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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1938

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Mt. Erin Convent School

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 4

AH ex-students, friends and well-wishers of Mt. Erin are invited to attend the blessing and official opening of Mt. Erin High School on…

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Parish Sunday School Picnic

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 4

To-night at St. John's Hall, at 8 p.m. and under the auspices of the Church of England Men's Society, a meeting of parishioners of the whole…

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Motorists Go to Sunday School

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 8

A compulsory Sunday school for motorists was held in Berlin recently. Pupils had to start work at 8 a.m. and listen to lectures on road…

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Uranquinty School Site

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 6

The Crown Solicitor has been instructed to purchase an area of about two and a half acres from Mr. W. T. Taber, Uranquinty, to extend the…

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Mt. Erin Opening and Blessing Of New High School .To-morrow's Functions

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 3

The majestic pile of buildings which crown the summit of "Mount Erin," arresting the eye of the visitor to Wagga, is the Sacred Heart…

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New Mt. Erin High School Officially Opened and Blessed Yesterday by Bishop of Wagga Ready Financial Response at Ceremony

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 3

Before a large crowd yesterday afternoon, the Bishop of Wagga (the Rt. Rev. Dr. J. W. Dwyer) opened and blessed the new Mt. Erin High School, just completed at a cost of more than £15,000. The building, one of the most modern of its kind, commands a…

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Dairy Science Schools

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 4

Earlier in the year it was announced that, in continuation of the policy of giving instruction: to dairy factory employees, arrangements had been…

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Wagga Executive Meets Grants Made to Clubs and Schools C. Hopkins Wins T. S. Sheekey Trophy

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 8

The executive of the Wagga Rugby League held its final meeting for the 1938 season on Tuesday night, when the president (Mr. L. M. Scott)…

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New Catholic High School at Wagga a Credit to the Leeton Architect, Mr. G. W. A. Welch

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 1

BEFORE a large audience on Sunday afternoon last, the Bishop of Wagga (the Rt. Rev. Dr J W Dwyer) opened and blessed the new [?] Erin High School, just completed at a cost of more than £15,000. The building, considered the most up-to-date…

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Swimming Classes for School Children

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 8

The Education Department proposes to run vacational swimming classes at the Leeton Baths, during the Christmas holidays, from January 3…

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Mt. Erin High School Grateful Prayers for Supporters

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 8

The Rev. Mother and community at Mt. Erin Convent, Wagga have written to us in the following gracious terms:- "What men will do for a cause in…

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Secondary Education in Wagga Splendid New Building for Mt. Erin High School Sets New Standards Locally As an Educational Centre

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 5

Situated on commanding heights overlooking the city of Wagga the magnificent new buildings for Mt. Erin High School were blessed and…

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Local and General School Sports

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 13

Inter-District School Sports will be held at Coolamon on October 22, and it is expected 500 athletes will take part from Illabo Ardlethan, Matong…

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New Material Recommended Throughout Sewering the Leeton Inter. High School

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 2

THE Leeton intermediate High School is to be connected to the Council's sewerage system shortly. The whole of the…

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Spanish War 17 Killed When School Bombed Valencia

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1938 · page 4

Seventeen were billed and 58 wounded, mostly women and children, at Alcoy, 34 miles north of Alicante, when a bomb struck the school…

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Schooling Accident Jockey Breaks Ankle in Fall Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1938 · page 8

W. Beckwith, the cross-country jockey, had his right ankle broken in a fall at Caulfield yesterday. He was schooling Sir Ballos over brush fences when…

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Tamworth Agric. High School. Former Y.A.H.S. Teacher To Be First Principal

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 6

Mr. C. James, B.sc., Agr., lecturer-in-charge of Biology Department at the Armidale Teachers' Training College, has received…

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Correspondence Schoolwork at the Show (To the Editor)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 2

Dear Sir,—Would you permit me through your worthy paper to protest at the way the children's school work was treated at the recent Narandera…

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Ashbridge News (From Our Correspondent.) School Picnic

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 1

The annual picnic of the Ashbridge provisional School was held on Saturday last. This year’s picnic differed from all previous Ashbridge [?] in…

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