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Schools, 1936

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Firemen Called to School Boiler

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 4

Firemen were called to Rutlish School, Merton (Eng.), recently, to fight not a fire but boiling water! Steam from the stokehold providing…

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English Schoolboys Party to Visit Australia

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday:--A party of 23 schoolboys, representing 15 of the Great Public Schools, including Eton and Harrow, will sail for Australia on…

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Amusements School of Arts George Raft in "The Glass Key"

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4

George Raft stars in the featured attraction, "The Glass Key," at the School of Arts to-night. It is a thrilling attraction--a picture with a…

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School Picnic at Whiporie Rappville

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4

There was a large attendance of local and district people at the Whiporie public school for the school picnic. For the children's benefit a…

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Staff Changes District Schools

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 13

A number of changes in the staffs of district schools will take effect when the vacation concludes on January 27, according to an…

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Librarion to Be Retrenched Ballina School of Arts

Northern Star · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

A committee meeting of the Ballina School of Arts decided that it was impossible, as a result of the financial position of the institution, to continue…

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School Teachers Industrial Aims Abandonment Suggested HOBART

Northern Star · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 10

Delegates to the annual conference of the Federated State School Teachers' Association of Australia suggested that the association should abandon its…

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HEALTHIER British School Children Growing Taller (From A Special Correspondent.) LONDON December 21

Northern Star · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 11

Britain's schoolchildren are growing heavier as well as healthier. This is revealed in the report for 1934 of Dr. Arthur McNalty, chief medical officer…

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Failed to Attend School

Northern Star · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 6

The parents of three children, whose attendance at school was considered unsatisfactory, were proceeded against in the Children's Court at Lismore…

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Aviation and Aerial Engineering Proposed Course in Secondary Schools

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY Tuesday.—The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) announced to-day that he had suggested to the Federal Government…

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School Leaving Age International Move For Increase CANBERRA

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

As a partial solution of the problem of unemployment among young persons, the Central Administration International Labour Office will…

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School Concert Goonellabag Success

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 12

The annual concert by Goonellabah Public School pupils, assisted by expupils, was a success. The children showed careful training and reflected…

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School Teachers Higher Qualifications Wanted HOBART

Northern Star · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 6

Higher qualifications for the Stale s school teachers were recommended by the Federated School Teachers' Association conference to-day. Motions…

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Lessons at School in Motoring

Tweed Daily · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 6

Motoring, it appears, is to become part of the school curriculum in Prague, Czechoslovakia; when the scholars have climbed to the top forms…

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Agenda Items Junior Farmer Clubs Trades' School Work

Northern Star · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 3

Items for the agenda for the next quaterly meeting of the North Coast District Council of Junior Farmers' Clubs, to the held on March 10, must…

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AMUSEMENTS Thrill Night at School of Arts

Tweed Daily · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 3

"Air Hawks," Columbia's thrilling air romance, is the featured attraction at the School of Arts to-night It is an exciting drama of transport…

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Ellangowan School Social

Northern Star · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 4

There was a large attendance at the School Social and Christmas Tree organised by the Ellangowan P. and C. Association. The Christmas Tree was…

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English Schoolboys Machine-Made Careers

Tweed Daily · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 8

Boys at an English public school are, for the first time, being psychologically tested to help them in choosing careers…

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Amusements 'Dante's Inferno' Screening at School of Arts

Tweed Daily · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 5

"Dante's Inferno," one of the most startling dramas ever produced by the motion picture industry, comes to the School of Arts on Tuesday and to…

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Amusements School of Arts 'Dante's Inferno' Opens To-night

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 6

Just how great are the technical advances motion pictures have made within the past few years the film going public will realise when "Dante's…

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