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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1937

1,315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 66

Royal Life-saving Certificates Domestic Science Pupils

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 13

At an examination at the Central Domestic Science School yesterday, the 138 candidates presented for examination by the instructor, Misses…

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Late Mr. A. H. VILES Former Headmaster of Tarro School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 8

Mr. Arthur Henry Viles, headmaster of Tarro Public School for many years, died in Sydney recently. His father took charge of the Church of England…

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Final Events Teachers' Swiming Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 15

On Friday the final Teachers' Swimming Club events to decide the destination of the Secretary's trophy will be held, after which activities in the…

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Local School Needs Mr. Drummond Interviewed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 7

The President of the Newcastle District Council of Parents and Citizens Associations (Ald. J. E. Wiggins), who is also Mayor of Hamilton interviewed the…

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New School Demanded "Health Menace" at Junction

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 8

At a well attended meeting of parents at the Junction school last night it was decided to send an urgent telegram to…

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Told Life Story Woman Who Shot Count Romance While at School Paris, April 7

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 11

Madame de la Ferriere, who shot the Comte de Chambrun, who she accused of frustrating her romance with Signor Mussolini, told her life story to the…

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Boys' High School Success and Failure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 6

A writer has said that it takes energy to fail. In fact, it takes as much energy to fail as to succeed. The difference is that in the one case the energy is used…

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Junction School Mr. Drummond Criticised at Parents' Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 9

Resentment at the action of the Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) in delaying the building of a new infants school at the Junction was…

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Wool Pictures for Japanese Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 10

Japanese school pupils are to be instructed in the development of the Australian wool industry. The Australian Trade Commissioner in Japan…

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School Needs of District Deputation to Mr. Drummond

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 1

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) hopes to pay an early visit to Newcastle and to meet a deputation from the Newcastle District…

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Girls' High school

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 6

To aid the school funds an open tennis tournament will be held under the auspices of the Newcastle Girls' High School Parents and Citizens…

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Education Notes Safe Travel to School Training for Children Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 7

The safety of children travelling to school in trains, trams and buses has been receiving the close attention of the…

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Woman's Realm Miscellany Equality in Education Woman Teacher's Tilt at Examination System

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 11

Miss Laura G. Bransom, President of of London Headteachers' Association, is an ardent champion of children's rights. In her address to the association at its…

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East Greta Schoolboy Injured Kicked in Stomach by Horse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 9

Severe contusions to the left side of the abdomen, abrasions, and a probable internal injury, were received by Michael Dougal, 10, a schoolboy, of East Greta,…

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Schoolboys to Live as Pioneers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 8

London, April 10.—One hundred school-boys are shortly going, under the auspices of the Public Schools' Exploring Society, to Newfoundland. While there they will…

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Ex-students of Cook's Hill School Bright Opening Dance of the Season

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 3

Tyrrell Hall, with its adjoining room, was taxed for dancing space last Saturday night when the Cook's Hill Exstudents' Association opened its dancing season. The decorations were bright and…

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Pot of Cream As Clue Adventures Of Two Schoolboys

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 7

Six days of adventure fortwo London schoolboys ended the other day. The two boys, James Pippman, 15, of Bouveric-road, Stoke, Newington,…

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The Schools Education and Freedom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 5

"The importance of discipline depends upon the fact that without it the immature personality may not discover that it has freedom to choose something than…

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Diocesan Education Organiser's Report to Bishop Gleeson Improvements to Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 6

The education report of the Diocesan Inspector and Organiser of Schools (Miss V. L. Palazzi) for the Bishop of Maitland (Rt. Rev. Dr. E. E. Gleeson,…

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School of Surgery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1937 · page 8

The only post-graduate school of surgery in the Southern Hemisphere will be opened at Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, on August 31. Professor Grey…

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