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Schools, 1900

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Alexandria Public School

The Australian Star · Monday 26 February 1900 · page 6

Mr. Anderson, M.L.A., has been informed by the Department of Public Instruction that steps have been taken to carry out the promise made by Mr. Jacob Garrard, when…

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School Children's Patriotism

The Australian Star · Monday 26 February 1900 · page 6

The pupils of the Waterloo Superior Public School gave an entertainment on Friday last in the Oddfellows' Temple, Elizabeth-street, Sydney, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, to…

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The School of Arts Trouble

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1900 · page 3

There are indications of a peaceable termination to the struggle between the committee of the Parramatta School of Arts and the late librarian, which has occasioned so much local…

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The Alexandria School

Evening News · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 6

Mr. George Anderson, M.L.A., has received a communication from the Education Department to the effect that in response to his personal representations steps have been taken to carry out the…

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Public Schools' Contributions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 6

The scholars and teachers of the West Leichhardt Public School have been busy during their spare time for the past fortnight with the Schools'' Patriotio Fund. Last week the sum of £13 7a 2d was sent to…

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A New School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 5

The ceremony of laying the four memorial-stones in connection with the new School of Arts building might break through; and presently the lock was at Tighe's Hill, now in cource of construction, was…

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Maitland Teachers. Maitland

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

A meeting of the Public school teachers of the Maitland district was held on Saturday, under the presidency of District- Inspector Dwyer, when the Teachers' Patriotic Fund…

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The Patriotic Fund. a Waterloo School

The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

The profits from the concert given by the teachers and pupils of the Waterloo Superior Public school amount to £15 10s. In addition to this several contributions have been…

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Alexandria Public School

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

Mr. Jacob Garrard, when Minister for Public Instruction, promised that two allotments on the south-west side of the resumed land at the Alexandria Public School should be set apart in order to provide a lane 20ft. wide,…

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Women's Work for the War Schools Volunteering Assistance. Mrs. Waller's Fifth Shipment

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 6

A number of the elder girls attending Parramatta South Superior Public School recently soke to the head mistress above the possibility of doing sore work for the Feld hospitals in South Africa…

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Comforts for the Wounded. Schoolgirls at Work

Evening News · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 6

The greatest interest is being taken in the movement for supplying comforts to the wounded by the residents in the Parramatta district, who are justly proud that the lady who started it…

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Schoolboy Championships

Referee · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 7

The first of the present season's series of district schools' carnivals took place as Elkinston Park Baths, Balma[?]n, on Friday afternoon, when the Western Division,…

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St. Mark's Crescent School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 5

The annual holiday known as " Foundation Day " [?] celebrated on Friday in connection with St. Markt Crescent School, Darling Point. Mr. Adams during the day entertained the boys at Bondi Aquarium, where a very…

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St. Leonards School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 8

There is a difference of opinion between the North Sydney Council and the committee of the St. Leonards school of Arts as to whether the latter are liable for rates. The dispute has existed for some time and…

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Wahroonga Grammar School

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 10

The distribution of prizes at the Wahroonga Grammar School took place on Friday evening, the 23rd inst. The chair was taken by Dr. F. Antill Pockley. There was an audience of about 150. The prize-giving had been…

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Fire at a School

Evening News · Thursday 1 March 1900 · page 4

About 10.30 this morning a quantity of tar, stated to amount to 300gal, which was in the yard of the Stanmore Public School, Cambridge-street, for the purpose of being used in top-dressing the…

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A Schoolmaster. I.

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1900 · page 10

Scholarship has no natural affinity with young countries. Scholars do not spontaneously emigrate. The sheltered leisure of universities breeds them, and the unruffled tenor of…

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Jewish Biblical Scholars

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 9

In the course of his speech at a meeting of the Maccabeans, Mr. Israel Gollancz, the well-known English scholar, said in effect that it was a source of regret that while in almost…

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The School History. To the Editor of the "Evening News."

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 8

Sir,—We are fortunate in having you as sentry to guard public interests during the present administration, and I am glad to notice how promptly you have taken up the matter of the introduction of…

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Waterloo Public School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 6

The pupils of the Waterloo Superior Public School gave a successful concert in the Oddfellows' Temple, Elizabeth-street, Sydney, on Friday evening last, in aid of the teacher's division of the Patriotic Fund,…

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