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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1948

772 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 39

Teacher Saves Drowning Pupil

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Thursday.—A teacher who was starter at Lithgow High School's annual swimming carnival to-day dived fully clothed…

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Schools Urged for State Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Miners' leaders urged the State Government to-day to open training schools in the use of…

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Urges Belmont School Site For Hospital

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 3

A deputation to seek the transfer of Marksville property, Belmont, from a school site to a hospital site met representatives from the…

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Technical High School Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 6

Newcastle Technical High School held its swimming carnival yesterday. Top: Some of the cheering spectators during a race. Left: Ron Morris, 11, who won the C Class final. Middle: Max Gilmour, 13, who won the 110 yards, 55 yards heat, and 2D Class…

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Concession Fares For Pupils Sought

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 5

Newcastle District Council of the P. and C. Association will ask the Minister for Transport to grant concession fares to…

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Want Speed Limit Passing Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 3

Newcastle District Council of Parents and Citizens' Associations will ask the Minister for Transport to recommend a speed limit of…

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Clinic In School Library 'Unjust,' Says Head

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 2

Newcastle District Council of Parents and Citizens' Associations will support Newcastle East Association in its effort to prevent the…

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N.Z. Doctors Oppose Return To School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday.—Eighty per cent. of doctors interviewed oppose the Government's decision to lift all restrictions on…

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Form Flute Band At Dudley School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

Pupils at Dudley Public School are to form a flute band. This was decided at the annual meeting of the Parents and Citizens'…

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Coalfields Teachers In Quiz Elimination

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 1

Messrs. H. S. Hancock, schoolteacher of Cooper-street, Cessnock, and J. C. Henderson, schoolteacher, of Rawson-street, Kurri Kurri, are…

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Charlestown Wants Bigger School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 4

Charlestown Parents and Citizens' Association will ask the Education Department to provide two extra rooms at the proposed new…

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New School For Cook's Hill

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 4

The Department of Education had acquired a site near Union, Corlette and National Park streets upon which it…

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Commercial High School Suggested

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 4

The commercial world, as far as schools were concerned, had been neglected for years, said the headmaster of the Cook's…

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Want School Milk Covered

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 5

Considering the present method of delivering milk to schools was unhygienic, Cook's Hill P. and C. Association has…

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£10 For Wickham School Library

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 4

Wickham Parents and Citizens' Association last night donated £10 to buy books for the school library. One of the greatest needs was for…

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Beat Hallet's School Record

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 8

AUSTRALIAN Olympic swimmer K. Hallet, who in 1946 established record figures of 1min. 38.2sec. for the 100 metres…

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"School" Signs For Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 4

Approval has been given by Newcastle Traffic Police to the display of six "school'' signs in suitable positions adjacent to Wallsend Public…

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Boy Found Wounded Near School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 3

GOSFORD, Friday.—A 12-year-old boy was found outside the grounds of Gosford Primary School with a bullet wound in the left side…

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School Cricket Final Protest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 8

Wickham, winner of the B grade Primary final of the school vacation cricket competition, will be asked to show cause why it should…

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Schools Celebrate Centenary In April

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The cen[?]ary of public education in New South Wales would be celebrated in all public schools and colle[?]…

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