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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1940

1,336 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 67

Gosford Visit Primary School Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 14

A Newcastle district primary school cricket team will visit Gosford on April 6 to play a team from the Brisbane Water Public Schools' Amateur Athletic…

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School for Murder Chapter Xvi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 4

For some reason that he couldn't explain to himself, Baby Burke for the first time in his life, felt deeply shaken. What was it all about? he asked…

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Cessnock Will Not Be Pressed During Strike High School Union Fee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 11

The school union fee of 15/, which is in force at Cessnock High School, provides for the cost of text books, sporting material, additions to the library,…

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Transport of Kearsley School Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 11

The Minister for Education (Mr. D. Drummond) has advised Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., that he is having an examination made of the question of a…

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Here and There in the Suburbs School of Arts at Stockton

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 4

Stockton School of Arts held the monthly meeting of the committee last night in the reading room. The President (Mr. W. Ball) said that the…

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School for Murder Chapter Xvii

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 9

Baby Burke sat there for a long time. He fiddled with the papers glanced at them again. It wasn't possible. And yet there was that birthmark on his arm…

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School Improvements at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 7

Members of the Parents and Citizens' Association of Wallsend Public School have learned, unofficially, that the school buildings are to he overhauled. Officers…

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Teacher Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 7

Miss M. Pye, who was attached to the staff of Morpeth Public School, has left to take up duties at Casino…

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Will Pupils Shiver This Winter?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 8

Officials of parents and citizens' associations and teachers are not optimistic about the supply of coal for schools this winter…

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School Carnival at Dungog Dungog

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 9

Dungog Parents and Citizens' Association decided to hold a carnival in the school grounds on Thursday, April 4. The Headmaster (Mr. Saint-Smith) said he…

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They Learn by Night at This School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 10

"They learn by night to improve then position in life." This summing up by the teacher in charge (Mr. S. Delves) describes the…

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Mayor Plays Teacher's Part New York, January 20

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 6

Mayor La Guardia, of New York, who on occasion has assumed the roles or magistrate, fireman and policeman, became a teacher when he conducted…

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New Lambton Baptist Sunday School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 5

A good year's work is reported by the Secretary of the New Lambton Baptist Sunday School (Mr. F. S. Norman). Although there were some…

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Teachers Stand by Parents School Wanted at Gosford SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 6

The report that the Gosford Parents and Citizens' Association threatened an strike unless the building of a new primary school was guaranteed was referred…

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School Holiday Dates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 2

Schools resumed to-day after the five-day Easter vacation. The next holidays for the schools will be Anzac Day, on Thursday, April…

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Assembly Hall for Cook's Hill School P. and C. Association Will Meet Half of Cost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 3

The Department of Education will be asked by Cook's Hill Parents and Citizens' Association to build an assembly hall in the playground between the two main…

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Assembly Hall Is Planned For Cook's Hill School

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 9

Cook's Hill Parents and Citizens' Association has set itself the task of raising £250 for half the cost of an assembly hall in the school…

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School Teachers Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 9

Sir,—A pernicious practice is growing up in the schools. Parents send their children to school to be educated, but they find that the child is being ordered…

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School Water Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 13

The Parents and Citizens' Association is concerned about the water supply at Greta school. It fears an outbreak of fever if there is not some…

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Primary School Sport

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 13

The primary schools cricket competition will be resumed this afternoon. Marist Brothers play Homeville at West Maitland Park, and St. Ethel's meet East Maitland at East…

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