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Schools, 1937

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Infantile Paralysis Victorian Total Increases Youngest Sufferer Small School Attendances MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 1

An additional five cases of infantile paralysis were confirmed to-day. The sufferers included a 2½-months-old baby, Che youngest patient since the…

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Paralysis Epidemic More New Cases in Victoria Eighteen Deaths Parents Not Sending Children To School MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 4

Parents are considering a "stayaway" strike, refusing to allow their children to attend school for fear that they will contract infantile paralysis…

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Girl Expelled From School Sydney, Thursday!

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 4

Because she wrote an essay on punctuality, which was termed "thinly veiled insolence" by the headmaster (Mr. Hancock), a girl pupil aged 11…

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Peak Not Reached Policy of Closed Schools Criticised Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 5

The Director-General of Public Health in New South Wales (Dr. Morris) said to-day that he thought the infantile paralysis epidemic in…

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Schools Reopening in Melbourne Action Against Parents Threatened Fifth Adult Dead Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 1

In announcing that 40 more schools will reopen on Monday, the Education Department threatens to take action against parents who do not allow their…

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Schoolboy Howlers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 5

The Royal Mint is what the King grows in his Palace Gardens. Cardinal Wolsley invented motor cars…

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One on Teacher

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 2

Billy was very worried in school. For the sixth time he had added up a certain sum and for the sixth time the teacher had given him back his…

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School Teachers' Instructions

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 2

The N.S.W. Education Department has circularised teachers, asking them to avoid travelling to Melbourne during the holidays. If this…

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Virile Children National Fitness Campaign University Standard for Teachers Urged

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 3

Discussing the proposed action of the Government to improve the health and physique of children of New South Wales, both Professor…

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Mothers Annoyed Women Teachers Who Smoke

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 3

Many mothers have complained to the Auckland (N.Z.) Education Board that their daughters had been influenced by the example of women…

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Dairy Science School in Session at Wagga Examination of Candidates

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 2

Several candidates, including one lady, are undergoing an examination at the factory of the Murrumbidgee Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., Wagga,…

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London Spares the Rod Less Caning in Schools

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 September 1937 · page 1

LONDON, Aug. 21 (By Air Mail) Are London boys better behaved than those in the north of England and Scotland? Or is the London…

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School Building Burned Children Cheer Blaze

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 September 1937 · page 8

Hundreds of children assembled from all over Granville, cheered and threw their bats In the air when the Blarcell Street school caught fire…

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Technical Education Two Teachers Appointed

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 September 1937 · page 2

WORD was received last night by Mr. S. P. Dart (hon secretary of the Leeton Parents and Citizens' Association) that…

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Cootamundra School 52 Years Ago

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1937 · page 2

Mr. S. Fisher writes us from 30 Day Avenue, Kensington: "Enclosed please find copy of the original of the pupils of the old Cootamundra public school,…

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Belfrayden School Opened

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 September 1937 · page 4

The new public school at Belfrayden was opened yesterday, and 21 children were enrolled. This school was recently shifted from Coffin Rock…

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School Hours Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 3

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) said to-day that an officer of the department had been asked to report on the proposal that schools in…

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Overcrowding in Schools N.S.W. Methods Attacked by Teachers' Federation Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 1

According to the president of the New South Wales Teachers' Federation (Mr. M'Kinnon), the modernisation of the New South Wales education…

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Chinese Girl Letter From War Zone to Head of Melbourne School

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 7

"Wing Loo, 17 Mah Pung Gong, Pok Sye road, Tungshan, Canton," is the fascinating address on a letter which Miss Maisie Louey Gung, a…

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Millwood School Picnic

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 7

The Millwood School picnic which was held last Saturday, was a great success, both financially and socially. The committee purchased many…

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