Adults Go Back To School
While many other people are enjoying a holiday at the seaside or in the hills, a number of adults will go back to school for nine days this month. For most of us education in…
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Schools, 1949
1,007 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 51
Teachers Blame Psychologists For Juvenile Misbehaviour
LONDON, Sat.: Responsibility for the increasing misbehavior among young people teas blamed on the "soft" and "free" discipline of educational psychologists, by two school master a addressing Teachers' Conferences yesterday…
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SYDNEY: An inquest into the death of a Lismore school teacher, Leonard Harcourt-Smith, 49, opened today in the City Coroner's Court. Harcourt - Smith died in…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Charged with murder, Hilton Thomas Green, 23, fireman, was to-day committed for trial, at the inquest in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schoolboy Fishermen at King's Wharf—
Top left: Eleven-year-old Robert Sheppard on holidays from Willow Tree. Bottom left: Bobby Bennan, who found the fishing good. Below: Wayne Evans or Wallsend, who caught enough…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Grand Old School' Has Pioneer Atmosphere
Maitland has two of the four original secondary schools in the State and retains in one some of the atmosphere of pioneer days. About two miles apart the schools…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This is the first of six articles on the life of Tom Maguire, boxing instructor of Newcastle and trainer of 17 Australian champions. The story is by P. J. Cunningham, who went to school with Maguire early this century. At that stage Mr. Cunningham began to line up the trainer-to-be and recalls in the opening instalment—Author Meets Maguire—In O'Brien's Paddock
A winter afternoon in 1904. School was out at the little convent school on the farm road running through Miller's Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schoolboy Takes 11 Wickets for 5
Stockton schoolboy bowler, J. Sutton, playing against Newcastle in the school vacation primary section competition yesterday, took 11…
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MELBOURNE—Vegetarian schoolboys are outstanding for physical endurance and mental alertness, said celebrated English headmaster, W. A. Sibley, who arrived in Melbourne on the Orcades…
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NEW DELHI, Jan. 11. A.A.P.—Delhi municipal superintendent of education has banned corporal punishment in schools…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Appointment of Dr. Adrien Albert as first Professor of Chemistry in the John Curtin School of Medical Research…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kahibah Wants Infants' School
A deputation of six representatives of organisations at Kahibah will be sent to Sydney to ask the Minister for Education (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →President Opens Officers' School
The President of Czechoslovakia (Klement Gottwaid) speaking at an officers' school in Prague…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teachers Claim More For Education
ADELAIDE, Thursday. — The Australian Teachers' Federation Conference to-day resolved that State Governments should budget…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plans for Belmont School Under Way
The Government Architect was preparing plans and specifications to enable tenders to be called for a new secondary school at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →School "Court" to Punish Pupils
LONDON, Jan. 17. A.A.P.—"Lines" will be imposed on children at Canvey Island school, Essex, by a "court" of fellow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys Tried to Blow Up High School "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Two 14-year-old boys who could not get along in their studies tried to blow up the high school at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schoolboys Hoping for Fine Weather
The schoolboy cricketers hoped the weather would allow a few minutes, at least, at the crease at Wickham Oval yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sliding Windows For Hamilton School
The secretary of the Hamilton School P. and C. Association (Mr. R. Ferguson) has been informed by Mr. J. G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subsidy For Redhead School Projector
Payment of £40/5/7 subsidy on a motion picture projector ordered by Redhead Parents and Citizens' Association had been approved, the…
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