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Schools, 1937

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Uranquinty School

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 4

The annual meeting of the [?] quinty P. and C. Association was held in the school last week. In a review of the year's work the headmaster…

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Address to School Children by Constable Campbell

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 2

Constable Campbell, who has commenced his annual leave from the Tumut Police Station, called in at the Tumut Intermediate-High…

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Roman Catholic Schools "Politicians Who Deny Justice" Archbishop's Appeal Pledge to Vote Against Them

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

Archbishop Kelly, at St. Ives on Sunday afternoon last, said that there was one vote he asked Catholic people to give -- a vote against…

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Yathella School Closed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 6

The pretty school garden at Yathe[?]a which was commented upon so favorably by Mr. W. J. Hiscock, judge of flowers, last spring, is passing into…

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Books Reviewed Available at School of Arts

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 4

Books reviewed hereunder by "Eudora" are available at the Wagga School of Arts, as well as a splendid stock of others, to suit all tastes…

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Fairbridge Farm School

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 3

Within two and a half years, it is expected that 200 boys and girls from various English cities will have been brought to New South Wales under…

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Farm School For Migrants

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 February 1937 · page 11

A Fairbridge farm school will be established shortly at Molong, in the Western district, and the initial draft of 50 English boys is expected to…

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Wednesday Competition High School v C.B.H.S.

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 3

The deferred match between High School and C.B.H.S. in the Wednesday competition will be played to-morrow at Bolton Park. The match will be…

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Amusements Three Boys at School

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 6

"The Devil is a Sissy," the story of school days, fights, studies, and pranks, featuring Freddie Bartholomew, will be shown for the last time at the…

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Aid for Catholic Schools Opposed by Loyal Orange Institution Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 3

The Loyal Orange Institution of New South Wales has carried a motion pledging full support for political candidates, irrespective of party, who are…

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59 Killed Snowstorm in Japan Schools and Houses Collapse Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

A great snowstorm in the Iwate prefecture resulted in 59 deaths and the collapse of two schools and 20 houses, A train ran into 30 laborers who…

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District Schools

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 2

The Hon. E. A. Buttenshaw, M.L.A., Member, or Lachlan, forwards the following letters received from the Department of Education :-…

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Tumut Tragedy Schoolgirl Drowned Learning to Swim

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 4
Also in Daily Advertiser, The Gundagai Independent

Nancy Treweeke, aged 11 years, of Grahamstown, met her death at the Tumut swimming pool, in the Tumut river, yesterday afternoon in tragic…

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Books Reviewed Available at Wagga School of Arts

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 6

Books reviewed hereunder are available at the Wagga School of Arts, as well as a splendid range of others. Ever since the first of Mr. Morton's…

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Essay on "Man by a High School Girl

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 7

The following "Essay on Man," said to have been written by a high school girl (somewhere in Australia), has been smuggled out of the class room:…

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School Notes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

THE subject of the first address of the year, to the assembly, was appropriately, work—based upon an artistic lithographic…

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Schoolgirl Drowned Tragedy at Tumut Swimming Pool Learning to Swim

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 3

Nancy Treweek, aged 11 years, of Grahamatown, met her death at the Tumut Swimming Pool, in the Tumnt River, on Wednesday…

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Good Shoes Are Scarce in Soviet Russia Teacher's Address

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 6

"In Russia shoes are very scarce, and decent footwear is very expensive," said Miss Irene Saxby, a former Tumut High School teacher, who…

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