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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1912

238 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12

A School of Duty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 13

It is a great call which the nation makes for her sans to come forward, and be the living wall between her and those who would attack her. If that is…

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A School Champion. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 7

Eric Hurt, winner of the 100yds championship of the Fort-street School at the carnival held yesterday, was a member of the Coronation contingent, but in…

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Strike of Schoolboys. They Storm Schools. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 5

The police, having seriously injured a schoolboy at a demonstration in Sarajovo, the capital of Bosnia, the scholars attending the Grammar…

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Maitland District Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1912 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Maitland District Teachers' Association was held at the West Maitland Superior Public School on Saturday morning…

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District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg. Continuation School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 5

The Wallsend evening continuation School opens on the 15th instant Manual training and science rooms have been provided. The staff appointed is—Messrs…

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Teachers' College. Works Committee Inquiry. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 5

The Public Works Committee sat at Parliament House to-day, and took further evidence on the question of the expediency of erecting or providing a…

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Our Technical Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1912 · page 4

Whether the fault lies with the teaching or with the people who refuse to be taught, it is no doubt true that the subject of technical instruction does not…

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Baptist Sunday Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 April 1912 · page 5

A meeting of the Northern District Baptist Sunday School Union was held in the Plattsburg Baptist Tabernacle on Good Friday morning…

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Football Forbidden. to Bavarian Schoolboys. Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1912 · page 5

Bavarian scholars under the age of 17 years have been prohibited from playing football. This order has been passed on the…

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Technical Schools. Training of Teachers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 5

The conference of teachers and members of the staff of the central and suburban and country colleges and schools of New South Wales, was concluded at…

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In Kit-cat School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 16

Oh, it's height and it's he! for the Kitty Cat School That's held on our garden fence; Why, they don't do a single thing by rule…

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Neglected Technical Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 14

I think it is a lamentable fact that masters do not take advantage of the magnificent technical institutions which are scattered over the country. If they…

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Chinese Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1912 · page 13

A sojourner in China who has recently spent a week-end in a village schoolhouse gives a glimpse of the life of the school-boys of the nation. Writing in the…

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Medical Inspection of Schools an Important Extension. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1912 · page 5

Sometime ago it was discovered that the good results anticipated from medical inspection in schools were being blocked by the indifference of parents…

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A Training School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1912 · page 16

I believe that the Territorial Force is becoming a national institution. It is a school oat duty which a man owes to the nation to which he belongs, and…

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Lambton. Public School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 6

A picnic in connection with the Lambton Public School was held at Speers' Point on Saturday, and proved a very enjoyable outing for the children. Two special…

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Schools of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1912 · page 4

Mr. T. H. Palmer, president of the Broken Hill branch of the Australian Mining institute has expressed some very decided opinions on the necessity…

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Wickham S. P. Girls' School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1912 · page 6

The pupils of the Wickham S. P. Girls School gained 12 prizes at the Maitland Show last week and 24 prizes at the Newcastle Show held in March. Of the 36…

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Germany's Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1912 · page 3

German teachers undertake to measure the mental capacities of the boy. If he is generally a dull pupil, he will be indexed as being better adapted to a trade…

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Travelling Scholarships. an Incentive to Teachers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1912 · page 4

Mr. Carmichael, the Minister for Public Instruction, has signed a minute authorising the allotment of the money placed on the estimates this year for the…

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