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Schools, 1911

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Continuation Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 6

The attendances at the continuation schools are, the Department of Public Instruction states, keeping up very well. The success of the continuation schools at Petersham, Balmain,…

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Schools of Arts. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 9

Sir,--It should be gratifying to every Australian who has a becoming regard for the public Treasury and the educational status of the community to know that a gentleman who occupies the important post of Minister…

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School Teachers' Salaries

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 8

.Mr. Booby N.S.W. Minister for Education, has recommended the Public Service Board to adopt a new regulation dealing with school teachers…

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A Big School of Agriculture

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 3

A Queensland dairy instructor has gone to Wisconsin, U.S.A., to take a course in dairying. At the university there, he stated in a recent letter,…

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Correct School Hours

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 1

Singleton asks me to give the correct hours at which children arc supposed to attend school in the morning, and to finish for the day…

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Boarding Schools

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 6

Dunedo.—The boarding schools which we advertise weekly in our paper are all splendid colleges for girls, and to any one of these you could send your girlle with the know…

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Schools of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 6

The Intention of the Minister for Public Instruction to investigate the condition and service to the community of the institutions known as Schools of Arts with a…

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Hounded From School. Rich Students Taunt Working Man's Son

The Sun · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 9

Taunted by the paying students with being "only a working man's son," Lewis Hill, a scholarship student at a Newcastle-on-Tyne secondary school, was driven to such desperation that he run away from his home in…

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West Australia's Schools. Five Years' Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 8

PERTH, Thursday.--The Minister for Education (Mr. Nanson),addressing the first conference of school boards at a luncheon at Parliament House, said the educational activity of the…

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Proposed Teachers Union. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 11

Sir,-- [?] cating justice to the largest section at the public service viz., the Education Department. To any mind there is not a more disceptenced service than the teaching pro…

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Schools of Arts. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 11

Sir,-- with refurence to the letter from Mr.john tebbutt calling attention to schools of Arts and their proper use. I heg to enderse exactly what this gentleman siates. As a member of the North sydney School of…

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Teachers' Association

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Penrith School Teachers' Association was held in the Penrith Superior Public School on Saturday last, Mr G W Steinbeck (vice-president)…

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Sunday School Lesson. Sunday, May 14th, 1911. Isaiah's vision and call to service. (Home Missionary Lesson.) Isaiah 6

The Methodist · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4

Golden Text.—"I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me."—Isa. 6:8. Introduction…

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The Sunday School This Page Is Under the Auspices of the Council of the Sunday School Department. Our Boys and Girls

The Methodist · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4

My Dear Boys and Girls.—Did you read that pitiful fetter which appeared in one of the daily papers the week before last. written by Miss A. Henry, of the China Inland Mission, to a friend in Auckland, New…

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United S.s. Teachers' Training Course. Notes on the Lectures

The Methodist · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

The objective of these Notes is not to effect criticism, neither is it to furnish effusive appreciation, but it is an endeavour to preserve the salient features of each evening's doings. What so strongly appeals…

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Proposed Teachers' Union. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 11

Sir,--The public utterances of the Minister for Public instruction from time to time are steadily carrying conviction to the teacher that he has little to hope for from the Labor Government while Mr. Beeby remains a…

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North Sydney School of Arts. Election of New Committee

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 20

The officers and committee previously carrying on the business of the North Sydney School of Arts having resigned their positions last week, consequent on the question of their last week consequent on the question of their being legally in office having been raised…

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Football. Rugby. Schools' Premiership match. T.K.S. Defeat S.G.S.

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 3

On Wednesday the first round of the Great Public Schools' Premiership (Rugby) matches was opened. One game was at Parramatta that afternoon—between…

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Improvements at the District School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 6

Extensive improvements are to be carried out shortly at the Parramntta District. School, at an expense of about £2000. The plans, etc., have gone on to…

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Tea Table Topics. Should Schoolgirls Be Caned ?

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 May 1911 · page 23

I can't say I agree with "Constant Reader." I do not think schoolgirls should be caned. It is a barbarous idea. In olden times they used to drive slaves and servants with the cane OLD-TIMER…

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