Suicide of a School Teacher
The City Coroner held an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Patrick Geo. Hewitson, of Parramatta, school teacher, who was found with his throat cut in the Sydney Domain…
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Fighting Flames at Maitland. Large Area Devastated. a Schoolhouse Destroyed
WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--The unprecedented heat of the past few days has caused bush fires in all parts of the district. Extensive damage has been everywhere occasioned to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country Reports. Public School Burned Down. Losses at Campbelltown
CAMPBELLTOWN, Sunday.--A bush fire, which is said to have been caused by a spark from a railway engine, broke out at Minto yesterday afternoon, at about 3 o'clock, and BRANXTON, Saturday.--Great damage was done by bush fires yesterday. At Stanhope the public school and residence were totally destroyed. Many of the farers here have lost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country Teachers. to the Editor
Sir,--I should like to supplement "Ex-teacher's" remarks on the disabilities under which country teachers labor in comparison with their city brethren…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →School Teachers
The Public Service Board have approved of the transfers of the following teachers to the schools and positions specied:—Miss. L. D. Barker, from Pitt Town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public School Destroyed. Whole Districts Devastated. Singleton
The damage done by bush fires in this district cannot easily be estimated. Fires are raging all around the town, which is covered with a mantle of smoke which is almost…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Schools for the Unemployed
The "Mail" of last week suggested, as one of the New Year's resolutions, a determination that there should be no more of the unemployed trouble which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Public School Midsummer Vacation. to the Editor
Sir, -- I trust the Minister for Public Instruction will, in view of the abnormal and unprecedented climatic conditions prevailing all over the State at the present time, exercise his prerogative…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →School Destroyed
At Stanhope the public school and teacher's residence were destroyed. Everything on Mr. Colin Gollan's run at Stanhope was destroyed. The inmates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chatswood Convent High School
The Sisters of Merey's new high school, just completed in Archor-street, Chatswood, will be blessed and opened by his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Marist Brothers' School, Parramatta
The pupils of the Marist Brothers' School, Parramatta," were entertained at an enjoyable picnic, at Coogee, last week, following the inspector's examination, at which the…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →The Railway and School Children. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I was somewhat amused at "Pater's" letter in your issue of 30th ult, complaining because the Railway Department refuses to convey free of cost his children to any High…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →School Teacher's Living Allowance
One of our State school teachers has just displayed a fine conscientiousness for rendering unto the proper persons the things that are theirs. He has forwarded to the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →School Teachers' Grievances
A deputation of public school teachers waited on the Public Service Board on Thursday afternoon with respect to the disabilities teachers may labor under owing to the new scheme of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →west Australia. Perth Hebrew Schools. Perth Dec. 19, 1904
My fast, [?]etter contained a full account of the examination and distribution of prizes in connection with the Pert Hebrew Schools. On Sunday last the usual school picnic was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Education in New Zealand. Bible in Public Schools. New South Wales System Quoted
Mr. C. E. Bevan-Brown, headmaster of the Boys' High School, Christchurch, N.Z., who is on a visit to Sydney, says that an organised effort is being made to introduce Bible-reading…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country Teachers' Grievances. to the Editor
Sir,--Country teachers are a long-suffering, patient, and timid race, hence no one has so far attempted to follow up the letter of "Ex-Teacher," in a recent issue of "The Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How to Keep our Elder Scholars
As one solution of the distressing problem in our Sunday-school work of "How to Retain our Senior Scholars," we clip the following from the religious column of the Daily Telegraph:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →School Teacher's Living Allowance
One of our State school teachers has just displayed a fine conscientiousness for rendering unto the proper persons the things that are theirs. He has forwarded to the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →President's Son as Sunday School Teacher
One of the most interesting Sunday school classed in the United Stated is that taught by Thedore Roosevelt, jun., the seventeen year-old son of the President. The class consists of twelve little lads…
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