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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1939

825 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 42

Verity May Become School Coach Johannesburg

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 2

H. Verity is likely to return as coach to the King Edward School if Yorkshire approves…

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School Expansion at Griffith I.h.s

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 3

Probably the most amazing school growth recorded in a New South Wales country town is that which has occurred at Griffith I.H.S. during the…

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Amusements "Girls' School"

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 6

A film 60 different the accustomed adjectives of praise must be foregone, Columbia's "Girls' School," to be seen at the Capitol Theatre to-night…

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Inter-primary School Carnivals Inaugurated in Riverina Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 8

Last winter Mr. E. R. Daniel, hon. secretary of the Riverina Amateur Swimming Association, obtained permission from Mr. Drummond…

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Amusements "Girls' School" at Capitol

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 2

Lovely and delightful, "Girls' School" will be shown at the Capitol Theatre, to-night. The screen play from an original story by Tess Slesinger is an…

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Wagga Technical School £1200 Worth of Machinery Installed of Modern Type

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 7

More than £1200 worth of machinery has been installed in the past few days at the Gurwood-street School for instruction of members of the Wagga…

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Amusements "Girls' School" at Capitol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 7

A surprisingly beautiful record of graduation tune, of romance and comlng-of-age at an exclusive finishing school for girls will be…

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Cruelty Alleged Former Albury School-mistress Seeks Divorce Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 2

Albert Clifford Palfreyman denied in the Divorce Court to-day that he had ever beaten, kicked or punched his wife. Mrs. Isabel Ada Palfreyman…

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Women's League of Health Training School at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 6

Next Thursday, March 9, all Wagga residents will have the opportunity of seeing a most interesting demonstration of health exercises based on the…

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Wallace School of Dancing

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 4

Miss Wallace, in our advertising columns, draws attention to the opening of her dancing classes as from Saturday next at the Masonic Hall…

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Local and General Infants' School Mothers' Club

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Mothers' Club was held in the kindergarten room on 24th inst. In spite of the very hot day, there was a very fair…

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"Sweated" Children Too Much Schoolwork Alleged Teachers' Federation Takes Action Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

The New South Wales Teachers' Federation has decided to ask the Minister for Education (Mr. Drummind) to receive a deputation at which…

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No Teacher-Librarian Yet Education Dept. Promise Not Fulfilled

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 6

A PROMISE made by the Education Department that a teacher-librarian would he supplied to the Leeton Intermediate High…

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Tumut Inter.-high School Enrolment

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

In the Secondary Department there are 149 pupils: 81 boys and 68 girls. There are now two First Year classes, 1A and IB, whose…

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Junee Intermediate High School Notes Swimming Carnival

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 2

The swimming carnival which was to have been held this week-end has been postponed till Saturday afternoon, March 11. This was made…

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Schools' Gramophone Library

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 9

The Education Department has installed a library of 3500 gramophone: records at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, which are being made…

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After Hours Studies Opposed by Teachers' Federation Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 2

Delegates at a meeting of the Teachers' Federation council to-day again strongly criticised the cramming of children by certain teachers…

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Gurwood-street School P. & C. Association

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Gurwood-street Public School Parents and Citizens' Association will be held on Wednesday night. Owing to the lighting…

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Effects of Homework On School Children SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

The Minister for Education. Mr. Drummond, said today that homework's effects upon school in New South Wales were being, inquired into…

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Visual-aid Education Our Schools Lag 10 Years Behind

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 6

"IN the use of silent and talkie films as visual aids for education work in our schools, we are ten years behind the rest of the world and even a long way behind our sister States. France has 12,000 machines installed in schools, Germany 10,000, Russia 32,000. In…

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