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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1944

929 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 47

High School League

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 6

FIRST GRADE (Evins Shield)—Marist Bros. (Newcastle). 7 points (D Connelly a try, C. Churchill 2 goals), d. Newcastle High, 2 points (D. Machi…

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School Camp for Cook's Hill Boys

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 2

Boys from the activity classes at cook's Hill school will share in a plan to hold a series of school camps at the National…

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New Jerseys School Waited 15 Months

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 8

It took 15 months to obtain the new set of jerseys in which Cook's Hill School's A grade team played a scorcless draw against Islington…

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School Gave Mobile Cinema

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 6

Mr. Trebor Edmunds shows Patsy Morgan, Jan Self and Allan King a photograph of the £1200 mobile cinema unit given to the Australian Comforts Fund by Newcastle schoolchildren. The unit is now in a forward area…

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School Sport Changes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 8

The venues have been changed for the four Rugby League games and hockey and Soccer matches to be played to-day between Newcastle Central and Crow's Nest…

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Children As "Cockatoos" for Two-up School

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Children were posted on street comers to give the office when police were approaching, said Constable Schumack at…

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Barnsley M.p. Visits Barnsley School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 2

AN ENGINE CREW on a cool train passing Barnsley school (West Wallsend) yesterday afternoon saw a well-dressed man…

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League to Keep Check on Schoolboy Players

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 6

CONCERNED about the drift of Promising schoolboy footballers to other branches of sport, Newcastle Rugby League decided last night to…

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"Birthday" Party for Ex-students of Central School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 2

Plans for an ex-students' reunion to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Central Domestic Science School have been…

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Vocational Guidance Address To Junior Tech. Pupils And Parents

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 June 1944 · page 3

The Newcastle Central Junior Technical School Parents and Citizens' Association has invited the Newcastle District School…

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Football Jerseys for Schoolboys

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 June 1944 · page 4

Cook's Hill School Parents and Citizens' Association last night decided to forward a letter of thanks to the Newcastle Rugby Football League for the…

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School Pupils See "The Young Mr. Pitt"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

History students from the senior classes at Cook's Hill School to-day visited the theatre to see the film "The Young Mr. Pitt."…

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Teachers Want Police Talks to Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

Teachers were unanimous in the view that police visits to schools to instruct children in road safety should be resumed the Secretary of…

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Renovate Swansea School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 5

The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) has advised Mr. Booth, M.L.A.. that he has authorised the complete overhaul of…

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Charlestown Claim for High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

A meeting called by Charlestown Parents and Citizens' Association decided to tell the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) that Charles…

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Newcastle Win in School Debate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

Newcastle Technical High School yesterday beat Maitland Boys' High School in the second Hume-Barbour debate for Northern district schools…

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Teachers Asked To Support Joint Platform

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 2

A Joint educational platform has been announced by the Council of the NSW Teachers' Federation and the Parents and Citizen'…

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High School Rugby League

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 8

A Grade (Evans Shield): Marist Bros. (Hamilton) 15 points (C. Churchill, J. Mahoney and D. Connelly tries, C. Churchill 3 goals) defeated Gosford…

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W.A.C. Weds School Sweetheart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 3

The First W.A.C. to be married in the South-west Pacific area is Private Madge Lamping, of San Gabriel, California. who arrived here…

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£800,000 for War From Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—School-children in New South Wales had raised £800,000 by patriotic endeavours during the war, said the…

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