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Schools, 1886

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Songs for Schools and Singing Classes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 October 1886 · page 8

Herr Huge Alpen, teacher of music in the training colleges of New South Wales has just issued a book of school songs, 19 in number, which contains very much to commend it to the notice of teachers and pupils. In the…

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Penny Savings Banks in Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 4

The Minister for Public [construction has completed arrangements for the establishment of penny savings banks in all the public schools. The system Will come into operation on…

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Maitland School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 October 1886 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Friday.--A very large meeting of the members of the Maitland School of Arts was held in the hall last night, when the usual half-yearly report was duly presented;…

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Teachers' Examinations. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 November 1886 · page 5

Sir,--I wish to draw your attention to the unjust manner in which the above examinations are conducted. For instance, it matters not how intellectual intellectual a teacher may be,…

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School of Arts

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 3 November 1886 · page 3

THE monthly meeting of the committee of the Granville School of Arts was to have been held on Monday evening last, but it lapsed owing to the absence of a quorum…

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School of Arts

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 3 November 1886 · page 7

THE monthly meeting of the committee of the Granville School of Arts was to have been held on Monday evening last, but it lapsed owing to the absence of a quorum…

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Balmain Congregational Sunday School

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 2

The 28th anniversary of the above was celebrated on Sunday last, by special services morning and evening, conducted by the Rev. J. Olley, of Manly, and the Rev…

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A Nice School Scene

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 981

Two boys were in a schoolroom together, and exploded some fireworks, contrary to the master's express prohibition. The one boy denied it. The other, Ben Christy, would neither admit nor deny it, and was severely dogged for his…

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West Maitland Public School Sports. (By Telegraph)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 3

W EST MAITLAND, Friday.--The annual sports under the of West Maitland superior Public School came off this afternoon on the Albion Ground and were very successful…

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Wilcannia School. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 November 1886 · page 8

Sir,—I notice in this morning's Herald a telegram from Wilcannia drawing attention to the nocessity of immediate steps being taken to ameliorate the condition of things existing at the Public school in that town…

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Presentation to a School Teacher

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 November 1886 · page 5

BATHURST, Monday.--A complimentary picnic was tendered on Saturday, at Perth, by the Teachers' Association, to Mr. Dettman, vice-principal of tile Training Institute, formerly…

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Nautical Schoolship Vernon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 9

The annual report of the above institution has just been published, and is of a more interesting character than usual, as it deals in a very marked manner with the state of fuvenile crime and the causes which have almost invariably…

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The Nautical Schoolship Vernon

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 6

The annual report, of the Vernon, prepared by the superintendent, Commander Neitenstem, has been published. The following are the more important portions:--…

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Fire Escape Drill for Schools

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 3

The following extract from the "Australasian Fireman". describes an excellent plan for averting; the 'awful calamities which sometimes occur from…

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Schools and Morals

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 1000

Complaints have been made in the daily press that school children are greatly given to defacing fences and injuring flower gardens. If so, this shows a great want in our school discipline. Any schoolmaster…

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School Attendance

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Friday.--At the police court to-day several persons were fined for breaches of the Education Act. One important case was heard, bearing upon the distance section of the…

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Shocking Tragedies. Murders and Suicides at Newtown and Albury. a Teacher Cuts His Wife's Throat and Then His Own

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 November 1886 · page 5

Newtown, so recently tho scene of one of the most shocking wife murders recorded in the history of the colony, was early yesterday morning thrown into a state of great…

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Department of P[?] instpnction, Sydney, November 17, 1886. Tenders for Girls' School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1886 · page 2

TENDERS are invited for the erection of a Girls' School at the North Annandale Public School. Plans and specilications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Department of Public Instruction,…

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Anniversaries. Wesleyan Sunday School, Darling-street, Balmain

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 2

The 41st anniversary of the above was celebrated on Sunday and Wednesday last. On the first day special sermons were preached in tho morning by the Rev. W…

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Department of Public Instructino. Sydney, November 17, 1886. Tenders for Girls' School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 4

TENDERS are invited for the erection of a Girls' School at the North Annandale Public School. Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the office of the Department of Public Instruction,…

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