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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1908

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School Picnic

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 4 September 1908 · page 7

The newly formed association, known as the Ariah Park and district Parents and Citizens’ Association, are bringing out a…

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School of Arts

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1908 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

The monthly meeting of the School of Arts was held last evening. There were present—Hon. J. Gormly, M.L.C. (president), Messrs. J. J. Hanson, W…

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Topics of the Hour. School Requirements at [?]

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1908 · page 3

MR. DONALDSON, M.L.A., has made further representations to the Education Department, in response to the request of the Gundagai Parents and…

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Peer's Son As a Teacher

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 4

The Hon. Gerard Collier, second son of Lord Monkswell, is at present undergoing the novel experience of acting as teacher in an elementary school…

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School Humor Some of Mr Barker's Stories

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 4

Fifteen years ago Mr H. J. Barker delighted the English and American public with his "Comic Side of School Life." Now, through Messrs…

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Open-air School. Its Excellent Effects

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 3

In an enclosure of twenty acres at Bostall, near. Abbey Wood Station, the London County Council carried out an educational experiment last year which…

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London School Children. Quaint Dances Before the King. Three Hundred Performers

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 September 1908 · page 8

The King and-Queen spent the merriest afternoon imaginable at the Queen’s Hall yesterday (29th June), when the boys and girls of the…

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Libraries in Schools

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 September 1908 · page 2

The Minister for Public Instruction afforded some interesting information in reply to questions by Mr. Holman in the Legislative Assembly last week. Mr…

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Convent School Concert

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 September 1908 · page 2

The show week amusements were opened on Monday night by the Convent school concert. The hall was well filled with, interested…

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Appointment of Teachers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1908 · page 2

Messrs. A. J. Bell, H. H. Burns and F. W. Fifield, who have been in training at the Wagga the [?] School as teachers, have received appointments,…

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Public Schools in N.s.w

The Worker · Thursday 17 September 1908 · page 26

The report of the N.S.W. Minister for Instruction for 1907 shows that on January 1, 1907, there were 2885 schools and 3101 departments in the State. During the year…

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Rannock School

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 September 1908 · page 6

At the recent Wagga Show, Miss Mary English, a pupil attending the Rannock public school secured first prize in the…

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Wages—or Profit? by John Holt Schooling

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1908 · page 6

From the point of view of national welfare, what is the most important purpose of a nation's foreign commerce ? This question its worth some…

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Items of News. Children Not Attending School

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1908 · page 2

At the police court yesterday before Mr. Stevenson, P.M., Thomas Hussey was charged with failing to send his son to the Rock school the required…

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Absent From School

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 September 1908 · page 2

Thomas Hussey and Joseph Thomas were each fined 1s without costs at the Wagga Police Court yesterday for not sending their children to school…

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Qualification of Teachers

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 September 1908 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Holman asked the Minister for Public Instruction.—(1) How many gentlemen possessing the degree of Bachelor of…

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District Public School. Presentation by Old Boys Encyclopaedia Britannica

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 4

A pleasing and interesting event took place at the Wagga District Public School yesterday afternoon when the complet edition of the…

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Wagga District School. Presentation of an Enclycopedia

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 September 1908 · page 3

When Mr. A. Cumming was recently selling out his goods an Enclycopaedia Britannica was offered amongst other things. Mr. W. J. Garland, head master…

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"The School of the Cross." New Play Arranged at Oberammergau

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1908 · page 4

The lapse of time (writes "Lloyd's Weekly") between 1900 and 1910 when the last Passion Play was held and the next is arranged for has been too long to…

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