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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1887

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Something for Our School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1887 · page 5

"LES GRANDS FLEUVES." Par H. Jacottel. (Paris: Librairie Hachette at Cic.) This is a most useful and interesting reference book, in which a carefully complied and minute…

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Newcastle School of Arts. Lecture Committee Meeting, Friday, August 26, 1887

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 2

THE minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. Present: Messrs. Brown, Gamack, Rorison, Milton, and Melville…

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English Board School Statistics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 8

THE, 53rd report of the National Education Board has just been published. The schools on the operative list now number 8024, showing an advance of…

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The School and the Pit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1887 · page 7

The Newcastle castle Chronicle has the following: At a colliery village near Catchgate, the School Board man met the father of a boy who had…

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Public School Changes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 7

PUBLIC SCHOOL CHANGES.—I have been informed that Mr. G. H. Flannery, the head master of our Public, finishes his duties as such at Lambton this week, and…

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Wickham Superior Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 5

YESTERDAY afternoon several parents and friends met at the above school for the purpose of bidding good-bye to Mr. Pearson, at his retirement from the school and district…

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Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, September 27. (Before the Police Magistrate.) School Attendance Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 September 1887 · page 5

MR. ABRAHAM S. LING, school attendance officer, proceeded by summons against several parents for neglecting to send their children to school…

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St. John's Sunday School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1887 · page 5

THE annual picnic of the scholars of St. John's (Church of England) Sunday School took place at the Crystal Palace Gardens, Waratah, yesterday, when, thanks to the…

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Roman Catholic Schools' Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1887 · page 5

THE annual picnic of the teachers, scholars, and friends of the Roman Catholic schools at Newcastle, Burwood, Stockton, and Carrington took place yesterday, when nearly 3000…

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Cook's Hill Public School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 October 1887 · page 4

THE third annual picnic of the Cook's Hill Public School took place at Fleming's paddock, Sandgate, yesterday, when the weather proved fine on the whole, although a short…

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School Cleaning. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1887 · page 2

SIR,—I would like to call the attention of the public to a begging letter sent to the parents of the children attending the public schools…

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Correspondence School Cleaning. [To the Editor.]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 October 1887 · page 6

SIR,—Would you kindly allow me a small space in your valuable paper to say a few words about " Critic's" notice re begging letters sent to…

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Cleaning Public Schools. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 October 1887 · page 6

SIR,—In your issue of Saturday "Critic" makes an onslaught on some public school teachers for sending a circular for the expense of cleaning…

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District News. Plattsburg. Plattsburg Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 October 1887 · page 7

The exhibition of sewing, drawing, and fancy work, in connection with the above school, took place yesterday, and was unquestionably a most…

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Superior Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1887 · page 5

THE annual entertainment in aid of the prize fund of the Newcastle Superior Public School will be hold to-night in the Lyceum Hall, when a concert, which promises to be very…

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Superior Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 October 1887 · page 8

THE Lyceum was crowded to excess last night upon the occasion of the annual concert given by the pupils of the Newcastle Superior Public School and several friends in…

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The School for Scandal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 October 1887 · page 5

IN spite of all that has been written, from the first night of its performance, up to the present hour, the "School for Scandal" has maintained its…

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The Master of the Dynamite School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 November 1887 · page 3

PROFESSOR MEZZEROFF, says the New York correspondent of the Standard, addressed 200 or 300 persons, who had been summoned by advertiesment to listen to his lecture upon…

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Burwood Primitive Methodist Sabbath School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 2

Our Burwood friends are to have their annual picnic at Happy Valley (well-chosen name!), which has been kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. R. Scott. Hot and cold…

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Newcastle South Public School Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 November 1887 · page 8

THE Mechanics' Institute was crowded to excess last night upon the occasion of the annual concert given by the pupils of to, above school, and several ladies and…

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