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Northern Rivers · Schools

Schools, 1877

12 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

The Teacher's Residence

Northern Star · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 2

WE notice that the contractor, Mr. W. Clements, of Ballina, has just completed the erection of a teacher's residence adjoining the Provisional School in this town. The…

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The Open Column. (To the Editar of the "Northern Star.") New South Wales Poblic School League. Sydney, 22nd Maren, 1877

Northern Star · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 3

PEAR SIR,—I am instructed, by the committee of the New South Wales Public School League, to invite you to assist in further efforts to extend the advantages of…

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A Schoolboy on Corns

Northern Star · Saturday 5 May 1877 · page 2

Corns are of two kinds—vegetable and animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows; animal corn grows on otes. There are several kinds of corns; there is the…

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A School of Agriculture

Northern Star · Saturday 19 May 1877 · page 3

THE following valuable letter, which we think is of interest to the residents in all the country districts, appeared in a late number of the "Glen Innes Guardian":-…

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Lismore School of Arts

Northern Star · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 2

THE following letter has been courteously handed to us, for publication, by the Secretary:- Lismore, Richmond River…

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The New Teacher

Northern Star · Saturday 30 June 1877 · page 1

The Wildacre school was universally thought to be the most unmanageable in the state, though it was only a girl's school. When Miss Briorly kept it, the…

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[?] Schools

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1877 · page 4

BELOW, we publish extracts from the reports furnished to the Council of Education, by A. Dwyer, Esq., respecting the condition of the Schools in this district, which is embodied…

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The Open Column. To the Editor of the "Northern Star." Lismore School of Arts

Northern Star · Saturday 25 August 1877 · page 2

SIR,—As our local School of Arts appears just now, to be in a moribund state, allow me to suggest, through the medium of the "Star," the advisability of at once starting…

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The Northern Star. Lismore, August 25, 1877. Our Schools

Northern Star · Saturday 25 August 1877 · page 2

THE Report upon the various Schools in this district, published in a late issue, aro, very satisfactory, as showing that the schoolmaster is…

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Our Schools

Northern Star · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 4

DR. BOWKER having called in question the adequacy of the accommodation in our Public schools, Mr. Wall, a newspaper correspondent, has done well to bring under notice…

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School of Arts

Northern Star · Saturday 20 October 1877 · page 2

A MEETING of the subscribers to the Lismore School of Arts was held at the Court House, on Saturday afternoon last, to receive, the report of the Committee as to action taken…

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Essays. School Sufferings

Northern Star · Saturday 29 December 1877 · page 2

WE disbelieve in the good effect of unregulated corporal punishment, whether inflicted by masters or monitors, or by boys acting irresponsibly, because we disbelieve in…

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