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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1946

1,031 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 52

School Sporting Gear "Welcome"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 4

Schools would welcome the announcement by the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) that Army sporting equipment was to be made…

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Baby Strangled By Schoolboy "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 3.—A woman whose three-year-old baby girl was strangled to death in a bathtub sobbed uncontrollably in the Queen…

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Plea For More School Sporting Areas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 3

Unless more sporting areas were found for children week-day competition games, it would be almost impossible to carry out a full…

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Suburban and District Jubilee Plans for Islington School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 6

Tentative plans for diamond jubilee celebrations at Islington School were made at a meeting of ex-students and members of the Parents and Citizens'…

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Teacher Knocked Down by Cyclist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 2

Knocked down by a bicycle in High-street, West Maitland, yesterday, Miss Elva McCann, 26, of Carrington-parade, New Lambton, a…

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Islington P. and C. Wants New School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 3

Islington Parents and Citizens' Association has decided to call a public meeting to discuss the provision of a new school. Mr. F. H…

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Islington School Complaints

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 10

Buildings at Islington school were rapidly deteriorating for want of attention, members of the Parents and Citizens'…

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Lambton School To Have Radio

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 10

Lambton P. and C. Association has decided to purchase a modern radio set and equipment for three departments of the school…

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Air Raid Shelters at Lambton School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 4

After the Headmaster (Mr. A. P. Goodenough) had reported to Lambton Parents and Citizens' Association that air-raid shelters in the school area had…

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Teachers Gaoled For Teen-age Party

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday—Two women schoolteachers who promoted an allnight party for teen-age schoolchildren were each sentenced to a year's…

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Police Raided Two-up School

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 4

A crowd of men were surprised by the police engaged in playing a same of "heading 'em" on a vacant allotment of land off Railway Street,…

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Radio And Film Lessons In Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY: Radio and films are gaining an important place in the education of children throughout New South Wales…

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Pupils Weed Trees At Scone School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 1

The Headmaster of the Scone Rural School (Mr. M. R. McGee) directs some of the pupils in the weeding and handling of…

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School At Scone Grows Trees For State

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 2

Most of the hundreds of trees planted in the streets of Scone and thousands of trees that have been sent all over the district and to…

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Schoolboys Worked On Council Job

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 2

In the week of the heavy rain, schoolboys at Shortland were put to clearing a blocked gutter in front of the school, it was stated at a…

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School Pianos Need Tuning And Repairing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 3

About 200 pianos in Newcastle schools required either tuning or repairing, it Was reported to Hamilton Parents and Citizens'…

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Want Transport For School Sport

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 7

Special transport to take pupils of Newcastle East School to Empire Park for Friday afternoon sport will be sought by a sub-committee of the…

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Another Robbery At School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 3

Newcastle Central Junior Technical School was robbed again at the weekend. The school has been entered several times this year…

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Teachers Opposed To Press Ban

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 2

Lake Macquarie branch of the Teachers' Federation expressed disapproval of the proposal of the federation's State Council to exclude…

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School Collections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 6

Sir,—I agree with "Mother" about the method used by schools for collecting money for charities, as have two children who do the same thing…

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