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Schools, 1922

3,402 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 171

School Sport Shore Bowler's Success

Evening News · Monday 6 March 1922 · page 2

Barr's bowling was the feature of the Shore St. Joseph's first elevens match at North-bridge on Saturday. Shore batted first on a good wicket, and complied 244, H. White…

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Eighty Miles to School Hot Tea For Children PARKES

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1922 · page 9

Some of the children attending the district school at Parkes travel 80 miles by train each day, and the Parents and Citizens' Association is…

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Bursaries Tenable at High and Secondary Schools Metropolitan Pupils

Evening News · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 8

The names of the winners of bursaries awarded to pupils of metropolitan schools was announced this morning by the Bursary Endowment Board…

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Young Athletes Sport in the Schools Age Limit Suggested

Evening News · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 3

The High Schools sub-committee has recommended to the P. S. A. A. A. that when a school pupil attains his 20th birthday he ceases to be eligible for any competition or…

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Clovelly School Parents and Citizens' Meeting Praise for the Minister

Evening News · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 8

The annual meeting of the Clovelly Parents and citizens' Association, held at the school, Arden-street, Waverley, last night, was largely attended, and a…

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Public Schools' Life-saving

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 12

Annually the P.S.A.A.A. conducted competitions for the Cosgrove, Illingworth, and Kilminster challenge shields. The determinant was the skill of a squad or squads representative of such schools as cared to…

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Continuation Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 10

Throughout the State last night the evening continuation schools under the Education Department reopened for the current year. Last year a total of 4000 students attended the…

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"Examination Craze" School and University Medical Journal Condemns

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 11

"Men will come to realise that the examination is an institution which belongs to a past age. It had its uses. It has been abused, and it…

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Improvements to Schools

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 8

Mr. Murphy, M.L.A., has been informed that tenders have ben called for providing additional accommodation at the Naremburn Public School. The…

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School Sport G.P.S. Perpetual Motion H.S. Committee Decisions

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 4

Great public schools sport s a live thing. It is vigorous, energetic, restless. Its activities are unceasing. It embraces all. From the moment the school opens to the final act…

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Infants Imperilled ? Cracks in School Floor Mats to Cover Holes

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 6

"Why the Parents' Association had to buy mats to prevent the infants from falling through the cracks in the floors," said Alderman Gillett to the…

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School of Arts

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 3

Now that the School of Arts Committee has a substantial sum in hand, a suggestion that the outward appearance of the institution have some attention…

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Two Questions Fitter Pay—the fort Doesn't Shortage of Material in Schools

Evening News · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 6

When the taxpayer if asked by his little boy for sixpence for an exercise book and twopence for a pencil and threepence for a bottle of green…

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Frank Doyle (14 Years Old), of Marist Brothers' High School, Darlinghurst

Referee · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 9

Winner of. 50yds Junior (in 28 4-6sec), 50yds Senior (28sec). 100yds Senior (lmin 4 4-5sec), 220yda Senior (3min-2½sec), all these being championships in the Catholic Colleges' Carnival at the Sydney Domain Baths…

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Evening Continuation Schools. Education for the Backward

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 20

The evening continuation schools under the Education Department throughout the State reopened for the year on Monday, March 6. These schools are provided for…

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"Sydney Mail." Interesting Issue. Some of the Humours of Politics. New East Sydney Technical School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 12

"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" is the title of a Spartaeus Smith special illustrated article in the "Sydney Mail " this week on the political campalgn, with its overwhelming…

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Over-paid Teachers. to the Editor Op the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 15

Sir,—"T R.C." seeme[?] somewhat surprised at the high salaries Paid to girl teachers by the Education Department. I have heard young girl teachers remark that they…

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Technical College— Transformation of Darlinghurst: From House of Correction to SCHOOL—Instead of Prisom

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 20

Until a few months ago only a very small portion of the population ever saw what was behind the high…

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Tip—a Schoolboy's Dog

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 44

I BROUGHT him home one day, after depriving a boy of the pleasure of dropping him into the river with a stone around his neck, a poor, starved, half-dead puppy about a fortnight or throe weeks old…

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Girl Swimmers High School Carnival 100 Yards to Sydney Girl

The Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 7

The third annual swimming carnival of the Girls' High School was held at the Domain Baths this afternoon. There was no mistaking that it was a…

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