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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1939

1,251 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 63

"Inter" Suspense Is Over 1356 Passed in North Three Bright Pupils Had Eight A's

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 9

Intermediate Certificate examination results, published on pages 4 and 5, end the suspense for hundreds of Northern scholars…

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School Teachers' Transfers

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 9

The Education Department has announced the following transfers affecting the personnel of teaching staffs of northern schools—…

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Tenders Shortly Sewerage for Carrington School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 9

The Education Department has consented to connect Carrington Public School to the sewerage system. Plans for a similar connection at Stockton…

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No Free Travel School Concession on 'Buses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 15

Free travel for children to and from school could not be contemplated, since this concession would involve considerable loss of revenue, the Minister for Transport…

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Easy Victory Waratah Beats Hamilton School Competition Final

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 19

Waratah won the final of the schools vacation competition conducted by the Newcastle District Cricket Association. It defeated Hamilton, which has played…

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Schools Provide Evidence Of Birth-rate Drop SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 11

State schools will provide evidence of the falling birth-rate when they resume on Tuesday, after the Christmas vacation. FEWER children will assemble in the…

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School Railway Tickets

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 12

For the convenience of pupils and intending pupils Who will be travelling to school by tail at the conclusion of the holidays, free school term tickets…

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Clothes for Ex-school Girls

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 4

As soon as the holidays are over, girls who have left school will be turning their thoughts to their first really "grown up" clothes…

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Woman's Realm Patricia's Notebook Back to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 7

MRS. LESLIE ELPHICK, who was Miss Joy Ostinga, of Adamstown before her marriage at the Adamstown Methodist Church…

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Patricia's Notebook Back to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 7

THE CHILDREN are grumbling and dicontented. The weather gods all this week have played them a nasty trick. Swimming has not been very…

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Holiday with Clouds Showers Forecast for To-day Railways Will Be Busy Homeward Rush on Eve of School Opening

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 7

Well-dressed men and women today will carry overcoats "at the ready" or umbrellas, according to taste, for the Anniversary Day…

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Back to School Last Hours of Freedom Flying Some Students Not Wanted Till

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 8

Clocks are relentlessly ticking away the last few hours of freedom for the school generations. To-morrow the doors which have been closed for six weeks…

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Old Bar School Site Taree

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 4

The Old Bar Recreation Reserve Trust has been advised that the Education Department has accepted the area which the trust has agreed to make available for a…

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Mr. Brigden Defends Social Insurance Tilt at Scientists for Faint Interest Canberra Summer School Debate Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 6

The Chairman of the National Insurance Commission (Mr. J. B. Brigden) to-day removed the sting from attacks made upon the National Insurance scheme at the recent Science Congress and the…

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Schools to Reopen To-morrow New Technical High Quarters

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 1

State schools will reopen tomorrow after the Christmas vacation. Heavily laden trains are bringing back pupils and…

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School To-day Fewer Primary Children Will Attend Infant Enrolment 20,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 6

Books, pens and pencils, which have been stored away for the past six weeks, were put in bags and satchels last night in preparation for today's reopening of…

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Back To School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 1

C[?]RIL ANDERSON, of the Newcastle Fi[?] Public School, gives the schoolbell its first pull for 1939. WELL, where did you go for your…

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Dr. Gleeson's Message to School Children

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 7

"Idleness is the breeding ground for mischief and vice, and it behaves parents to find some useful occupation for their children before they allow…

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Back to School To-day Technical High Opens

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 5

To-day schools reopened after the six weeks Christmas vacation; and the sight of pens and desks and chalk and…

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School Began Again To-day Scene In The Playground

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 5

Pupils of the Newcastle East Public School's infants' department have their first lesson of the year in how to line up in the playground. There were many new faces among them…

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