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Schools, 1893

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Debating Institutes. School of Arts Debating Club

The Australian Star · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 3

The usual weekly meeting of this club was hold on Friday last, Mr. F. A. Winter in the chair, Messrs. Farrell and Cato were appointed to represent this club at the…

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A School of Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 4

On Tuesday last a debate took place in the Assembly with regard to the question of the establishment of a School of Mines, but the discussion was cut short owing to the want…

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Sunday-school Picnics

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 November 1893 · page 5

The annual picnic of the Woollahra Presbyterian Sunday-school took place on Saturday at Clontarf. The school has two branches, one at Double Bay and the other…

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New School at Orange. Orange

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 November 1893 · page 2

The foundation stone of the new Roman Catholic School was laid yesterday by Bishop Byrne. There was a large attendance and the proceedings were most…

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School Children and Sunstroke

Evening News · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 3

In reply to a quetion in the Assembly last night, Mr. Kidd said he was not aware of cases of sunstroke or sickness among children attending public schools as the result of having to drill…

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Schoolrooms for Public Meetings. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 6

Sir,—In this morning's Herald it is reported that at a meeting of the Pyrmont Labour Electoral League, held in Harris-street last night (at the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel), a communication was received…

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Tumut School of Arts. Tumut

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 5

The flower show in aid of the Tumut School of Arts, which was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, proved a greater success than its promoters had anticipated. There…

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Sunstroke and School Drill

The Australian Star · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 8

The danger of school cadets being drilled in the broiling heat of the day was brought before the Assembly last night in the forth of a question by Dr. Ross, Mr. Kidd, on…

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Petersham Technical School

The Australian Star · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 5

Speaking in reply to Mr. Bavister in the Assembly last night, Mr, Kidd stated that no final decision had been arrived at respecting the suggestion to close the Petersham…

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Drilling School Children

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 4

Dr. Ross asked the Minister for Public instruction yesterday afternoon in the Assembly whether he was aware that children attending public schools were liable…

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The Abolition of School Fees. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 November 1893 · page 2

Sir,--The colony is indebted to you for your outspoken article in to-day's issue, in which you have correctly stated the objects of State education, and logically and clearly…

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Wesleyan Sunday School Anniversary. Special Services

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 2

On Sunday last special services were held in the local Wesleyan Church. Besides the ordinary services at morning and evening, at which special hymns were sung, a…

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Wesleyan Sunday School Picnic

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 6

In consequence of the wet weather on Thursday, a quantity of fruit and provisions has been left over and to dispose of these it has been decided to give a free supplementary tea meetiug to the smaller…

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A School of Mines

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 17

ON Tuesday week a debate took place in the Assembly with regard to the question of the establishment of a School of Mines, but the discussion was cut short owing to the want of a quorum…

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Political. the Public Instruction Act. Abolition of School Fees

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 16

IN the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Melville moved the second reading of the Public instruction Act Amendment Bill, which provides for the abolition of school fees. Although the…

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New School at Orange

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 14

THE ceremony of laying the foundation— stone of the new school connected with St, Joseph's Church, Orange, took place on Sunday afternoon. The Very Rev. Fr. M'Carthy preached in the…

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Fort-street Model School

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 1001

Last Saturday afternoon "The Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest, or Forest Days in the Olden Time," a pastoral operetta, by W. H. Birch, was rendered by the pupils of the Fort-street Model…

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History in Elementary Schools

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 6

The School Reader, from which children are to receive their earliest impressions of history, teaches them that Christianity was introduced by Augustine from Rome, does…

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Castle Hill. Public School Concert

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 3

THE Public School Concert is again unavoidably postponed, until Friday next, 17th inst., on account of the rain. Measles…

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Dural. S. School Anniversary

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 7

THE Wesleyan Sunday School anniversary was celebrated on Sunday last. The services began at 11 a.m., and were continued in the afternoon. The Bible Class took up the greater…

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