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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1947

1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 55

School Sports Results

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 31 May 1947 · page 7

The High Schools (Fifth Tear) Rugby League competitions were continued on Wednesday. Results:…

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School Wireless Presented

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1947 · page 5

Merewether Parents and Citizens' Association presented a wireless set and public address to the school on Saturday afternoon. From left: The Headmaster of the school (Mr. O. C. Salter), the President of the P. and C. Association (Mr. H. R. Edwards), the District Inspector of Schools (Mr. D. Drake), and the Mayor (Ald. Quinlan)…

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Suburban and District £200 Wireless Gear For Glebe School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1947 · page 5

A wireless and public address system valued at about £200 was handed to Merewether (Glebe) Public School on Saturday afternoon by the…

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Special Rate for Schoolboys

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1947 · page 10

THE Australian Soccer Association decided yesterday that schoolboys will be admitted to Newcastle Sports Ground on…

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Wyong Teacher Electrocuted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1947 · page 3

WYONG, Sunday.—John Sinclair Evans, 38, teacher at Toukley Public School, was electrocuted yesterday afternoon, while endeavouring to…

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Frolic To Aid East School Radio Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 5

Proceeds from a frolic in the City Hall on August 8, will go to a fund to purchase radio equipment for Newcastle East School. This was…

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34 1/2 Hour Trip For Victorian Schoolboy Team

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 10

The Victorian schoolboy Soccer team arrived in Newcastle yesterday afternoon, after spending 34½ hours travelling from Melbourne…

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Deprived of Transport to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 7

Sir,—Children living in the Garden Suburb, Stockton, have been notified that, owing to the congestion on the school bus, from next week they shall…

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Parents Annoyed At Lack Of Help In Buying School Needs

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 5

Central Junior Technical School Parents and Citizens' Association is not pleased with the Department of Education's lack of assistance in providing school needs. There are at least two points…

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Would Object To Schoolboys Delivering Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Meat Industry Employees' Union would resist any attempt by butchers to have schoolboys deliver meat on…

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Hamilton School Has Full Staff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 5

Staff difficulties, which had existed for some time, had been largely overcome, the Headmaster (Mr. L. Owen) told Hamilton Parents and…

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Inspect Cardiff School Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 4

The Minister for Housing (Mr. Evatt) will visit the Cross Roads, Cardiff, at noon to-day to view the Housing Commission's land which…

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Portable Room At Jesmond School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 5

The double portable classroom in Payne's Paddock, Adamstown, had been dismantled, and placed in the school grounds, ready for erection,…

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Carrington School Seeks Sport Area

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 7

A deputation from Carrington Parents and Citizens' Association will ask Greater Newcastle Council to provide a playing area for the…

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Hamilton Central School P. and C.

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 4

Hamilton Central School P. and C. Association has decided not to affiliate with the N.S.W. Federation Members considered that greater…

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Newcastle Beats Victoria In School Soccer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 12

Newcastle under 15 schoolboy Soccer team, which drew with Illawara in the interdistrict carnival last week, completely outclassed…

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Schoolchildren Learn Road Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 4

Children at the Junction Public School yesterday were given safety-first advice by the Police Department's lecturer, Constable D. W. Pike. Top: Schoolboy cyclists rehearse a complicated traffic move, in the school playground. The situation they depict often occurs at the road junction near the school. Bottom: Some of the audience for Constable Pike's lecture on board principles…

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Alternative Site For School At Cross Roads

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 4

Because construction of 15 homes for the State Housing Commission has begun on the site originally sought for a new primary school at…

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Waratah Infants' School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 5

Waratah Infants' School Mothers' Club will ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) to have a stage built in the assembly hall of the…

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Kotara Seeks New Primary School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 5

Kotara Parents and Citizens' Association will ask the Department of Education to provide a new primary school in that suburb, and to…

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