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Schools, 1917

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The Schools. Teachers' Association

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 5

The general secretary of the Teachers' Association, Mr. S. A. Kenny, who has completed a propaganda tour of the North Coast districts, submitted his report to a meeting of the…

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Q'nd Sport Schoolboy Athletes : Inter-city Football

Referee · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 15

Now that the first part of the season is at an end, League footballers are looking about them and sizing matters up generally. They have a premiership competition which in every…

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The Schools

Referee · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 13

Things are very quiet in schools' sport owing to the Midwinter vacation being still current. After the holidays the footballers will get into action for the rest of the season. A…

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Moree School Children Dancing Round the Maypole

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 31

The entertainment in which they took part was organised in aid of the Y.M.C.A. war funds…

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Infective Diseases. Influence on School Attendance

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 5

"During last year, said Mr. James, Minister for Education, yesterday, "43,637 pupils were absent from school on account of infective diseases. Of this total 31,547 were actually…

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Religious Instruction in Public' Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 13

Mr. T. J. Hoskins, M.L.A. writes:--"Side by side, in a recent issue, appeared sermons by Archbishop Kelly and the Rev. G. A. Chambers. I quite agree with these…

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N.S.W. High Schools

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 35

Mr. James, Minister for Education, opened the new high school at Dubbo last week. This makes the twenty-first high school under the department, although…

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The Old King's School. To the Editor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 3

Sir,—In your issue of 4th there is a paragraph under the above heading in which it is stated—speaking of Macquarie Fields:—"Macarthar's old school formed…

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New Church-School at Burwood Heights. to Be Blessed on Sunday Week

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 25

Twelve months ago his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney called into existence a new parish, the central site of which has been fixed on Liverpool road. Burwood Heights…

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Notes on Education. In Our Schools

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 18

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

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The Primary Schools. the Teaching of English

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 18

Ill the extension of the vocabulary we may make use of the many words in our language of different derivation. Thanks for the fact that there is a large Latin…

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New Primary School at Waverley. Opened on Sunday by the Archbishop of Sydney

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 17

The ceremony of opening and blessing the new primary school at Waverley was performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Sydney last Sunday. The school was formerly…

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The Secondary Schools. Work for the Half Year

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 18

Though we have apparently half a year of work before us, the truth is we have six months' work to do in four. The dates for the Intermediate and…

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The Waverley Parish Still Goes Marching On. a New Primary School Opened on Sunday. The Archbishop on Ireland and the Futility of Revolutionary Methods

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 17

Waverley pariah, in charge of the Rev. Father M. P. Kelly, O.F.M., has made remarkable progress during recent years as far as parochial works are concerned, and…

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All Hallows Convent, Gulgong. Opening and Blessing of New School-hall

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 23

The' fine new brick classroom erected to meet the growing requirements of the schools conducted by the sisters of St. Joseph at All Hallows Convent at Grulgong,…

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The Triumphs of Our Schools. and Those Catholics Who Are Disloyal to Them

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 24

The Catholic schools resumed studies this week, and not a few priests seized the occasion to remind our people of their obligations with regard to these institutions, and of the…

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New Church-school at Burwood Heights

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 26

After an existence of exactly twelve months, the new parish of St. Joseph's, with its commanding central site in Liverpool-road, Bur wood Heights, finds itself in a…

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Death of Larry Foley Teacher of Famous Boxers Successful Business Career

The Sun · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 2

Mr. Larry Foley died in the St. Vincent's Private Hospital shortly after 5 o'clock this morning. On Monday afternoon, while in a Turkish…

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School Doctors. Work and Cost Last Year

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 3

During 1916 2614 children were treated by the state travelling hospital, 10,871 children by the six travelling dental clinics, 3764 by the metropolitan dental clinic, and 2660 by the travelling…

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Unhappy Ireland. Revolutionary Sinn Feiners Doctrines Taught in Schools. London, Wednesday Night

Evening News · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 4

The [?] campaign in the East clare [?] was excellently organised Mr.[?] of motor cars speakers and [?].A large number of Roman…

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