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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1949

1,007 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 51

School Teams In Basketball

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 8

Two schoolboy[?] teams are competing in the Newcastle Amateur Basketball Association's summer competition this…

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School's Long Wait For Equipment

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 3

A press and table required by the Hamilton North School has not been received, although the first application was made…

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School Site At Argenton 'Rediscovered'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Land fronting Albert and James Street, bought in 1926 by the Department of Education for a school at Argenton, was…

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Funds For Booragul High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 2

Funds had been allocated to build a new high school at Booragul to serve portion of the Lake Macquare area, the Minister for Education…

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Blind Teacher Now In Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 3

Blind Mr. W. A. Davis, who has commenced duties as Welfare Officer and home teacher for the Newcastle District and…

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English Boys' School Hit By Influenza

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.). — Influenza last night caused 90 out of 485 scholars of a school at Shrewsbury to go into the…

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Ask Industries To Aid High School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 5

The view that the industries should be asked to assist in improving the school was expressed by the Headmaster of Newcastle…

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School Plans Soon For East Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 5

Plans for the new school at East Lambton would be completed as early as practicable, the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron)…

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Minister Refuses School Building

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

Members of New Lambton P. and C. Association last night expressed dissatisfaction at a letter received from the…

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Schoolgirls Stand To Eat Lunch

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

Although extra seating accommodation had been provided in the girls' playing area it was not sufficient and many…

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Prepare School Plan For East Lambton

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 5

The Government Architect has been requested to prepare plans for a new building, the Minister for Education (Mr. R…

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School Of Arts Can End The Stalemate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

The Newcastle School of Arts has been placed in an invidious position by official delay in approving the proposal to give the…

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Eleebana Request For School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 6

Eleebana Progress Association decided to ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) to build a new school to serve the districts of…

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School At New Lambton "Barn"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 6

The boys' department at New Lambton School was like a barn compared with the girls and infants' departments, the President of the…

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Boys 'Can Earn As Much With Pick as Teacher'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

Boys leaving school could earn as much at a pick-and-shovel job as a teacher in his first year out of college, Mr. B. Farrell said…

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Made Life Member Of Teachers' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 6

Lake Macquarie branch of the Teachers' Federation was advised by the State branch that Mr. J. Batey had been made a life…

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Two Day Games In School Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 8

The reintroduction of two-day matches in Newcastle P.S.A.A.A. secondary school matches should give school cricket its greatest…

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Medical School Overcrowding 'Will Hit Public'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The public would suffer as a result of overcrowding at Sydney University medical school, Dr. H. H. Schlink…

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Toronto School Of Arts Seeks Grant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 5

Toronto School of Arts will ask the Joint Coal Board for a grant to assist to renovate the building. The President (Mr. G. Marriott)…

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School Of Arts May Increase 28-Year-Old Fee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 2

Newcastle School of Arts may increase the subscription from the fee fixed 28 years ago. A poorly-attended meeting of…

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