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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1935

1,520 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 76

Not Places of Rest "Filling in Time at High Schools" Headmaster's Views

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 3

An attack on the practice of sending children to high schools merely because there was nothing else for them to do was made by the…

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Young Girls' Escapades Story Told by Police Found Revolver in House Truant From School Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 7

A story containing allegations that two Woollahra girls, aged only 12 and 11 years respectively, had been for some days…

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Schoolboy Cricket B Grade Final

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 15

The schoolboy cricket competition conducted by the Newcastle District Junior Association is nearing the final stages. A grade has two more games to play. The B grade final between…

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"Library Year" For Boys' High School Effort by Parents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Newcastle Boys' High School Parents and Citizens' Association was held in the committee room at the Newcastle Town Hall on…

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Children's Library Appeal for Subscriptions School of Arts Assists

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 11

"What in the world will they be reading next?" That is a question asked daily, whether aloud or in the mind, by numbers of…

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Teachers' Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 15

The 220 yards championship of the Teachers' Swimming Club was contested yesterday afternoon at the Ocean Baths. C. McKenzie won the event is 2min. 46sec., beating his last…

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High School Library

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 11

Mr. A. B. Colmar, of Cessnock in response to on appeal to assist the Cessnock High School library, has donated 14 volumes of the Popular Encyclopaedia…

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Teacher's Protest More Duties: Lower Pay Tighe's Hill Function

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 7

Speaking at a social gathering of teachers and parents at Tighe's Hill on Tuesday night, the Headmaster of Tighe's Hill Public School (Mr. H. J. Stone)…

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Huge School of Sea-mullet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 8

Record hauls of big sea-mullet were made by fishermen in Yarr Bay, near La Perouse, yesterday. A huge shoal of the fish, covering an area nearly two…

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Cessnock High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 8

Cessnock has ground for serious complaint concerning its High School. Raised to the status of a High School from an Intermediate…

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Thousands Of Big Mullet Netted— —School Kiddies Know Their Civics

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 16

Above: FISHERMEN reaped a harvest in Yarra Bay to-day when a huge shoal of sea mullet appeared off Bombora Point. More than 3000…

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High School Swimming State Carnival at Domain Baths Northern Candidates Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 10

More than 300 competitors from 14 schools were at the Domair Baths to-day when the fourth annual swimming carnival of the combined High Schools…

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Strange Deaths Inquired Into Boy Collapses After School Barrington Farmer's Sudden End Analysts Called in Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 10

The police and Government medical officers are investigating two curious deaths, one of a nine-year-old Vaucluse…

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Schoolgirl Fatally Injured Bathurst

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 23

Shirley Hoy. 6, was fatally injured when she was knocked down by a motor-lorry in Stewart-street, Bathurst, to-day. The back wheel passed ever her head. The…

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Teachers' Salaries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 8

Sir,—The letter of your correspondent, "Silas Slugswoop," concerning teachers' salaries, would have shown an improvement had he refrained from writing the…

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Junction School Cricket on Mitchell Park Deputation to Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 17

Following representations by the Junction School Parents and Citizens' Association, Merewether Council last night decided to recommend to the Mitchell Park…

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High School Old Girls' Union Meets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 15

The annual report of the Maitland High School Old Girls' Union submitted at a meeting on Tuesday night showed that the activities of the year had been…

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St. Ethel's School Parents and Citizens Meet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 15

The review of the work carried out by St. Ethel's Parents and Citizens' Association. West Maitland, by the President (Mr. A. Nicholson), on Wednesday…

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State Aid Opposed Denominational Schools LISMORE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 14

The Lismore District Ministers' Fraternal has resolved to oppose State aid to denominational education and has decided that a question of such importance…

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Boys' High School Huxley on Education

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 11

No subject has been more criticised than education in modern times. Speaking to South London Working Men's College, Mr. Julian Huxley put the position…

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