Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Schools, all years

Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1948

772 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 39

New School Sought for Marks Point

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 4

Marks Point Progress Association will ask the Department of Education to build a new school at the township. Lake Macquarie…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

School Playground "Dangerous"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 4

The macadam surface had broken and made Hamilton School playground particularly dangerous, the Headmaster (Mr. P. J…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

School Library Popular

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 3

Lack of ability to assimilate the thoughts of authors was probably the greatest single defect in the educational build up of boys going…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Kotara To Press For School Weather Shed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 3

Kotara Parents and Citizens' Association will remind the Department of Education of its promise to build a weather shed at the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Milk "Dumped At Carrington School"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 3

Carrington Parents and Citizens' Association will ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) to authorise the installation at the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Work On Jesmond School Starts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 3

Three classrooms were being refloored, windows remodelled, and a vacant allotment was being graded at Jesmond School, the Headmaster…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Queensland Schoolboy Footballers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 6

Queensland schoolboy 6st, 7lb Rugby League players, who arrived in Newcastle yesterday. They will play a representative…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Schoolgirl Hurt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 3

Janice Taylor, 8, of Bridee-street Telarab had the first finser of her left hand almost severed the first joint when She caught…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

School Contest to Cook's Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 3

Cook's Hill Intermediate High School defeated Singleton Intermediate High School by 12 points to 9 in the inter-school sports and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

EDITORIAL Parents And The Schools

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 1

RATHER too sweeping is the statement of the president of the Hamilton School P. and C. Association (Mr. J. E. Moran) that the majority of parents have no interest in schools…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

School Football

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 2

N.S.W. under six stone schoolboys beat Queensland, 5-nil, in a Rugby League match in Sydney on Saturday. The school…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Schoolboy Game Off

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 6

GRAFTON, Monday.—The Newcastle-Hunter Valley schoolboys' League match against South Grafton to-day was postponed till…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Schoolboy Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 2

Roystan Hunt, 15, of Tighe's Terrace-street, Tighe's Hill, was injured internally while playing with other boys during the lunch hour…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Two Ambulance Cases A Week At High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 3

Newcastle Junior Boys' High School had an average of two ambulance cases a week because of the dangerous state of the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Girls' High School Annual Sports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 6

Newcastle Girls' High School held its annual sports at Newcastle Sports Ground yesterday. Among the 500 competitors were these…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Schoolboys' Second Grafton Win

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 6

GRAFTON, Tuesday. —Newcastle and Hunter Valley school boys' Rugby League team won its successive match when it defeated…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

School Milk In Chipped Bottles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 3

Milk bottles with chipped or broken edges had been found at five Newcastle schools, Greater Newcastle's Chief Health inspector…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Repairs to Raymond Terrace School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 4

Approval had been given to repair school buildings, teacher's residence and fencing, the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron)…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

School League Team Loses to Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 6

GRAFTON, Wednesday. — The referee's error in continuing the match seven minutes beyond time, cost the Newcastle-Hunter Valley…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Schools' Soccer Team For Queensland

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 11

The N.S.W. secondary schoolboys' Soccer team to visit Queensland next week is: H. Poole. J. Cornwall, W. Gay, W. Williams, H. Evans, K…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →