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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1942

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Athletics Arthur Tonkin Wins School Senior Championship

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 4

Arthur Tonkin, son of Mrs. Tonkin, of Trail-street. Wagga, won the senior championship at the St. Joseph's College 75th annual meeting held…

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Plucky Schoolgirl Rescues and Revives Drowning Child

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Alan Antis, aged 3 years, of Neutral Bay, was saved from death by drowning late yesterday afternoon when a…

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Wagga Grammar School

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1942 · page 2

By advertisement in this issue it is announced that the new term at the Wagga Grammar School will begin to-day…

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Methodist Young People Sunday School Exam. Results

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 2

Results are now available of the [?] annual Sunday School examination (Sate wide), conducted on 2nd May by the N.S. Wales Methodist…

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Teachers' Attire

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—As well as doing without stockings, women teachers in N.S.W. may war slacks in schools during the coming summer…

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Two Schoolboys Injured When Hood Fell Off Bus

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 2

TWO students returning to McCaughey Memorial High School after the vacation met with an accident soon, after their arrival…

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School Notes (contributed.) ATTENDANCE

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 3

School resumed on Tuesday, 8th September, after the spring vacation. There were no changes in the teaching staff. It had been hoped that the epidemics of…

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Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 2

The Coolamon Presbyterian Sunday School picnic was held on the showground on Friday, 4th September. Unfortunately, several scholars were absent…

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Tumut Intermediate High School

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 3

Recently the primary department of the Tumut Intermediate High School raised £22 for the Public Schools Prisoners of War…

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South Wagga Public School

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 4

Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A. for Wagga, has received the following letter from the Minister for Education (Mr. Clive Evatt): "I have…

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Henty P. & C. Assn. Annual School Concert and Other Matters Discussed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 3

Mr. H. K. Knox presided over the monthly meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association in the absence of the president (Mr…

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28-Year-Old School Teacher on a Serious Charge

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 16 September 1942 · page 1

At the Coolamon Court this morning an 18-year-old school teacher, William Eric Young, of Methul was charged with indecent…

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Use of Public Schools for Church Service Refused

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1942 · page 3

The Rev. Campbell Williamson has recently been in touch with our State Member of Parliament with regard to the use of Public Schools for Church…

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Schoolboys and Farm Labor Shortage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1942 · page 2

The Federal Government will have, in the approaching Christmas vacation of the schools, an excellent opportunity to avail itself of the "youth-power" of the nation for a purpose of vital importance to the wellbeing of the country—particularly…

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Schoolboy Breaks Arm at Primary School Sports Fell on Slippery Grass

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 2

Master Alan Cartmel, the sou of Mr. Ralph Cartmel, of Wamoon, met with an accident while playing on the grass, towards the conclusion of the…

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School Notes (Contributed.)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 2

Only 175 Pupils have found their way back to [?] so far this [?] and of these about a are [?] again, so that the average attendance is about 150…

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Combined School Sports

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 1

A sports meeting of the combined schools of the Tumut district wa[?] held in the Tumut Intermediate High School at 10.30 a.m. on…

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Sunday School Concert by St. Andrew's Scholars "Best Ever Presented"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1942 · page 2

Every available seat was occupied at St. Andrew's Hall last night when the scholars of St. Andrew's Sunday School presented their annual…

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Schoolgirl Injured

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1942 · page 2

When two girl collided during the luncheon resces sat the South Wagga Public School yesterday, Marie Greenham, aged 12 years,…

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Clever Pupils

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 2

In the Catholic Schools' dental essay competition Margaret O'Dwyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O'Dwyer, of Trail-street, and a pupil of Mt…

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