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Schools, 1914

2,683 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 135

Schoolground Taxes. £200 a Year for a College a Church Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 13

The difficulties which college authorities are experiencing with regard to land taxation was alluded to by Dr. Warden, principal of the Prebyterian Ladies' College at Croydon,…

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Sydney Girls' High School. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 4

Sir,--My attention had been already called to the slip I had made in the sentence Miss Badham quotes from my "Report on the Teaching of Mathematics in Australia." And the…

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Schools Without Grounds. "Tablecloth Areas."

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 9

Dr. John Marden, principal of the Croydon Ladies' College, speaking on the report of the college presented to the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday, said that their taxation…

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Abolishing Sunday Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 6

The Rev. Canon Forster, speaking at the annual meeting of All Saints' parishioners in Bathurst, on Wednesday night, said he would like to see Sunday schools abolished. He did…

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The Teachers and the Stamp Tax

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 6

The protest of the Teachers' Association against the invidious taxation of teachers' salaries is it perfectly fair one to address to a Government professing democratic…

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Waverley Fatality. Schoolboy Run Over by Motor Waggon. "I Won't Get Better."

Evening News · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 8

Thomas Dawes, a ten-year-old schoolboy, was knocked down by a motor waggon near the police station, in Cowper-street, Waverley, last Saturday, and died the same day in St…

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A Tilt at Squatterdom. an Old-school Selector Breaks a Lance

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 3

"Dubbo" writes:— "I see that the Farmers and Settlers' Associations is claiming to be the farmers' party, but ihirllc they must mean the squatters'…

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Overcrowded Enmore School

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 12

Mr. D. R. Hall, Minister for Justice, at the request of the Newtown Council, accompanied by Ald. Frank Bamfield (Mayor), several aldermen Mr. W. G. Salmon (town clerk), and…

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Mr. Harrison Allen's Pupils

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 17
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

On Friday next at St. James's-hall Mr. Harrison Allen's pupils will give an elocutionary recital, when an attractive programmes will be presented. Mr. Harrison Allen will appear in a costumed selection from "As…

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Mrs. Haffenden-smith's Pupils

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 17

Mrs. Haffenden-Smith announces a pupils concert to be given at the Town-hall on Wednesday, June 8 (King's Birthday, on behalf of the funds of the Babies' Hospital at Greycliffe. The plan will be at Paling's on…

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For Women. Golf As a Profession. Teacher or Secretary. Number of Disadvantages. Written for the Evening News by Mrs. Ross, a Winner of Championship

Evening News · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 10

The modern girl is very brave. Independence is her watchword. She resents the idea of [?]ging helpless femininity, and sturdily fights her own [?] in the world…

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Schoolroom Humour

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 6

"Why did you stay away yesterday. jimmy" said the teacher to a boy who replied. Please air muvver's ill" "Oh, that bad" said the teacher. "What does…

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Exclusive Teacher

The World's News · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 5

HAROLD BAUER, the renowned piano virtuoso, whose first. season in Australia commences in June, is one of the most exclusive piano teachers in the world. His time…

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A Novel School

The World's News · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 10

The conversion of its school grounds into a miniature industrial colony is a special feature of the…

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Victorian Rowing Nursery. Secondary Schools' Eight-oar Races

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The preliminary beats in connection with the secondary schools' annal eight-oar race for the honor of head of the river were rowed to-day over the Henley…

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"Abolishing Sunday Schools."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 12

Speaking at the united meeting of the Sunday School workers at Goulburn on Thursday night, the Rev. Harold Wheen, general secretary of the Methodist Sunday Schools Department,…

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Fatalities and Accidents a Schoolboy's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 22

The death of Thomas Dawes, of Waverley, a 10-your-old schoolboy, as the result of a motor-lorry accident, was the subject of us inquiry yesterday morning at the City Coroner's…

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Teachers and the Stamp Tax. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 15

Sir, -- I have to thank you for your sub-leader or to-day on the above subject; and further to add that had the tax been imposed, upon the salaries of touchers only, their 4s annual…

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The Schools. Berrigan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 28

Prior to his departure, Mr. A. G. Morgan, who has been transferred to the Corowa Public School, was presented with a travellingbag and rug by the Mulwala Football Club…

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