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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1950

1,114 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 56

No Room For Errors In Film Of Famous School

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Sat. (O.S.R.): Rugby, the famous English public school, is trying to clarify its history. "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is to be made at Rugby this…

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Need For Hunter Farm School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

A full-time agricultural high school for the Hunter district is strongly urged by Group 3, the organisation that represents 14 show societies in the district…

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Lambton School Frolic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 4

A record attendance saw the Lambton school frolic in the Church of England Hall. Prize winners were.—Boys: Peter Wall,…

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Boolaroo School To Be Extended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 4

The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) advised Boolaroo A.L.P. last night that it was proposed to extend the existing school site and…

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"Misbehaviour" on School Buses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 2

Coal Point Progress Association will ask the Department of Transport if conductors are compulsory on schoolchildren's buses…

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Dissatisfaction Over E. Lambton School Delay

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

Members of the East Lambtun Progress Association last night expressed dissatisfaction that work had not yet been…

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Talks On Toronto School Of Arts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 4

Toronto members of Lake Macquarie Shire Council, the Shire Clerk (Mr. T. Halton), the Librarian (Miss Miller) and…

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Stockton Plan For School Equipment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 4

A move will be made at next meeting of Stockton Parents and Citizens' Association to spend £87 from the reserve fund to buy…

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EDITORIAL Hunter Valley Needs This School

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 8

WITH 64 per cent, of the State's people crammed into three industrial areas there is an ill-balance of population which must inevitably operate against our attaining a satisfactory economy…

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Moated Home Now Finishing School

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 15

LONDON, (O.S.R.): Ex-Guards officer Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfield and his 30-year-old wife are opening a finishing school for girls in their 15th century mansion, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Fees will…

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School Holidays at the Lake

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 1

MANY schoolchildren from country areas are spending their May holidays at Lake Macquarie. 'Ian and Merry Blakemore (from Orange) were snapped by a staff photographer fishing from the shore at Coal Point, Toronto, at dusk…

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Holiday For A Schoolboy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1950 · page 1

Fishing on the Newcastle waterfront yesterday was George Simpson, of Helensburgh (South Coast), who is spending his school…

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Schoolboy Awarded £1750 Damages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A seven-year-old schoolboy was awarded £1750 damages in the Supreme Court to-day for injuries…

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Pay Increases For Some Teachers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Immediate pay increases will be granted to ex-servicemen schoolteachers, the Minister for Education (Mr…

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Ian Healy's Suburbia, This Week He Goes 100 Miles To School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1950 · page 5

Every morning of the school week, 22-year-old James Gillespie, of Winsor-street, Merewether, has his breakfast, picks up his textbooks and goes off—100 miles—to take his lessons. He is a student at Sydney…

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£1M. Bank Plan for Newcastle School Of Arts Site Leased For 99 Years

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 1

The Commonwealth Bank proposes to erect an eight storied building, estimated to cost £1 million, on the site occupied by Newcastle School of Arts. The President of the School of Arts…

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But At School To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 1

Making the most yesterday of the last day of the mid-winter holiday for public schools, Neil Wiseman, of Woodlands Boy's Home, made a youthful "Tarzan." He used a folded mat as a "Tarzan" leopard skin for jungle game, in which a bow and arrow were…

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One-day School For Health Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 2

A one-day refresher course for health officers in the Hunter River district, Wyong and Gosford, will be held at Newcastle Technical…

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Schools Resume After Holidays

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 2

Schools throughout Newcastle and district resumed today after the May holidays, which commenced on May 4…

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Back-To-School Fish Yarn

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 1

"THE ONE that got away was this size," said Barry Laybutt at school this morning as he related his holiday…

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