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Schools, 1927

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School Jubilee

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 5

With regard to the School Jubilee, to be celebrated in July, there seems to be an impression among some folk that the celebrations are intended only for…

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St. Marys Repairs to School Building

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 5

Major Shand has received the following letter from the Minister for Education (Hon. T. d. Mutch):- "I have had under consideration…

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Chapel Wedding at Grammar School Pink Color Note

Evening News · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 8

Soft pastel pint chrysanthemums and carnations made a pretty glow blending with the choice while floral decorations and banks of greenery…

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Evangelistic Services at Lakemba Sunday School

The Methodist · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 6

Last Sunday, at the request of the teachers, Rev. W. W. Roger conducted an evangelistic service at the Lakemba Sunday School…

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New School at Austenham Road

The Methodist · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 6

"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform," said the Rev. H. H. Allen, when, at the opening of the beautiful new school buildings at Austenham Road, last Saturday, he stated that…

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The "Australian Teacher."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 12

Although the "Australian Teacher" is primarily addressed to members of the teaching profession, it always contains a great deal of matter which appeals to the general…

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Of No School. The Poet, H. M. Green

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 11

For more than 20 years Henry Mackenzie Green has been known to observant readers as a poet—under his real name and as Harry Sullivan—and yet when he published his first…

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Street Collision Schoolboy Killed Toowoomba

The Sun · Saturday 14 May 1927 · page 3

A schoolboy cyclist, named Royston Burt, crashed into a motor car in Ruthven-street. His skull was fractured, and after lying unconscious in…

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Dame Fashion at School

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 May 1927 · page 17

The map dress or geographical frock is the latest dream of the French dressmaker. The idea of borrowing beauty from the…

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Australia's Art Genius Wes First Famous as a Schoolboy

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 May 1927 · page 6

Norman Lindsay is different, from other genii and great men. He earned fame as a schoolboy. One rare morning, when he chanced to be at school, the master discovered some drawings of a SENTIMENTAL nature in the bag of a little schoolgirl, signed with the now famous…

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The Garden School

Truth · Sunday 15 May 1927 · page 22

In an article published in a recent issue of this paper, it was stated that a prominent Theosophist who bought the Garden School at Balmoral to liquidate…

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Of Making Many Books Lawrence Epic His Gadarene School Grandeur and Horror

The Sun · Sunday 15 May 1927 · page 22

Prisoned deep in its cell in the mind of every healthy young male of the species lies a little demon, like a djinnee in a bottle. Let that cell be…

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School News

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 May 1927 · page 23

A copy of that interesting school magazine, "The Wenoman," has been sent us, and we have pleasure in taking the…

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Horse Racing Hampden Jumps Randwick Schooling Stony Hits Hard

Evening News · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 2

THOUGH there was some trace [?] at Randwick this morning, conditions were otherwise good [?] Jumping. Several horses were…

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Opening of New Public School at Roseville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 14

THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION (MR. MUTCH) ADDRESSING THE GATHERING. THE ADDISON-AVENUE FRONTAGE TO THE NEW BUILDING…

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Bowing. Schoolboys' Race in Brisbane. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 15

The annual four-car race for the Head or the River provided a magnificent race, State High School winning by three-quarters of a length from Southport and Brisbane Boys' College, who dead-heated for second,…

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Bathurst Rural School. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 12

When the Minister for Education visits Bathurst on May 24 to open the new Bathurst High School he will be waited upon by a deputation with the request that he should…

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School Children Grow Peanuts. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 12

Great success has been achieved by the pupils of the Collector Public School, near Goulburn, in the growing of peanuts. The seed was planted as an experiment in September, and…

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Mutch Talks of Dept.'s Difficulties Roseville's New School

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 4

ANOTHER school building has been opened by the Minister for Education, Mr. Mutch, and again the Minister emphasised the difficulties…

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Trapped on Cliffs Schoolboy's Plight Rescued by Police

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 May 1927 · page 5

FOR over two hours yesterday Bernard Collins, 10, of Bondi Road, Bondi, crouched on a precarious ledge of rock 50 feet down…

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