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Murray · Schools

Schools, 1909

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School Children's Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

When Mr. Thomas, the headmaster of the North Prentice State school, and his three assistant teachers called the rolls on Tuesday the total attendance was 18,…

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Bethanga State School

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

Mr. Craven. M.L.A., and Mr. R. D. Cole waited on the Victorian Minister for Education yesterday, and urged that the erection of an additional wing…

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Charge Against a School Inspector

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 33

During the course of the inquiry by the Education Commission in Hobart (Tas.) Mr. Holmes, a teacher, said he approached friends and members of Parliament with…

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The Hay Convent School

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

The report of the Catholic Primary Schools of the Diocese of Goulburn for the year 1908 is just to hand. By special arrangement the Hay, and also…

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"Strike" at a State School. Instantly Conditions Complained Of. Picketing Proposals

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4

A strike of a novel character took place on Monday at the North Prentice state school. In order to show their indignation against the…

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Corowa Public School

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 2

Mater Sept. King, who was recently successful in passing the Public Service examination, left Corown yesterday for Sydney, to take up no…

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Rutherglen State School

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 February 1909 · page 2

On Wednesday the Victorian [?] for Education (Mr. A. A. Billson) will open the new school at Rutherglen. Rutherglen is only a few miles from…

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North Prentice School Strike. End of the Strike. Rutherglen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 6

The boycotting of the North Prentice State school by the parents of 140 pupils, who were forbidden to go to school on account of the utterly unsuitable and…

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Another Neglected State School. Filthy Drinking Water at Chiltern. Chiltern

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 February 1909 · page 2

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Chiltern School Board of Advice was held on Monday evening. Present.—Messrs. O. W. C. Hodgson (in the…

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Rutherglen's New State School. the Opening Ceremony. Rutherglen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 3

Reutherglen was on fete to-day, the occasion being official opening of the new State school, No. 622 by Mr. A. A. Bilison (Minister for Education)…

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£60,000 for Industrial Art School

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 2

The late Mr. James Dunean, of Alyth, Scotland, has bequeathed a sum of £60,000 for the purpose of founding a school of industrial art at Dundee…

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New Sunday School Bait

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 5
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser, The Riverine Grazier

Tommy, said a young lady visitor at his home, "why not come to our Sabbath school? Several of your little friends joined us lately."…

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Overcrowded Schools

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 33

took a man too long to reach that figure. The "attendance at the North Prentice school, from which the children are being kept by their parents as a protest against…

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Gravesend Shooting. Schoolmaster on Trial

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 8

At the Kent Assizes at Maidstone on November 20, before Mr Justice Ridley, William Beresford Power, the Gravesend schoolmaster, 42 years of…

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North Prentice School. the Strike ENDEDl

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 3

The trouble at the North Prenties, State school was practically settled on Monday afternoon Mr. Thomas, district inspector, came from…

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Rutherglen State School. Opened by Minister of Education

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 3

The now State school, at Rutherglen was officially opened on Wednesday morning Mr. Billson, Minister for Education. The town wan on fete,…

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Improvements at the Public School

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 2

Mr H. J. F. Peters, M.L.A., has received from the Department of Public Instruction a letter stating the Minister has approved of the provision of an…

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California and Japan. Schools Bill Adopted. Present Roosevelt Emphatic London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 February 1909 · page 2

The hopes that were entertained that the Californian Legislature would defeat all anti-Japanese lagistation and thus put an end to a disquieting situation have not…

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