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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1884

136 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 7

Immorality of a Public School Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 2

IN Committee of Supply, in the Assembly, on Thursday, when Mr. Dibbs moved,— "That the House do now resolve itself into a Committee of Supply," Mr. Suttor…

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Immorality in Public Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 2

IT is to be hoped we are not likely to have a parallel in New South Wales to the recent scandals in the Public Education Department of Victoria, but if…

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Original Correspondence. Public Schools. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1884 · page 2

SIR,—When education was first advocated the lecturers suggested the three R's, and certainly to men with large families, whose earnings are from 6s to 8s per day, It is a…

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The Cessnock School Scandal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1884 · page 4

AMONG the papers just printed by order of the Legislative Assembly is a return of correspondence in relation to the conduct of a Mr. Brettell, the Public School teacher at…

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Religious Instruction in Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 April 1884 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—At a meeting of ministers, a resolution was carried to the effect that no system of school teaching was satisfactory that did not include…

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The Hamilton Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1884 · page 2

A MEETING was held in the Council Chambers on Friday evening to consider the necessity of urging the Government to provide additional accomodation for the…

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Salaries of Teachers in Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1884 · page 6

ACCORDING to the most recent statistics in the United States, the smallest salaries obtain in the following places: —New York, £144; Massachusetts,…

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Newcastle School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 4

A SPECIAL general meeting of members of the above was held in the lecture room, last night, for the purpose of receiving and dealing with the report of the general committe on the subject of addtional…

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Wickham School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 April 1884 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the above took place on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance, and a large amount of interest was taken in the proceedings…

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Shocking Punishment in a State School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1884 · page 2

A VERY serious complaint has been made against a State school teacher in the Heytesbury Forest (Vic.) and the police have been busily engaged making an inquiry into the…

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The Plattsburg Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The hon. Minister of Public Instruction opens the New Public school at Plattsburg next Saturday…

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School Inspectors' Fees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1884 · page 3

THE Minister of Public Instruction (Hon. J. P. Abbott) has had under consideration the scale of fees allowed to school inspectors and to the principal school attendance…

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Opening of Plattsburg New Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1884 · page 2

ON Saturday morning the Hon. J. P. Abbott, Minister for Mines, arrived from Sydney, for the purpose of formally opening the fine new Public School lately completed…

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The Missing Schoolmaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Joseph Hampson, the schoolmaster at Marrickville, is still missing…

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Wallsend and Plattsburg Back School Fees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1884 · page 2

IT is evident from the pride taken by the parents in the pupils who were present at the demonstration at the opening of the new Public School…

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Public School Districts and Boards

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An alteration is proposed in the present system in regard to Public School Districts and School Boards by the Department of Public Instruction…

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The Missing Schoolmaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Thompson, the schoolmaster at Marrickville, is still missing…

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School Districts and School Boards

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1884 · page 4

AN important alteration in the present system with regard to school districts and school boards is about to be made in the Department of Public Instruction. At present the boundaries of the school districts are…

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The Missing Schoolmaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The coast is to be searched for the remains of the missing schoolmaster, Mr. Thompson, of Marrickville. It is believed he has committed…

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The Missing Schoolmaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The coast from Sydney Heads to Bondi and thence to Botany, has been searched, without finding anything in connection with the missing…

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