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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Schools

Schools, 1951

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School Reports Condemned SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

Speaking at the New Education Fellowship Jubilee conference in Sydney yesterday Mr. David Jordan, principal of…

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Should School Reports On Pupils Be Sent To Parents?

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 1

Dubbo headmasters were quick to comment to to-day on a condemnation in Sydney yesterday of the system of sending pupils' school reports to parents. One of the headmasters said that he had cut out…

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Non-competitive School Work Was on Display

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 1

Every year the non-competitive school work display at the show provides interest to the children, their parents and their…

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High School Gets Cup For Public Speaking

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 5

A cup for public speaking has been donated to the Dubbo High School by Mr. W. Wheeler and Mr. C. Flynn, the…

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Educational Notes Bourke Intermediate High School 3rd Term Commencement

The Western Herald · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 4

The third term of the year has commenced but not all children have as yet returned to school. Parents are asked to send their…

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£17,000 Prize to Bourke Teacher Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 1

A High School teacher, Mr. Jim Litts, of Bourke, learned yesterday he had won the £17,000 first prize in the War Veterans'…

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Business Class Meets Tonight at High School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 3

Anyone who wants to undertake a quick refresher course in business principles and book-keeping should come…

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School Display Clashes with Cricket Season

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1951 · page 2

It was not practicable" to prepare wickets at Victoria Park while Dubbo school-children were training there…

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Rev Dr C Duffy Inspector of Schools in Archdiocese

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 20 September 1951 · page 5

His Lordship, Dr. Norton, and over 20 of the diocesan priests entertained Rev. Dr. C. Duffy at a luncheon at…

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New Classrooms for Dubbo South School

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1951 · page 2

At the meeting of the Dubbo South Mothers' Club on Tuesday, arrangements were concluded for the fete to be held on October 6…

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Tribute to Former Student of W'ton School

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 September 1951 · page 2

Mrs. A. O. Moir, of Maxwell Street, was very delighted recently to receive a book entitled "John Kinmont Moir"…

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Schoolboy Wins Radiogram Valued at £180

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 1

Ten-year-old Central schoolboy Gary Roberts won a £180 radiogram in a "Fiver Sight" radio show last night for the…

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Educational Notes Bourke Intermediate High School the School Fair Is on

The Western Herald · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 10

This week's P. & C. meeting was a very successful one. The date for the School Fair was confirmed as, Saturday afternoon, 13th October,…

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New Records Created at Annual High School Athletic Carnival

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 1

EXCITEMENT reached fever heights as one House and then the other gained the lead in the Wellington Intermediate High School's Annual Inter-House Athletics Carnival at Rygate Park on Thursday last and a sustained burst of cheering greeted the announcement that Barton McLeod House had won the Carnival with 527 points,…

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Special School Planned for Man on Land

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 2

A three-day school of animal husbandry and agriculture organised by the New England University College at Armidale will be held at Tamworth next February…

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Baptist Church Notes Sunday School Picnic

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 3

Among the several interesting functions of this week-end is the Sunday School picnic. The whole of Monday next,…

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MENDOORAN P. & C Meetinc New School Desk

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 12

At a meeting of the Mendooran P and G Association held last week was a letter from the Education…

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Transfer of School of Arts to C.W.A. Minister's Approval To Be Sought

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 6

In accordance with the requirements laid down by the Department of Education, a second general meeting of…

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Shearing School At Yanco Experiment Farm

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, MLA, announced on Wednesday that a shearing school extending…

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Educational Notes Bourke. Intermediate High School an Electric Stove Requested

The Western Herald · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 4

When the Home Science unit was planned and placed in Bourke provision was made in the wiring to permit an electric stove to be…

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