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Schools, 1927

4,194 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 210

Would Be Dressmakers School Classes Popular Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 April 1927 · page 8

Matters are improving in regard to Lithgow Trades School. The subject for which there is the most demand is dressmaking. The…

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Welcome Windfall School Cleaners

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 April 1927 · page 1

A peculiar method of payment of the women employed as school cleaners has prevailed in the Department of Education for a long period of years…

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Four Hurt When Branch Crashes Disastrous Tree-climb Schoolboys' Adventure Tamworth

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 April 1927 · page 1

A number of Tamworth school boys went out in search of adventure yesterday, and their wanderings led them to the mountain at the far end of…

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Methodist Sunday School Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1927 · page 16

The Methodist Sunday School Council held an "At home" at the Blue Tearoom last evening to welcome the Rev. W. W. Roger and the Rev. R C. Barlow in their new offices as…

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School News

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 May 1927 · page 30

It is proposed to devote a considerable section of our page to school news and talk. The various school magazines, and notes from them,…

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Violinist's Memory Pupils Form Club

Evening News · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 3

IN ORDER to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Joseph Kretschmann, violinist and teacher, who for many years before his death in 1918 devoted much of…

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About the Fours How Schools Fared

Evening News · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 2

PRIOR to 1919 the race for the "Head of the River" title was for fours. In that year the big race was mad one for eights. The first…

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Sunday Schools Help. Royal Alexandra Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 16

A choir of nearly 1000 child voices was head in the Majestic Hall, Bankstown, yesterday afternoon. The occasion was a demonstration by fourteen Sunday schools from the…

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Band to Carry on Popular Schoolmaster Tenterfield

The Labor Daily · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 8

[?] to the resignation of Mr.[?] president of the Hockey [?]…

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Victorian Schools Annual Rowing Races

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 May 1927 · page 22

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Second and Third crews of the Metropolitan Public Schools held their annual rowing races over the ½-mile course on the Yarra yesterday…

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Miss Grace Stafford's Pupils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 8

To-night at St. James's Hall, Miss Grace Stafford's students will gave an entertainment in aid of the Kambala Foundation Fund. The programme will include "The Dream of Fair Women,' a scene from…

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No Seats, No Teacher Country Schools' Plight West Wyalong

The Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 17

Although the average dally attendance of children at Ungarie Public School is 119, there is seating accommodation for only 85…

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Yanco's Success Agricultural School

Evening News · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 12

The Minister for Education, Mr. Mutch, will leave for Yance on Friday, to-day the foundation-stons of additions to the Yance…

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North Sydney High School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 13

The annual dinner and smoke social of the North Sydney High School Old Boys' Union will be held at Adams' Hotel, George-street, to-morrow, at 6.45 p.m…

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"His Old Ford" Parson's School Visits Are They Worth While ? YOUNG

The Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 7

"For all the good tho Rev. McKeown (Anglican) does going round In his old Ford, paying half hour visits to children in all the different State schools,…

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Suspicious School Fire Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 6

The Police are investigating the cause of a fire which severely damaged the storeroom and contents at Mayfield Public School this afternoon…

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Ready for School "Labor Daily" Pattern Service

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 7

A neat school frock, cut in one from the shoulder, with a contrast panel of French pleating. Small tabs are cut in with the front material, and…

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Schooling at Randwick

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 3

Trainer Balley Payten should do well with the hurdler Grosvenor this season. Yesterday morning, at Randwick,…

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Schools' Regatta

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 May 1927 · page 5

The Harbor Trust notices, in connection with the Great Public Schools regatta, that launches and small craft are to anchor on the southern side of the river,…

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No Teacher. Winnunga School. Bad Plight of Ungarie. West Wyalong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1927 · page 16

Forty children at Winnunga Public School have been without the service of a teacher for the past four months. The daily attendance of children at Ungarie…

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