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Schools, 1889

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Public Schools N.S.W. Teaching Drawing

Evening News · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 4

LONDON, November 1.—Mr. "Wodehouse has been appointed Superintendent of Drawing in connection with the Training Schools and the Public Instruction Department. New South…

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A Bird's-eye View of Some Australian Reading Books. No. Ii.—in School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 6

My experience in several representative schools which I visited clearly proves that the Australian reading book is that most favoured by teachers, at any rate, of the more advanced classes. This is…

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The Sydney Training School. London, Oct. 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 11

Mr. Woodhouse has been appointed superintendent of drawing at the Training School, Sydney…

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General News. Scholarships for Public Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 1002

UNDER the Public Instruction Act of 1880, Superior Public schools and High schools are established in various centres of population to provide secondary education for pupils who have…

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A School Instructor. London, October 31

The Australian Star · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 4

Mr. ('Woodhouse has been appointed an instructor at the Training School, Sydney…

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Training School Appointment

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday night. -- Mr. Woodhouse has been appointed, chief instructor for the Training School in Sydney…

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School Picnics

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 5

The children of the Leichhardt Superior Public School were yesterday feted in the local park at a picnic, given by their teachers, parents and friends. At 9.30 a.m. a procession,…

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The Children's Corner. a Schoolgirl of the Period

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 29

Geography? Yes; there's a lesson, each day; But it's awfully, hard to remember. We've been in South Africa nearly a month; Perhaps we'll go north by November…

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Burwood (Sydney) School of Arts. (See illustrations on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 30

The thriving suburb of Burwood has now become a "centre" where converge the trade, traffic, public movements, and socialities of the surrounding districts; and in nothing…

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A Dull Teacher

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 29

Teacher: " What is the difference between a biped and a quadruped?" Smart Scholar: "Two feet." But the teacher said that the answer was wrong, and…

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Leichhardt Public School Picnic

The Australian Star · Monday 4 November 1889 · page 3

THE scholars of the Leichhardt Superior Public School had a fine outing on Friday, Some fow weeks back a number of residents of the district hold a conference with the…

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Teacher Transferred

The Australian Star · Monday 4 November 1889 · page 5

WAGGA WAGGA, Saturday.--Miss Miller, late teacher of Nangus, near Wagga Wagga, has been appointed assistant teacher of the public school at Broken Hill…

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The London School Board System. Free Meals for Scholars

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 November 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--In consequence of representations made by the parents of some of the scholars under the London School Board system as to their inability to provide…

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Meals for School Children

Evening News · Tuesday 5 November 1889 · page 4

LONDON, November 4.—In consequence of representations made by the parents of some of the scholars, under the London School Board system, as to their inability to provide the children with…

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Scarlet Fever in Wellington. the Public Schools Closed. (By Cable.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 November 1889 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Monday.--Scarlet fever is so prevalent in Wellington just now that the head masters of the public schools there have considered it advisable to close up those institutions…

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School Strikes. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 6

Sir,--I have just read a letter in your issue of October 22 with the above heading, signed Percy Wakefield. I should be sorry to believe that there are…

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Sunday School Picnic

The Australian Star · Thursday 7 November 1889 · page 6

WAGGA WAGGA, Thursday-- A picnic in connection with St. Andrew's Sunday school will be held on Saturday next at Currajong reserve, the children leaving town on lorries…

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School Picnic

The Australian Star · Thursday 7 November 1889 · page 6

BLAYNEY, Thursday. -- The Mayor of Blayney, Mr. S. Marsden, entertained the children attending the Public and convent schools, together with their parents and the…

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Proposed Blandford School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 November 1889 · page 5

ARMIDALE, Wednesday.--At a land sale hold here to-day Archdeacon Ross purchased 10a. as a site for the proposed Blandford school, at a cost of £576. The site is a most admirable…

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A Sunday School Consumed

The Australian Star · Friday 8 November 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Somebody sot fire to the Sunday school attached to the Wesleyan Church, Balaclava. The place was burned down…

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