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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1937

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Nationalist Bombing Fifty Children Killed in School Madrid

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1937 · page 6

Nine Nationalist three engined 'planes heavily bombed Lerida, destroying several villages and a primary school from which, according to a Spanish…

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"Cockatoo Creek" Played by Intermediate High School Pupils

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 6

On Tuesday last there was an excellent house to greet the pupils of the intermediate High School when the curtain rose for the staging of…

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Films in Schools Mr. Drummond Outlines Policy

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 6

According to the Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) it is the Government's policy to encourage the installation, of film equipment in…

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Repairs at High School

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 4

Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A. for Wagga, has received the following letter from the Director of Education (Mr. Thomas): "I refer to your personal…

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Learn to Swim Service Clubs' Campaign Circulars Sent to Schools

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 3

Circulars have been sent to 40 teachers in charge of schools and Parents and Citizens' Associations within a radius of 20 miles of Wagga,…

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School Notes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 6

HEALTH Week was the topical subject of the assembly address. The Government through its…

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The Free Library Movement and the Schools of Arts (Contributed.)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 November 1937 · page 2

It is necessary to emphasise that the service aimed at by the Free Library Movement, diners in many essentials from the service which may,…

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School Gardens Wagga Inspectorate Annual Competition Results

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1937 · page 3

As judge in the annual competition for school gardens, Mr. J. W. Webb has made available his report to the Wagga branch of the New South Wales…

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Armistice Day Suggested School Programme

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1937 · page 4

Next Thursday, Armistice Day, two minutes' silence will be observed by all school pupils. It is suggested officially that the…

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School Gardens Annual Competition

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 November 1937 · page 4

The judge in the annual competition for school garden (Mr. J. W. Webb) has made his report was awards to the Wagga branch of the…

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Mr. Ion Idriess Addresses School Children

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 November 1937 · page 2

Mr. Ion Idress had a very enthusiastic reception at Young I.H.S. on Friday afternoon, when he addressed the pupils on his travels. Afterwards he…

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Wagga Methodist Church Sunday School Anniversary

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 November 1937 · page 7

Large and keenly interested congregations were the rule at the three, services in the Wagga Methodist Church yesterday when the annual Sunday…

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School Strike Parents' Refusal to Allow Children to Attend Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 November 1937 · page 4

Parents at Terry Hills decided at a public meeting last night to refuse to send their children to school at St. Ives, six miles away…

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Scholars Strike for New School Nearer Home Protest Against Transport Means Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 1

When the Terry Hills School, six miles from St. Ives, opened to-day, 19 children were in attendance out of a total enrolment of about 50. Their…

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Schoolboy's Blow Death of Fellow Pupil Follows Coroner's Difficulty Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 1

A scuffle between two boys at North Sydney High School, resulting in the death of one of the lads, Robert Stanley Adamson, aged 13 years, placed the…

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Gurwood Street School Mothers' Club

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 2

The October meeting of the Gurwood Street School Mothers' Club was poorly attended, and the executive desires that all members attend this afternoon's…

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Technical Classes at Leeton I.H. School

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 2

The technical classes at the Leeton Intermediate High School are increasing and there are now ten students taking the carpentering course. There…

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School Strike Continues Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 November 1937 · page 4

Parents at Terry Hills, who have refused to send their children to school until a new building is erected, continued their stand to-day. They say…

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Two-up School 18 Men Fined Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 November 1937 · page 1

At the Kogarah Police Court to-day 18 men were fined for playing two-up in a private house at Ramsgate. Evidence was given that when the…

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"Robe Dell" School Picnic and Dance

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 November 1937 · page 2

On Saturday, October 30, the "Rose Dell" subsidised school held its annual picnic and dance at Rosehill. Cars came from all directions, and a…

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