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Northern Rivers · Schools

Schools, 1949

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Allowance Rise for Teachers' College Students

Northern Star · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Increased allowances for students and teachers Colleges were announced today by the Minister for Education (Mr…

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Celebrities Set "School for Scandal"

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: Extra police protected celebrities entering a West End theatre for Sir Laurence Olivier's first night in "School for…

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Striking School Teachers "Surrender"

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 6

MONTREAL, Monday: The Roman Catholic lay school teachers, who had been striking for a week for higher wages, voted…

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All Casino High Pupils Pass

Northern Star · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday.—A 100 per cent pass was gained by students of Casino High School in the Intermediate Certificate results which…

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43 District Pupils Gain Inter. Cert

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 1

Forty pupils of the two Kyogle schools, and three from Woodenbong Central School were successful in last year's examination for the Intermediate Certificate. The number of successful…

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Last Holiday Before School

Northern Star · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 4

Many hundreds of district residents are expected to flock to the beach resorts at the week-end for the last holiday before school, resumes on Wednesday. Monday will be observed as the holiday for Australia…

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Murwillumbah High School Enrolment

Tweed Daily · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 2

The Headmaster of Murwillumbah High School, Mr R. F. Goode, said last night that first year pupils would be enrolled on…

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Alstonville Teacher Farewelled

Northern Star · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 2

After six years as a teacher at AJstonville Central School. Mr Clive Herd has been transferred to Brighton-le-Sands. Sydney. The…

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To Seek Free School Transport

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 4

Country centres in the Uki area are dissatisfied with the State Government's policy of paying only 75 percent of the reasonable cost of…

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With the Boys School

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 5

Patrol Leader Ted Adcock and Scouts George .Falkner and -Peter Desmond surprised the troop last Saturday, when they erected a…

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Public Schools Resume Today

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 2

Public schools will begin the.1949 scholastic year today, when the Christmas vacation will end For most children…

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ROUNDABOUT Summer Music School "Delightful," Says Dorothy Dent

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 2

"I HAVE come back full of new ideas. The week has done me a great deal of good. It was delightful," said Miss Dorothy Dent, who has just returned to Lismore after attending the Summer School of Music at…

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Cabbage Tree Island Teacher Farewelled

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 6

A farewell social and presentation was tendered Mr. D. Willis by the aborigines of Cabbage Tree. Island settlement in the Richmond Hall at…

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Back to School at Murwillumbah

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

Mrs Roser, of Bray Street, with her daughter, Colleen, and grand-daughter, Ann Madden, down from Fraser's Island to be educated at Murwillumbah. Fifth Year High School Students congregate on School…

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High School Boys Go Into Uniform

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 2

Boys attending Murwillumbah High School yesterday in grey trousers, grey cesarine shirts and grey and blue ties, were wearing the new High School uniform…

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Hard to Buy Schoolboys' Suits

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 4

BRISBANE, Wednesday: The manager of a leading retail store said today that it was very difficult to supply secondary school…

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Roman Catholic Labour Schools Fight Communism

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 3

Two of Labour's "little guys," formerly ignorant of union business and inexpert in the Parliamentary procedures by which Communists sway union elections, were able eventually to organise an independent union…

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Johnnie Goes to School

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

With hundreds of Lismore youngsters going to school for the first time yesterday, this snap at South Lismore Public, School was typical of what was happening at each of the primary schools. Mrs. A. Standfield was driven by her…

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First Day of New School Year Many Absentees as Schools Resume

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 4

The reopening of district schools in the middle of the week was the cause of an unusually, large number of absentees, said Lismore teachers yesterday when the 1949 school year started…

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Teachers in Need of Accommodation

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 2

Headmaster of Kyogle Central School, Mr. C. E. Chambers, yesterday made an appeal for accommodation for the…

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