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Southern Highlands · Schools

Schools, 1885

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The New School of Arts. to the Editor of the Nowral Free Press

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 January 1885 · page 2

SIR,—The letters that have from time to time appeared in the columns of your paper respecting the safety of the new school of arts building have created quite a sensation in the minds of not a few of our…

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New School or Arts, Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 January 1885 · page 2

WITH regard to this institution, which, according to present appearances, should be completed in another six weeks, the public are beginning to feel a little inquisitive as to the nature of the opening ceremony…

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The Opening of the Bowral School of Arts. to the Editor of the Bowral Free Press

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 3

SIR,—Some was has said "Two hearts are better than one, even if they be sheep's heads." The committee of the Bowral school of arts noting single handed—or single headed if you like—appears to bein a dilemma…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightly, but cut and drink as friends. Saturday, January 17, 1885. Additions to the Public School, Moss Vale

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 2

ERECTED in 1868 to serve the requirements of the town when its population scarcely exceeded a hundred or two hundred inhabitants the demands of recent years of the residents of Moss Vale for a new…

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Fairholme Girls' School, Burradoo

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 2

OUR readers will learn from an advertisement which appears in our journal to-day that a new school will be ready for pupils on next Wednesday, the 21st instant. It is intended for girls of tender years, and…

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Essays by a Schoolboy. No. 1.—LAUGHING

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 3

THERE is the real hearty laugh which means genuine enjoyment. You cannot mistake it. Whether it be the laugh of a manor child, 'tis all the same. The one who laughs heartily gains your interest, and…

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The Bowral Free Press. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Wednesday, April 8, 1885. Mittagong Public School

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 8 April 1885 · page 2

A meeting of the parents and friends of the children attending the above school was held on Thursday last to witness the distribution of prizes to the fourth and third classes…

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Lowral Weslevan Sunday-School Anniversary

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 7

THE Bowral Wesleyan Sunday-school held its annual picnic and tea in Mr. Funston's paddock on Easter Monday. There was a good attendance. In the evening there was…

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Royral Public School

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 6

IN consequence of the gradually increasing attendance at the Bowra1 public school, and the representaions made to the department for additional tutelarv asistance…

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Postponement of Public School. Treat

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 June 1885 · page 1

IN consequence of the general breaking-up of the public schools for the midwinter vacation, on, Friday next, instead of the following Friday, as was till a few days ago…

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New School of Arts, Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 July 1885 · page 2

AFTER many months of almost painful anxiety the public of Bowral will receive with much pleasure and satisfaction the announcement that the now school of arts…

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Bowral Public School

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 15 July 1885 · page 1

MR. H. Bousfield, late pupil teacher at the Bowral public school, and recently resigned, has been succeeded by Miss Speer, late of Joadja Creek. Miss Speer commenced her duties here…

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New School of Arts, Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 July 1885 · page 1

TO-MORROW afternoon one of the most important social events characteristic of the progress of educational advancement of the past half century will be celebrated in…

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Opening of the New School of Arts In Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 July 1885 · page 2

ON Thursday afternoon last the new school of arts in Bowral was formally opened to the public. The day was most unpropitious for a celebration of any kind; and consequently few people ventured out of…

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Fall of a Window at the School of Arts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 2

SOME time during Saturday night last one of the large windows in the north-eastern side of the hall of the new school of arts was blown into the building, together with the frame-work in its entirety…

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Rowral School of Arts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 2

THE erection and completion of a new school of arts for Bowral is another significant indication of the steady progress of social and intellectual enlightenment in this colony, and it is impossible to…

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Bowral School of Arts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 August 1885 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held in the committee room of the school of arts, Bowral, last Monday evening for the purpose of enrolling subscribers and fixing the amount of subscription to the institution. Less…

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Bowral School of Arts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 August 1885 · page 2

THE ladies' committee of the above invited by circular about two hundred ladies of Bowral to meet them last Monday afternoon at the school of arts to consider the best means of assisting in liquidating…

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Bowral School of Arts.—Public Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 October 1885 · page 2

WHAT will in all probability be the final meeting of the old committee of the Bowral school of arts was held in the committee room on Monday evening last when the following members were present, viz.:—…

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Bowral School of Arts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 October 1885 · page 2

ACTING in accordance with the suggestions contained in an official report by Mr. W. G. Coward, architect, of Sydney, as to the safety or otherwise of the large hall of the Bowral school of arts, the committee have…

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