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Riverina · Schools

Schools, 1951

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News From the Plains St. Francis Xaviers' School Concert and Prize Giving

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 8

The concert and display of work by the children of St. Francis Xavier's Convent School Urana, was yet another glowing…

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Bulgary School Break-up

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 6

To mark the occasion of the end of the year, the pupils under the capable direction of Mr. Missen, their popular teacher, staged…

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Headmaster Says Pupils Leave School Too Soon

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 7

Many pupils left school without possessing a minimum standard of literacy, the Dubbo Headmaster (Mr. T. A. Pearson) said last week. He declared that the standard of the Intermediate was…

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Warning to Teachers of Red Move

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 7

Anti - Communist teachers alleged recently that the Left-Wing executive of the Teachers’ Federation were…

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Brilliant schoolboy athlete Wins Three Events at Wagga Sports

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

At the Wagga Gift sports meeting on Boxing Day, the brilliant schoolboy sprinter Noel Collins, of Leeton High School, further,…

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One of Town's First Female Teachers Mrs. Garside Passed Away in Sydney

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

An elderly lady who was particularly well known in Junee for a number of years has dial in the person of Mrs. Garside, widow of…

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Ashbridge News School Up “Breaking Up” Concert

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 1

This season the Ashbridge P. and C. decided that the harvest being late the district would be too busy to hold the usual School…

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Convent School Auxiliary Monster Xmas Hamper Won by Mr. C. HEATH (Contributed)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

The monster Xmas Hamper disposed of in aid of the Convent School Auxiliary was finalised on Friday, 23rd December…

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An Australian Flag for Every School

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 3

An Australian flag will be presented to every school throughout the Commonwealth to. commemorate the 1951 Commonwealth Jubilee Celebrations…

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Local Items School Dual Desks

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

At the request of Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A. for Wagga, the Minister for Education has now authorised the supply of modern…

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All Seven Junee Inter High School Candidates for Leaving Certificate Secure Their Passes

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 1

ALL SEVEN CANDIDATES FROM THE JUNEE INTERMEDIATE HIGH SCHOOL HAVE PASSED THE LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION RESULTS OF WHICH WERE ANNOUNCED IN SYDNEY THIS AFTERNOON…

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Other Schools

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 1

Miss Marjorie Atkinson, a pupil of Firbank Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Brighton, Victoria, having just completed her 4th Year…

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What Counts in Training of Teachers?

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 1
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The death-knell or teacher-training would be sounded if training were handed over entirely to the…

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School Buses May Not Operate This Year Unless Government Agrees to Increased Subsidy

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 2

At meetings at Cowra on Tuesday, January 9, and Wagga yesterday, bus operators from Western, Central-Western and South-Western New South Wales, decided that they would be unable to provide…

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State Will Not Raise School Bus Subsidy; Reply Toowners' Threat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron) said tonight that the Government did not intend to raise the country school bus subsidy from 1/10 to 2/6 a mile…

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Action Being Taken to Secure New Site for Central School

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 7

THE Gundagai Shire Council was advised this week that action was being taken to secure a new site…

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School Vegetable Gardens Could Help Says Far West Scheme Dentist Sub-standard Diet Causing Dental Ills

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 2

"A deplorable picture of the children's dental health was presented, and this appeared to be due to a sub-standard diet,"…

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Many School Buses May Not Run

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 2

Concern will be felt by parents over the deadlock which has followed the threat by country bus proprietors to the Western, Central Western and South-western parts of the State not to run school buses his year…

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State Will Not Raise School Bus Susidy; Reply To Owners' Threat

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 5

The Minister for Education (Mr. Hefferton said that the Government did not intend to raise the country school 'bus subsidy from…

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