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Schools, 1954

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Infants’ teacher farewelled

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 6

Miss Beth Finlay, who has been member of Albury infants’ shift for 5½ years, has received notice of transfer to Temora infants’…

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Osborne’s Flat School Closed

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 3

Parents of children of Osborne’s Flat school and other residents on Thursday farewelled the teacher, Mr. Russell Lynch. Mrs…

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Yarrawonga school children inspect ‘steel monster’

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 10

Yarrawonga Pre-School Centre. recently established, is running: smoothly. On Wednesday last the afternoon children had a thrill when the teacher took them down to the Yarrawonga railway station to see an engine at close range. The children, although frightened for a start at the “steel monster,” eventually plucked up courage to have a look at the inner workings. Pictured above…

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Balldale District Inter-schools Athletic Assn

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the B.D.I.S.A.A. there were 26 present. Delegates from Balldale, Daysdale, Goombargana West…

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Teachers accuse N.S.W. Minister of ‘McCarthyism’

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: Communists would try to infiltrate “their filthy ideologies into schools,” the acting Minister for Education (Mr. McGrath) warned teachers today…

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Schoolboys’ Carnival Albury Lads Are Prominent

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Mon.: N.S.W. and Victoria both won their second round matches in the Australian Rules schoolboys’ interstate…

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“N.S.W. schools in danger of being turned into ‘intellectual slums’ ”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY, Mon.; Education in N.S.W. was in a grove position because of the “niggardly assistance” given by the Federal Government, president of the N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation (Mr. P. H. Heath) said today…

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Attack on Teachers “Improper”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: Suggestions by the acting Education Minister that some teachers were indoctrinating children with…

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HOWLONG Barents Visit School

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 7

[?]Education Week many [?]visited the Public School [?]open day. They were wel[?] by the headmaster (Mr. L…

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Teachers refuse to ban Beds

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 11

PERTH, Tues.: The West Australian Teachers’ Union annual conference this afternoon rejected by 75 votes to 18 a…

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N.S.W. teachers compare favourably with those overseas

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Wed.; The Minister for Education, Mr Heffron. returned to Sydney today on the liner Australia after a four-month tour of…

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Schools Return September 14

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 2

Most Albury schools will return from the end of winter holidays on Tuesday, September 14. They include all public schools,…

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Yanco Agricultural High School

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 1

Because the number of applications far exceed the number of students that can be enrolled, the members of the Yanco…

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School insurance popular

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: More than 60,000 Victorian school-children hare been enrolled is the new scheme to insure them…

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Enjoying the school holidays

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 1

A group of North Albury children who are spending much of the school holiday period on the Billson Park playground. From top: Ian Guiver, Jeff Parkhill, Adrian Blackburn, Donald Meade, Marion Hill, Alvinia Ried, Barbara Ried and…

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Items of news Schools Resume Next Week

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 2

St. Brigid’s and St. Joseph’s Convent of Mercy Schools will resume school after the spring vacation on Monday. Most other…

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Move to stop schoolboys from selling cats to owners of greyhounds

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wed.: Public School teachers will be asked to co-operate in a move to stop schoolboys from selling cats to greyhound owners who mutilate the cats in the training of their dogs…

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£4 Million for School Buildings

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A record £4 million expenditure had been allocated for new school buildings during the financial year, the…

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Schoolboys’ K.O. carnival at Culcairn

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 September 1954 · page 22

Draw for the Culcairn schoolboys’ knockout football carnival on Saturday, September 18, is: Senior div.: St Pauls, Walla v…

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Back to School Today

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 2

St. Joseph’s College Albury will re-open after term holidays today, while St. Brigid’s and sacred Heart resume tomorrow…

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