Finance a Problem School Tours Cease ? SYDNEY
Prospects tor the inter-change of schools' teams between New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria for this year are not…
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Schools, 1940
1,336 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 67
Teachers' Federation Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Teachers Federation of N.S.W. will be held In tho Bolton-street Public School on Saturday, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Schools Resume This Week Parents and Citizens' Bodies
Having been in recess since December, parents and citizens associations will resume activity this week. There are about 40 associations in the Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Too Good for Boys" Move to Debar O'Brien School Vacation Cricket
Should C. O'Brien, of Waratah-Mayfield Club, who has scored a double century and two centuries in successive innings in first grade cricket, be allowed to play in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Boys' High School Courses and Careers
Much has been Written of late years of vocational guidance and special training. We are still some distance from solving satisfactorily the fitting of our youth…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Will Cricket Die Out in Schools?
CRICKET has no place in the new physical training scheme of the Education Department. Games such as softball dominate the scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →School Sewerage
Sir,—One cannot help but be struck with the apparent neglect displayed by the person or persons in authority in not having the lavatories and urinals at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Classes in Hat-rooms Overcrowded Boys' High School Headmaster Tells Parents of Acute Position
The accommodation problem at the Newcastle Boys' High School is acute. An extraordinary position was revealed by the Headmaster (Mr. N. R. Mearns) at a special meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Education Problems Teachers to Tackle Them
Some big issues—war expenditure on education, school over, crowding and the non-appointment of student teachers who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →School Teacher Alleges Frame-up MOREE
Two boy witnesses had told a pack of lies, asserted Charles Frederick Noble, 52, a schoolteacher, who pleaded "Not guilty" at the Moree Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Water Shortage at Millfield Bottles Taken to School
The continued drought has emphasised the necessity for an extension of the water supply to the township of Millfield. Residents rely entirely on tanks,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Of Interest to Women Styles For Party, School Or Playtime
A GAY and dainty frock, with bell flowers (top left) for the five-to-seven-year-old is knitted in a clear buttercup shade and the embroidered flower stems are in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thousands Without Schooling Children In Air Raid Areas LONDON
Four hundred thousand children out of 1,500,000 in air raid danger areas in Britain are receiving neither schooling nor…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Schoolboy Injured
When he collided with another boy at the Kurri St. Joseph's Catholic School. Denis Saxton, 10, son of Councillor P. Saxton, of Lang-street. Kurri,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cooperation in the Schools Teachers' Annual Report
The collection by teachers and pupils of 1000 guineas for the Crippled Children's Hospital appeal is featured in the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Singleton Wants Flying School Singleton
The Singleton branch of the Primary Producers' Union, at its annual meeting, decided to accord the fullest support to the campaign for the establishment of an…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Newcastle Boys' High School Vocational Guidance
A vocation is both a special aptitude and an occupation. A vocation in the first sense is part of a boy's nature, a vocation in the second sense is supplied…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Softball in the Schools (To the Editor.)
Sir,—It is natural that cricket enthusiasts should suspect any new name, such as softball, that seems to threaten the continuance of their absorbing interest,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Air Raid Danger to Blame Children Lack Schools and Doctors LONDON, February 8
The air raid danger, and not neglect, had caused delay in the return of children to schools, said the President of the Board of Education (Lord de la Warr)…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Retired Teacher Claims He Is Being Taxed Twice
Newcastle teachers are concerned about the case of a retired member of the service, who claims that he has been taxed on his superannuation…
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