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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1946

1,031 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 52

"School Radios Should Be Govt. Charge"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 April 1946 · page 2

To ensure a radio for all schools, the Government should install receiving sets at its own cost, the president of Tighe's Hill…

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Subsidy Sought for School Radio

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 10

Lambton Parents and Citizens' Association maintains that, as visual education facilities and libraries provided for schools are items which are subsidised,…

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Jesmond School Diamond Jubilee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 10

Jesmond Parents and Citizens' Association has begun arrangements for a Back-to-Jesmond carnival, to celebrate the school's diamond jubile towards the…

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Schoolboy Shot in Classroom

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A revolver fired in a classroom at Naremburn Intermediate High School early this afternoon wounded a 14-year-old…

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Boys Released On Probation; School Damage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 8

A piano in the Plattsburg District Rural School at Wallsend was damaged to the extent of £12 and £1/10/ worth of damage was caused to a…

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School Improvements Promised

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 6

The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) has informed Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., that he has given authority for ground improvements at…

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Victory Medal for Schoolchildren

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 5

The Government has approved of this design for a Victory medal for schoolchildren, submitted by the Sydney sculptor, Mr. L. R. Dadswell…

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Newcastle School XI. Defeated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 10

SYDNEY, Friday.—Sydney Primary schools defeated Newcastle[?] Belmore Oval to-day by an innings and 18 runs…

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Wants School of Moral Research

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday.—The inclusion of a school of moral research in the proposed Australian National University, Canberra, was urged…

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Diamond Jubilee of Jesmond School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 5

Committees were formed at a meeting of Jesmond residents called by the Jesmond Parents and Citizens' Association to discuss celebrating the diamond…

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Schoolboy Got Tips at Lords

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 8

During schools' cricket practice at Lords. Denis Compton gave Alan Sanderson, of Uppingham, a lesson in batting…

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New Lambton School Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 6

The infants department of the New Lambton School will be back in its old home in good time for the "back-to-school" gala on April 27 to celebrate…

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Suburban and District Unable to Get Quotes for School Lighting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 6

Wickham Mothers' Club had been trying for 12 months to get quotations from electrical firms for the installation of electrical fittings in the…

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Inquiry Into Caning of Schoolboy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Child Welfare officials have completed their inquiries into the caning of John Martin Leyshon, of Ferry-road, Glebe, at…

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"Back to School" at New Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 6

The return of all departments of New Lambton School to its old site will be celebrated by the Parents and Citizens' Association with a "Back to School"…

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Guide to Good Wives School Canteens Of Value

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 6

"The importance of an adequate midday meal for schoolchildren has been recognised for some years, but it is only recently that school authorities and parents have taken active measures to provide such a…

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Letters to Editor Holiday Closure of School of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 5

Sir,—Entering the School of Arts, I was astonished to read that the whole of the institution, which includes the Free Library, would be…

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Lansdown's Easy Flying Welter Handicap Win Schoolboy Won on First Mount

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 8

Jack Griffiths, having his first mount in a race on Nigerian Prince, who won the first division of the Maiden Handicap at Newcastle races yesterday, still goes to St. Vincent's Marist Brothers' School at Redfern…

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Cooks Hill School Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) has advised Cook's Hill Parents and Citizens' Association that the question of purchase of a new…

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Retired Teacher Was Cook's Hill Pupil

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 6

Mr. Henry Host, who retired recently from the teaching staff of Cook's Hill School after 21 years' service there, was a pupil at the…

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