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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1939

1,251 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 63

High School Needs Department Inquiring

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 15

Building and other requirements at Newcastle Boys' High School were being investigated, the Acting Director of Education (Mr. B. C. Harkness) has advised…

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School Heating

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 6

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School Facilities Give Concern Adequate Heating Sought Country Teachers Attack Department Sydney

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

Attacks on the Department of Education's policy regarding heating in schools and their state of disrepair were made to-day at the country teachers' annual…

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Urgent School Works Minister's Order of Preference Newcastle List Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 11

A comprehensive minute dealing with the essential expenditure on schools in the metropolitan, Newcastle and country districts has…

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Australian Rules Schoolboy Matches Arranged Visit Sydney on May 27

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 21

Newcastle National Football League has promoted a series of matches for schoolboy and junior teams. On the decided to send a (Mr. C. Priest), it was decided to send a…

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Seaham School

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

The Department of Education is to sell nod remove the building materials on thy Seaham Public School site. Tenders for their purchase and removal will close on…

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Schoolchildren Eat In Old Cemetery SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 7

"Glebe, Paddington, Crown-street and Erskineville schools are a blot on the landscape," said Mr. S. Lewis at the Country Teachers' Conference yesterday. "The longer they are left, the greater will be the…

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School Soccer Complaints About Principals Association to Ask for Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 12

The Secretary of the New South Wales Soccer Association (Mr. T. Hastie) reported to a meeting of the association yesterday that he had interviewed the…

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Popular Dance Newcastle Boys' High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 3

The Assembly Hall at the Newcastle Boys' High School at Waratah was crowded with dancers on Saturday night for the monthly dance arranged by the…

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Of Interest to Women Former Students of Cook's Hill School Gay Dance Held at City Hall

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 3

Cook's Hill ex-Students' Association dance at the City Hall on Saturday night attracted more than 500 dancers. It was…

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Educational Films in Schools Local Ones Own Available Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 5

Films now being shown in primary and secondary schools of N.S.W. are devoted, with few exceptions, to the development of industries and scenery in England and…

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MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Need for Teachers Congregational Church Plea Anniversary Celebrations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 9

The 88th anniversary celebrations of the Congregational Church at West Maitland concluded last night with a tea meeting and the annual church…

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Lay Agents Needed Religious Instruction in Schools Methodist Plan for Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 6

Arrangements were set in hand yesterday, at a meeting of a committee of Methodist ministers and laymen appointed at the last conference, to appoint lay…

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School Children Sang During Fire Outbreak SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 4

A mixed class of boys and girls at St. Joseph's Catholic School at Balmain calmly went on with their singing lesson to-day while firemen fought…

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Visit Poorer Schools Proposal To Pupils Of Rich Schools SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 7

"Boys and girls from wealthy schools should be encouraged to visit less fortunate schools." said Mrs. J.Browne, of the New Education…

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Omissions Cause Disappointment Minister's List of Urgent School Works More New Buildings Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 8

The list of school works, in the order of urgency, which the Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) has placed before Cabinet has not met with…

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Offer Renewed School of Arts and Free Library Plan Mayor's Interview Another Conference Next Week

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 9

A conference between the Greater Newcastle Council's Cultural Centre Subcommittee and representatives of the Newcastle School of Arts Committee, probably…

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Teaching with "Talkies" In School And Office

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 5

"Anything seen by the eye can more easily be retained In the brain than when perceived by any other means," said Mr. T. Archibald In an address to the Newcastle…

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New Hope for Culture Centre Scheme "Removes Big Barrier" School Of Arts Gesture

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 8

Cultural centre advocates to-day expressed delight at the outcome of the talk yesterday between the Mayor (Alderman…

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"Solely with Council" Responsibility for Free Library School of Arts Offer Commended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 10

The President of the Newcastle branch of the Free Library Movement (Mr. F. J. O'Malley Jones) said yesterday that he was delighted by the outcome of the…

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