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Schools, 1902

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Cricket. Public Schools' Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 12

The presentation of medals and other trophies to the members of the Paddington Superior Public School team, winners of last year's Public schools' competition for the metropolitan district, took place…

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Darlinghurst Superior Public School. Prizes Presented by Mr. F. Bridges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 14

At the Darlinghurst Superior Public School yesterday afternoon the annual presentation of prizes to the pupils took place. There was a large attendance, including the Bishop of Gippsland. Mr…

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Methodist Sunday=school Union

The Methodist · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 2

A social gathering of teachers belonging to schools connected with the Sunday-school Union was held in the Wesley Church School-hall on 22nd…

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The Sunday School International Lesson. Sunday, June 15, 1902. Paul Crosses to Europe. Acts xvi. 6.15

The Methodist · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 2

GOLDEN TEXT (Acts xxii. 15).—"Thou shalt be His witness unto all men." Connection.—Paul and Barnabas told the story of their first great missionary…

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King's School Old Boys' Union

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 2

The King's School Old Boys' Union will hold its ninth annual meeting at the school, Parramatta, on Wednesday evening next. In its report the committee points out that it has succeeded in accomplishing the chief…

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Football. Schools' Premiership

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon the first fifteen of the King's Reboot and the representatives of Sydney Grammar School met for the first time this season in the Schools' Premiership Competition, on the King's School Oval,…

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Darling Hurst Public School. Annual Presentation of Prizes

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 12

The annual presentation of prizes took place yesterday at the Darlinghurst Public School--recently raised to a first-class school--in the presence of a large gathering of parents and friends…

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A King's School Boy's Book. Great Reception from the Reviewers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 3

Mr. J. H. M. Abbott, ex-King's School boy, has made a great hit with his book, "Tommy Cornstalk." The "Spectator," one of the leading English literary papers, devotes about…

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Hornsby School of Arts. Laying of the Foundation Stones. A Brilliant Assemblage. A State Minister of the Crown and Two Federal Members Present

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 8

A large and brilliant assemblage gathered at Hornsby on Saturday afternoon, to witness the important ceremony of the laying of the foundation stones (four in number) of the new…

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A Serious Occurrence at School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 4

An affair which should receive departmental attention transpired at the Parramatta North Superior Public School on Thursday. One of the teachers reported that her purse containing…

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Public School Teachers' Association

The Australian Star · Monday 9 June 1902 · page 3

The usual monthly meeting of the above association was held at the P.S.A.A.A. Rooms on Thursday evening last. The president, Mr. P. J. Nelligan, was in the chair…

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Presentations to School. Teachers. Lismore

The Australian Star · Monday 9 June 1902 · page 6

Mr. Brown, teacher at German Creek Public School, who has been transferred to Rous School, was yesterday presented with a silver tea and coffee service, and an illuminated address by the parents of his late pupils. Mrs…

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Randwick Presbyterian School-hall

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 June 1902 · page 7

Some time ago the sum of £150 was collected towards the purchase of an organ for the Randwick Presbyterian Church. Recently, however, Mrs. J. C. Fischer. Orange-street, Randwick,…

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School of Arts Championship

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 11 June 1902 · page 3

After "dragging its slow length along" for several months the above tourney has now been brought to a termination, Messrs. Jacobsen and B. J. Hill, who tied…

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A School of Athletics

Evening News · Thursday 12 June 1902 · page 4

Sydney, one of the most important Gates of the Empire, has many notable possessions. So many are the favours which have fallen upon the State's great sea-board city, that categorical…

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Board-school Boy Now Senior Wrangler

Evening News · Thursday 12 June 1902 · page 5

LONDON, June 11, 2.45 p.m.—The pass list in the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University was issued to-day. Mr. Ebenezer Cunningham, a former Board-school boy,…

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Russia. Arrest of Teachers

Evening News · Thursday 12 June 1902 · page 5

LONDON, June 11, 2.45 p.m.—Fifty teachers in the national schools at St. Petersburg have been arrested for being concerned in the revolutionary propaganda…

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Treasonable Teachers. London, June 11, 2.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 12 June 1902 · page 5

Further trouble is reported from St. Petersburg, where 50 teachers in the national schools have been arrested for circulating a revolutionary propaganda…

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Public School Teachers and the Coronation. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1902 · page 8

Sir,—Permit me through the medium of your valuable paper to bring under the notice of the Education Department the desirability of commemorating two notable events in our history not…

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Unrest in Russia. School Teachers Arrested

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 June 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Fifty teachers of the National Schools have been arrested at St. Petersburg for taking Fart in the revolutionary propaganda…

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