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Murray · Schools

Schools, 1940

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Schools War Effort Children Raise £100,000 Henty's Fine Contribution

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 8

"By the purchase of war savings certificates and contribution to patriotic funds, the New South Wales public schools' financial war effort has…

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School Notes Bursary and Intermediate Examinations

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 3

Committee have already been arranged. A roster will shortly be drawn up to suit the convenience of the members…

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School News Friday Feature (Contributed by the Deniliquin intermediate High School Staff) : Tennis Notes

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 3

A house match between Edward and Kyalite teams i was played on the North Tennis Courts on Wednesday afternoon, Kyalite being victorious. The points…

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New Convent School Opening

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 September 1940 · page 4

Costing £11,000, the new three-story St. Joseph’s High School at the Convent of Mercy, in Olive St.. will be officially opened and blessed to-morrow morning by Most Rev. Dr. F. A. Henschke, Bishop of Wagga. This illustration shows the modern…

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Bishop of Wagga Opens New School £11,000 Con Vent School Opened By Bishop of Wagga at Albury Yesterday Re-union of Pupils, Too 300 At Party In Afternoon

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 September 1940 · page 3

Yesterday was a happy day in the history of the Albury Convent and its painstaking inmates, the Sisters of Mercy, when the first re-union of ex-pupils was held to mark the opening and blessing by Most Rev. Dr. F…

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St, Joseph’s High School Re-union at Week-end

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 September 1940 · page 2

Left: Officials of Our Lady of Mercy Ex-Students’ Association, which held its first re-union at the Convent of Mercy, Albury, at the…

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Bombing School For Corowa?

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 September 1940 · page 2

Officers of the R.A.A.F. and surveyors visited Corowa recently to search for a suitable area where recruits or the Air Force could carry out bombing…

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Wireless Licenses. [?] Exemptions for Schools

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 25 September 1940 · page 1

Lethbridge, M.L.A., has re[?] the following letter from the [?] General:— With referent to the…

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Burrumbuttock School Picnic

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 September 1940 · page 4

Burrumbuttock school picnic will be held on October 19. and not October 10, as previously stated…

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Dramatic Entertainment At Presbyterian School Hall Fine Supporting Musical Programme

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 September 1940 · page 4

Histrionic ability well up to the average was revealed by members of the St. David’s Presbyterian Young People’s Club in a dramatic…

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Around Albury Schools Sports on

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 September 1940 · page 4

At the moment every available scrap of spare time is being spent by boys and girls of Albury and district schools in preparation for…

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High School Choir For Wagga

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 September 1940 · page 2

The girls’ choir of the Albury High School will travel to Wagga to-day to compete in the annual eisteddfod. The [?]istedrifod began yesterday and will…

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Combined Schools Sports

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 September 1940 · page 4

Success of the patriotic display staged by schools earlier in the year has focussed attention on the combined schools display on the Albury…

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School Children Praised For Liberal Support Of Hospital

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 September 1940 · page 3

In the course of a tour of hospitals in Riverina, Mr. D. K. Otton, superintendent of hospital in N.S.W., spent Wednesday and Thursday in Deniliquin…

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High School for Wodonga Petition For Minister Likely

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 September 1940 · page 2

A combined meeting of the school committees of the Wodonga Tallangatta and Kiewa districts met in the Higher Elementary…

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Albury and District School Children Help Charity

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 6

Children from 16 Albury and district schools took part in a sports meeting on Albury sports ground on Saturday. Proceeds are to aid Albury District Hospital. Top Left: Albury High School girls’ ball t[?] gave a splendid…

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School Teachers' Transfers

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 2

Among a number of transfers announced by the Department of Education last week were the following Mr. J. B. Nelson Tooma, to…

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Hay War Memorial High School Junior House Debates

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 4

A goodly audience of about 120 persons assembled in the hall of the Memorial High School on Friday, 27th September, when there was held…

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Air School for Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 2

The presence of planes overhead on Sunday and again yesterday has led to the question being asked: "Is Corowa going to have a flying…

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School Children Help Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 4

The third instalment of £A20.000 for the relief of Great Britain’s civilian war victims, has been cabled to London. Of this amount £A1250 was…

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