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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Schools

Schools, 1954

149 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 8

School on Pastures and Stock Graziers Told of Latest Trends

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 4

Success of a four-days animal and pasture husbandry school for farmers and graziers on the Southern Tablelands may well widen extension activities on similar lines in other Agricultural…

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Hard School

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 2

"In the middle of the Leicester hunting country they don't, in fact, hunt foxes, they hunt men." said Hardiman Scott in a BBC programme. This…

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Stop Closing Bush Schools Govt. Is Urged

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 3

The N.S.W. Government should stop closing bush schools. It should reopen many of the 468 it had closed in the last ten years…

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Fine Offer to High School

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 2

Sydney Self Raising Flour Company has offered to provide all the flour required by the Domestic Science cookery class at…

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Found “Live” Shell Army Praise for Sensible Schoolboy

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 1

The sensible action of a Queanbeyan schoolboy who found an unexploded 25lb. shell on the Sutton Road reserve, in overcom…

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Other Centres Use Pre-School Plan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 2

Gunnedah Pre-School Kindergarten Association has asked Queanbeyan Association to lend it the plans and specifications of…

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School’s Free Milk Scheme Most Successful

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 1

The free milk scheme at Queanbeyan Intermediate High School was an “outstanding success,” the Acting Master of the primary…

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“Muscles Torn Right Out” Schoolboy Gets £444 Verdict for Injured Arm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 1

A 15-year-old Queanbeyan schoolboy this week was awarded £444/14/1 for injuries he received in a car accident on the Clyde Mountain on December 26…

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Plans for School Boxing Tourney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 5

Plans are being made for a boxing tournament to be conducted in conjunction with the Annual Parents and Citizens’…

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Clyde Mountain Smash Schoolboy Gets 2444 Verdict for Ducted Arm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 November 1954 · page 1

A 15-year-old Queanbeyan schoolboy last week was awarded £444/14/1 for injuries he received in a car accident on the Clyde Mountain on…

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Communism in Schools Attack by Bruxner

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 November 1954 · page 2

The Leader of the State Country Party (Lt. Col. M. P. Bruxner) attacked, in the Legislative Assembly, the "Insidious influence" of Communism…

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284,000 Catholic School Pupils Relieve Government Op Big Financial Burden Says Archbishop O'brien

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1954 · page 4

Speaking at the foundation stone ceremony of the new St. Brigid's Convent in Temora Archbishop E. M. O'Brien of Canberra-Goulburn,…

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News from the Churches Combined Choirs of Grammar Schools Here Sunday Week

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 3

The choirs of the Canberra Boys and Girls’ Grammar Schools will take part in a special evening service at Christ Church, Queanbeyan, on Sunday week, December 5, at 7.30 p.m. It…

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Lady Teacher Caned

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1954 · page 2

The father of a pupil at Mt. Isa mines State school was fined £5 in court for striking a 21-year-old woman teacher across the buttocks with a…

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Moss Janet Carguill Dux of Baridwood Central School

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 December 1954 · page 2

Mitt Janet Cargil, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Cargill, of "Billabong" has won the honour of becoming Dux of the Braidwood Central School…

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Attendance Best for Many Years High School Pets’ Parade Was Outstanding Success

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 December 1954 · page 3

Queanbeyan Intermediate High School’s annual fete and pets’ parade on the school grounds last Saturday attracted the largest crowd for several years. The boxing tournament,…

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School Display

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon St. Bede's Intermediate High School was en fete when the pupils, under the direction of Miss Cooper, of Sydney, presented a…

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Teachers Thank Mothers’ Club

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 3

Queanbeyan Infants’ school Mothers’ Club held its last meeting for 1954 at the Intermediate High School on Tuesday afternoon…

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School of Arts H.Q. for Legacy ?

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 1

Queanbeyan Legacy Club has made application to Queanbeyan Municipal Council for the tenancy of the School of Arts…

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High School Speech Nights

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 1

Queanbeyan Intermediate High School Primary Section’s speech night will take place in the Parish Hall tonight…

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