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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1940

1,336 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 67

Schoolboys Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 5

Jack Shaw of Albert Street, Speers Point, received contusions to the left eye and knees and Patrick Kearns, 5 of Speers Street, Speers Point…

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Our Schools And Britain's

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 6

THE president of the Stockton Parents' and Citizens' Association our education system that were timely in that they tended to adjust a perspective that may have become distorted because of a flood of…

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Marmong-bolton Pt. School Scheme Residents' Deputation To Inspector

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 March 1940 · page 9

A further step toward the establishment of a public school to serve the needs of children in the Marmong-Bolton Point areas, was made at…

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School Between Points Needed Site Near New Road

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 12

A combined meeting of Marmong Point and Bolton Point Parents and Citizens' Associations at Marmong Park on Sunday discussed the erection of a school…

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Scott-street Traffic Problems Light Positions; Police as Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 10

It is pleasing to note that again the Greater Newcastle Council is seeking reversion to one-way traffic in Scott-street, Newcastle. SINCE IT was proposed, a few years…

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School for Murder Chapter Viii

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1940 · page 10

For a moment John Strong, despite his vicious hatred for all criminals, unbent. The boy in his own way was perfectly honest, and intelligent, too…

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School for Murder Chapter Ix

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 4

District Attorney Strong sat in his study sipping his after-dinner coffee. Baby Burke's trial was scheduled for to-morrow. On the desk in front of…

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Parents' Council Objects New School on Abattoir Land

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 8

Because the policy of the parents and citizens' movement in New South Wales is opposed to the erection of schools on main thoroughfares, the Newcastle…

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Central Schoolboys Receive Sports Trophies at Assembly

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 4

Presentation of sports trophies won by pupils of the Central Junior Technical School, Broadme[?]dow, was made to-day at a general assembly of the…

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Here and There in the Suburbs Headmaster of Central School Retires This Year

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 5

After nearly half a century with the Education Department, Mr. A. G. Morgan, headmaster of Newcastle Central School. is to retire in…

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School for Murder Chapter X.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 2

Nora Burke sat where she was. She had the string undone now, was folding back the wrapping paper. Without a word she tossed something on the…

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Cessnock High School Year Reviewed Parents' Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 13

The annual report of the Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens' Association, presented last night by the Secretary (Mrs. R. E. Porter), reviewed a…

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Subsidy for Transport of Schoolchildren

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 13

Owing to the unsuitability of the train time-table, the Department of Education will pay conveyance subsidy for the transport of children by bus from the Weston…

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Bolton Point School Legal Aspects on Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 4

The Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) has informed Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., that although the site for the school at Bolton Point was being donated…

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Useful Service for School Lambton Parents Praised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 4

At the annual meeting of Lambton Parents and Citizens' Association, the Headmaster (Mr. C. C. Walker) congratulated members on their record of…

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Mr. Terry Hunt at Girls' High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 7

A delightful interlude in the morning's work at Newcastle Girls' High School was a session of singing by Mr. Terry Hunt, until recently lecturer in music at…

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Council Agrees School on Abattoir Land for Sandgate Infants

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 13

Greater Newcastle Council agreed last night to lease three acres of Abattoir Department land at the corner of Wallsend and Maitland Roads. Sandgate, to…

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Here and There in the Suburbs Council Divided on Site for School L E a S E O F Land at Sandgate

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 6

The City Council agreed last night to lease to the Education Department an area of land at Sandgate for use as a school, but…

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M I L I T a R Y Schools F O R A.I.F. Learning Arts of War Jerusalem

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 8

Officers and men of the Second A.I.F. arc being given opportunities to study the finer points of their army jobs at special…

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The "Fun Doctor" at Local Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 11

Mr. N. Tate, known throughout Australia and New Zealand as "The Fun Doctor" is touring the Newcastle schools in aid of the Stewart House…

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