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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1939

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Tarcutta Public School

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1939 · page 4

Mr. M. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., has been informed by the acting-Director of Education (Mr. B. C. Harkness) that the work of renovations to the…

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R.A.A.F. CADETS Heavy Applications New Course at Flying School CANBERRA

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 20 July 1939 · page 1

Applications for cadetship in the R.A.A.F. have reached unparalelled proportions, said the Minister for Defcnce (Brigadier Street), announcing…

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Southern Riverina County Council Meeting at the Rock Water for R.A.A.F. School Consultants' Report

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1939 · page 6

When the Southern Riverina County Council met at The Rock yesterday, a report was read from its consulting engineers, Messrs…

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R.A.A.F. Cadetships Heavy Applications New Course at Flying School Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1939 · page 4

Applications for cadetship in the R.A.A.P. have reached umparalleled proportions, said the Minister for Defence (Brigadier Street) to-day,…

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High Schools' Match Yanco Defeat Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1939 · page 8

Playing splendid football, Yanco defeated Wagga by eight points to nil in the inter-High School match played at the racecourse yesterday…

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Youth Problem Interstate Conference Higher School Leaving Age Recommended Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 4

Commonwealth and State Ministers, and economic experts, at the continued conference to-day unanimously recommended that the school leaving…

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Wagga School Library Dates of Issue of Boxes Quarterly Meeting of P. and C. Council

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 6

At the quarterly meeting of the Council of P. and C. Associations of the Wagga district, held at the Town Hall under the chairmanship of the…

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Wedding School Class Forms Guard of Honor

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 2

The Rev. A. I. McNaughton made a special trip to Leeton on Tuesday last to officate at the marriage of Margaret Irene, daughter of…

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Items of News Wagga Grammar School

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1939 · page 6

In order to meet the demands of boarders, the Wagga Grammar School Hostel, under the excellent management of Mrs. Parkhurst, is now well…

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Flying School Site (To the Editor, "The Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1939 · page 4

Sir,—Kindly grant me space to refer to a letter which appeared in Tuesday's issue above the signature of Doris M. Simpson. Firstly I must confess…

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Wagga Flying School Day Labor to Be Used Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1939 · page 5

The Minister for the Interior (Senator Foil) said to-day that the Government intended to use the day labor system as far as…

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School of Arts Annual Meeting Excess of Income Over Expenditure

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 July 1939 · page 4

At the annual meeting of subscribers of the Wagga School of Arts last week, a surplus of income over expenditure to the extent of £160, was revealed for…

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Mr. A. A. Dunstan Farewelled by Wagga School of Arts

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 4

About 30 members of the Wagga School of Arts assembled in the billiards room of the institution on Saturday night to bid farewell to Mr. A…

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Wagga Teachers' Federation

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 July 1939 · page 4

The sub-committee for the proposed educational conference met at Gurwood-street School last Saturday. It was decided to recommend to the…

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"This English" Advantages and Difficulties Language of Humor High School Master's Address to Rotary Club

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 July 1939 · page 3

Members of the Wagga Rotary Club, at their weekly luncheon on Monday, were convulsed with laughter when Mr. R. C. Wilkinson, B.A., language master…

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Railway Excursions For Spring School Vacation

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 1

State schools will close on Thursday, August 24. About that time return tickets at the ordinary single fare (minimum 7/6 first-class, 5/-…

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School Children Blamed Damaged Railway Carriage Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 4

The police attribute to children damage costing about £25 to a railway carriage. They believe that the damage was done while children were…

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Ban on School Cadet Corps London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 4

The "Dally Telegraph" states that in the course of a London County Council discussion on whether to remove the ban on its secondary school…

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Schoolgirls' Match

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 8

On Saturday last the hockey girls from The Rock school spent a day in Wagga as the guests of pupils of the Wagga High School. Mrs…

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School Atrocity Alleged Hundreds of Headless Bodies London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 1

The Chinese allege that when their troops entered Tenghai they found a school filled with hundreds of headless bodies, including women, states the…

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