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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Schools

Schools, 1927

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School of Arts Ordinary Meeting

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 5

The ordinary monthly meeting of the School of Arts committee was held on Friday night, Mr. W. Thomson, president, occupying the chair…

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Forbes School Notes

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 4

The following are extracts taken from an essay written by a class in the Boys' Department. The title is, "If I were Mayor of Forbes," and…

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Local and General Teachers' Federation

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Grenfell branch of the Teachers' Federation was held on Saturday, 4th inst., and despite the unsettled weather…

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Intermediate High School. Primary Department. The following are the results of the February examinations (tests in English and Arithmetic):—GIRLS

Western Champion · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 11

3rd. Class.—Noreen Rigg 1, Jean Wright 2, Thelma Leech 3. 4th Class.—Nell Stone and Molly Jamieson (equal) 1, Edna Beddie 2,…

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Pupils Paint School

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 4

Pupils of Orange High School, being impressed by the statements of the Minister for Education that no money is available, clubbed together…

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District School West Wyalong Sixth Class

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 5

Thirty four children out of fortyseven passed the Permit to Enrol examination last year. [?] Three children secured High…

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High School Accommodation

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 6

Mr. R. D. Dickens, at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, referred to the fact that the High School was cramped for accommodation. When…

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School Matters

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 6

Mr. W. V. Allen, headmaster of the High School, in speaking at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, suggested that the link between the…

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Townsfolk Farewelled in the Presbyterian School Hall

Cowra Free Press · Friday 11 March 1927 · page 2

Cowra Presbyterians rallied in good force to the School Hall last Monday night, the occasion being a social gathering to say good-bye to the…

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Forbes School Notes

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 5

Owing to the death of Rev. H. H. Prichard, president of the Parents and : Citizens' Association, the meeting of that body arranged for Thursday night…

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School Items

Western Champion · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 13

On Saturday a number of boys and girls from the Intermediate High School will visit Narromine by car. where the boys will meet the local…

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School Picnic

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 13

The annual Convent School picnic was succcessfully held, in the West Wyalong show ground on Monday, when it is estimated that between…

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School Column Weekly Examination

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 12

2nd Class.[?]Jean. Cameron 82, Joyce Buchan 75, Gladys Dean 72, Allen Buttenshaw 72, Jessie Ridley, 70, Margaret Potter 70…

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Bests in the School

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 12

Artists: J. Ridley (penell), E. Forrester (brush). English: David Middlemis. Classics: Latin (deferred), French…

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West Wyalong District School PALESTINE

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 12

You would like to be in Palestine, a country in Asia, in spring time. As coon as Christmas is over the anemones come out They are not…

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Ballara Provisional School

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 2

During the letter portion of last year, application was made for the establishing of a provisional school at Ballara, the property of Messrs…

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School Column Show Exhibits

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 2

Last year there were over a thousand exhibits of school work from the various schools of the district. Teachers had a trying time during…

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High School For Forbes Parents and Citizens to Act

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 6

It was agreed at last night's meeting of the Parents & Citizens' Association to throw its energy into the securing of a High School for Forbes,…

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Forbes School Notes Life-saving Instruction

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 3

The school has had a visit from that well-known exponent of swimming, Mr. Harold Hardwick, who has been in Forbes giving life-saving…

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Schoolboy Howlers

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 March 1927 · page 3

The following answers were given by schoolboys on examination questions:-- Socrates died from an overdose…

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