Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Schools, all years

Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1936

796 stories in Riverina's papers · page 26 of 40

School To-day Victorian Minister Prefers Past Methods Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 5

School children to-day are taught geometry and other subject so easily that when they are 16, they have forgotten all about them," said the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

The Rock Methodist Sunday School Anniversary

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 5

The Rock Methodist Sunday School Sunday, when services, will be held on Sunday, when special singing will be given by the children's choir. The…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

School Crops Damaged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 4

Junior farmers' experimental crops at the Young Intermediate High School have twice been interfered with, and the matter has been reported to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Athletics Carnival at Urana the Rock Schools to Compete

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 3

Interest at The Rock is running high in the Urana Schools Amateur Athletic Association carnival to be held at Urana next Wednesday. The…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wamoon Church and Sunday School Anniversary

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 2

Next Sunday Wamoon Methodist Church will feature its two anniversaries, at 3 and 7.30 p.m. The preacher will be the Rev. R. A. Bell…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

School Notes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 6

THE annual sports meeting of the South Western District's Amateur Athletic Association was held at Narandera on Friday,…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

A Page for the Schools Our Bush Birds of Australia Gould League of Bird Lovers Celebrate Bird Day

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 5

THIS WEEK IS AN IMPORTANT ONE IN ALL SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE STATE, FOR THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE SPECIAL LESSONS WHICH FOSTER A LOVE FOR OUR BUSH BIRDS. TO BIRD LOVERS EVERYWHERE THE WEEK WILL HAVE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE. THERE ARE A MULTITUDE OF ADULT BIRD LOVERS. THEY WILL JOIN WITH THE CHILDREN IN MAKING EFFORT TO STIMULATE LOVE FOR, AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS. LEETON SCHOOL, AND THE SCHOOLS OF LEETON DISTRICT, WILL, THIS WEEK, ISSUE CERTIFICATES TO ALL CHILDREN WHO BELONG TO THE GOULD LEAGUE OF BIRD LOVERS…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Methul Combined School Sport Wednesday Next

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 2

The [?] Schools Sports meeting which is one of the district’s most interesting and popular sporting [?] will be held in…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Waded Through Watercourses Bush Teachers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 September 1936 · page 8

The trials of women schoolteachers in remote country centres were referred to when a deputation of Carabout residents waited upon Mr…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

North Junee Public School

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 5

There is also another public school at North Junee, Whose headmaster is Mr. J. H. Davies. There are three other teachers, and the enrolment is about…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Convent School

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 5

The first Convent School was held in the church on January 14, 1889, the first teachers being Sisters Mary Stanislaus, Mary Agnes, Mary Francis…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Early School Days Children Taught in Tent

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 5

The Junee Public School was first opened as a provisional school in 1880. The children first of all went to school in a tent supplied by the Government,…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

New Teachers' Building Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 1

The council of the Teachers' Federation, at a special meeting this morning, decided to erect a new Teachers' Club in Philp-street, city, at a cost…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Anglican Sunday Schools' Picnic

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 2

The annual picnic of the Anglican Sunday Schools of Wagga will be held at Kurrajong, on the Oura road to-day. A nice programme has been…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

School of Arts

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 2

The School of Arts Committee (represented by Messrs. J. J. Nolan, president, W. Hayles (sec.) W. L. Hurd, A. C. Cowin, B. J. Ryan, J…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

New Teachers' Building Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 4

The council of the Teachers' Federation, at a special meeting this morning, decided to erect a new Teachers' Club in Phillip-street, city, at a cost…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Junee's Jubilee Spectacular Procession of Vehicles Athletic Display by Schools Large Influx of Visitors

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 2

Junee's Jubilee celebrations began in earnest yesterday, Eight Hour Day, when, in the presence of thousands of enthusiastic citizens and visitors, including many wellknown identities of Junee's early history, the spectacular…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Items of News St. John's Sunday School Picnic

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 4

St. John's Church Sunday school picnic was held yesterday in splendid weather conditions, and all arrangements were satisfactorily handled. The…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Opponents of Free Education Stingingly Reproved by Inspector of Schools

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 1

"IT seems to me, from the current controversy in the city press, that there are people who begrudge an education to all…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Yanco's New School Large Attendance at Official Opening

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 3

THE cold southerly wind which swept across the flat, while making things uncomfortable, did not reduce the warmth of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →