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Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1925

4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 216

"First-class Cow-shed" Alderman Criticises School

The Sun · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 12

When Mr. Mutch, M.L.A., Informed the Randwick Council last night that plans and specifications were being prepared for additions to the Maroubra…

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School Days "Labor Daily" Pattern Service

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 7

PATTERN No. 7365.--A girl's school [?] fashioned straight down from [?] the yoke and panel being it in one…

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Buildings and Works. Maroubra Junction School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 12

The new Public school buildings at Maroubra, which have just been completed, are two storeys in height. They have been built of brickwork, with a roof of tiles. The…

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On the Land. Batlow Experiments. Fruit-packing School. "Scald" Tests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 13

Our Batlow correspondent writes that, at the request of the Batlow Co-operative Packing Company, Ltd., the Department of Agriculture arranged for an…

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Travelling School. Railway Cars. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1925 · page 14

A railway car, designed and fitted [?] as a traveiling class-room for the manual training of boys, is being constructed by the Railway Department for the Department of…

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Hobart. New Convent School

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 29

On February 8, the Coadjutor-Archbishop (the Most Rev. Dr. Barry), blessed the new convent school at Deloraine. The school was built at a cost of £1310, and fencing…

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Lithgow's New School

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 32

His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney will leave Sydney on Saturday, 21st inst., for Lithgow, where he will bless the foundation atone of the new school on Sunday…

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MELBOURNE News and NOTES A.C.F. Annual Summer School

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 19

The Australian Catholic Federation annual Summer School, which opened last week at the popular seaside resort of Queenscliffe, has attracted many…

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Pyrmont and Ultimo: New Schools' Appeal. Archbishop's Letter

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 33

Pyrmont parish is heavily encumbered, owing to the erection of new schools and the renovation of the churches. The pastor, Rev. Father M. O'Connell, appeals to the…

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The Primary Schools. Teaching Mathematics

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 15

When most of us went to school, the subject was arithmetic, pure and simple, until we reached a higher class. Nowadays, other aspects than the theoretical are taken of…

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Port Macquarie Convent School. Foundation-stone Laid

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 36

On Sunday afternoon, 8th inst., Right Rev. Dr. Carroll (Bishop of Lismore), blessed the foundation-stone of the now convent school at Port Macquarie, the…

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School Savings Bank. Taken Over by Government Savings Bank

Watchman · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 4

The Commissioners of the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales have taken over from the Education Department the accounts of depositors in the…

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The Catholic School And the Other

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 3

Especially timely reading for Catholic parents, the first month of a new school year, is this passage of a pastoral letter of the late Archbishop Ireland:…

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Have Public Schools Failed? a Secular Journal's' Confession

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 25

The "Quirindi Gazette" asks the above question, and proceeds:— To answer such, a question one would be much inclined to give the famous…

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Pyrmont Ultimo Schools. An Appeal

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 27

St. Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles, in urging Us to practise the three great virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, concludes his remarks by saying that…

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Port Macouarie Convent School. Foundation Stone Laid

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 27

On Sunday afternoon, 8th inst, Right Rev. Dr. J. Carroll (Bishop of Lismore) blessed the foundation stone of the new Convent School at Port Macquarie, the…

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Australia Not in Australian Schools

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 24

His Grace Archbishop Duhig of Brisbane has commented on the abs[?] from all our Australian schools—State and denominational—of what is so great a feature bf American schools, namely, portraits of the Country's pioneers and leaders, and he doubts if an ordinary Australian schoolboy could be found who…

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Primary Schools Competition

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 19

St. Patrick's again proved themselves the superiors of Redfern on Thursday last, dismissing Redfern for 86. They put together 173 for the loss of 3…

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Wireless in Schools. to the Bditor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 11

Sir,—Mr. Bruntnell is to be commended for closing down on schools' wireless. I have been a listener on many occasions to the afternoon schools' sessions, and the drivel…

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