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Schools, 1906

2,834 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 142

The Schools. Great Public Schools' Football

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 11

The G.P.S. football competition starts next Wednesday, when Sydney Grammar School will play Newington at the Sports Ground. North Shore meets St. Joseph's at North Sydney Oval, and The King's School will initiate…

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Teachers' Salaries. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 14

Sir,--In my former letter, I pointed out that in some brunches of the public branches men with practically equal claims were doing precisely similar work at salaries which varied…

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Public School Cricket

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 11

The season will be brought to a close on Saturday by a combined match on the Sydney Cricket Ground, which has been placed at the committee's disposal by the trustees. In order to make the match as representative as…

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Amongst the Schools. Chronicle of Events. Contributed Mainly by Pupils

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 8

More than ordinary interest was centred in the boat races between the Great public Schools held on the Parramatta River yesterday. Such enthusiasm has seldom been seen…

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The Great Public Schools' Championship. St. 'Ignatius' Crews

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 15

The Groat Public Schools' Championship was rowed on the Parramatta River on Wednesday afternoon, and although St. Ignatius was expected by…

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St, Bede's High School, Newtown

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 21

On Tuesday week the pupils of St. Bede's High School, Newtown, entertained the Good Samaritan muns and their friends with an "At Home" in the school-hall. The…

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Rowing. Great Public Schools' Races

Evening News · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 2

On the Parramatta River on Wednesday afternoon, two very interesting races were decided under the auspices of the Great Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association. A very good…

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The Lindfield Train Accident. How a Schoolboy Lost His Life

Evening News · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 4

Coroner Clarke held an inquest to-day into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ernest Edward Ivey, who was killed by a train at Lindfield Railway Station on Wednesday…

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Casualties. a Schoolboy Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 10

A sixteen-year-old schoolboy named Ernest Edward Ivey met with a shocking death yesterday morning. He left his home in Highfield-road, Lindfield, for the purpose of…

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Grievances of Pupil Teachers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 7

There has been some discussion lately with reference to pupil teachers and their grievances. The Minister for Education mentioned the matter yesterday. It was well known, he…

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Pupils' Concert

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 8

A concert and entertainment by the Ailanthus College girls at the Lyceum-hall last night, in aid of a cot for tho Children's Hospital, was a genuinely enjoyable and most successful affair…

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Armidale School Old Boys' Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 9
Also in The Daily Telegraph

At the seventh annual meeting of this union Mr. T. A. H. Wing, vice-president, was chairman. The report and balance-sheet were adopted, a credit balance being shown…

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Fires in the Country. Public School Burnt Down. Tenterfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 7

News has been received here that the Public school building at Amosfield, 30 miles from here, was burnt down at about 10 o'clock this morning. The teacher, noticing a smell of…

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Public Schools

The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 3

The following programme was adopted at the last meeting of the N.S.W. Football League in connection with the ensuing season's operations. Division A (eight teams),…

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The Lot of the Public School Teacher. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 15

Sir, -- No wonder there is amongst State school teachers "that profound dissatisfaction with their lot," to which the retiring president of the Public School Teachers' Association referred…

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Castlereagh Methodist Sunday School

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

On Easter Sunday afternoon the above Sunday School held their anniversary services. The children were examined by the Rev F E Fletcher,…

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Helping the Bootmaker. Technical School Established

Evening News · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 4

It is evident that the present Government is in earnest in the matter of technical education. The Ultimo College has been in existence for many years, and has, no doubt, done a large…

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News From the Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 9

[Contributions to this column are invited from acceptable sources, short notes for preference; an indispensable condition being that the name and address of each contributor…

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Libels on Australia. "Anti-christian Schools." Modesty Vanishes. "A Mighty Revolution." London, April 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 11

The "Western Morning News," issued at Plymouth, has published an interview— purporting to be with an Australian Agent-General, whose name, however, is not…

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