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Schools, 1896

1,643 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 83

Public Service Board. (Some of the Following Items Appeared in our Late Editions of Yesterday.) Another Report. the Education Department. Rearrangement and Retrenchment. Amalgamations and Abolitions. the Teachers' Salaries. Total Saving Over £37,000

Evening News · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 5

A Gazette Extraordinary was issued yesterday by the Public Service Board containing their re-classification of officers of the Department of Education. The Department is a large…

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School Facilities at Little Coogee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 6

A deputation, representing the residents of a portion of Waverley and Coogee, waited unon the Minister for Education yesterday, for the purpose of asking him to establish a school at Little…

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Public Service Board. Grading of the Education Department. a Saving of £37,500 Per Annum. Teachers' Salaries Under £200 Not Touched

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 3

The Public Service Board has now completed the classification and grading of the Department of Public Instruction, and the result is shown in a supplement to the Government Gazette which was issued…

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School Accommodation at Canley Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon the Minister for Education was waited upon by a deputation representing the municipal council and residents of Cabramatta and Canley Vale for the purpose of requesting the…

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A Celebrated Jewish Schoolmaster

The Australasian Hebrew · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 8

THE Jews’ Free School in Bell Lane, Spitalfields, London, is the largest educational institution in the world. There day by day three thousand five hundred children receive instruction from more than seventy masters and mistresses. Judging from the…

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Jewish History ethically presented for private or Sabbath school use, by the Rev. P. Mendes, New York, 1896

The Australasian Hebrew · Friday 5 June 1896 · page 15

This primer, which appears to be the first of a series, contains 25 lessons in historical order from the creation of the world to the death of Moses. Though dealing with historical matter as recorded in the Bible, the learned author from first to last…

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Loretto School, Randwick

The Catholic Press · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 11

These religious are making a circumvallation around Sydney, and wherever you go you will find some nuns or fathers who should not be allowed to enter a free colony. The first educationalists in…

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Here and There. Our Schools

The Catholic Press · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 11

IT seems necessary to file a protest now and then in your columns against the assumption which obtains in certain circles that knowledge and education are convertible terms. A man may have…

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Caning in Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 7

Sir,—"X," in your issue of ½the 4th, rightly complains of a growing evil which is particularly noticeable in large Public schools. My object in writing is to inform "X" and parents of pupils attending…

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KENTHURST. School of Arts

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 8

The anal monthly entertainment in connection with this popular institution was given Friday, 29th ult., to a large and appreciative audience, Mr. W. H. Edmunds, vice-president…

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K.S.F.C. v. S. Grammar School

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 6

This importance All Schools match played on the H.D.C.C. on Wednesday afterward [?] The weather was [?] and a large attendance was hardly a thing to…

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The Sunday School. International Lesson. Sunday, June 14, 1896. Jesus Crucified. Luke xxiii. 33-46. I—beneath the Cross

The Methodist · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 4

When they were come, to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him. The Revised Version reads, the place which is called the…

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The Rev. Haskett Smith. Entertainment to School Children

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 7

The Rev. Haskett Smith gave a special illuminated entertainment to Sunday school scholars, members of church choirs, and church workers of all denominations, in the Town-hall, Sydney, last…

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The. Schools' Premiership

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 39

During the week several matches in connection with the Schools' Premiership Competition have been played. The King's School defeated the Church of England Grammar School at Parramatta by 51 points…

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All Saints' Sunday School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 3

Following is the list of winners at the distribution of prizes in connection with the above school by Mrs. A. H. Champion last week. It will be remembered that pressure…

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Sydney Grammar School v The King's School Another Win for K. S.

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 6

Notwithstanding the showers, Sydney Grammar School and the King's School played their Shields match on Wednesday afternoon on the Parramatta Cricket Ground. The game was a…

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Sports and Games the Schools' Shield. St. Joseph's v. Newington. A Well Fought Game

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1896 · page 6

A great deal of interest was manifested in this district in the match played on Saturday last on the Newington ground at. Stanmore, between St. Joseph's (Hunter's Hill) and…

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The Bicycle Teacher's Woes. An Amusing Scene in a Quiet Loudon Street The "Professor's" Trying Experience with a Beginner of the Fat-and-Forty Type

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 June 1896 · page 11

ISEACRES who foretold the speedy fading of the bicycle craze…

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Public School Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 June 1896 · page 3

A concert by the pubils of the Summer Hill Infants' school was given in the Carlton Hall, Summer Hill, on Saturday afternoon, the proceeds being in aid of the school fund. The attendance was very…

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Caning in Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 June 1896 · page 6

Sir,—Nine out of 10 boys are better for judicious caning, and few of us but secretly confess that we would have been better men for a liberal application when at sehool. I regret I got but little at school,…

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