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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1931

62 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

School Football Canberra Rugby League Competition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 1

The final match in the above competition was played yesterday at Manuka Oval between Canberra Grammar School and Queanbeyan Convert,…

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F. & C. Essay Competition Over 10,000 Schools to Compete

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1931 · page 3

Prizes amounting to £150 are being offered by the P. & O. Company for the best essays by Australian boys and girls in all public and private schools…

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School Premiers St. Gregory’s Convent Win Rugby Shield

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 2

It was a proud day for the St. Gregory’s Convent Rugby League team when on Wednesday last they received the N.S.W. Rugby League Shield. The…

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“Island of Apples” Schoolboys’ Opportunity Y.A.L. Christmas Tour

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 3

For the first time in many years, the Young Australia League is organising a party of boys to visit Tasmania. The tour will take place during the schools’…

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Auction Bridge and the School of Arts

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 2

The reading room at the School of Arts on Tuesday evening last presented an unusual but pleasing spectacle, forsooth bridge tables and cards…

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Wattle Park Methodist Sunday School Anniversary

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 2

The annual Sunday School Anniversary was held on Sunday, 20th September, and attracted large congregations. Rev. W. H. Cheetham conducted…

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A Practical Training School

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 October 1931 · page 4

Famous conductors will sometimes tell how they have learnt more in a year or two as members of some humble theatre band than in all their…

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School Used for Party Meetings

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 2

There have been serious complaints about the use of public school classrooms for political meetings. Permission was given to the Lang…

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School Bands

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 2

Rochester, U.S.A., possesses in its public schools six well-trained bands, sixteen orchestras, and instrumental instruction which includes fifty-six…

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Dying School Girl Arranges Own Funeral Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 1

Irene Harrison, aged 13, a pupil at Adelong Convent, died in the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday. She had a presentiment her end was near, and…

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School Clothes

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 November 1931 · page 3

HALF the fun of planning for school is in the selection of one’s wardrobe. Madge Evans, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s actress in “Sporting Blood”, shows…

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District School Visit of Chief Inspector

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 November 1931 · page 2

A surprise visit was paid to Queanbeyan District School by the Chief Inspector of Primary Schools, Mr. B. C. Harkness. M.A., who spend Thursday…

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Armistice Day Ceremony at District School

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 November 1931 · page 1

Shortly before 11 a.m. yesterday the children of Queanbeyan District School assembled in the grounds around the Flag, which hung at half-mast, to…

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Must Wait Execution of Additional Rooms at Queanbeyan School

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 December 1931 · page 1

Mr. W. W. Hedges, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following communication from Mr. W. Davies, Minister for Education, regarding a request for…

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Queanbeyan District School Annual Report for 1931

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 3

It is with pleasure that I submit for the information of parents and citizens a report on the work of the school for 1931…

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Local and General. Presbyterian School Picnic

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 2

Under ideal weather conditions the annual picnic of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday School was held at Farringdon on Wednesday afternoon…

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Music in the Schools

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 December 1931 · page 2

The Principal of the Cass Technical School Detroit says of music in the school: “For many years I have been an advocate of musical instruction in…

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Xmas Break-up Interesting Afternoon at the Queanbeyan District School

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 17 December 1931 · page 2

A very happy atmosphere pervaded Queanbeyan District School on Wednesday afternoon, when several functions were held to mark the close of the…

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Convent School Distribution of Prizes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 December 1931 · page 1

On Wednesday afternoon in the presence of Rev. Fathers O’Riordan, Harnett and McDade and a large gathering of parents and friends, the…

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Braidwood Public School Presentation of Prizes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1931 · page 3

At the annual function in the Institute on Wednesday last there was a crowded house, standing room only, being available. A really excellent…

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