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Schools, 1870

10 stories in Riverina's papers

Original Correspondence. All communications to this Journal must be authenticated by ths name and address of the writer. No [?] notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and no rejected communication, will be returned. the Public School. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 3

DEAR SIR.—I beg, through your columns, to call attention to a public question, which the Public School must be. I will not say I am dissatisfied with my children's' progress…

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Grammar School. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 2 February 1870 · page 2

SIR.—There is every probability that ere long we shall be able to boast of a Public School alike commensurate to the growing requirements of this thriving and increasing…

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Fighting Among Schoolboys

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 4

THE head master of the Brisbane Grammar School is evidently of the muscular Christianity school; in his address on a recent occasion he is reported to have…

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Wesleyan Sabbath School Picnic

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 19 March 1870 · page 2

PURSUANT to arrangement, the annual picnic given to the children of the Wesleyan Sunday School, took place on Thursday. The result must have been highly gratifying to the rev…

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Poetry. in School Days

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 4

Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry viues are running…

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Public Schools. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 2

SIR,âThe late statistical return on the subject of public schools is highly gratifying, as affording, unmistakeable evidence of an advance in the educational character of the…

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Original Correspondence. All communications to this Journal must bd autherticated by the nanie and address of the writer. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and no rejected communication will be returned. the Public School. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

SIR,—Allow me to support as strongly as I can your recommendation for an enlargement of the local School Board, notwithstanding the strong objection thereto that will…

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The Public School. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 12 October 1870 · page 2

SIR,—I am the father of a large family, and in common with several friends of mine, also fathers or families, was greatly pleased with your bold and public-spirited leader of last…

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A Schoolboy on the War Crisis

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 19 October 1870 · page 4

THE following letter, amusing in its artlessness, is written by a boy of 12, at school in Neuwied, Rhenish Prussia, to his parents in the neighbourhood of…

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The Public School. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 21 December 1870 · page 3

SIR,—I find the following in the last number of the Albury Banner:—" The annual examination of the Albury Public School was held on Thursday and Friday last, and…

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