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Schools, 1950

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Record School Attendance Forecast

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.: Attendances school during 1950 would reach the record of 393,000. compared With 370,000 in 1919. the…

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Corowa Technical School

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 1

The following candidates were successful in the 1919 final examinations conducted by the Sydney Technical College:--…

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St. Paul’s Sunday School

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

The St. Paul’s Church 0[?] England Sunday Schoo[?] prize-giving function wa[?] well attended by both par[?]…

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Lonely Schoolgirl Took Lessons in Tennis; Now World Champion

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 15

THIRTEEN years ago, Louise Brough, a young schoolgirl at Beverley Hills, California, decided to play tennis in order to make friends among her classmates. Four years after her first lesson, she won the Southern…

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Swimming Woman Teacher Wins Title

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 12

SYDNEY, Sun.: Lismore school teacher Beryl Hayter last night won the NSW women’s 100 yards freestyle championship at the…

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Bringing School to the Disabled Child

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 4

Hundreds of chronically sick or crippled children in many parts of the United States regularly "go to school" although they are unable to leave their…

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Teachers Farewelled at Culcairn

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 7

Mr B. Watt, headmaster of the Central School, who has been in Culcairn for two years and who has been transferred to Cooma;…

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Aluminium Schoolrooms to Be Imported?

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 15

SYDNEY, Tues.: To meet the increased enrolments of school children for 1950, the government is considering the…

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Two CUlcairn Schoolteachers Farewelled

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

Mr. B. Watt, headmaster of Culcairn Central School, who has been stationed at Culcairn for two years, and who has been transferred to Cooma; and Mr. D. W. Jaffray, deputy-headmaster, who has been in Culcairn for 10 years, and who has been transferred to Bega, were…

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Wangaratta News Items New Modern School

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 4

New modern brick school of six classrooms is approaching completion in Phillipson st. For temporary accommodation two…

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Wanton Destruction Two School Boys

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 11

SYDNEY, Monday : Two boys, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested and charged with being uncontrollable…

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District News BRIGHT School Teacher Farewelled

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 8

A large crowd attended a social evening to farewell Mr Geo. Holden, his wife and family. Mr Holden has been head teacher of…

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Winter School for Adults to Be Held at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

OVER 200 people are expected to attend the Winter School of the Victorian Council for Adult Education, which is to be held in Albury in August. Lectures and addresses by…

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New Deniliquin High School Education Committee Discussion

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 1

The case prepared by the Education Committee for the erection of a High School at Deniliquin will be circulated…

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Passing of Retired School Teacher

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 4

A school teacher who come to spend the finding years of his retirement in Griffith, passed quietly away in a private home in Sydney in December,…

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School Mothers’ Club

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 7

Wodonga H. E. School Mothers’ Club will resume activities next month. First meeting for 1950 will be held at 2.45 p.m. on…

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Wage Rises for Teachers?

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Increases in salaries of State School teachers will probably be announced by the Teachers’ Tribunal…

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Government Subsidy for School Bus

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 2

The NSW Minister for Education has informed Mr Padman, MLA, that a departmental subsidy to the extent of 50 per cent of its…

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Allegations Against Schoolmistress

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 1

STOCKHOLM, Wed.: Swedish newspapers accuse a 59-year-old headmistress of a boarding school in…

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Back to School For 13,000 Teachers, 393,000 Pupils Next Week SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 January 1950 · page 3

A RECORD number of State School teachers and pupils will commence the 1950 School year within the next 10 days. Schools in most of the State…

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