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Schools, 1924

4,042 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 203

Orange Convent School. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1924 · page 10

Yesterday was a big day in Roman Catholic circles at Orange, when Archbishop Sheehan, Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney, visited the town, accompanied by the Right Rev. Dr. M. J…

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Mr. J. Fitzmaurice. Death Announced. Teacher and Benefactor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1924 · page 8

Mr. John Fitzmaurice, principal of the Abbotsholme College, Killara, died in a private hospital in Sydney yesterday, after three weeks' illness…

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Books for Schools

The Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1924 · page 14

A suggestion by Alderman Packer at a recent meeting of the Annandale Council to the effect that the books in the councl library, comprising many…

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Drinking and Gambling Sutherland School of Arts

The Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1924 · page 8

Mr. H. G. Dudley (president Sutherland School of Arts):-- Councillor Bingham's charges, appearing in Saturday evening's paper…

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Two-up Players of Good Character Mary St. "School" -- Gives No Trouble -- Players Described as Respectable -- Costs for Petrol a Padded Floor

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 29 January 1924 · page 10

"Respectable law-breakers, who gave no trouble whatever to the police." was what was said by Sergt. Charlton regarding 35 men who were found…

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School. Sport

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 2

this year there will be two circles of cricket. strictly limited to pupils entelled in the primary section of the school first grade will have no age limit and the…

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Buildings and Works. Parramatta School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 11

A new Infants' school has been completed at Parramatta. It has ten classrooms, and h[?] been erected adjacent to the existing girls' school in Macquarie-street. The…

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School of Arts No Irregularities

The Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 12

My attention has just been drawn to the report appearing in Saturday's issue of your paper about certain alleged irregularities in the Sutherland…

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Schoolmaster Sketches

The Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 8

The Melbourne express brought three new artists. Will Hay, Alec Regan, and Miss Jon Latona, to Sydney to-day. They are to open at tho Tivoli next…

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Romance Still Flourishes at the Children's Library the "Back-to-school" Movement -- Youthful Imagination Is Served in the Prosaic City Building--what Happens When School Is for Gotten--boy and Girl, Readers Find Choice Collection. When, the Rush Sets In

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 9

THOSE people who say that the age of romance died with the Knights of mediaeval times, do not know that world apart--the children section of the Sydney Municipal Library. Here youthful imagination, afire an only youth can be finds in…

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Bruntnell's Economy Starves Children Another Saving Stunt--Deprives Pupils of Higher Educational Facilities

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 7

MITTAGONG, Wednesday.--The Fuller Government is, indeed, the friend of the working man, if its legislation and enactments are any evidence. The…

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The University Examinations. How Catholic Schools Fare

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 26

"Good wine needs no bush," and thus it would be gilding reined gold and painting the lily, to draw attention, year after year, to the excellence of our schools, were it not…

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St. John's Convent School, Auburn. Examination Results

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 30

The results of the merit examination held in November, 1923, are to hand. The following pupils were successful: Louie Smith Dorrie Swan, Cecil Foreman, Jack Robertson. Mona…

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New School at Orange. Foundation-Stone Laid. an Enthusiastic Gathering

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 19

Sunday was a wonderful day at Orange. It was an epoch-making occasion in the annals of Catholic education in Orange, if not in the west. The foundation stone of what…

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The Primary Schools. the Teaching of Needlework

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 18

Naturally this will be a subject fitted for girls schools only, though in many of the home countries lessons are regularly given to the boys, so as to enable them to make…

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Notes on Education In Our Schools

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 18

[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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Facts for Parents Where do Your Children Go to School?

Watchman · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 6

"Oh, but the Nuns never interfere with the children's religion." How often this reply is made to those who try to speak a word of…

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St. John's Convent School, Auburn

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 30

The results of the merit examination held in November, 1923, are to hand. The following pupils were successful: Louie Smith, Dorrie Swan, Cecil…

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Religion Back in the Schools Mussolini's Promise

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 13

Premier Mussolini has faithfully held to the promise he made some time ago that he would restore religious instruction to the curriculum of the primary…

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Won't Secede Inter—High Schools

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1924 · page 3

At a meeting of the sportsmasters held at the P.S. A.A.A. rooms yesterday afternoon a proposal was brought up that the intermedlato high schools should…

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