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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1939

1,251 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 63

Residential Schools for Training Household Workers Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 4

Sweden and Denmark have residential schools for the training of household workers, with child care as well as cooking on the curriculum. Miss Rowena Chisholm, principal of the Emily McPherson…

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Chilly Schools Parents Want Heating System Minister Promises Fires Where Required Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 4

With winter approaching, teachers and parents are concerned at the absence of heating arrangements in the public schools. For years the lack of heating…

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Police Reward Smart Schoolboys Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 4

The Police Commissioner (Mr. W. J. MacKay) to-day presented two High School boys with certificates of appreciation and cheques for £1 for informing…

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Boys' High School Problems of Parents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 19

Few adults are good witnesses; very few adults can give an exact account of events which they have seen with their own eyes. Boys are, of course, even less…

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TRAIN 60 MEN Gas Instruction School Will Aid Public in Emergency Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 12

More than 60 men will attend the first Australian gas instruction school, which will begin under the auspices of the National Emergency Services at the…

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Heating in Schools Newcastle E.s.d. Attitude

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 7

The Electrical Engineer and Manager of the City Council Electric Supply Department (Mr. G. Allbut) said to-day that the…

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Primary School Football

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1939 · page 13

Homeville defeated Marist Brothers by 5 points to 2 in the primary school football competition at the West Maitland Park yesterday afternoon R. Pratt scored and R. Philp converted for…

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Warming Sydney Schools Cheap Electricity Offer SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1939 · page 12

To give adequate heating to State schools in Sydney more than £30,000 would be needed, it was revealed today by officers of the Education Department…

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State's Plans Promote Physical Education Will Examine 400,000 Pupils Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 8

Great progress is being made with plans for physical education of school-children and the public of New South Wales…

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Bright Dance Old Novocastrians Help School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 3

The third monthly dance of the season arranged by the Old Novocastrians' Association attracted about 200 dancers to the Girls' High School Assembly Hall…

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School Football Teams Selected to Meet Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 9

Super-primary and primary Rugby League teams were selected on Saturday to play Newcastle teams on May Day at Newcastle. It was proposed that Maitland should meet Kurri…

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Super-primary Schools' Rugby League Team

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 7

The following players have been selected to represent the Maitland-Coalfields super-primary schools in a Rugby League match against…

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Anzac Ceremony at Mayfield West School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 8

The Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. G. W. Jenner) represented the City Council at an Anzac Day ceremony at Mayfield West School this morning…

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Observance in Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 6

Schools of the Newcastle district commemorated Anzac Day yesterday. In most places there were talks on Anzac, and wreaths were placed on schools' rolls…

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Maitland and District West Maitland Many Books Left Problem for School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 7

Since West Maitland School of Arts closed on March 31, thousands of books have been sold privately, at prices ranging from 3d and 6d up. Thousands of books…

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Gauging Ability of Pupils Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 5

The school intelligence test this year will not be applied to pupils in the sixth classes of the Metropolitan and Canberra public schools…

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Beach Supervision in School Holidays

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 9

The surfing season officially closes on May 1, when council lifesavers will complete their duties on the beaches, but arrangements will be made by…

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Bible Class Pupils Assaulted N.Z. Official Sent to Gaol Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 11

Harry Arthur Bright, 27, was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment on two charges of having assaulted former pupils of his Bible class…

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New High School Preparations at Singleton SINGLETON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 7

Singleton's new High School building will face York-street, not King-street as previously decided. A Government architect and surveyor have taken a…

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Not This Year New Boys' School at Waratah Minister Indefinite Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 8

Although he has issued instructions that plans be prepared, the Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) does not know when the new Waratah boys' school…

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