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Schools, 1915

2,087 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 105

Superior Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 June 1915 · page 5

When superior public schools were re-created two and a half years ago headmasters and mistresses saw in them possibilities of better positions of status and associated emoluments. The…

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St. John's Poor School. Annual Meeting. a Great Charity

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 5

The annual meeting in connection with St. John's Free School, Kent-street, was held in the schoolroom, last Thursday afternoon. In the absence of his Grace the Archbishop…

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The Primary Schools. Royal Australian Naval College

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 16

Attention is drawn to the approaching examination for admission to the Royal Australian Naval College, and parents and guardians of boys born in 1902 are advised…

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Notes on Education. In Our Schools

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 16

Teachers are invited to seek information on any question relating to their school work. Correspondence will be treated confidentially.—ED. C.P.]…

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Bazaar at Balmain In aid of St. Augustine's New School. Successful Opening

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 11

A bazaar in aid of the funds of St. Augustine's new school, Balmain East, was opened on Saturday afternoon in St. Augustine's School-hall by the Hon. H. C. Hoyle…

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Caring For the Little Ones Work at St. John's Free School

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 13

One of the grandest works carried on in the Cathedral parish is that of the Poor schools of St. Joseph, William-street, and St. John's, Kent-street. Now and then a…

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New Infants' School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 12

An Infants' School was opened at Mosman yesterday by the Minister for Education. Dr. Arthur, M.L.A., in the course of his speech, paid a tribute to Mr. Eldridge's work in…

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Sydney Grammar School. Old Boys' Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 12

The seventeenth annual meeting of the Sydney Grammar Old Boys' Union was held last evening at the school. Mr. R. J. Black, M.L.C., who as president of the union…

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Lithgow School Troubles

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 June 1915 · page 10

LITHGOW, Wednesday.--At the council meeting last night the Mayor said that children were crowded into buildings other than the school, and the staff was unable to do its work with…

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Grand Fighters. Ex-industrial Schoolboys. Record of Achievements. London, Thursday Night

Evening News · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 5

A splendid performance has been put up by [?] young [?] and soldiers who was boys, were trained in the reformatory or industrial schools…

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The Mothers' Fund. N.S.W. School Will aim at £30,000

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 3

The success that Attended the "Children's Ten Thousand" Fund has probably inspired the decision of Mr. Griffith, N.S.W. Minister for Education, to…

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Follow the King. the Liquor Question. a School Text-book Promised

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 4

Replaying in Sydney to a deputation from the prohibition party Mr. Grimth, Minister for Education, said: "If I were Czar of this country, one of the things…

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Sydney Grammar School Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 7

The Sydney Grammar School Musical and Dramatic Society gave an entertainment at the Repertory Theatre last night in aid of the Polish Fund. The principal item of the programme was an amusing representation…

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Hurstville School of Arts

The Propeller · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 2

Matters in connection with the opening of the Hurstville School of Arts have now reached such a stage that it is anticipated that…

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Grammar School Sports

The Propeller · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 2

The pupils of the Hurstville Grammar School commemorated the end of the term with a "Paper Chase," after the good…

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Gallipoli, 1915. Great Public School of Austria

The World's News · Saturday 26 June 1915 · page 2

Reprinted from the "King's School Magazine" for June. This school alone has furnished over [?]00 volunteers—part and present pupils to the Australian Expeditionary Force…

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"Australia, For Ever!" An Old Ryde School Boy's Last Letter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 June 1915 · page 8

Last letter of Lieut. L. J. Burley (who was educated at Ryde Superior Public School and was killed in action) to his mother…

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Penrith School of Arts

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 June 1915 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the committee of the above was hold on Wednesday night last. Present—Messrs. A E Baker (president),D Mc Donald, J…

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School Children Aid Warriors French Pupils Making Soldiers' Torches Red Cross' New Work Voluntary Aid Detachments

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 June 1915 · page 7

In our anxiety to keep pace with the making of quantities or garments required by the Red Cross ana other patriotic societies, we have scarcely time to develop our Inventive genius…

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School Prize Money Diverted to War Funds Unfair to the Children

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 June 1915 · page 7

There is much of reason in the protest of the book trade, expressed in a circular distributed among teachers and principals of schools, against the practice of depriving children of…

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