Five New Pools Wanted for School Swimming
Greater Newcastle needed five new pools to give schoolchildren adequate swimming instruction, said the President of the Public…
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Schools, 1947
1,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 55
No Compulsory Retirement of Teachers
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Married schoolteachers were not being compulsorily retried at the end of this year, said the Minister for Education…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Teachers, Doctor in National Quiz
Three of the 14 contestants selected from the New South Wales country section for the National quiz contest, to be broadcast on March 17,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trams, Buses Can't Afford Free Travel For Pupils
To grant free travel on trams and buses to school children would involve the Department of Road Transport in an estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seek Free Tram Bus Travel for Schoolchildren
The Federal Government will be asked by Waratah State Electoral Council, through the Newcastle and Hunter Federal Councils, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortland Teacher Farewelled
Mr. SW. H. D. Smith, Headmaster of Shortland Public School for 18 years, and Mrs. Smith, were fare-welled by Shortland Parents and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rathmines School Reopens
Rathmines Public School, idle since the Christmas vacation due to the death of the former teacher (Mr. T. E. Scott), has reopened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Want Cardiff Wine Bar Site Kept For School
Four progress associations in districts surrounding the Cross Roads, Cardiff, had decided to support Cardiff West-end Association to retain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Repairs Needed at Junior Technical School
Although the Education Department had done some repair work to the school last year, there was a great deal still to be done, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carnival on School Playing Area
A carnival, which was being erected in Gregson Park, had occupied the space which children from Hamilton School used as a playing area, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Conditions of Most Schools Shocking
SYDNEY, Monday—Huge sums of money would be required to modernise the schools of New South Wales because most of them were in such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Teachers' Strike in U.S.A. Ends
NEW YORK, March 3. A.A.P.—The nation's biggest teachers' strike ended last night when the Buffalo Teachers' Federation agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Text Book and Sport Costs Worry School
Because of an increase in prices, text books and sports fees must be raised from 10s to 15s a year, said the headmaster of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Teacher, Engineer in Quiz Contest
Two Newcastle men who have been selected to go to Sydney for the National Radio Quiz content. Top: Mr. A. H. Hodge,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Children Left School as Factory Blazed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sixty children were evacuated from a kindergarten in Evans-street, Bal-main, this afternoon when a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Schools in Big Swimming
Record attendances are expected at boys and girls' high school swimming carnivals to take place at Newcastle Ocean Baths to-day and to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Waratah Infants' School Improvements
Improvements to Waratah Infants' School paid for by the Mothers' Club during the year included a fully furnished dolls' house, piano, books,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Move to Register Riding Schools
SYDNEY: The R.S.P.C.A. is endeavoring to have one day of rest given in each week to horses employed in riding schools…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →School Plan in London Will Take 18 Years
An ambitious long-term plan, estimated to cost £187,000,000 and to keep 12,000 building workers occupied for the next 18 years, has been published by the London County Council for the rebuilding and re-equipment of all schools…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Higher Grade Sought for Kotara School
As the population of the Kotara district has now reached 500 it was expected that within the next two years the Kotara School would be…
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