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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1928

78 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4

More Money for Schools

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

The State Government intends to make more money available for education this financial year. It will scrap the policy of starvation as applied by Mr. Lang to the…

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St. Benedict’s Convent Secondary School, Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 4

Advantage was taken of the visit to Queanbeyan of the Right Rev. Dr. Barry, Bishop of Goulburn, to anticipate the breaking-up of the above…

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Methodist Sunday School Picnic

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

The annual picnic in connection with the Queanbeyan Methodist Sunday School, was held at Tharwa yesterday. There was a large…

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High School Passes

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 2

The following pupils of local and district schools have qualified for admission to the High Schools mentioned. Gouburn High School: D…

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Schoolmates Meet

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 4

Thus the Gundagai "Independent": "Met recently in Gundagai four men who went to school together at Major's Creek, with its "cowbell in the…

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Sunday School Prize Giving

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 1

Last Sunday afternoon the annual presentation of prizes in connection with the Queanbeyan Methodist Sunday School was held, there being a…

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Public School Vacations Easter Vacation Eliminated

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 6

Mr. Drummond, Minister for Education, has agreed to adopt the majority recommendations of a special committee appointed some time ago to in…

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School Holidays Minister Approves Alteratio

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 5

The Minister for Education has announced that the school vacations at midsummer would be six weeks in the western area and other localities…

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School boys to Tour Tasmania

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 2

Under the auspices of the Young Australia League a party of 100 boys will tour Tasmania during the schools Easter Vacation. The Tour…

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New Convent School St. Christopher’s at Canberra Dedicated

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 1

The principal feature of the second Catholic pilgrimage to Canberra on Sunday was the blessing and opening the new Convent School at Manuka…

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Schoolboys’ Tour of Tasmania Party of 100

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 March 1928 · page 3

The Secretary of the Young Australia League, Mr. W. E. Stannard, reports that considerable interest is being displayed in Tasmania in…

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Children’s Court “Wagged It From School”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 2

At the above Court yesterday, four parents were charged with hot causing their children to attend school the requisite number of days. One parent…

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Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 1

On Saturday last a day’s outing was enjoyed by the Presbyterian Sunday School children. The day was all that could be desired, and 10.30 a.m. about…

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Public School

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 April 1928 · page 2

The request of the Parents & Citizens' Association that an additional teacher be appointed to take charge of the super-primary class at the…

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Public School

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

The agitation for the establishment of a super-primary class at the Braidwood public School has terminated satisfactorily. Only recently we…

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Record Enrollment of Teachers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 2

The enrollments in the Sydney Teachers' College this year number 1340 and at Armidale 60. These figures constitute a record…

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Schoolgirl Battered and Outraged

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 5

A young immigrant, John Milner, pleaded not guilty before the Criminal Court at Perth last week on a charge of haying murdered Ivy Lewis, a…

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Mongarlowe Public School

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 5

Mr. W. W. Hedges. M.L.A., is in receipt of the following from the Department of Education:—"With reference to your representations on…

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Queanbeyan Public School

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 1

Accommodation at the Queanbeyan Public School is still insufficient, and the P. & C. Association, has been asking for more. Mrs. Goddard, the hon…

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Braidwood Public School v. CHARLEYONG

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1928 · page 3

S. and E. Roberts (Charleyong) v. K. Iverach and C. Ison (Pub School) 3-6, 4-6. O. Roberts and Cusson v. C. Byrne…

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