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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1920

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Public School

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

The number of scholars who resumed their studies at the local public school on Monday were 250, compared with 300 on the rolls prior to Christmas. A Iarge…

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Examination Tests. Is System Satisfactory? Many Pupils Handicapped

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 2

Added interest has been given to the suggested change in the present school examination methods by the revolts of the examination for…

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Wagga High School Staff

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 4

Many changes have taken place in the teaching staff of the Wagga High School. Among the new arrivals a[?] Miss Esther A. Moulsdale. B.A., Dip…

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Will Young Get a High School?

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 2

The students' classes at the Young District School are as large now as they have ever been. If only the average could be maintained the town…

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Teachers' Federation. Annual, Meeting at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Teachers' Federation was held at the Gurwood-street school on Saturday morning. In the absence of the president…

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Serious Charges. Teacher in Trouble. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1920 · page 7

Kenneth Mackay, described as a school teacher, aged 20, who has already been remanded on the charge of rape, at Gladesville, was again…

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Cricket. High School v the Mill

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1920 · page 6

The team to represent the Wagga High School in their match against the Mill on the Mill ground to-day will be chosen from:—M'Kinnon…

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Teacher Assaulted. an Angry Parent. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 1

At a meeting of the Teachers' Federation Council Mr. Jacobs mentioned the fact that a teacher in a metropolitan school had been most brutally…

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Tumut District School

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 26 February 1920 · page 2

In December last Ald. A. E. Wilkinson, then being Mayor of Tumut, interested himself greatly in endeavouring to get the local school…

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School Teachers' Union Permission Obtained. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 4

The public school teachers have been granted permission to form an industrial union, subject to the rules being first approved…

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Tumut District School

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 2

When the Premier, Mr. W. A. Holman, was in Tumut a few months ago a deputation from the Patents & Citizens' Association waited upon him…

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Lysterfield School

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 3

A very pleasant gathering was recently [?]…

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Methodist Conference. Prayers in School. Show on Good Friday. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1920 · page 4

The Methodist Conference to-day unanimously endorsed the protest of Archbishop Wright, of Sydney, against the holding of the Royal Agricultural…

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Slander Action. Teacher Awarded Damages. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 1

At Parramatta District Court to day William Kimber, a well-known schoolmaster and writer, proceeded against Mrs. L.M. Wood. claiming…

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Items of News. School Tenders Accepted

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 2

School tenders, have been accepted as follow: Maude, repairs, etc., Butterworth and Company, Hay, £135, Carrathool, verandah to residence, Haynes…

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Teachers' Federation. Exhibition of School Work

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 3

A special meeting of the Wagga Branch of the Teachers' Federation was held in Gurwood-street School last Saturday. The president (Mr…

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A Gifted Teacher. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1920 · page 2

The funeral of the late Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart to-day was largely attended by all sections of the community…

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Serious Charge Against School Teacher committed For Trial SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 1

Kenneth MacKay, 20, school teacher, was charged at the police court to-day with having committed report near Gladesville on February 5 last…

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School Girl's Bravery. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 4

A man named Jack Walters got into difficulties while bathing in the rive at Casino. In response to his cries for help…

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Visit of High School Inspector

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 3

Mr. S. Lasker, M.A., Inspector of Secondary Schools, visited the Leeton Public School on Friday last. By courtesy of the Management he had…

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