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Schools, 1883

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Christ Church School

Evening News · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 6

Christ Church School (C.E.), Pitt-street, was reopened on Monday, July 2, by Rev. C. F. Garnsey, who distributed the prizes to the successful scholars. In general scholarship J. Clamp carried off the chief…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 6th July, 1883. Junior Clerkships, Open to Public School Boys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 4

A Competitive Examination, of Public School Boys for 6 Junior CLERKSHIPS (three at £75, and three at £50 per annum) vacant in this Department, will be held in Sydney, on the 18th instant. To be eligible for such examination, intending applicants must…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, July 2, 1883. Tenders for Works in Connection with Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 4

TENDERS will be received at this Office for the works specified in the Schedule hereunder, up to 10 o'clock a.m. on the various dates set forth in the second column. Tenders are to be addressed to the Under-Secretary, Department…

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Temperance Lessons for the Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 7

Sir,—Permit me to suggest that the Government should give its aid to prevent intemperance by introducing temperance lessons into our Public schools. The great majority of our children are instructed by the State, and it seems only…

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The Department of Public Instruction and Female Teachers. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 31

Sir,—I crave space in your widely circulated medium in order to disclose one of the anomalies existing under the Department of Public Instruction, respecting the salaries paid to male and to male teachers…

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Correspondence. Our Orphan School. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 6

SIR,--I could not help being struck with the report which appeared in your senior morning contemporary, a few days ago, of the visit which was paid by the Minister for Instruction to the…

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Deputations. Additional Industrial School

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 7

Yesterday a deputation consisting of Meisrs Pigott, Abigail, Butcher, Merriman, Ms. L.A., the Rev Mr King, and others, waited upon the Hon. the Colonial Secretary (Mr Stuart), and the Hon…

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Denominational Teachers' Grievance

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 7

A deputation consisting of Messrs B, Ritchie, J. Moloney, and J. Green, waited upon the Minister for Public Instruction yesterday,'with the following petition, signed by the denominational teachers of…

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"The Schoolmaster's Abroad."

Sydney Punch · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 3

"Let every foreign tongue alone, Till you can read and write your own"…

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Department of Public Instruction and Female Teachers. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 July 1883 · page 32

SIR,—I crave space in your widely circulated medium, in order to disclose one of the anomalies existing under the Department of Public Instruction, with respect to the salaries paid to male and female…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 6th July, 1883. Junior Clerkships, Open to Public School Boys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 July 1883 · page 2

A Competitive Examination, of Public Sohool Boys for 6 Junior CLERKSHIPS (three at £75, and three at £50 per annum) vacant in this Department, will be held in Sydney, on the 18th instant. To be eligible for such examination, intending applicants must…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, July 2, 1883. Tenders for Works in Connection with Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 July 1883 · page 2

TENDERS will be received at this Office for the works speelfled in the Schedule hereunder, up to 10 o'olock a.m. on the various dates set forth in the second column. Tenders are to be addressed to the Under-Secretary, Department…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 6th July, 1883. Junior Clerkships, Open to Public School Boys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 July 1883 · page 2

A Competitive Examination, of Public School Boys for 8 Junior CLERKSHIPS (three at £75, and three at £50 per annum) vacant in this Department will be held in Sydney, on the 18th instant. To be eligible for such examination, intending applicants must…

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Horrible Suicide at the Glebe. a Schoolmaster Cuts His Throat with a Razor

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 July 1883 · page 3

The Grammar School at Glenmore House, Glebe Point-road,, was yesterday the scene of one of those suicidal acts which are so horrible in the determination which their commission shows…

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The Suicide 0F a School Master. the Inquest

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1883 · page 3

An inquest was held yesterday morning at the Ancient Briton Hotel, Glebe, by Mr H. Shiell, J.P City Coroner, touching the death of Frederick Jackson, the schoolmaster at the Glebe, who…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, July 2, 1883. Tenders for Works in Connection with Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 July 1883 · page 2

TENDERS will received at this Office for the works specified in the Schedule hereunder, up to 10 o'clock a.m. on the various dates set forth in the second column. Tenders are to be addressed to the Under-Secretary, Department…

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Deputations. School Teachers' Grievance

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 82

On the 6th instant a deputation, consisting of Messrs. D. Ritchie, J. Maloney, and J. Green, waited upon the Minister for Instruction to represent to him that certain Denominational teachers entertained a grievance with regard…

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Denominational School Teachers

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 12

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. J. Green, D. Ritchie, and John Moloney, late denominational sohool teachers, waited upon the Hon. G. H. Reid, Minister for Public Instruction, last Friday, and…

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Opening of the Mulgoa Public School

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 2

ON Wednesday last the small village of. Mulgoa was en fete, being the occasion of opening of the new Public School at that place. The day was all that could be desired…

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An Old Grievance of Teachers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 July 1883 · page 13

MR. Roid must consider his Department a veritable Ovid's Palace of Fame. Since he became Minister complaints and grieances innumerable have vouched his ears. The latest, that of the…

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