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Schools, 1923

3,683 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 185

Bridge for School Children

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 16

A correspondent states that at a place two miles from Hurstville Station there are 38 children who have to walk two miles to Hurstville South School, or get someone to row…

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Pola Negri's First Love Affairs Romance of School Days Helped Develop Screen Star's Artistic Character, Then Later a Real Sorrow Befel Her Stage Debut and an Early Film Production

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 April 1923 · page 17

It was during my fifth year in school, when I was fifteen years of age, that I experienced my first love affair. It was extremely one-sided, for the object of my devotion was my religious instructor a handsome, middle-aged man…

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School Fees State Misses 3d a Week

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 April 1923 · page 2

The members of the Carlton and West Kogarah Parents and Citizens' Association were in high glee yesterday at seeing their many months of agitation and…

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Revolvers and Dagger Big Raid in Riley Street Twenty Maltese Arrested-Alleged "Boxer" School

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 April 1923 · page 2

Two revolvers, a keen-edged dagger, a box of 50 cartridges, and twenty scared Maltese, constituted the "bag" yesterday afternoon, when Darlinghurst police…

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The Law School Question of Removal More Room Needed

The Sun · Sunday 15 April 1923 · page 4

Should the University Law School be Situated in the city away from the University? The question is engaging the attention of graduates and…

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Out-door Life Scouts and Scholars Camp Schools Suggested

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 4

A camp school in Sydney, was suggested by Mr. E. Webster, headmaster of the Cleveland Street Intermediate High School, to Mr. Bruntnell,…

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School Teachers' Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 7

At the ordinary monthly meeting of the Council of the New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation, held at the Highland Society's Hall,…

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School Fees

Evening News · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 4

The declaration of the Minister for Education that a mistake was made in 1907 in abolishing the nominal State school fees will be endorsed by all familiar with the facts…

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Sunday Schools. Address by Archbishop Wright

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 8

The commemorative tablets of a new parish hall in the grounds of the Holy Trinity Church, Concord West, were set on Saturday afternoon by the Archbishop of Sydney…

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Free Education. Minister's Comments. Fees in State Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 8

Commenting upon the financial difficulties with which the Government was faced in relation to the State schools, the Minister for Education (Mr. Bruntnell)…

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School Sports New Zealander's Records LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 1

A New Zealander, V. B. Powell, of Clifton College, won the long jump at the public schools championship sports. The distance was 21.9½,…

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Why Schools Are Overcrowded

The Sun · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 6

BY opening additions to the Carlton Public School the Minister for Education (Mr. Eruntnell) provides accommodation for 600 pupils. At the same time he points out that every year this State provides a new crop of school children totalling 10,000…

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Non-state Schools May Lose Concessions Conveyance Subsidies

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 4

It is understood that the new policy in respect to the conveyance of children to country schools announced by Mr. Bruntnell will…

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Free Schools Wrong Mr. Bruntnell's Opinion Decline in Buildings

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 4

In the opinion of the Minister for Education (Mr. Bruntnell), a very grave mistake was committed some years back, when the department…

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Children Perish Fire in School Heroic Teacher New York, Monday Evening

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 1

At Sacramento, California, nine Japanese children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a mission school…

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School Teacher Found Shot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 10

A school-teacher named A. R. Clark, residing at Camden, was found yesterday afternoon at the rear of 209 Macquarie-street with a bullet wound in his head. He was conveyed by the…

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Still Alive Camden Schoolmaster

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 9

The condition of Arthur R. Clarke who was admitted to Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon in a critical state with a bullet wound in his forehead…

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More Room At Dulwich Hill School

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 5

Additions to be Dul[?] Hill Public School cannot be proceeded [?] until more land has been ac[?]…

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Great Public Schools' Old Boys

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 9

Daylight practice for the coming season will commence at the Cranbrook School Grounds, Bellevue Hill (take Watson's Bay tram) on Saurday, 21st…

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Husbands Wanted Lady Teachers Advertise HOBART

The Sun · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 9

The State Government's reduction of salaries throughout the service, to effect economy, has produced the following agony advertisement in the…

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