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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1942

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Fine Barellan Record 200 Feet of Trenches Dug at School

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

Responding magnificently to an appeal, nearly 100 volunteers turned up at the Barellan public school on Saturday and Sunday last and completed…

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School Trenches at Belfrayden

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 2

A strong working bee of members of the Belfrayden Parents and Citizens' Association began and completed the excavation of air raid shelters at…

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School Trenches Must Be Finished Immediately Headmaster's Appeal

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 4

Arrangements of Ute organisation for the evacuation of children at the Intermediate High School cannot be completed until all tie silt trenches…

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Hay War Memorial High School Twentieth Anniversary of Laying of Foundation

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 1

Sunday of last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the foundation stone of the Hay…

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Trenches Dug at Barellan School

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 1

Responding magnificently to an appeal, nearly 100 volunteers turned up at the Barellan public school on Saturday and Sunday last and completed…

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South Wagga School More Volunteers Needed for Trenches

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 4

The number of volunteers digging trenches on Wednesday at the South Wagga School was below expectations, but those who attended did splendid work. A record number is asked for…

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100 Volunteers Dig School Trenches Barellan's Splendid Community Effort

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 4

RESPONDING magnificently to an appeal, nearly 100 volunteers turned up at the Barellan public school on Saturday and Sunday…

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Working Bees to Dig School Trenches

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 3

"Working Bees" to dig trenches at the Convent and L.I.H.S. will take place to-morrow (Saturday) and Sunday. All men invited and to bring…

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School Notes (Contributed) Increased Enrolment

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 2

Numbers have Increased by eleven so far this week, bringing the effective enrolment up to as Last week’s average attendance was 209.9. The…

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Fine Barellan Record 250 Feet of Trenches Dug at School

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 1

Responding magnificently to an appeal, nearly 100 volunteers turned up at the Barellan public school on Saturday and Sunday last and completed…

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School Tren Hes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1942 · page 3

The completion of the trenches at Gurwood-street School will be accomplished to-morrow morning with the help of as many workers as can…

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Other Zones Hunnish Slaughter in Serbia Schoolboys Face Firing Squads

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday (A.A.P.).—A German punitive expedition to the Macva region of Serbia (south of Belgrade) killed 15,000 Serbs in a month, burned nearly all the villages, and…

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High School P. and C. Association

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1942 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Wagga High School Parents and Citizens' Association will be held in the School of Arts next Wednesday at 8 p.m. A…

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High School Boys Exemption From Military Training

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 March 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Boys reaching the age of 18 years this year and who are still attending high school are not required to enrol for compulsory military training, it…

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Working Beds at the Schools Shelter Trenches Dug

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 2

There was a magnificent response to the appeal for helpers to dig the shelter trenches at the Intermediate High School on Sunday last…

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High School Boys Exemption From Military Training

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 2

Boys reaching the age of 18 this year and who are still attending high school are not required to enrol for compulsory military training, it was…

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South Wagga Public School Shelter Trenches

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 5

The committee of the South Wagga School work made special efforts to Secure [?] to 50 men at last week-end to ensure completion of the shelter trenches. The…

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Trenches at Convent School (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 4

Sir.— Kindly grant me space to make a personal appeal to mothers of the children attending the Convent School at Leeton. Mothers have a…

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School Accommodation Overtaxed Fete Postponed Indefinitely P. AND C. Annual Meeting Opens and Adjourns After Election of Officers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 1

AT the monthly meeting of the Leeton Parents and Citizens' Association, held at the Intermediate High School on Friday night, prior to the annual meeting, the headmaster, Mr. W. R. Davies, said that in view of the present circumstances, he would not…

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Combined Schools Swimming Leeton School Wins Championships

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 March 1942 · page 1

A particularly large crowd attended the combined south-west schools annual swimming carnival at the Griffith baths on…

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