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Schools, 1915

2,087 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 105

An Overcrowded School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1915 · page 8

The population of Sutherland is growing rapidly, arid accommodation at the public school is inadequate. On the school resuming last week the attendance in the infants class was…

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Night Schools. Evening Continuation Classes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1915 · page 9

The inspector of evening continuation schools has furnished his annual report to the Minister for Education. He states that at the end of 1913 47 continuation schools were in operation,…

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Scholarships. Country School Awards. Successful Pupils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 4

The following scholarships have been awarded to candidates as the result of the competition at the qualifying certificate examination of November 16 last…

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Relief for Sufferers. School Children's Gift. London, Monday Night

Evening News · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 1

Sir Timothy Coghian, Agent-General for New South Wales, has handed M. Laiaing, the Belgian Minister, £20,000 from Auckland, Charist-church, Queensland, and New South Wales…

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Thief in Warrawee School

Evening News · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 5

The Warrawee Public School was broken into on Monday night, on insecurely fastened window making it easy for the theif to gaia an entrance. Several cupboards were ran…

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Church School Hall on Fire

Evening News · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 8

The school hall adjoining the Holy Trinity Church in Lower Fort-street, Miller's Point, was damaged by fire shortly before half-past 8 last night. The blaze, the cause of which…

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Crimes of Violence Assaults and Murders Malaita Boy Runs Amok in a School

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 4

The Government steamer Belama, which arrived in Sydney from the Solomon group on Friday, brought news of a tragedy that occurred in the island…

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Parramatta High School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 10
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of officially opening the Parramatta High School was performed, in the presence of a large gathering of citizens, by Mr. Carmichael,…

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The Schools. Intermediate Certificate Examination. Supplementary List of Passes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1915 · page 12

Three conditions are attached to the award of the Intermediate Certificate, namely:- (1) The satisfactory completion of advanced courses of study covering two years in…

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Women Teachers. Mr. Carmichael and Their Claims

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 February 1915 · page 6

Miss Annie Golding, president of the Woman's Progressive Association, writes:-- Once again the teachers have waited on the Minister for Public Instruction and placed…

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The Schools. Superannuation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 February 1915 · page 12

So much interest is being taken in the Superannuation Bill, which passed the Legislative Assembly, and now lies, waterlogged in the Upper House, that a number of typical cases…

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Scholarships at Superior Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 February 1915 · page 12

Speaking at the opening of Parramatta High School, Mr. Carmichael announced that it had been decided to make scholarships available at superior public schools as well as…

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The Parramatta High School. High - placed, and With High Hopes

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1915 · page 2

The warden of the historic, picturesque country - side realm—"the Cradle of the Australias!" What a, rich endowment with which to…

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Notes on Education. In Our Schools. Teachers are invited to seek information on any question relating to their school work. Correspondence will be treated confidentially.—Ed. C.P.] Bursaries. Additional Awards

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 February 1915 · page 15

The following additional awards have been made by the Bursary Endowment Board. To bursary holders who may have to live away from home in order to attend…

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School of Arts Literature. an Outspoken President

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 February 1915 · page 25

It is a well-known fact that many Catholics in West Maitland refuse to renew their membership at the West Maitland School of Arts as a protest against the presence in the…

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Primary School Syllabus. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1915 · page 10

At the annual meeting of the Lithgow District Teachers' Association the question of amending the syllabus of primary instruction, which has now been on trial for ten years, was…

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Women Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1915 · page 4

A correspondent asks whether women teachers who have attained the age of 21 since the outbreak of the war are to remain upon their original salary or are to receive the…

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A Schoolboy's Crime. Attempted [?] in Spain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 4

A schoolboy, fourteen years of age, named Silva, fired two shots at Senor Costa (ex-Premier of Spain) when he was entering a train at Oporto. Senor Costa…

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School Boy Howlers

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1915 · page 6

At the annual prize-giving of a Clapham school the principal quoted the following "howlers" written by pupils in a "General Knowledge…

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