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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1949

1,007 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 51

Minister Grants Some School Requests

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

To requests for school improvements, the Minister for Education (Mr.Heffron) advised Newcastle District Council of Parents and…

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Schoolboys To Pick Wine Grapes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 3

Maitland senior school boys responded readily yesterday to an appeal to pick grapes to-day to harvest the crop from 30 acres at…

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"Classes Of Head Teachers Not Getting Fair Deal"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 3

Children in classes taught by headmasters and headmistresses were not getting a fair deal, a delegate told Newcastle District…

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Cessnock High School Seeks Coal Board Aid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 3

Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens' Association criticised the Joint Coal Board for haring refused assistance to improve the…

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Lambton Teachers' Farewell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 4

Lambton Parents and Citizens' Association formed a committee last night to raise funds to farewell Mr. A. Goodenough, retiring…

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New Teachers Ease Overloaded Classes

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 3

The record number of new appointments this year had reduced the numbers in classes, the Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) informed the District Council of P. and C. Associations last night…

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Double Portable Room For Waratah School

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 4

Prefabricated parts of a double portable room for Waratah School are now in the hands of the Department's…

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Schoolboys Help Pick Grapes

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 4

One hundred schoolboys from East and West Maitland were transported by truck to the Dalwood Vineyard at Rothbury…

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Tech. School Swimming

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 5

Central Junior Technical School will hold its annual swimming carnival in the Ocean Baths on Tuesday Record entries have been received, in…

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Schoolboy Pickers Save Grape Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2

About 20 tons of grapes were picked by 100 Maitland schoolboys on Saturday, when they responded to an appeal by the Manager of…

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Letters To the Editor Toronto School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 2

FOR three years, Toronto School has been short of classrooms and parents have been living on empty promises—promises made…

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Easter Date Fixed For School Cricket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 8

The annual school vacation match between Newcastle schoolboys and a combined A. W. Green Shield team selected in Sydney will be…

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School Life in Summary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 11

A summary of schoolwork from kindergarten to post-school will be seen in the schools' display in the block of pavilions at the Australia-road end of the ground…

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Schools Rugby Union Games Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 3

Reintroduction of the Rugby Union code in secondary school football is to be sought by the Maitland District Rugby Union…

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Stockton Methodist School Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 4

About 120 scholars of Stockton and Fern Bay Methodist Sunday Schools attended a picnic to Kotara Teachers and parents also attended…

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Jockeys' School For Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 10

At the annual meeting of Newcastle Jockey Club last night, Mr. T. Burg appealed to the committee to introduce a school for…

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School for Apprentices

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 12

Newcastle is to have a long-needed school for apprentice riders. Chairman (Mr. T. L. Fines),…

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200 Teachers to Go to School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

Because rain has delayed the building schedule for the Newcastle Teachers' College at Myer Park, the college's 200 prospective students will have a practical introduction to their training…

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Second Medical School Is Needed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 2

It is common knowledge that Sydney University is overcrowded in every faculty, and that shortages of staff, space and equipment have…

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School Test Of Sterilaup

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The efficiency of a sterilamp, claimed to destroy bacteria, was being tested at Mosman Public School, the…

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