Parties To Royal Visit

Kiama Independent · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 1

Arrangements for taking children attending Kiama Schools to Wollongong next Thursday for the Royal Visit were announced by the head teachers this…

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Royal Visit Buses for Schools School Buses Will Run One Hour and Ten Minutes Earlier Than Usual on Royal Visit Day—next Thursday—to Bring Children Into Kiama

Kiama Independent · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 1

The is being done because the School Special to Wollongong will not stop at the intermediate stations…

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W'gong Infants' School Club

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 9

Mrs. D. R. Jephcott will preside at the year's first meeting of the Wollongong Infants' School Club next…

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Port Kembla School Staff Changes

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 9

Miss O. Wade, mistress of the girls' department, in Port Kembla Public School, has been transferred to…

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U.s. Auto Anecdotes: You Can Lead a Feller to School, But You Can't Make Him Like It!

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 17

A sign posted at the approach to an Elementary School in Houston, Texas, read-ing, "Public School—Drive Slow" was altered during the night recently…

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Three School Girls Will Greet Queen

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 1

For three girls next Thursday will be a day they will long remember for they are the children who will take…

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20,000 School Children Will Pay Tribute

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 4

More than 20,000 school children will, pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during Her visit to the district. These children hold the key…

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Sisters Drown On Way Home From School

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 14

BRISBANE, Tues.—Twosisters, aged five and six, were drowned when they tried to cross a flooded…

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School Children Break Ranks to Greet Queen

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 7

The uninhibited cheering of 20,000 children and the waving of red, white and blue streamers, caught in the day's first full burst of sunshine, greeted the Royal Party when they arrived at the schoolchildren's rally at the Wollongong…

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School Savings Bank

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 12

To assist teachers conducting banking at School's, the Commonwealth Savings Bank has…

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Her Hat Blew Off Fifteen-year Old Margaret Buttel, of Wollongong High School Had the Greatest Day of Her Life—and Her Most Embarrassing and Awkward Moment When She Stood Before the Queen on Wollongong Showground on

Kiama Independent · Saturday 13 February 1954 · page 3

Margaret, elected captain of her school on the previous day made the address of welcome to Her Majesty on behalf of…

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Schoolchildren Wait for the Royal Pair

Kiama Independent · Saturday 13 February 1954 · page 3

Children gave a rip-roaring Forgetting their instructions. Here some of the children welcome to the Queen and the about waving they let go from Gerringong and Berry Duke in the Showground the first minute. wait for the great moment…

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Warm Greeting to Kiama Teachers

Kiama Independent · Saturday 13 February 1954 · page 4

A warm welcome to the new Kiama school headmasters and their families, and to the other new members of the High School and Primary School teaching staffs was given at a delightful social evening arranged by the local P. and…

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Warm Welcome for New Headmaster of W. W'gong School

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 8

A warm welcome was extended to the new headmaster of the West Wollongong Public School (Mr. Ramsay) at the first meeting of the P. and C. Association on…

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School Children Welcome their Queen

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 25

This group of photographs was taken [?] the Wollongong Showground and at Slacky Flat at Bulli. Top left shows Margaret Buttell, captain of the Wollongong High School, curtesying after…

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New Infants School for Fairy Meadow

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 5

Expenditure has been approved for the erection of a new Infants' School at Fairy Meadow and…

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Parents Critical Of Arrangements At Showground Royal Visit Fiasco Many Parents of District Children Who Went in the School Parties to See the Queen at Wollonong on Thursday, Have Expressed Criticism of the Organisers

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 1

Some parents have told this newspaper that they consider the handling of the arrangements for children to show…

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