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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1945

880 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 44

Free Milk for Five More Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 2

Distribution of free milk will be extended to Hamilton, Hamilton South, Junction, Hamilton Marist Brothers and the Hamilton Sacred…

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"School Grounds a Problem"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 5

Visitors to the annual meeting of the Stockton Parents and Citizens' Association included Mr. H. Hawkins. M.L.A., and the Inspector of Schools (Mr. D…

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School Posters for War Loan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 2

A school poster exhibition, arranged by the Newcastle branch of the Teachers' Federation to publicise the Third Victory Loan, will be held in…

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Minister to Visit Boolaroo School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 5

The Chairman (Mr. H. Lessels) reported to Boolaroo-Speers Point branch of the Labour Party that he was a member of a deputation which asked the…

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Pre-school Agency Control Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 3

Declaring that much harm could be done if pre-school agencies were set up under private control, Boolaroo-Speers Point branch of the…

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Sydney School Holiday for Royal Visit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Schoolchildren in the metropolitan area would be granted a full holiday on Thursday to celebrate the arrival in…

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New School for Adamstown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Adamstown Public School was in a very bad state, and had long outlived its usefulness, the Minister for Education…

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"No Council Sympathy with Schools"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

Evidence was that the Greater Newcastle Council was out of sympathy altogether with the problems facing schools and teachers, the…

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Wants Free Travel to Country Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The same travel facilities for country school children as were available in Newcastle and Sydney were urged in the…

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Junior Technical School Conditions Unsatisfactory

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

Addressing members at the annual meeting of the P. and C. Association last night, the headmaster of the Central Junior…

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Hamilton North School's Progress

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 6

The Mistress of the Hamilton North Kindergarten School (Miss V. O. Donnell) told members of the Parents and Citizens' Association yesterday…

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Schools' Boxing Tournament

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 11

An inter-secondary schools' boxing tournament on March 20 and a programme to be presented by Barton's Follies tomorrow night are…

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Hostels for Pupils of Closed Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Davidson (Lab. Cobar), in the Legislative Assembly, suggested the provision of hostels in large country…

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Suburban and District New Site Wanted for Belmont School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 5

In his report to the annual meeting of the Belmont Parents and Citizens Associations, the Headmaster (Mr. W. Forces) stated a new school site was…

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Mayor's Reply on Schools "An Undeserved Reflection"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 5

Criticism by the Headmaster of Hamilton School (Mr. Smith) implying that Greater Newcastle Council was not in sympathy with the…

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"Staggering" Sport Trams for Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

Arrangements have been made to "stagger" school sports trams over three or four hours. One coupled tram will probably do the job by…

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Sex Question-box in School

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—For sex instruction at Leiston School (Suffolk), the headmaster (Captain A. H. Blowers) has provided each class with a question box. Pupils drop questions into the box without revealing their names,…

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Parents Find Own School Bus

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 3

NARRABRI, Friday.—Faced with the closing of subsidised schools, parents in the Ederoi district financed and conducted, their own bus…

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Letters to Editor Hamilton Central School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1945 · page 4

Sir,—I join wholeheartedly with the Mayor of Greater Newcastle in paying tribute to the interest and sympathy shown by previous councils…

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The Remedy Lies in the Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

Vandals broke 2540 street lamps in the Greater Newcastle area last year, causing damage to the lighting system which cost…

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