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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1923

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Blackfellow Runs Amok. Exciting Time at Brungle. Schoolmistress Bailed Up with Loaded Gun

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 2

NRWS reached Constable M. Hanley, temporarily in charge of the Tumut Police Station, between 3.30 and 4 p.m. on Thursday, through…

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Books As Teachers

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 2

Books are masters who correct our ignorance without putting it to shame. They instruct us without rods or ferules; without harsh words…

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Conveyance to Schools Regulations

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 1

1. Giants in aid of the conveyancy of children to public schools will be made by this Department but the responsibility of making all…

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Empire Day. Celebration in Wagga. Schools' Patriotic Demonstrations

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 3

Yesterday Empire Day was celebrated in the various public schools of Wagga in the customary way. The biggest functions were held at the…

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School Concert

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 2

The pupils of the Rural School are practising most assiduously for their concert on 8th June next. Every item is well forward and promises to be of…

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Hookworm Campaign Dr. G L. PAINE and INSPECTOR R. C. Rogers; Visiting Area Schools

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 2

The Hookworm Campaign, controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia, the State of New South Wales and the International Health Board…

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Ran Amok Schoolteacher Assaulted Gundagai

The Daily Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 2

A half-caste aboriginal ran amok yesterday. He scoured a pea rifle and knocked down Miss Nellie Malone, a schoolteacher, and threatened…

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At Wagga Schools Children’s Celebrations

The Daily Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 1

The principal celebrations took place In the schools. Gaily festooned with patriotic colored streamers and national emblems’, and bedecked with…

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The Queen’s Message. to the Girls in the Elementary Schools of the Empire

The Daily Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 1

ON this day of memory and hope, which Is also the birthday of good Queen Victoria, this Is my message to you, the daughters of our world-Wide family of nations and peoples…

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The King’s Message. to the Children in the Elementary Schools of the Empire

The Daily Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 1

ON this day my people in all parts of the world join the celebrate their unity and to draw closer the common ties which hold them together. Each of our many peoples has its own life to live,…

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St. Mary;s School Picnic

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 4

On Thursday afternoon (Empire Day) the children of St. Mary's primary school, attached to the Presentation Convent, were given a picnic in…

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Education Minister. Visits Wagga Schools. Requests for Improvements

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 4

The Minister for Education (the Hon. A. Bruntnell) paid a visit to Wagga yesterday. He was met at the station by the Mayor (Ald. H. Oates)…

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Rural School Fete

The Daily Express · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 2

During the afternoon a fete was held under the auspices of the Parents and Citizens’ Association. to raise funds to provide garden seats…

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Wagga Schools Minister of Education on Inspection Tour Opening of Extensions at the Rural School Mr. Bruntnell Explains the Difficulties of Finance

The Daily Express · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 1

The Minister for Education, Mr A. Bruntnell paid his first official visit to Wagga yesterday. On arrival by the mail train the…

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Local and General School Days

The Daily Express · Saturday 26 May 1923 · page 4

“This Minister chap will do me,” one High School boy wag heard to remark to another, yesterday. “Gee, there’s nothing wrong with school,…

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School Functions

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1923 · page 3

Empire Day was celebrated at the Experiment farm School on Thursday in accordance with the usual procedure Mr. W. Hansen, president of…

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Educational. the District School Mutual Improvement Club

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 1

The initial debate was held at the District School on Friday night last, the subject tor discussion, being "Which confers the greatest benefit…

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Empire Day. Leeton Rural School

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 2

Empire Day May 24, was celebrated on Thursday morning last at the Leeton Rural School. At 11 a.m. the children assembled in the squire…

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Sporting. Hurdlers School. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1923 · page 1

Two batches were schooled over the hurdles at Randwick to-day. There were five obstacles in a mite and three furlongs. In the first heat Bigoonbah…

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