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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1914

217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 11

Continuation Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 February 1914 · page 4

The position in regard to the evening continuation schools in this State cannot be described as altogether satisfactory. The attendance at some…

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Strike of Teachers. Schoolgirls Support Them. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 5

Fifty schools have closed in Hertfordshire, and it is believed that thirty more will be obliged to follow. A number of school girls at…

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Letters to the Editor. Evening Continuation Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 3

Sir,—it was regrettable to learn that parents in several towns in this State were apathetic in regard to the education of their children; in fact, so indifferent…

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Drowned in Domain Baths. a Schoolboy's Death. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

At the City Coroner's Court this morning an inquest was held concerning the death of John Benedict Maguire, aged 13, a schoolboy, who was drowned in the…

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Methodist Sunday School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 13

On last Sunday afternoon a visit was paid to the Hamilton Methodist Sunday School. That school is splendidly equippod. The average attendance is 254, with…

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Wickham. a Congested School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 6

The congested condition of the Wickham Superior Public School is making it imperative that the department should take immediate stops to cope with the…

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Teachers' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1914 · page 4

The Newcastle Distirct Teachers' Association held a picnic at Toronto on Saturday last to farewell Mr. Senior-Inspector W. S. Reay, who has been…

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Music in the Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1914 · page 3

It is, to be hoped that the time will come when the pupils leaving our public elementary schools will read the universal language of music at least as…

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School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 6

The school of arts is progressing steadily, and the committee are promoting, a series of social functions to raise funds to renovate the building. The…

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Hamilton. New School Building

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 6

Mr. Carmichael, Minister for Public Instruction, will this afternoon open the new school buildings at Hamilton, Newcastle, which have been erected at a cost…

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Hamilton School. the New Wing. Official Opening. Speech by the Minister

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 4

A new and extensive wing to the Hamilton Superior Public School, and which is to be the girls' division, was officially opened by Mr. A. C. Carmichacl, the Minister for…

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Continuation Schools. the Annual Report. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 March 1914 · page 6

The second annual report of the inspector of evening continuation schools was made available to-day. He states that at the end of 1912 there…

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Hamilton. the Public School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Hamilton Superior Public School Parents and Citizens' Association was held in the council chambers on Monday evening. The…

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The High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 4

The complaints made through our columns regarding the treatment of pupils at the Newcastle High School are referred to by the head master of…

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Elementary Schoolboy in Professor's Chair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 8

The successor to the late Sir Robert Ball as Loundean Professor of Astrohomy and Geometry at Cambridge University is Dr. Henry Frederick Baker, D.Sc.,…

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Letters to the Editor. the High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 11

Sir,—My attention has been directed to two anonymous letters appearing in your paper, voicing certain complaints, that the writers have to make regarding the…

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The High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 3

Sir,—I am fairly well satisfied with the result of my previous letter in reference tor the unruly behaviour of one of the teachers at the Newcastle Public…

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Kurri Continuation School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 6

Although a continuation school has been established at Kurri Kurri for some time there appears to be a good deal of misunderstanding in reference to its object…

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Protection of Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 3

Sir,—The letters in the papers complaining of the conduct of a male teacher shows clearly the mistake of male teachers having charge of girls between…

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School Teachers' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 11

The annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the New South Wales Teachers' Union was held at the Newcastle East Public School on Friday evening…

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