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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1928

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Convent School, Coolamon

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 2

At the examination in T[?] held on 29th May under the [?] of the Sydney [?] of Mask the [?]…

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Junee School Speech Day

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1928 · page 2

The first Speech Day in connection with the Junee District School was held in the Parish Hall on Wednesday night. The hall was packed,…

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School Football. Seymour Cup Competition

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 4

1—That the cup shall be known as " Seymour Competition Football Cup,'' and shall be open to all schoold within a radius of 15 miles…

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Secondary Teachers Accommodation and Promoters Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1928 · page 2

Addressing the secondary teachers' conference, which opened to-day, the Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, said that it would be no use…

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Through the Schools Training Young Australians Home Work

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 1

Homework has for long been a bene of contention between parents and teachers. Some parents consider that children are given insufficient…

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New Ideas the Dictionary in School

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 1

The dictionary may be made a most valuable aid in the leaching of English, but its potential benefit does not materialise unless a definite…

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Items of News Through the Schools

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 2

To-day Spero discusses a matter of considerable interest to parents—homework. He emphasises the varying views of teachers and parents and…

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Evolution and Latin Professor Taylor's Views Teachers Astonished Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 3

Addressing the Secondary Teachers' Conference to-day Professor Griffith Taylor caused a sensation when he declared that evolution should be…

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School Holidays

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1928 · page 2

In common with many similar bodies throughout the State the South Collingullie Parents and Citizens' Association recently protested against…

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New Corowa School

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1928 · page 2

The Minister for Lands, Mr. Ball, has been advised by the Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, that he has given directions for the…

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Secondary Teachers

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1928 · page 6

Addressing the secondary teachers' conference, which opened on Monday, the Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, said that it would be no use the…

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Items of News Wagga Rural School

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 6

The Department, of Education yesterday accepted the tender of T. N. Grimsley, of Five Dock, for the erection of a manual training room at the…

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Lord Hugh Cecil on School-masters

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 4

"I am always sorry to give up any opportunity, of giving discipline to schoolmaster. They are so much inclined, by the habit of inflicting…

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Secondary Schools. Young Teachers Overpaid

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 4

Teachers at the Secondary Schools' conference could scarcely believe their ears when Professor Mackie, principal of the Training…

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School Football. Seymour Cup Competition

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 4

1—That the cup shall be known as " Seymour Competition Football Cup," and shall be open to all schools within a radius of 15 miles…

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Teacher's Suicide Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 1

Joseph Charles Mountfort, aged 40 schoolteacher, shot himself in a park at Lavender Bay yesterday morning. He was seen to draw a revolver, put…

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Trinity Grammar School

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 2

The Mayor, Ald. W. F. Day, yesterday received a letter from the principal of the Trinity Grammar School, Kew, following on a personal…

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Teacher's Suicide "My Brain Has Snapped" Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 2

Joseph Charles Mountford. aged 40 years, school teacher, shot himself in a park at Lavender Bay this morning. He was seen to draw a revolver,…

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School Holidays Minister Firm

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 1

On the question of the revised school holidays system, the Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, writes Mr. M. Kilpatrick, M.L.A. as follows:…

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Through the Schools Training Young Australians the Changing Teacher

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 1

If we turn to the beginnings of elementary instruction we find that the outstanding feature was the gross inefficiency of the teachers. The…

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