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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Schools

Schools, 1899

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Sunday School Concert

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 2

The Church of England Sunday School Concer was held in the protestant hall on Thursday night and was pronounced by everyone who had the good, fortune to attend, a most decided success. Mrs…

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Superior Public School

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 2

The prizes won by the pupils of Wellington Superior Public School at the recent annual sports, were distributed on Friday afternoon at the school. Mr. J. P. Clifford, Mayor of Wellington…

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Bodangora. Public School Picnic

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 November 1899 · page 5

The children's great event of the year duly eventuated on Saturday last, and was a great success, though the conditions of the weather were not as perfect for a day's outing as might have been…

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Tales Told Out of School

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 November 1899 · page 3

School examinations and composition writing produce funny results the world over. An Austrian teacher has recently published in Vienna a book called "Humour…

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Public School Rebellions

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 November 1899 · page 3

It is a queer thing that at almost everyone of the big English public schools there has at some time or another been a regular rebellion against all authority. There is a record of a…

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Dundullimal School Hall

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1899 · page 2

A MEETING was called by intimation at service held on Nov. 12 and Nov. 28. of all those interested in the Dundullimal School Hall. That meeting was held on…

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Persona Lities. a Schoolmaster Journalist

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1899 · page 5

Mr T. J. Macnamara, of the London School Board, to which he devotes [?] immense amount of time, is a well-knit man about thirty-seven years of age, with a pair…

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Wrightville School of Arts

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 December 1899 · page 2

On Wednesday evening last another meeting was held in connection with the above, when Mr Lew offered his hall for a rental of £1 a week…

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A Schoolroom Idyl

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 December 1899 · page 1

'Teacher, I cannot answer that question.' 'Robert, your reasons for this surprising refusal to answer me! Did…

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Chinese Children at School

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 December 1899 · page 1

A noted Gorman traveller. Baron von Hesse-Wortegg, has just returned from China, bringing, among other interesting stories, an account of the Chinese schools…

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Dr. Busby and the Schoolboy

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 December 1899 · page 1

A good story is told of the late Doctor Busby, who one morning, going info the school-room, took with him a bunch of line grapes for his own eating. Going from the…

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Wrightville School Concert. Crowded Hall

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 16 December 1899 · page 5

There must have been over 300 people in Lew's Hall on Wednesday last, on the occasion of the concert in aid of the Prize Fund for the…

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Infants' School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1899 · page 2

The Infant department of the Public School, under the charge of Miss Velvin, celebrated its break-up for the midsummer vacation on Fridny morning. The Girls'…

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St. Aloysius Boys' School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1899 · page 2

The pupils of the R.C. Boys' School celebrated their "breaking up' on Friday morning. After a short entertainment by the scholars, Father Dunne, in presenting…

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Convent School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1899 · page 2

BEFORE breaking up for the Christmas holidays on last Thursday morning, the girls of the Convent Primary School gave a short but very enjoyable entertainment…

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The Schools. Dubbo Superior Public School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1899 · page 2

THE annual distribution of prizes in connection with the breaking up of the public school for the Christmas vacation was held in the Masonic Hall on Friday…

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School Concert at Baradine

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 20 December 1899 · page 3

A concert was given in the Baradine hall on Friday evening the 15th inst. by the pupils of the Baradine Public School, with a view of raising…

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Dubbo Grammar School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 December 1899 · page 2

THE annual distribution of prizes in connection with the Dubbo Grammar School took place on Saturday afternoon. The chair was taken by Mr. W. E. Morgan, J.P.,…

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Public School Vacation

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 December 1899 · page 2

The Public School broke up on Friday last for the usual Christmas vacotion, and Alderman Walker took advantage of the occasion to keep…

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From School to the Victoria Cross

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 22 December 1899 · page 6

THERE are, perhaps, no pages in our military history more blood-stirring than those which describe the daring deeds by which boys in their teens have won the…

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