School Radios Must Pay Fee
The Postmaster-General (Mr. Cameron) has ruled against a suggestion made by Mr. E. W. Easton, of the Queensland Public Instruction…
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Schools, 1939
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More Scholars Super-primary Enrolments Maitland Changes Girls' High School Hopes for Higher Status
While primary schools at Maitland report little alteration in the enrolments, there are substantial increases in enrolments for super-primary schools, although…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →School Plans for This Year Important Moves Are Pending Secondary Pupils Enrolled To-day
Schools in the Newcastle district resumed the serious work of the year to-day when enrolments in all secondary…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Raising School Age Principle Approved in Queensland BRISBANE
Thee Premier (Mr.W. Forgan-Smith) announced to-day that Cabinet had approved the principle of extending the schoolleaving age from 14 to 15 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman's Realm Smiles and Tears The First Day at School
YESTERDAY was the beginning of a new phase of life for hundreds of small boys and girls in Newcastle and district. It was their first day at school…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Night Continuation Schools Legacy President Deplores Lack Advantages of Education
The advantages of higher education for wards of Newcastle Legacy Club were stressed by the retiring President (Dr. O. J Ellis) at the annual meeting last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Silent Streets The Children Go Back to School
THERE WAS an unusual silence in suburban streets yesterday. Boys who had raced here and there on scooters were missing; horses grazed in the parks;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Feeding Fort Scratchley English School for Pit Boys
Victualling Fort Scratchley: A city baker delivering the daily bread…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kotara May Be Site New Domestic Science School Increased Enrolments
It is proposed that a new domestic science school should be built at Kotaro to take the overflow from the present schools in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →School Resumes
The Kurri Kurri Superior Public School resumed yesterday with a decreased enrolment compared with last year. In all departments last year there was an enrolment…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Reduced Service on Belmont Line "School Children Are Inconvenienced"
The reduction of the Belmont-Newcastle train service to three trips a day is causing considerable inconvenience to school-children…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Staff of Newcastle Technical High School
Members of the Newcastle Technical High School staff. The new school opened yesterday in the Memorial Science building of the New Technical College at Islington. Left to right: Messrs. G. [?] Squire, H. A. Kapling, R. Wilson, K. A. Blinkhorne, A. S. Ritchie, P. D. Riddell (principal of the Newcastle Technical College), and Mr. P. G. Price, first headmaster of the Technical High School…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Teachers' Rush Day Beginning the Year in Secondary Schools
With one exception, increased enrolments were recorded at Newcastle secondary schools, which re-opened yesterday after the Christmas vacation. The totals will not be known until next week…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Kurri Extended School Courses Sought
Kurri Kurri Parents and Citizens' Association held its first meeting for the year last night. Mr. J. Foot welcomed the new Headmaster (Mr. A. H. Jacobs)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sub-calibre Shoot at Fort Scratchley Technical School Opens
Joan and Ray Stokes and Jurie G[?]eer showed a photographer what they will do to-day when the big shoot begins at Fort Scratchley. Right, a militiaman and his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two-hour Wait No Train to Suit Girls Complaints From Schools
Complaints were made at the Newcastle Girls' High School and the Central Domestic Science School, Hamilton South, of the inconvenience caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MAITLAND — KURRI — CESSNOCK West Maitland 230 Girls in First Year Girls' High School Enrolment Normal Figures at Boys' High School
The full extent of the influx to the Maitland Girls' High School caused by the absorption of the Domestic Science School was apparent yesterday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Schools' Part in Defence Sydney
Most schools in England are planning for defence, said Mr. H. D. Hake, who arrived at Sydney by the Stratheden to become headmaster of The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Free Travel For Schoolchildren
The Acting Director of Education (Mr. B. C. Harkness) has advised Mr. G. Booth M.L.A., that a special conveyance subsidy is allowed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →School Examination Reform Newcastle Principals Comment on Need for Changes
Principals of Newcastle secondary schools are divided on the wisdom of a reformed examination system, which would substitute internal school examinations for existing Intermediate and Leaving Certificate examinations,…
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