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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1936

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Highfield School

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 4

The Director of Education (Mr. G. R. Thomas) has advised Mr. Mair, M.L.A., in response to his personal representations relative to the…

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Gurwood-street School Mothers' Club

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 4

The annual picnic conducted by members of the Gurwood-street School Mothers' Club, held on Friday in Collins Park, was more successful than…

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What the School Child Should Eat

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 2

In a short article reprinted in last Health Week Booklet, the American Medical Association states that "The experience of nursery schools,…

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A New School Farmers' Voluntary Effort

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 2

A new school has been built partly by voluntary labour by farmers in the Murrami district, about 6 miles north of the township and in…

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That Secondary School!

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1936 · page 2

This is the year in which the Minister for Education was to definitely sec the erection of Cootamundra's new secondary school building started on…

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Riots in Spain 11 KILLED; 84 Wounded Convents and Schools Burned Madrid

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1936 · page 1

Riots in various towns resulted in 11 being killed and 24 wounded. Troops are preserving order at Cadiz after the week-end rioting, in which the…

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Cricket Wednesday Competition Maples Shield Matches Two Schools May Be in Final

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 March 1936 · page 8

The round of matches to be played to-day and nest Wednesday in the Maples Shield competition will be the last, and the two leading teams then…

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Miss M. Goodwin, B.A. High School Teacher on Exchange

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 March 1936 · page 3

Miss M. Goodwin, a teacher at present-attached to the Cootamundra Intermediate High School, is on exchange from England, having arrived…

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Telegraphic News SYDNEY, Thursday "School a Torture"

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 2

At the inquest today on Harold James Parsons, a 14 year old school boy, who hanged himself at Flemington on March 5, the mother, Edith…

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Boy Found Hanged Not Happy at School Evidence at Inquiry Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

The death of a 14-year-old school-boy, Harold James Parsons, who was found hanging by a piece of flex cord behind a door at the Homebush…

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School Notes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

THE Royal Life Saving Society formed the subject of the address to the Assembly. A translation of the motto of the…

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Catholic Schools’ Examinations Wagga Diocese. Preparatory Intermediate

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 3

[?] of the annual primary schools’ examinations and throughout the Catholic [?] by Wagga and [?] in [?] and have been…

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Huge Carnival in Aid of Convent School Funds

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 2

To augment the funds of the new Coolamon Convent School, a Fancy Fair and Carnival has been arranged for Tuesday night new in the school…

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School Competition

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 2

At the meeting of the Shire council last week a letter was received from the Australian War Memorial Board of Management asking if…

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£1½ Million for New Schools Parses

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 1

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond), opening the new boys' school, at Parkes, said that the Government had to provide for 80,000…

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Milk for School Children From Dairy to Bottle

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 2

WHEN one sees the large amount of energy and thought that has to be put into producing such a healthy…

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Yanco Agricultural High School Annual Meeting of Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 2

THE annual and general meeting of the Yanco Agricultural High School Council was held on Sunday afternoon last,…

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Schools' Essay Competition

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 4

Sir, -- In the last issue of Times appears an item, "School Competition." From this is seems the Shire Council has decided to…

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Back to Tumbarumha At School Again Marbles and Merriment

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 2

The boll tolled, and about 80 old pupils of the Tumbarumba Public School began to hurry to the ground for the concluding function in the…

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School Notes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 4

THE Assembly address this week took the form of a special appeal on behalf of the Royal Society for the Prevention…

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