School for Rennie
Mr. C. B. Lethbridge, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Director of Education: -- Dear Mr. Lethbridge, -- In reply to…
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Fire Fiend Rages Along Leneva Valley Nearly 1000 Square Miles of Country Burned Many Homes Menaced Licking Flames Burning Embers Tossed on Fierce Wind Leneva School Saved by Timely Arrival of Fighters Gold Watch Left Behind In Hurried Departure
North-Eastern Victoria yesterday was a blazing inferno. Close on a thousand square miles of timber and grass country have been swept by the worst fire ever known in this area. A number of homes were razed to the ground, but many were saves by the magnificent work of hundreds of fire-fighters. ' Last night a stretch of country 10…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wodonga Higher Elementary School
Wodonga higher elementary school will hold swimming sports on March 1. Later in March successful competitors will represent their school at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prefects at Wodonga High School
School prefects for 1940 at Wodonga Elementary High School: Front row (left to right). Valda Maxwell, Lesley Walker, Patsy Cann, Isla Woollard. Florence Ried, June Rowley; back row (left to right), Stanley Padgett, Ken Willoughby, Robert Snowden, Ian Cann, Roy Scholz, William Elkington, Malcolm Rowley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fate of School of Arts Liabilities More Than Bank Overdraft; Winding-up Suggested
With liabilities well in excess of the bank overdraft limit, and prospects of an improvement in the financial position far from bright, the committee of the School of Arts on Tuesday night discussed the calling of a meeting of all members to wind-up the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Former Master of Westminster School
Here is a story of Dr. Busby, which will bear retelling. The famous headmaster of Westminster School sat one day in his class-room when a stone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Successful High School Athletes
High School boys who did exceptionally well in the carnival of the Albury Athletic Club on the sports ground recently. Left to right, front row, C. Bowring, K. Jewell R. Stakes. Mr. F. Buckley (sports master); back row, T. Pearsall, J. Irwin, R. Eisenhauer, W. Simmonds, P, Robinson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rubbish Fire At The Public School
Shortly after 11 o’clock last night, the Albury Fire Brigade was called to quell a small outbreak in the playground of the boys’ department of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News From the Albury Schools
The coaler weather has made conditions more congenial in Albury [?] schools, but has not affected the enthusiasm of students for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enrolment at High School
The effective enrolment at the nigh School, surprisingly, is lower than that at the corresponding period last year. The actual figures are 487…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teacher Sent for Trial Sydney
Harry Ruhe Quiney, aged 29. a teacher, reserved his defence and was committed for trial at the Central Police Court to-day on seven charges…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After School Education
Commenting on the necessity of after-school education, Mr. Routsey [?] said that he was certain that those pupils who left school at the age…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wodonga Higher Elementary School’s Activities
Wodonga Higher Elementary School’s staff has recently undergone several changes. Miss [?]. C. Goonan has been transferred to Moyhu; Miss Spencer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farmer at School
What would the bearded pioneers the Upper Murray have thought had they witnessed a working session the Southern Agricultural Bureau…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →School of Arts Suggested Council Control (To the Editor)
Sir,—Seeing in your last issue that [?] fate of the School of Arts will [?]bably be definitely decided at a gen[?] meeting to be held on March 5,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War and Education Seen in New Light Teacher Talks To Albury Rotarians on Exchange Duty From England His Plea for Human Understanding
“The ancient philosophers. drews a distinction between knowledge and understanding. To my mind it is the failure to appreciate that distinction that explains the failure of education in; the world to-day. Our schools…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Red Cross High School Group Formed
A large attendance of High School girls assembled at the home of Mrs. R. A. Robertson. “Ormond,” Olive St., on Saturday morning, for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girls Hide Marriages Remain “Miss So-and-So” Teachers Singled Out for Dismissal Sydney
Giving evidence before the Select Committee which is inquiring into youth and employment in die Commonwealth, the chairman of the Public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parents Criticised “Show Little Interest in School” Albury Headmaster’s Comments
Criticism was voted by Mr. R. C. Smith, headmaster of the Albury Public School, of the apathy of parents generally towards the welfare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Exchange Teachers Talk to Albury Younger Set
At present in Albury on exchange teaching duty from England, Misses Stone and Walkley entertained members of the Albury Younger Set at…
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