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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1927

706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 36

Wallsend. Support for School Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 10

The popular girl and boy competitions in connection with Plattsburg Public School were brought to a close on Thursday on the occasion of a continental in…

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Teachers' Industrial Board. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 6

The Public School Teachers' Federation made application to the Industrial Commissioner. Mr. Piddington, to-day, for the constitution of an industrial board…

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Dangerous Ground West Wallsend School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 2

Some time ago Mr. Booth, M.L.A., on behalf of the Minister for Education, made an inspection of the West Wallsend public school relative…

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Newcastle High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 4

"The Novocastrian," the journal of the Newcastle High School, gives in the current number some interesting particulars of the history of the school, which was…

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Junction School Move to Form Band

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 8

At the monthly meeting of the Junction School Parents and Citizens' Association last night it was decided to hold a concert on May 24, in the…

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RAISED £417 Flattsburg School Effort

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 10

Recently the teachers of Plattsburg public school held a continental to raise funds to provide necessary equipment for the school. They reckoned…

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Too Cramped Plattsburg School Trouble

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 10

Wallsend-Plattsburg district is expanding and the population is on the increase, so much so that accommodation at Plattsburg public school is…

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Wallsend. Plattsburg School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 9

The monthly meeting of the parents and citizens' association attached to the Plattsburg School was held on Monday night, Alderman S. M. Neal, the…

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School Story The Surprise of Our Lives

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 12

'Twas not that we disliked her, or meant to be unkind. She came the third term of the year, and so got left behind…

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A School Story The Ugly Girl

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 12

Patricia Josephine Umps was walking towards the tuckshop when Meg, captain of the fourth, came up to her and said, "Playing St. Margate's on…

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Original Story a Plucky Schoolgirl

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 12

Peg walked lazily along the footpath with her satchel over her shoulder and her grey uniform showing beneath a blue blazer…

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Exams No Guide Famous School Dunces

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 10

That great men had in boyhood often been the biggest dunces, was the contention of Mr. W. H. Robinson, of Shellield, ox-president of the West…

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Lithgow Trades School LITHGOW

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 10

The Minister for Education (Mr. Match) believes that the Lithgow Trades, School be allowed to find, its feet before expecting the…

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Wants a Band Plattsburg School's Ambition Gift to Scouts

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 11

Wallsend wants a band. It has the instruments, but not the players. The school children of Plattsburg want a band—they have the players, but not…

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Why the Delay? Waratah Infants' School

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 4

Waratah badly needs an infants' school. The matter was brought before the council last night by Alderman Gardiner…

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School for Crawford

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 7

An official of the Education Department will shortly visit Crawford to report on two school sites, which have been offered gratis to the department…

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Hamilton South Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 9

Sir,—The proposal of Mr. Mutch, the Minister for Education, to erect buildings at Hamilton South for a high school each for boys and girls, is one which should…

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Sandgate School Site Under Consideration

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 April 1927 · page 2

Mr. Skelton, M.L.A., has received he following totter from the Minister for Education:— "In reply to your personal…

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Dog's Life All-year-round Job Hard School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 April 1927 · page 7

In the Western States of America. Western Canada, and the remote North dogs hove a harder time in ministering to community activity than their…

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America's School Books New York

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 5

"American school books, written in an anti-British tone, played an important part in the efforts of Communists to cause chaos in China," declared the Earl of…

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