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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1905

91 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 5

The School of Sorrow

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 4

I SAT in the school of sorrow, The Master sat teaching there; But my eyes were dim with weeping, And my heart was full of care…

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School Concert

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1905 · page 2

We would remind those, interested, as well as the general public, of the concert by the junior pupils of the Superior Public School, to be held in the Institute…

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Night School

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 3

IN connection with her girls' school and academy of music, Mrs. Warren Ball purposes holding night classes (from 7 to 9.30) for scholars…

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School Howlers

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 5 May 1905 · page 6

A fresh batch of “Comic School Tales” is published by the author of “The Comic Side of School Life,” Mr. Henry J. Barker, M.A. Here are…

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School Picnic & Sports at Rob Roy

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2

NOBODY seems to know how Rob Roy got its name—or why. Surely the christening of it must have been don by…

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Canberra School Social

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2
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ON Friday evening last the Duntroon Woolshed was the meeting place for many of the people of Canberra and…

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School Picnic

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 26 May 1905 · page 2

A SCHOOL picnic was held on Wednesday last. Owing to the attitude of the committee towards this paper, we were precluded from…

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Royalla Public School Picnic

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 May 1905 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT (writing under date May 25) says:--Saturday last was a gals day among the folk of Rob Roy and its vicinity, being the occasion of the annual…

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Glenwood School Picnic

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 2

EMPIRE Day was celebrated at Glenwood Public School by a picnic, promoted by the teacher and parents of the pupils, the…

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Public Schools' Association

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 2

A meeting of the Queanbeyan Branch of the Public Schools' Association was held on Saturday, 27th inst. Fifteen teachers were present,…

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School Teachers' Meeting

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 2

ON Saturday last a meeting of teachers, in connection with the Public Schools Association, was held at the Queanbeyan School,…

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School Charity

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 5

Charity mongers are ubiquitons and unscrupulous. You will be surprised at the cold-blooded manner in which matrons, with so[?] of their own, and who…

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“The School of the Cross.” New Play Arranged at Oberamm[?]rgau

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 4

The lapse of time (writes “Lloyd’s Weekly”) between 1900 and 1910 when the last Passion Play wan held and the next [?] arranged for has been too long to…

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Mass Public School

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

THE Naas Public School which was until recently a half time school, was on the 6th inst., opened as a central. Mr. S. H. Melvin, formerly…

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Tharwa Public School

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

THE Tharwa Public School has just undergone repairs, and has been converted from a half-time to a full time school. Mr. F. H. Kingsell,…

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Hanged by a Roller Towel. a Schoolboy’s Death

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 4

A twelve-year-old schoolboy, named Cross, has had a remarkable death at Battersea. He was found in a washhouse hanging…

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Googong School Site

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

IT is notified in the Government Gazette of 28th June, instant, that it has been dee[?]d expedient, in the public interest to resume the whole of…

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The New Schools Syllabus

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 2

The new syllabus for primary schools has been issued. A new addition is the course of study for the sixth and seventh classes. These classes take what is now called the higher primary, course of…

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Public School Site at Googong

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 1

BY a GAZETTE notice dated June 28, the dedication of 2 acres of land at Googong, county Murray for a public…

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