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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1926

697 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 35

Schools' Band Contest Won by Cook's Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 2

The schools' band contest was of a particularly intneresting character. The five contesting bands were engaged in two tests the first being a diagram march,…

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Hamilton School More Accommodation

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 11

Additional accommodation is to be provided at the Hamilton public school. The Minister for Education (Mr…

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Household Arts Hamilton Evening School

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 6

Miss Sutherland, of the staff of the Central School, and superintendent of the Hamilton evening continuation school for household arts, advises…

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More Schoolboy "Howlers."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 10

"Geometry teaches us to bisex angels; on oxygen has bight sides." The above are two gems from a rich mine of school-boy "howlers" explored by Mr. R…

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Hamilton School Portable Rooms Ready

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 7

The portable class-rooms in Denison and Chaucer streets, erected by the Department of Education to provide accommodation for a number of…

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Continuation Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 4

The Department of Education announces that the first term of the Girls' Domestic Evening Continuation school at Wickham will commence on…

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District News. New Lambton. Roman Catholic School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 7

The new Roman Catholic School was formally opened and blessed after the celebration of 9 o'clock Mass yesterday morning…

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New School-church Opening at New Lambton

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 2

The opening and blessing of the now Catholic School-Church at New Lambton yesterday by the Very Rev. Father Peters, or the Sacred Heart pariah of Hamilton, was well…

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New Lambton School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 2

The tender of J. Mitchell and Son has been accepted for additions to New Lambton public school. The amount of the tender in £945…

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Maitland Farewell Popular School Inspector

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 9

Mr. F. W. Mannell, district school inspector, was farewelled at a social tendered him by the Maitland District Teachers' Association, He was…

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Westy Continuation School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 5

West Wallsend evening continuation school opened on Monday night. There was a good attendance, and by the end of the week things will be…

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Broke Into School Refuge from Mosquitoes

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 March 1926 · page 3

"The mosquitoes were so bad that we broke into the school for the night." said Richard Armour, alias Frank Fieldwick, who with Edward…

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School Band Contest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 8

Sir,—At the show on Wednesday, just prior to the school bands' competition, one of the show officials approached Mr. Kerry, bandmaster, for all the competing…

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New Lambton School

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 March 1926 · page 8

The was a record attendance at annual meeting of the New Lambton Parents and Citizens' Association last night…

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School Bands

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 3

Sir,—I notice in your issue of March 4 a letter having to do with some matter connected with the schools' bands' contest at the show ground on…

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Teachers' College Scholarship Awards Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 7

The Education Department to-day made available a further list of students who have been awarded scholarships at the Teachers' College, subject to the…

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Newcastle South School

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 8

The annual meeting of the Newcastle South Parents and Citizens' Association was held at the school last night, with Mr. Henderson, president,…

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School of Arts Cessnock Building

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 March 1926 · page 5

Cessnock School of Arts committee proposes to held a White City carnival in about six weeks' time with a view to reducing the debt on the building,…

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Domestic Science School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 3

The domestic Evening continuation school at Wickham opened on March 1, and classes are now in full swing. The mistress of the school, Miss…

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Good Progress Wickham School Activities

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 March 1926 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Wickham Parents and Citizens' Association last night the progress of the school during last year was referred…

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