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599 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 30
Sir,—The debate upon Private Schools in the Assembly last night demands some farther inquiry and discussion, To read the speech of Mr. Abigail, one might be led to the couclusion that all private schools are nothing but shams,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Whenever the law is, or seems to be, against the pecuniary interests of men, there is sure to be an attempt to evade it. The provision for compulsory education is meant to benefit the whole community;…
Continued on Trove, page 1231 →The principle adopted by New South Wales in State instruction is that it is the duty of the State to provide, the means of primary education to every one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sapient majority of the committee of the Bathurst School of Arts has refused the use of the hall to Mrs. Edith O'Gorman Auffray for her lectures, one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--I have read with much interest the report of the debate in the House on the motion brought forward by Mr. John Shepherd, M.P., relative to the establishment of schools…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The third annual meeting of St. John's (Parramatta) Junior Grammar School Athletic Club took place on the Parramatta Alfred Cricket Ground on Saturday afternoon, and passed off very successfully. There was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last evening was an event to be remembered in the life of the children attending the "Waterloo Ragged School ; for, through the kindness of Mr. George Anderson and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A tea meeting and distribution of prizes a connection with the Waterloo Raeged School was held on Monday evening in the Mission Hall, Waterloo. After the young folk had been feasted, a public meeting was held, at which a number…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The reconstitution on a more distinetly public basis of this old school, and the appronching official visit of his Excellency the Governor, may induce some special interese in its past history, which now extends over more than half…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—As a general rule I do not take any notice of correspondents who will not publish their names to any communication sent to the press, but as your correspondent " A Private Schoolmaster" has altogether misrepresented my…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IN our next issue will be published an interesting historical sketch of the King’s School Parramatta, in addition to a full report of the proceedings at the breaking up of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Officials.—President, Rev. Canon Gunther ; vice-president, Mr. S. J. Pearson; judges, Messrs. F. Wickham and John Taylor; referees. Dr. Waugh and Mr. C. W. Lloyd;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The distribution of prizes to the pupils of the King's School, Perramatta, was performed on Thursday afternoon by the Governor. The occasion was also taken advantage of to bid farewell to the Rav. G. F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual distribution of prices to the successful pupils of the King's School, Parramatta, the leave-taking in connection with the retirement of tho Rev George F. Macarthur, and the induction of his successor— the Rev…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—The truant inspectors are wise in their generation. Knowing the conviction has been growing sponger year by year that they are a parasitic excrescence on the Education…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →IT seems that the Education controversy is about to enter on another phase. Hitherto the State has had the ill advantage of brute strength. It has succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The above was given by the choir of the Presbyterian Church, Campbell-street, on Wednesday last, and was the full success we predicted in last issue. Long before the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual distribution of prizes at the King's School, Parramatta, took place on Thursday. The day's proceedings were of more than ordinary interest from the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The King’s School, Parramatta, was founded by Bishop (then Archdeacon) Broughton in 1832, and as a temporary arrangement for the reception of scholars, a house and two cottages…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE ceremony of presenting the prizes to successful students at the King’s School was conducted on Thursday afternoon inst in the “old schoolroom” by His, Excellency the…
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