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Schools, 1926

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World Teacher Appearance Imminent Mrs. Besant's Prophecy

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 2

The first jubilee convention of the Theosophical society was held in Mad[?]as last week, and in the course of an address on the concluding day,…

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School Adoption Successful Scheme What N.Z. Is Doing Auckland. December 17

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 5

An experiment was made in the Auckland education district this year by having 37 sole charge schools in isolated districts…

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Schools and Teachers Best Girl Writer 9 Years of Age Class Honor to White Cliffs

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 7

Vida Martin, of White Cliffs, is considered the best writer for her age (9 years) in N.S.W. Mr. G. [?] Spa[?]ll deputy headmaster…

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Veteran School Teacher Mr. Peter O'reilly

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 4

Dead at 87. Mr. Peter O'Reilly veteran schoolteacher and for many years a resident of Newtown and later of Clovelly…

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Pelman Schooled

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 2

With H. Murren in the saddle, Palman was schooled over half a doson hurdles at Randwick this morning. Though a novice at the jumping business he gave…

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Old "Home Bush" on Historic Road the School of Love

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 3

THE OLD ROAD from Sydney to Parramatta it the most historic in Australia. Associated with this, our first King's highway,…

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First State Sunday School Convention

The Methodist · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 7

The Council of Religious Education, representing the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational and Baptist Churches, and the Associated Churches of Christ, have arranged to hold an…

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Kurnell Sunday School

The Methodist · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 7

Our nest-egg gift of £10 from Mr. R. S. Callaghan has been added to by Rev. A. S. J. Harding, whose ten shillings we thankfully acknowledge. Will Methodists everywhere meeting in this New Year…

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Girls' Schools in Persia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 8

In 1898 a fourteen-year-old Persian girl started the movement in Persia for equal educational rights for boys and girls. Before that date there were boy's schools and no…

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NEARLY 400 N.S.W. Teachers on Daily Sick Leave Service Alarmed At Its Depleted Ranks

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 11

NEW SOUTH WALES IS FACING an alarming situation in its educational history, despite that it is the most generous of the States in its treatment of school teachers…

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Islington School

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 5

Mr. Hugh Connell M.L.A., has received the following from tho Minister for Education: -- "in reply to your personal…

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School Boy Humour Chiefly Unconscious

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1926 · page 6

Some delicious "false steps" and examples of schoolboy and schoolgirl humour have been chronicled from time to time in the "Sunday Times…

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Elf of the School Chapter XLI.—(Continued)

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 January 1926 · page 3

As soon as she had recovered, Miss Ingram put up her hand to prevent further speech. "What did you go down for…

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Through the Eye of a Camera-- School-Children Learn to Swim

The Sun · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 12

THE DROP.--Mr. H. E. Spencer falling 1000 feet. DRY LAND SWIMMING.--Six thousand school children began a course of instruction in swimming to-day. They…

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Hobson's Bay Stewards Attack by Teacher Nearly a Hold-up at Melbourne Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 6

What was considered to be an unjustified attack on the stewards on the Commonwealth liner Hosun's' Bay published in a Sydney…

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Married Teachers Their Right to Work London, January 2

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 1

At a conference of the Nation[?] Union of Women Teachers, a resolution was adopted demanding legislation to secure for married women the…

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Gaol Warders. Training School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 10

The Minister for Justice (Mr. McKell) proposes to establish a training school for those who desire to accept positions as warders in the State prisons…

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New School

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 15

Mr. Fitzsimons, M.L.A., has been notified by the Minister for Education that tenders are being called for the erection of a new school at Fairfield…

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"The Proof" Stewards to Teacher Democracy

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 11

Officials and members of the Marine Stewards' Union are incensed at Mr. W. F. Jackson, master of modern languages at the…

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South Coast Schools

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 8

Mr. W. Davies, M.L.A., is in receipt of replies as follow to representations made by him to the Department of Education in regard to school…

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