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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1912

238 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 12

Sunday-school Convention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1912 · page 6

A Sunday-school convention and inaugural demonstration in connection with the Methodist Church of Australia is to be hold next week—in the Social Hall, King-street,…

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Schools of Arts. Payment of Subsidies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 July 1912 · page 7

A conference of representatives of the schools of arts and the mechanics institutes of the district was held at the Plattsburg Mechanics' Institute on…

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Cook's Hill School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 July 1912 · page 5

The third annual meeting of the Cook's Hill Superior Public School Parents and Citizens Association was held in the schoolroom on Wednesday evening. The…

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Methodist Schools. Advance Movement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 5

In connection with the Methodist Church of Australasia in this Sate, an advance movement on behalf of the Sunday schools was inaugurated at the last conference in…

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Public Schools' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 6

The annual smoke concert in connection with the Newcastle District Public Schools' Association was held in the Masonic Hall, Hamilton, last Saturday…

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Country Schools. Farmers' Condemnation. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 4

At the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, which continued its deliberations to-day, Mr. Smallacombe (Morongla Creek) moved, "That the…

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State Schools. Medical Inspection. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1912 · page 5

A very important experimental extension of school medical inspection takes place from to-day. The Minister stated that the general scheme was satisfactory,…

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Tree Hand for Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1912 · page 9

An interesting alteration is to be made in the code for public elementary schools this year. It is announced in a circular sent out by the Board of Education,…

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The Methodist Church. Sunday-school Convention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 July 1912 · page 6

The Sunday school convention in connection with the Methodist Church of Australaia, which was began in the Mission Hall, Newcastle, on Monday, was…

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Merewether. School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 3

The half-yearly meeting of the Merewether School of Arts was held on Tuesday evening. There was a fair attendance of subscribers, and the president,…

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Maitland District. "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street. West Maitland. Superior Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 6

The insanitary condition of the West Maitland, Superior Public School was responsible for the death of one teacher and for many cases of illness among the…

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Methodist Schools. Advance Movement. a Fine Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 5

In spite of the wet and unpleasant weather yesterday afternoon and last night many hundreds of people attended the tea meeting held in the Central Hall…

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Wallsend School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Wallsend School of Arts wall held in Wednesday evening. Mr. W. E. Harper presiding over a fairly good attendance…

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Fire in Newcastle. Bolton-street School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 July 1912 · page 5

At 8.32 last night the headquarters of the Newcastle Fire Brigade received an alarm through the telephone, intimating that a fire had broken out in the…

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District News. Wickham. School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 July 1912 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Wickham school of Arts was held on Thursday evening, Mr. R. J. Bond, the president, was in the chair and the was a good…

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Schools' Association. Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 July 1912 · page 5

The seventeenth annual meeting of the Newcastle District Public Schools' Association was held in the lecture hall of the Newcastle School of Arts on Saturday…

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The Superior Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 August 1912 · page 6

Mr. Carmichael, the Minister for public Instruction, has written to Major Nicholson. M.P., as follows, relative to the school buildings. "With reference to…

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Electricity for School Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 13

To ascertain the effect of electricity upon the development or school-children a series of interesting experiments has just been concluded in the schools of…

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Wickham. Public School Fair

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

A pedlar's fair organised by a committee of the local parents and citizens' association, was opened in the Wickham Superior Public School on Friday…

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Hamilton. Continuation Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 August 1912 · page 6

Mr. T. Walker, senior inspector of schools, delivered an address on the alms and objects of continuation schools, last night, in the Hamilton Mechanics'…

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