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Schools, 1886

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Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 December 1886 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The annual meeting of the Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association was held al the Model Public School, Fort-street, yesterday. Owing to the fact that a large number of the members reside in the…

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Schools Sayings Banks

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 December 1886 · page 5

During the past few days about 100 applications. have been received from teachers of public schools in the colony requesting to be allowed to start savings banks in connection…

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Institute of Architects. Pupils' Competitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 December 1886 · page 4

An inspection of the drawings sent in by pupils of members of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales, on exhibition at Beaumont-chambers, King-street, in competition for the told medal of the institute, the president's…

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Institute of Architects. the Pupils Competition

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 December 1886 · page 3

The medals offered by the Institute of Architects to. pupils of architects for designs have now been awarded, and the drawings are on view at Beaumont's-chambers King-street…

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New South Wales Institute of Architects. Pupils' Competitions. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 7

Sir,--Your critique in to-day's issue respecting the above, and more particularly relative to the design submitted for a church, and which…

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The Work of the Religious Teachers in Our Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 8

HIS Lordship the Eight Rev. Dr. Byrne, addressing the assemblage at the breaking up in connection with the High School of the Convent of Mercy, Bthurst, while on the subject of…

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St. Joseph's Convent School

Nepean Times · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 2

Last Friday evening as we were going to press, the Christmas display was made in the Convent School of this town, couducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The large hall was gaily decorated for the…

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Prize Distribution at the Penrith Public School

Nepean Times · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 2

On Friday, the 17th inst., our local member Mr. T. R. Smith, M.L.A., distributed the prizes to the successful scholars. There was a fair gathering of Indies and some four hundred to five hundred…

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Bethlehem Convent High School, Ashfield

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 18

THE children attending the High school of the Sisters of Charity, Ashfield, gave their parents and many of their friends a most delightful Christmas entertainment. The visitors united in…

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Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 1305

The annual meeting of the Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association was held at the Model Public School, Fort-street, on Tuesday. Owing to the fact that a large number of the members reside in the…

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Protestant Children in Roman Catholic Schools

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 3

We cannot too often sound a warning to Protestant parents against sending their children to Roman Catholic Schools. Mr. A. H. Guinness, M.A., the Secretary…

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St. Patrick’s Convent Schools

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 4

THE annual exhibition in connection with St. Patrick’s Convent Schools was held on Wednesday afternoon last, when a fair amount of needle and other work was shown, some of it…

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Granville. Public School

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 8

ON Friday afternoon, 17th instant, the Granville Public School was closed for the Christmas holidays, which will last for three weeks. A few of the parents were present to witness the…

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The Old School Books

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 32

What pleasant memories cluster round those volumes old and worn, With covers smirched, and bindings creased, and pages thumbed and torn!…

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My Christmas Pudding. the Schoolboy's Dream. (With Apologies to Edgar Allan Poe.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 33

Listen all! I tell what happened on the night of Christmas Day, After I'd been eating pudding in a very reckless way…

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Parramatta Convent Schools

Evening News · Tuesday 28 December 1886 · page 4

A bazaar in aid of the convent schools, was opened in the "Brothers" schoolroom, Parramatta, on Monday, by Cardinal Moran, who arrived from Sydney, accompanied by Dr. O'Haran. His Eminence, in an…

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The Cea[?]t Schools [?]r

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 29 December 1886 · page 2

A BAZAAR in aid of the funds of the Convert Schools attached to St. Patrick’s church was Opened in the Brothers schoolroom on Boxing Day by Cardinal Moran is the presence of a…

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Department of Public Instruction, Sydney, 29th December, 1886. Tenders for Supply of School Furniture

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 December 1886 · page 2

TENDERS are invited for the supply of Furniture for Public schoolstin the Sydney district for the years 1887 and 1888. Specifications may be seen, and form of tender obtained, at the…

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