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Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1928

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A Complex World. Training of Youth. Influence of Great Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 12

Speaking last evening at a dinner tendered him by the laymen of the council of Milton Grammar School, the first headmaster of the school (Mr. John Cameron, M.A.) compared…

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Two-up School Man Dies After Argument Goulburn

The Sun · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 2

At the Goulburn Quarter Sessions to-day Leslie Francis Allan was acquitted, before Judge Coyle and a jury, on a charge of having feloniously slain…

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Protest by Teachers. Insufficient Pay for Compiling Endowment Returns

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 16

At a meeting of the Council of the N.S.W. State School Teachers' Federation, held at Sydney last Saturday, the Public Service Board was severely…

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School Teaching

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 13

AROUND my fathers breakfast table ten children grew up, and of that half-score six of us (five sisters and I) adopted school teaching as our profession…

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School Sport. Cricket Competitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 19

Eighteen first-grade and 26 second grade teams [?]omprise the entry for the commercial and junior technical schools' premiorships competitions that com[?]ence to-day with the following [?]:-…

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Building Industry. Albury High School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 10

An illustration in this issue shows a very fine high school building just completed at Albury for the Department of Education at a cost of about £26,000. The site is in…

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Schoolboy's Success

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 16

KENNETH E. ANDREWS. of Canterbury High School, who gained firstclass honours in mathematics and physics at the Leaving Certificate test. His pass, which…

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In a Caravan Through Inland Australia Itinerant Teachers

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 17

TO go on tour through inland Australia in a motor van fitted with bunks, having grills for dinner in whatever setting one fancies, sounds…

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New Schools

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 19

Cabramatta Parents and Citizens' Association has been informed that the Education Department has decided to build a new school, to cost over…

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High School Now Temora Scores Association's Work Temora

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 3

Word was received last night that the Temora district school had been gazetted as an intermediate high school, as the result of an interview…

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Our School System Portland. Reply to Dr. Kelly (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 6

Sir,--Archbishop Kelly's attack on air Stale school system should not Pass unnoted. The Archbishop conveniently forgets the Illiterate state of…

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Schools To Let

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 6

J. G. Atkins says there is a shortage of teachers:-- I noticed in your paper last week that the school at Richmond Vale had been…

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The Man in the Street Goats in Limelight--Carpet Bags--Criael or Not--For the Farm--Country Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 6

"K" writes of Queen Anne's time:-- Whether our modern sports are cruel or not, we have progressed a lot since the reign of Queen Anne…

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School for Politics

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 51

Mrs. Jenkinson had been to a political meeting, and when she returned home she regaled her husband with her party views. "We are going to sweep the country…

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Chats in the Home Circle a Teacher's Prayer

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 8

Father, between Thy strong hands Thou has bent The clay but roughly into shape, and lent To me the task of smoothing where I may And fashioning to a gentler form Thy clay,…

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Gaelic League Dancing School

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 20

Individual tuition, with special attention to the talent of each student, is given by highly qualified teachers at the classes conducted by the Gaelic League in…

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Canberra Schools. Attendance Changes

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 21

Marked changes in the attendance rolls of schools in the Capital City were notice, able last week when the new scholastic year began. It is estimated that about…

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Gaelic League. Irish Dancing School

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 23

The Gaelic League School of Irish-dancing is the only genuine school of Irish National dancing in Sydney. All the Irish step and figure dances are…

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School Sport Primary Cricket Opening Tomorrow

Evening News · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 2

IN THE primary cricket competitions, 107 teams have nominate for the first and second grades, being an increase of seven on last year's entry. First…

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Same As in 1869 Dundas School Forms

Evening News · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 5

"I NEVER got biggest shock in my life than when I went into Dundas school and saw the antiquated equipment" said Mayor of Dundas, Ald…

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