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Schools, 1869

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Sydney Bagged Schools

Empire · Tuesday 17 August 1869 · page 3

The ninth annual report of the Sussex street, Globe-street, and Globe Ragged Schools, was presented public meeting, last evening, in the Temperance Hall. The chair was taken by Sir William Manning,…

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School Administration—"two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right." (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 10

SIR,—Your able correspondent "Justitia" adverts to the circumstance of the Council of Education, having withdrawn the allowance for rent hitherto given to teachers of Public schools…

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Sydney Bagged Schools

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 6

THE ninth annual meeting of the Sydney Ragged Schools vas held, on Monday evening, in the Temperance Hall, which was about half filled by the audience. On the platform were the Rev. S. C. Kent, the Rev. Dr. Steel, the…

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The Ragged School

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 August 1869 · page 8

No one who regards the future good of the unhappy objects of this charity, or who looks at the kind and benevolent labour of those who have its…

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Poetry. the Schoolmaster

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 1 September 1869 · page 9

OUR Academy, whose massive towers Look forth upon the narrow sea, Must lose its Master. Pleasant hours Of happy toil remember we,…

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Kurrajong. Public School

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 September 1869 · page 11

Considerable excitement took place at Mr. John Benson's (late Lamrock's) near Kurrajong, on Friday afternoon last, when a meeting was held for the…

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New Public School, Windsor

Empire · Tuesday 7 September 1869 · page 4

Yesterday the foundation stone of a new Public School, at Winde[?], was laid by Henry Parkes, Esq., M.L.A., President of the Council of Education, in the presence of a large number of persons. Mr. Parkes,…

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Windsor. Lying the Foundation Stone of the Public School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1869 · page 3

MONDAY last was a day of great excitement in Windsor. The committee for the erection of the Public school appointed [?]at day for laying the foundation stone of the building; and having inviled Mr. Henry Parkes, M. L. A.,…

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Public School, Kurrajong. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 September 1869 · page 5

SIR,—The report of the meeting, held at Mr. Benson's, for initiating a school for the district, under the new Act, is inaccurate, and, as it affects myself, incomplete. I therefore desire, as a mere act of justice, that you will admit my…

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Public School, Kurrajong. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 9 September 1869 · page 4

Sir,—The report of the meeting held at Mr. Benson's for initiating a school for the district under the new Act is inacourate and, as it affects myself, incomplete. I therefore desire, as a mere act of…

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Windsor Public School

Sydney Mail · Saturday 11 September 1869 · page 7

MONDAY last was a day of great excitement in Windsor The committee for the erection of the Public school appointed that day for laying the foundation stone of the building; and having invited Mr. Henry Parkes, M.L.A.,…

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Re-opening of the Wollongong Public School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1869 · page 5

THE ceremony of re-opening the Wollongong Model Public School took place yesterday. It was to have been performed by Mr. Henry Parkes, M.L.A.; and many visitors came [?]to Wollongong with the express purpose of hearing him…

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The Windsor Public School. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 9

SIR,—The opening of a Public School is a God send to some of our politicians. It gives them an opportunity of airing their egotism, and being encomiastic over one of the worst measures that…

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Puffing the Public Schools. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 9

SIR,—Nothing goes so far as puffing now-a-days. Have you a pill or a powder, an ointment or an ochre lying on your hands unappreciated by the public, puff it. Tell them there is nothing…

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Re-opening of the Wollongong Public School

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 12

THE ceremony of re-opening the Wollongong Model Public School took place on Wednesday. It was to have been parformed by Mr. Henry Parkes, M.L.A.; and many visitors came into wollongong with the express purpose of hearing…

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School of Arts

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 3

The School of Arts Hall is being entirely to-modelled, under the supervision of Mr Torning and a numerous band of assistants in the carpentry, upholstery, and goneral decoration line. And all this has come about in…

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Lecture to Sunday School Teachers. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.) Sydney, Sept. 3, 1869

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 11

DEAR SIR--I forward you the substance of a few notes pencilled by me during the delivery of the Lecture to Sunday-school Teachers,' by Rev. W. Taylor. I should…

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Spirit of the Press. Irish Catholic Children in English Workhouse Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 12

Two years only have elapsed since the Catholics of the various dioceses of Ireland, led on by their venerated bishops, offered up prayers to Almighty God for the poor Irish children who…

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Workhouse Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 13

"Five children of Roman Catholic parents, who have been brought up at the Marylebone parochial schools at Southall, have just been formally received into the Church of England…

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Opening of the Dundas Public School, [From Our Special Reporter.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 September 1869 · page 5

ON Thursday last, the new building which has just been completcd as a Public school at Dundas, Pennant Hills, near Parramatta, was formally inaugurated by Mr. Henry Parkes, M.L.A., the President of the Council of…

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