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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Schools

Schools, 1954

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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY.— State schools this year will have between 20,000 and 24,000 more pupils than last year…

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School Dunces Get Reward

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 16

PAARL (South Africa). —A Scots visitor, Dr. Copeland, presented £1 to the bottom boy in each class…

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1954 School Vacations

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 2

Many parents are anxious to know the dates of school vacations during 1954, in…

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2 Extra Rooms for School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 2

The Department of Education has accepted a tender for the erection of a two-room timber building at Argenton…

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School Players Yet to Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 12

The Secretary of Newcastle District Cricket Association (Mr. A. D. Dodds) said last night that he was still waiting…

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Farewell To Music Teacher

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

A group of well-known Newcastle artists will present a farewell concert for Madame Rachel le…

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School Slap Legal In U.S.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 4

NEW YORK, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—School teachers were told yesterday that they had a legal right to slap school…

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44 Arrested In Two-up School Raid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Vice Squad detectives and uniformed police arrested 44 men last night in a raid on Thomas's…

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180 Teacher Attend Post-College Course

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 2

About 180 teachers from widespread areas in N.S.W. today began a post-college course at Newcastle Teachers' College. The course has been…

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Insurance Plan For Pupils

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 7

New South Wales school-children might be covered by accident insurance eventually, Mr. A. W. Harrison said…

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School For Peace

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 12

BRUGES (Belgium), (O.S.R.): Nearly 40 students from 16 countries are helping to promote peace by living and working together at the College of Europe here…

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1d. A Week S. Aust. School Children

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 12

ADELAIDE.—Accident insurance for children attending public schools will be introduced at a cost of Id a week in South Australia this year. Announcing this, presi-…

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Local Schools Beat State Average In Leaving Passes

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 2

Newcastle Girls' and Soys' High Schools gained a higher average of passes than those of the State in the 1953 Leaving Certificate examination. The State average pass,…

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Teachers Pleased With Post-Graduate Courses

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 6

Teachers attending the post-graduate courses at Newcastle Teachers' College consider the school to be an outstanding success. They are enthusiastic about the lectures, which…

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Korea V.c. Head of Army School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Jan. 14. AA.P. —Lieut-Colonel James Came, V.C., commander in Korea of the "Glorious Gloucesters,"…

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Students Take Over School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 4

Three hundred members of the Student Christian Movement took over the New England Girls' School, Armidale, this week. The students and their…

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Schoolboy Was 81

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 5

ABRAHAM Wufle, 81, in a West Los Angeles Court on a jaywalking charge,…

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Crime School 'Grads "Caned"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 13

TOKIO.—Police here said they arrested the 24-year-old "president" and 12 students of a…

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Batsmen Will Now Need An Apple For The Teacher Jack Kramer's Views On Relaxed Rules

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, (O.S.R.): Don't be surprised if in the future you see some batsmen bringing along an apple for the teacher or making some other such nice little gesture. Reason: For the first…

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Full-Time Mining Teacher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 9

Cessnock Technical College is to have a full-time teacher of mining. He is Mr. J. Forbes, who…

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