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Schools, 1926

3,918 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 196

Swimming. Girls' Swimming Carnival. Inter-school Championships

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 19

The annual championship inter-school swimming carnival was held at the Domain Baths yesterday after noon, under the auspices of the Girls Secondary School Sports Union. The results were:…

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Ex-schoolmaster. Sentenced for Fraud

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 14

John Mairo, aged 53 years, pleaded guilty before Mr. Giles Shaw, C.S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday to three charges of obtaining money by means of valuless cheques…

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Police Raid. Alleged Two-up School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 17

The police raided a house in Little Hileystreet, Surry Hills, yesterday afternoon, and arrested 59 men, whom they charged with being found in a common gaming house…

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Girl Swimmers Secondary Schools

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 9

A HOST of many colored streamers typifying the various schools, frocks of blue and grey, and a shrill clamor of girlish voices, each one…

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Teachers' Federation Wingham

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 6

The following officers were elected at the Upper Manning Teachers' Federation annual meeting: President, Mr. G. Maguire, vice-presidents,…

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School Progress New Building- for the Presbyterian L.C. Governor-general's Praise

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 20

There was a great gathering at the Presbyterian Ladles' College, Pymble, yesterday afternoon, when the Governor-General, Lord Stonehven,' laid the…

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Police Raid Arrest of 59 Men in "Two-up School"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 1

Two motor-car loads of police raided a building in; Little Riley Street, Surry Hills, last night, and arrested 59 men, who, they allege,…

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Japan's New Premier Son of Poor Family Once a School=teacher Tokio, February 4

The Sun · Sunday 21 March 1926 · page 5

Reljlro Wakatsuki, Premier of Japan, through the sudden death of his chief, the late Count Kato, is the second untitled man to reach the…

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A School Epic

Sunday Times · Sunday 21 March 1926 · page 6

PETER Wildrake, new arrival at Red-bank Boys' School, patted the head of his fox-terrier puppy, Rip, and looked around the school grounds in a lonely…

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A Railing School Yarn HOW Sangster Triumphed It Didn't Look as Though :: He Would, but—

Sunday Times · Sunday 21 March 1926 · page 7

"What's wrong with the Old Man?" we were all asking. There was something up, and no mistake—and the whole school was suffering…

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Police Now Are Schooling the Jay Walkers

Sunday Times · Sunday 21 March 1926 · page 1

The first shot has been fired by the police in their campaign on the jay walker. At the corner of Pitt and King streets each evening a squad of…

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Schoolmaster Kills His Daughter Terrible Tragedy Shocks Kingswood Hammer and Axe As Fatal Weapons

Truth · Sunday 21 March 1926 · page 22

AFTER almost severing his daughter's head with an axe, Alfred Thomas Watson, schoolmaster at Kingswood, calmly walked out of the house, told his son that he had killed her, and then quietly dismissed the pupils for the day…

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Fifty-nine Men Fined Big Two-up Raid "A Moveable School

Evening News · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 5

Fifty nine men were fined £2 each, with 2/- costs, at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having been found without lawful…

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Parramatta Sports Big Schools' Display

The Sun · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 4

Over forty schools will be represented on the Cumberland Oval next Friday when the annual sports and display of the Parramatta and district schools will take place…

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Court House for School

The Sun · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 7

Hornsby Parents and Citizens Association has been notified by the Department of Education that the old Court House Is to be converted into…

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Teacher Transferred Murr[?]mburbah

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 6

Mr. P. Clour, headmaster of the Murrumburrah School, has been promoted to headmaster of the Cessnock High School…

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Rand School of Arts Wagga

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 6

Mr. V. W. E. Goodwin, M.L.A., has been advised of the gazettal of a site for a School of Arts at Rand…

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School Tenders

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 7

Tenders accepted by the Department of Education for the week ending Thursday, March 18, were: Hamilton, additions: Ratcliffe and Kirsopp…

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The World of Music Music in High Schools

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 7

The subject of music in the State High Schools is one that has exercised the minds of the teachers for some time. There is a tendency to…

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Hurstville Public School

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 8

Mr. Mark Coaling, M.L.A., has been advised that plana and prepared and tenders are to be called for the erection of eight class-rooms…

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