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Schools, 1909

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Gale on the South Coast. a School Hall Shifted Bodily. Trains From Nowra Delayed

Evening News · Monday 14 June 1909 · page 5

WOONONA, Monday.—A fearful gale from the west, of unexampled fury, was raging all day yesterday over the Bulli district, causing great alarm to the residents and much…

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Greenwich Public School. Opened by Mr. Hogue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 June 1909 · page 9

On Saturday the new Public school at Greenwich was opened by the Minister for Education, Mr. Hogue. The new building, situated on the…

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Teachers Interview Minister. Suggestions of Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 June 1909 · page 5

On Saturday morning the Minister for Education was waited on by a deputation representing the Teachers' Association, who laid before him a number of suggestions for the…

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A Million a Year. Spent in Education. New School at Greenwich

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 June 1909 · page 8

The Minister for Public Instruction (Mr. J, A. Hogue) officially opened a new school at Greenwich on. Saturday afternoon. The building occupies e site commanding a fine view of the…

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Winter School for Faction Managers

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture has approved of the holding of a winter school for factory managets and these in leading for managerships being held…

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Education. Teachers and the Minister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 3

The reply of the Minister for Public instruction to the deputation from the Teachers' Association that a comprehensive amending of the compulsory clauses of the…

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Teachers and Drawing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 3

The optional subject of drawing in teachers examinations having become compulsory continues to vex many who previously obtained certificates without including drawing. The…

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School Exhibitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 3

The reports of inspectors of schools now being published go to show that throughout the whole of the inspectors' districts school exhibitions have been a feature of the year's…

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The Teacher in England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 3

Following is on extract from a letter received from the teacher of a large school in England:—"We have had half a dozen inspectors within three…

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School Frocks

The Star · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 15

On the right is a school frock of navy blue serge, worn over a cream flannel blouse, with currant-red spots. The little walking dress on the left is carried out in crimson cloth with soutache trimming…

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Our Schools. at Work and at Play

The Star · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 14

[We have arranged to publish each Tuesday special notes under the above heading. It will assist us, and add to the interest of the column, if teachers and responsible scholars will [?]ward notes of…

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Teachers' Training College. Suggested Solution. the Deaf and Dumb Institution

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 7

For some months past the Department of Public Instruction has been negotiating with the University Senate in regard to a site with in the University grounds for the proposed new…

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Kensington School of Arts

Evening News · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 6

Recently the officers of the Kensington School of Arts asked the Randwick Council to contribute towards providing a library for the institution. The reply received was that the…

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Factory Managers' School. Instruction at a Lismore Factory

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 16

The Minister for Agriculture has approved of the holding of a winter school for factory managers and those in training for managerships, being held from the 19th to 31st July,…

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Western Section of City Teachers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 7

The western section of city teachers held a special meeting last week, and decided by a big majority to reduce the annual subscription to a shilling a year. This was the only plutocratic inspectoral section that…

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Assistant Teachers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 7

There have recently been some important changes among assistants. Mr. George Longmuir has gone to Bathurst in temporary charge of the Technical College there, and Mr. Monoghan (Woollahra) has been promoted…

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The Schools. Mr. Board

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 7

"I have come hack feeling very lazy," said Mr. Board yesterday afternoon. The the was 5 o'clock, and, with customary promptness, most of the officers of the department had changed their coats 25 minutes before, and were…

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Sports and Games. FOOTBALL. Rugby. T.K.S.—SCHOOL v. FARM

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 4

On Monday afternoon, the Rugby fifteen of K.S. proper (we should say more correctly, perhaps, of the central School, opposite the Hospital, for all…

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Cowper Convent Pupils Win Distinction

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 June 1909 · page 18

The Mother-Superior of Cowper Convent has just received intimation from Trinity College, London, that two of her pupils have been awarded the National Prize of £5 for…

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Oxford Reform. Benefited by Colonial Scholars. London, June 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 June 1909 · page 7

Lord Curzon, the Chancellor, yesterday, addressing at luncheon at Oxford the delegates to the Imperial Press Conference, mentioned the bequests of Mr. Cecil…

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