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Schools, 1928

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 194

Angus Place P. School

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 10

Mr. Gus Kellv, M.L.A. has been inferiaed by the Minister her Education that [?] have been git[?] for the erection of a mew school [?]ding at Angu[?]…

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School Notes and Doings Director Believes in Uniformity of Vacations

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 10

Mr. S. H. Smith, Director of Education, gave his opinion yesterday that the high and primary school vacations should be brought…

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Shortage of Teachers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 6

If there be no shortage, of teachers, why are so many, married women employed, even in Sydney, whose husbands teach also?…

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The Man in the Street First Parachutist--Motorists' Troubles-- Girl Bowlers--The Great Beyond--Teachers in Country

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1928 · page 6

The statement that the N.R.M.A. offers no objection to the compulsory, fitting to all cars of a mechanical registration certificate, holder provided…

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Old Scholars' Union at Greenwich

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

A Union of Old Scholars of the Greenwich Public School has been formed to bring old scholars together, and to carry out a certain amount of…

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Miss L. C. Finlay's Pupils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 14

At the King's Hall on Saturday, March 3, Miss L. O. Finlay will present her senior pupils in a programme of classical and modem pianoforte works. The proceeds are in aid of the Blind institution. The plan…

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97 To-day the King's School Pupils Booked Till 1942

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

The King's School, the oldest of the Great Public Schools in the Commonwealth, is celebrating the 97th anniversary of…

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Schools and Teachers Houday Change Dept's. Re-allotment No Easter Vacation

Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 7

ONE of the features of the re-allotment of school holidays as recommended by a specially appointed committee, which dealt with the…

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A School on Wheels

Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1

The interior of the C. P. R. school car which brings education to children in remote regions of Ontario. This photograph shows a geography class…

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Vast Idle Hordes Labor Leader's Attack "Blame on Baldwin" Workless Since School' Days London

Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1

IN a speech in the House of Commons this afternoon, the railwaymen's leader, Mr. J. H. Thomas, said that there were hundreds of thousands of young people in Britain, who, since they had left school, or completed their…

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The Sunday School Our Boys and Girls The Tongan Choir

The Methodist · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 14

My Dear Boys and Girls,—e Tongan Choir of thirty, voices arrived in Sydney on Friday, February 3. They have come to do a good work for our great Foreign Missionary Society. Who are…

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Schoolgirl Killed. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 18

Esther Hutchinson, aged 10 years, of Pullitop, fell out of a sulky this morning while driving to school, and was fatally injured. Her skull was fractured by a wheel passing…

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Schoolteachers Exchange Posts

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

Left to right: Miss L. Laird (Surrey), Miss A. Hartley (London), and Miss R. E. Chippendale (North London), who arrived by the Medic to-day. They are exchanging places with three New South Wales teachers for a period of twelve months…

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Teachers From England

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 8

On exchange duty, three English school teachers, Miss R. E. Chippendale, Miss A. Harttley, and Miss F. Laird, arrived in Sydney by the Medic…

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Jumpers Schooled

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 2

Several jumpers were schooled [?] at Randwick yesterday morning. A good exhibition was given Blue Jim. With V. Heddrick in [?]…

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Young Girl Missing Objected to School Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

Police are searching for a girl named Blanche Clark, 12, who has been on a holiday with her parents at Hartley. The family was to have…

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Country News and Personal Notes Schoolgirls in Peril

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 9

HAY, Friday.--Two girl students, Edna Hollyoake and Joyce Nicholls, of the Memorial High School, had a narrow escape from drowning in the river…

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The King's School Birthday

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 2

The King's School presented a most attractive picture yesterday, when 2500 Old Boys, parents and friends attended the 97th anniversary of the…

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Caning School Children

Evening News · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 6

Sir.—I have read of alleged cruelty to goats and none of your correspondents has thought of the cruelty of caning school children, who have to hold out their tender little hands to receive a…

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Over the Jumps Randwick Schooling Blue Jim's Form

Evening News · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 2

A NUMBER of horses were ache[?] ever the [?] display at Randwick this morig. A [?] display ever sir sets was given by Blue Jiss ([?]ddrick). Gift of the [?]…

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