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Schools, 1906

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Presbyterian Sunday-school Demonstration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 7

The United Presbyterian Sunday-school demonstration in connection with the General Assembly was hold in the Centennial Hall, Br[?]sbane, this afternoon, and was largely…

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A Neglected School. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 8

The people of Evans Plains, five miles from Bathurst, complain of the action of the Education Department. A week before the Easter vacation the teacher of…

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Catholic Schools' Competition. Primary

The Australian Star · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 7

Entries in connection with the great competition closed during the week with nine teams, this being an advance of three clubs on the previous year's great entry. The schools…

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Public Schools Competition

The Australian Star · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 7

The closing of entries for the ensuing season has been extended to Friday next, the 13th inst. Several new schools have already entered or expressed their intention of…

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The Language of Scholars. Addresses in Latin

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday--The University Council to-day had before it an invitation to send a representative to the quarter-centenary celebrations of the University of Aberdeen…

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Campsie School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 7

A deputation consisting of residents of Campsie, and introduced by Mr. Mackenzie, M.L.A., interviewed the Minister for Public Instruction yesterday and asked for the…

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School for Campsie

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 6

A deputation from Campsle, near Canterbury, waited upon the Minister for Public Instruction yesterday, and renewed an application for a school at Campsle. It was pointed…

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Subsidies for Schools of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 8

BATHURST, Monday.--In connection with the communication from the Education Department threatening the reduction and ultimate withdrawal of the subsidy to the Bathurst School of…

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St. Ignatius' College V. Sydney Grammar School

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 10

St. Ignatius' College Firsts defeated Sydney Grammar School at Riverview on Saturday by 6 to 3. There was no score during the first half, the game being hard and fast. In the second half Biggins scored for the…

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An Overcrowded School. Portland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 12

At the last meeting of the Progress Association the question of the additions to the local Public school was discussed at some length. The Minister for Works, when on a visit to…

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Church Schools for the Poor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 10

The first session of the Anglican Provincial Synod met to-day. Archbishop Clarke delivered an inaugural address, which dealt largely with educational matters. He…

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The Contributor the Bush Schoolmaster

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 1186

"I had a funny experience with one fellow up there," said the bush schoolmaster. "He was a bullock-driver. Not a bad sort; had three teams of his own. He sent his…

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A Schoolmaster Abroad

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 1206

Messrs. Geo. Robertson and Co., forward a second edition of a "Gumsucker on the Tramp," by N. F." Spielvogel. Mr. Spielvogel is a young Australian-born German, who…

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The Armidale School

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 1216

At a meeting of the school directors the Rev. A. H. Reynolds has been appointed headmaster of the Armidale school in succession to the Rev. W. Fisher, whose…

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Japanese School Children

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 1221

AFTER the founding of the Tokio University in 1872, there was a rush for the schoolhouse, and the rush became a tidal wave that swept over the whole land…

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New School-Child's Song

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 6

Tis the voice of the doctors! you bear them complain ? You have waked me too soon, let me slumber again…

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School Fares

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 12

Country teachers will be interested to know that the commissioners have approved of cheap railway tickets being available for return for six weeks at Christmas time. As the "meridian" teachers get six weeks'…

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Public Schools Rugby

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 12

The competition rules were adopted by the council of the P.S. A.A.A. last week, although, as usual, there was a big fight over the question of final appeal. Even with the legal situation of Supreme Court, Full Court,…

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The Schools. Great Public School Football

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 12

The best game of the round was played between Newington and Sydney Grammar School. It was fast and open--the tackling was solid, and the kicking clean and well timed. The Grammar School, if anything, placed…

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The Rev. A. H. Reynolds. Headmaster, Armidale School

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 25

At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Armidale school, held on May 3, the Rev. A. H. Reynolds, B.A., London, M.A., Trinity College,…

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