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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1935

1,520 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 76

What People Think School Subsidies

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 6

Although the controversy concerning the subsidising of R.C. schools has again been resurrected, it must surely be patent that until the…

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Australian Rhodes Scholars

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 8

Plans to ensure the return of Rhodes scholars to Australia after their terms at Oxford were discussed at the second biennial conference of the Association of…

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High School Enrolment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 11

The enrolment this year at the Cessnock high School is 871. As compared with the corresponding week of last year it shows a falling off of approximately…

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Extra Classes Newcastle High School Debating, Greek, German

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 8

Plans have been formulated for the introduction at Newcastle Boys' High School this year of debating classes, and classes in Greek and German. It is…

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Carrington School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 4

To raise funds for repairs to the Carrington in School of Arts, the roof of which now leaks, the following ladies' committee has been formed—Mesdames Regan,…

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Muswellbrook School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 14

The Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) has decided that a new public school building is to be erected at Muswellbrook. A site has been selected, and…

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Chinese Pirates British Steamer Boarded Carried Schoolchildren Anxiety Ended by News from Warships (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI, February 1

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 9

After two days of anxiety caused by the absence of news from the British steamer Tungehow, which left Shanghai on Wednesday for northern…

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Struck by Lightning School Chimney Crashes at Tighe's Hill

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 7

With a terrific crash, lightning struck the chimney of the Tighe's Hill Public School, at Elizabeth-street, Tighe's Hill,…

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Annual Tea Meeting Congregational Sunday School Teachers REV. F. F. Wheaton's Address

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 5

The annual tea meeting of Sunday school teachers of the Congregational Churches in the Newcastle district was held in the Islington Church Hall on Saturday…

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School Chimney Wrecked by Lightning Two Trams Also Struck

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 6

Lightning struck and wrecked the chimney in the kindergarten section of Tighe's Hill Public School during a severe storm about 11.30 a.m. on Saturday. Two trams…

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School Children Correct Meals Are Vital

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 3

Some of the problems which confront parents in preparing children for their return to school after the holidays, particularly the importance of safeguarding…

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Hamilton South School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 6

Hope is held out of a substantial improvement in the near future to the playground at the Hamilton South Infants' School. The matter was one of several…

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School Sports Attacked "Orgies of Record Breaking" London, January 19

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 2

School sports, which resolve themselves into "orgies of record-breaking and cup collecting." are condemned by Dr. R. Cove-Smith, in the…

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Teachers' Federation

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 5

The annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation will be held on Saturday, 16th inst…

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Out of His Depth in Baths Youngster Rescued by Teacher

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1935 · page 9

Rescued by a schoolteacher after he had got out of his depth at Newcastle Baths this morning, Stanley Ingall, aged 12, of Station-Street…

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Woman's Realm the Adult Mind Sending Jackie to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 11

I was walking past a primary school on Tuesday, just after school had gone in, and saw coming towards me a toddler of not much more than five years, crying…

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Whitebridge Sunday-school Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 2

The Whitebridge Methodist Church held its annual Sutiday-school picnic to Speers Point, above 100 scholars and friends attending. Two meals were served…

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Boys' High School Prefects

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 9

The prefects at the Maitland Boys' High School were chosen yesterday, and from them the captain and the vice-captain will be selected by preferential…

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Schoolboy Rescued Out of Depth in Ocean Baths

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 6

Stanley Ingall, 12, of Station-street, Waratah, was swimming in the Ocean Baths with a party of other students from the Waratah Public School yesterday…

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Play Ground at Hamilton for Use of Senior School Girls

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 February 1935 · page 5

Hamilton Parents and Citizens' Association intends asking the Minister for Education to make available block of ground bounded by Chaucer…

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