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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Schools

Schools, 1950

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School Notes (Gilgandra Intermediate High School)

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 5

On Friday, 2lst April, out teams journeyed to Warren for a combined school sports, but misfortune in the way of sprained…

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School Sports Annual Meeting

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 5

The annual sports of the Gilgandra Intermediate High School were held on the show ground, and there was great excitement…

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Basketball Competition. High School Withdraws

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 3

Owing to the Public School drawing out of the competition, all matches which have been played will not count in…

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School Improvements

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 15

A bicycle rack has been erected at the Gwabegar Public School, and is a useful addition for cyclists…

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Central School Adult Concert

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 15

The Satisfactory total of £53/-12/6 was realised at a Concert held on the outdoor stage at the Baradine Central School on…

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Farmers' Tractor and Machinery School at Hawkesbury College

The Western Herald · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 5

The Minister for Agriculture, Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A. announced today that a five days School on Tractor Maintenance…

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Educational Notes Bourke Intermediate High School Autumn Vacation

The Western Herald · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 8

The coming vacation extends from Friday, 5th May to Monday, 15th May, both dates inclusive. The last schoolday will be Thursday,…

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English Exchange Teacher Coming

The Western Herald · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 8

On Tuesday, 16th May, Miss Kathleen Cocker will arrive, an additional teacher on the staff of the Infant's Department. She hopes to…

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Nyngan Railway Institute & School of Arts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the Nyngan Railway's Institute and School of Arts, the branch President (Mr. O. Miles)…

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School Children Stage Strike Athens, Friday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 1

Greece is gripped by a new nation-wide strike—this time of school children. State school pupils are…

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Capacity House for High School Play Night

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

THE Methodist Hall was packed to capacity on Wednesday night last when Wellington High School students presented four one-act plays before one of the biggest audiences which have ever attended the school's annual…

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Five-day Tractor School Arranged

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 7

The Minister for Education, Hon. E. R. Graham, MLA. has announced that a five days school on tractor maintenance and farm…

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Free School Buses Urged By Mr. Medcalf

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 4

Commenting on rural educational facilities, Mr. R. G. Medcalf, MLA, member for Lachlan, stated that free transport should be provided of all…

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Peak Hill Still Wants a New School

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

The Peak Hill P. and C. Association is to again approach the Minister for Education, urging that a new school be…

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Annual School Concert at Mendooran

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 2

Pupils of the Mendooran School presented the Annual School Concert to a capacity crowd in the Mechanics'…

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School Concert

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 8

On Wednesday of last week, the pupils of the local school, for the first time in many years, presented a concert. The Mechanics'…

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School Crisis Looming Cowra

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 4

In an address to the Cowra Rotary Club, the Deputy Headmaster of the Cowra High School (Mr. Stan Schofields) said…

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Free School Buses Advocated by Medcalf

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 1

Commenting on rural educational facilities, Mr. R. G. Medcalf, M.L.A., member for Lachlan, stated that free…

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Mendooran School Concert Programme Varied, Entertaining

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 18

Until test Wednesday night it was many years since the children of Mendooran Public School had staged a school concert. The…

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Talkie Machine Baradine Central School

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 11

The new talkie projector machine for Baradine Central School arrived last week and all teachers and school children in…

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