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Murray · Schools

Schools, 1914

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A Big School. Westwood, Tumut

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner." The weather has been very hot up this way. We had a nice shower of rain on January 19. The boys…

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Albury Grammar School Pupil. Benambra, Culcairn

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—It is ages since I last wrote to you, but I have been busy at school. I go to the Albury Grammar School and just love going. There are…

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Educational. Removal of Teachers

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 4
Also in The Corowa Free Press

This year the number of touchers removed in comparatively small. Usually the promotion of a teacher to the rank, of Inspector, or the retirement of some…

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Dissatisfied School Teachers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 2

The threatened strike of school teachers in Heroferdsidge involving 80 schools, has been averted. The teachers demanded a scale of salaries equal to that…

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Hay District School

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 2

The Hay District School will re-open on Monday next, after the Christmas vacation. Extensive alterations have been made…

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Cablegrams. School Teachers' S[?]me Fifty Institutions Closed. Lively Scenes at Girls' School. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 2

There has been no settlement of the dispute between the education authorities and the school teachers of Herefordshire, who are demanding a higher salary…

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School Bursaries Allotted. Albury District Award. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 5

The bursaries allotted by the Bursary Endowment Board to pupils attending country schools have been awarded upon the results of the qualifying certificates'…

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Mad School Teacher. Wholesale Murderer and Incendiary. Placed in Asylum. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 2

As the result of a medical examination it has been revealed that the Mulhausen school teacher, Wagner, who ran amok in September last, and murdered over 15…

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Cost of Evening Continuation Schools

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 32

Mr. Carmichael expressed the fear that the public might obtain, the impression, through a statement published that the cost of the evening continuation schools…

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Little Sister Goes to School. Hawksview, Coolamon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner." I started school again on January 27. The wheat carting is done now. My brother sprained his…

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Teachers Resign in Body. Better Pay Sought. London, January 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 43

Eighty elementary schools in Herefordshire will close their doors on Monday, the teachers having resigned because the Education authorities have refused to grant a…

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Banquet at Culcairn. Mr. Cusack, M.l.a., Honored. Opening New Additions to Public School

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

The Minister for Labor and industry, Mr. J. Estell, accompanied by Messrs. Cusack and Boston M.'sL.A. for Albury and Wagga respectively, visited Culcairn on…

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A Travelling School

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 2

A waggon to be used as a travelling school, which is the second of its kind in the State, has just been completed at Inverell to the order…

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High School Scholarships

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 6

The following scholarships, tenable at Wagga Public High school, have been granted as the result of the last examinations: Gilbert W. Breyley…

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Religion in Schools. N.S.W. System Favored. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 2

The "Church Guardian" states in reference to the religion in schools question that a considerable proportion of teachers belonging tot he National Union of School…

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Teacher Gave Us Books. Wyrra, Wyrra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—I would like you to accept me as one of your many nieces. My father has been taking the "Banner" for eight years. I have been taking great…

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At School Again. Greenvale, Boree Creek

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—I wrote a letter to you about a week age, but as my sister is writing I thought I would write too. It is very hot here, but I hope there will…

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No School Now. Wy Wye, Jounama

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—This is my first letter to the "Banner." We have no school here now—our school was closed a long time ago. I have a nice little black…

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Wodonga Schools' Excursion Likely to Be Abandoned

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 4

There appears to be a possibility of the Wodonga district annual schools' excursion being abandoned again this year; and the pity of it is there does not…

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