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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1879

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Over-work in Female Schools. (New Zealand Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 3

A LETTER signed "A Matron," referring to the death of Miss Adams, a school teacher, in the Otago Daily Times of Monday, attributes her death to…

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Board Schools in England

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 5 February 1879 · page 1

An English tourist has been sharply criticising the management of the London Public schools known as the "Board sohools," and in all…

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The Public School Picnic

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 16 April 1879 · page 2

No more pleasurable sight has been witnessed in Wagga for a lengthy period than the creditable appearance shown by the large crowd of children which assembled early on…

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Catholic School Picnic

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 16 April 1879 · page 3

The pupils attending the Covert School (girls) and St. Michael's School (boys) were treated to a picnic yesterday by the Rev. Birmingham, whose generosity on this…

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Opening of the Brawlin Public School

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 26 April 1879 · page 4

THE opening of the neat Public School just completed at Brawlin took place on Monday afternoon last, in the presence of about sixty persons assembled for the occasion. The…

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Religious Instruction in Public Schools. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1879 · page 1

The following circular has been issued by the Council of Education, and is being forwarded to the various Public school teachirs in the colony. The…

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Roman Catholic Children in Public Schools. (Echo.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1879 · page 1

Before the promulgation of the Roman Catholic Archbishop's Pastoral on the relation of his Church to the Public schools, clerical influences had been…

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Religious Education in Public Schools

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 2 August 1879 · page 6

THE following circular has been addressed to all teachers of public schools under the Council of Education:—Council of Education Office,…

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Religious Education in Public Schools

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 August 1879 · page 3

The following circular has been addressed to all teachers of Public Schools under the Council of Education :-Council of Education Offlice. Sydney, 15th July, 1879,-The Council of…

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Correspondence. Public School

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 5

TO THE PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF CHILDREN ATTENDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, WAGGA WAGGA. DEAR FRIENDS,—I regret exceedingly that…

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Public School Inspection. To the Editor of the Burrangong Chronicle

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 4

SIR,—In a previous issue you have republished a letter from the Cootamundra Herald, bearing the signature of " Orient." This extraordinary communication claims to…

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Art Schools

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 8

HIGH art not being the result of an exact copy of nature, still less an exact copy of the antique, what is there of teaching in the three principal schools…

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School Inspection. (To the Editor of the Burrangong Chronicle.)

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 3

But man, proud man! Dress'd in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy esse ice, like an angry ape,…

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Cullinga Public School

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 September 1879 · page 4

WE were much gratified, on a visit this week, to find the Cullinga Public School, under the care of Mr. J. Dingwall, in such a state of efficiency and progress as to afford the…

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Moravian Settlements and Schools

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 October 1879 · page 6

THE secret of the success of the Christian colonies among the Moravians we must seek for elsewhere than in the attempt to cut men and-women off from…

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Adelong News. Opening Adeleong Grove School

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 28 October 1879 · page 2

This school was opened on Thursday. Mr. Calaway, a very old resident, took the chair, and delivered a good speech, in which he expressed the pleasure it afforded him to see in his…

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The Proposed Amendment in the Public School Act

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 2

It is certainly gratifying to find that the Government are alive to the necessity of making a change. Good as our system is, it still falls far short of what it should…

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School Prizes

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 November 1879 · page 2

Why not establish scholarships in connection with the schools? The example has been set by the State, but it is neither within her duty nor her…

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A Visit to a Country School

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 November 1879 · page 2

Anyone with a modicum of that "Sidney" that so invariable charactorises our Celestial colonists, would naturally avoid Placing his person or purse in jeopardy by allowing himself…

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On Boarding-schools

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 6

A CURIOUS correspondence was going on when the mail left in September, in the columns of the London Times. The Manchester Guardian says:—…

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