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At the last meeting of the council of the P.S.A.A.A., the Rugby competition rules were approved. The chief alteration was the raising of the individual weight in first junior from fist, to 8st. 4lb. This was done in the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Booral resident writes: -- "As a subscriber to jour, paper I wish to ask a question through it, Could you give me the number of cubic feet that are allowed for each child in a public school by Act of Parliament, as we…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The usual meeting of the council of the Teachers' Association will be held at the Teachers' College to-morrow. evening her some tune past the council has held its meetings in the Public Service Association's rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →It was exactly three years yesterday that Mr. Board, at a meeting of teachers, propounded his scheme of physical measurement of public school children, and in view of the interest shown in the chest girth results, the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The many friends of Mr. William Joseph Lynch, head teacher of the State School at Dinmore (Q.), were grieved to hear of his death, which took place at Sandgate on the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →We read in the Antigonish (N.S.) "Casket," now, as it has been for years, one of the most ably edited Catholic newspapers in America:…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Monday evening some friends of the poor schools of the Cathedral parish held a preliminary meeting in the Bible Hall William-street for the purpose of making…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The negative proposal of propagating atheism, which consists in suppressing all mention of Gcd and of man's duty towards Him, are fully exploited by the anti…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,-"Historicus" in the last five or six issues of the "Freiman" has been writing some able articles on Catholic education. In one of his numbers he made in a passing…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The annual Conference of the Public School Teachers' Association, lately held in Sydney, and opened by the Minister for Public Instruction, was made the occasion for a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Sir,—Much has been said and written with reference to Cardinal Moran's demand for State aid to his schools. He certainly never loses an opportunity of assuring the public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Newtown Council at its last meeting received a letter from a local resident respecting a summons which bad been issued against his son for alleged destruction of a tree in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inquiries made by the German Bureau of Popular Welfare in 125 towns revealed the fact that 22,000 children in winter, and 36,000 in summer, were sent to school…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A feature of the referendum on Bible-reading in State schools was the large number of ladies who volunteered to assist at the various polling-booths. At East Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The committee of the Willoughby School of Arts has adopted a proposal for the erection of a portion of the building for the institution. This includes two shops, reading-room, libraty, committee-rooms, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The full story of the doings of Mr. Philander Knox, son of the United States Secretary of State, who ran away and married a pretty shop girl was expelled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Inquiries made by the German Bureau of Popular Welfare in 125 towns revealed the fact that 22,000 children in the winter and 36,000 in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An interesting statement has just been issued with reference to the operation of the Rhodes Scholarship scheme (reports a London journal), from which it appears that the total number…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The monthly meeting of the committee of the above institution was held on Friday night of last week, there being present—Messrs R C S Wilkinson (president, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,-In your last issue (April 9th) you refer to the "Mayor of Newcastle furiously attacking the Education Department over the…
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