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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1882

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Lachlan District. Reserve from Sale for Public School purposes

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1882 · page 3

No. 2321. County of Harden, parish of Mooney Mooney, village of Muttama, area about 4 acres 3 rood 10 perches, being section 17. The Crown lands within the following boundaries:—…

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Public School

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1882 · page 2

THE annual distribution of prizes in conncetion with' the Public school took place yesterday at the Freemasons' Hall. It will be recollected that the school was closed in the…

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North Wagga Public School

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1882 · page 2

THE presentation of prizes in conneetion with the North Wagga Public School took place on last Wednesday morning, in the presence of a largo number of parents and…

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Murrumbidgee District. Reserve from Sale for Public School Purposes

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1882 · page 3

No. 2912. County of Wynyard, panel of Nacka Nacka, Ellerslie run, area 12a Or 37p. The Crown lands within the following boundaries: Commencing on the south side of a…

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The Slim Teacher. How He Managed the School at Cranberry Gulch

The Temora Star · Wednesday 22 February 1882 · page 4

"MISTER, no doubt you have all the learnin' that's required in a school teacher, but it want's more than learning to make a man able to teach a…

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Poet's Corner. Cupid at School

The Temora Star · Wednesday 22 February 1882 · page 4

YOUNG Cupid was his mother's joy, A child of most bewitching looks; And yet he was a naughty boy, Because he would not mind his books…

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Reserve from Sale for Public School and other purposes. Lachlan District

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1882 · page 3

No. 2636, County of Harden; parish of Cow[?], Cucumla ran, area about 11¼ acres. The Crown lands within the following boundaries:—Commencing at the south-east corner of…

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Lachlan District. Reserve from Sale for Public School purposes

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1882 · page 3

No. 2568. County of Clarendon, parish of Wantiool, Wantabadgery run, area 10 acres. The Crown lands within the following boundaries: Commencing at the south-east corner of…

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Roundabout Notes. Wandering Minstrel. Schools

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 3 June 1882 · page 3

CHILDREN are often seriously indisposed, and not unfrequently laid on a sick bed from exposure for a whole day in the shanties used as schools in country districts—with…

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Seeking a Teacher for Maria

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 10 June 1882 · page 2

SHE was at one of the union schoolhouses for an hour before tho school opened. She had Maria with her. She was a tall woman, forty years old, with a jaw showing a great…

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Roundabout Notes. Wandering Minstrel. School Punishment

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 10 June 1882 · page 3

CHARMING Kate Lang—tender hearted, compassionate Kate—does not think a flogging of three-quarters of an hour's duration too severe for a lad of ten summers, who had…

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Local and General News. the Public School Question

The Temora Star · Wednesday 14 June 1882 · page 2

SOME short time since we drew attention to the establishment of two flourishing private schools in the goldfield, besides the Roman Catholic Demoninational School, and we now…

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Corporal Punishment in Schools. (To the Editor.)

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 June 1882 · page 6

SIR,—The following extract from a letter to the S. M. Herald, signed F. A. Atwater, on the above subject may prove interesting to many of your readers, especially to the…

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Wagga Superior Public School, Half-yearly Speech Day

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 2

ON Friday, 23rd instant, prior to breaking up for the Midwinter vacation, an interesting afternoon was spent by a large gathering of parents and friends of the school, with the…

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Public School District Boundaries

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 8 July 1882 · page 2

The public school districts hereinafter defined have been declared to be a portion of the colony where the obligation upon parents enacted by the 20th section of the Public…

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Public School District, No. 62

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1882 · page 4

Counties of Buceleuch, Selwyn, Wynyord, to include Adjungbilly, Brugle, Gilmore Creek, Killimicat, Lob's Hole, Minjary, Reedy Creek, Talbingo, Tumut, Wagra, Wondalga,…

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Gazette Notices. Proclamation of School Districts

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1882 · page 4

THE following are the boundaries of the local school districts. Within these districts the compulsory clause is in force:—Public School District, No. 60…

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Public Meeting of Catholics at St. Michael's School

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1882 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting, convened by advertisement, was held in St. Michael's schoolroom on Sunday last at the conclusion of Mass. Dr. Morgan O'Connor was voted to the…

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The Gundagai Public Schools

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1882 · page 2

In our last issue we announced, that Mr. W. Foster, M.P., had been in communication with the Minister for public regarding the necessity that exists for the erection of now…

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

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1882 · page 2

SIR,—Yesterday, my daughter, who is an attendant at the Public school, returned home shivering with cold; she was uuable to speak for some time, and could scarcely…

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