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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1948

772 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 39

Waratah Infants' School Mothers' Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

The Mothers' Club of Waratah Infants' School will hold a beetle party in the Buffalo Hall at 1.30 p.m. on Wednesday and a card…

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Films At Jesmond School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

Department of Education films would be shown to-morrow night with appropriate shorts, to permit parents to assess the value of the…

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Snakes In Grass Near School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

Waratah Parents and Citizens' Association claims that snakes in the paspalum are a menace to children walking to school along…

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Library Books for Stockton School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

The Headmaster of Stockton Public School (Mr. R. H. Dixon) told Stockton P. and C. at its first meeting this year, that £25 would…

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Suburban and District New Teachers at Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

New members of the teaching staff welcomed by the President (Rev. N. C. King) at a meeting of Belmont Parents and Citizens'…

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New School Inspector Is Distinguished Soldier

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

A distinguished soldier of World War H, Mr. Ivan Dougherty, C.B.E., D.S.O. and Bar, has been appointed Inspector of Schools for the South Newcastle district, succeeding Mr. A. W. Muir, who has…

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Insist On Part Of Rifle Range For School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

Mr. J. J. Arthur, M.L.A., said yesterday that neither he nor Adamstown A.L.P. would relinquish the claim that portion of the…

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Ask Again For Schoolrooms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

Waratah-Georgetown A.L.P. branch will again ask for two portble classrooms at Waratah Infants' School…

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Inspector Of Schools Had Army Career

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

Mr. Ivan Dougherty, who has been appointed as Inspector of Schools for a year to relieve in the South Newcastle district, achieved…

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Rifle Range As School Site

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 2

While expressing satisfaction with the closing of the Adamstown Rifle Range, the Hamilton Electorate Council of the…

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Raymond Terrace School "Crammed"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 3

To impress on the Education Department the urgent need for more accommodation at the public school, Raymond Terrace Parents…

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Foster School Baseball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 4

In an effort to foster baseball in schools, Newcastle City Baseball Club will suggest to the District Association that it make a…

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Trawlers Land School Prawns Off Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 2

With favourable weather conditions. Newcastle and southern fishermen have been netting large quantities of prawns in Stockton Bight…

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School of Arts and the Library

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 2

The Lord Mayor has become unnecessarily melodramatic over the refusal of the Minister for Education, acting on legal advice, to…

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Suburban and District Request Extra Lake Bus For Schoolchildren

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 4

Belmont Urban Area Committee decided to ask the District Superitendent of Road Transport to provide an additional bus travelling to…

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Ask If School For Boolaroo Shelved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 4

Boolaroo-Speers Point branch of the A.L.P. decided to ask the Premier whether a proposed secondary school at Boolaroo had been shelved…

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Schoolgirl's Body In River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 3

BATHURST, Tuesday.—The body of Gladys Mary Hodson, 13, was found in Jordan Creek, near Bathurst Public School, this…

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Lake Teachers Seek New School Data

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 4

Lake Macquarie branch of the Teachers' Federation decided to ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) and Messrs. Booth and…

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Waratah Infants' School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 3

After reading Mrs. Youngberry's statement at a recent A.L.P. meeting, about shortage of accommodation at Waratah Infants' School, I…

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Treating Motorists "Like Schoolboys"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) was treating motorists like schoolboys when he threatened them…

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