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Schools, 1928

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 194

Two-up School Elaborate Precautions 38 Men Fined

The Sun · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 9

Thirty-eight defendants appeared before Mr. Perry. S.M., at the Newtown Poilce Court to-day, charged with having been found in a common…

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School of Health Sydney Should Have It Preventable, Mortality

The Sun · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 8

"At present one person of every ten who die each year in Australia does so from that complaint, and the mortality…

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Vengeance Mussolini in S. Tyrol German Schools Are Stripped Catechisms, Too Vienna

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 1

MUSSOLINIS threatened reprisals on Germans living in South Tyrol have materialised in the most drastic forms, including the stripping…

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Two Up School Raided

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 5

Thirty Eight men were arrested on [?] on [?] common [?] of [?]…

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West Auburn School

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 4

The Minister for Education informed Auburn Council last night that it was intended to erect a modern public school at West Auburn, so soon as a suitable…

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Life Saving School Applications Invited

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 4

COMMENCING on April 30, the Royal Life Saving Society will hold a school of instruction for gold medalists desiring to qualify as instructors…

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HISTORY. Taught in the Schools. Vigorous Defence. Against A.L.P. Attack

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 11

The Director of Education (Mr. S. H. Smith) and the senior lecturer in history at the Teachers' Training College (Mr C. H Currey) made vigorous replies yesterday to an…

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Public Health. Proposed Federal School. Reducing Cancer Mortality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 11

"The most pressing problem in regard to health is the problem of cancer. At the present time, one person in every ten dies of cancer, and that mortality rate is…

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School Sport. Cricket Season Concludes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 15

The first half season for the commercail and junior technical schools cricket competitions has concluded, and of the 41 teams, Crown-street in first grade, and G[?]e[?]ers-road in second grade are unde[?]eated…

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School Crews Training for To-morrow's Head of the River Heats

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 14

Left to right: S. W. McMahon, cox; D. Rossell, stroke; A. B. Gould, 7; J. G. Gourlay, 6; K. U. Murchison, 5; W. S. Brown, 4; A. L. Spring, 3; J. L. Hardy, 2; L. Greer, bow. Left to right: J. H McDonald, cox; R. S. Miller, stroke; J. C. Orr, 7; A. O. Hudson, 6; A. L. Mackenzie, 5; N. W. Carey, 4; D. K. Phillips, 3; J. E. Read, 2; D. E. Woods, bow…

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Great Public Schools' Regatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 12

The Sydney Harbour Trust will close the Parramatta River to traffic on Saturday next, when the finals of the races will be decided. All vessels under power from which visitors intend to races, except those authorised to follow the contests, are to drop anchor, and when…

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Remove Disease School for Health Prof. Welsh's Claim

The Sun · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 6

That a few million pounds spent in an intensive prevention campaign would eliminate nearly all infectious diseases in less than a generation, was…

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To Fight Cancer School Is Requested

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 4

Before the Federal Public Works Committee yesterday, matters concerning the necessity for a school of public health at Sydney University…

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High School Boys Happy in Their New Home

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 8

TEACHING THE YOUNG IDEA.--Masters of the Boys' High School at Moore Park. They entered yesterday into their kingdom. "PEACE BE TO THIS HOUSE!" laugh students of the new…

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When the School Bells Tolled Betty Had to Wait for Another Birthday

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 21

THE back yards were deserted, yesterday. No kiddies played bushrangers near the gas box; no trolleys or scooters…

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School Holidays

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 6

"V.P." objects to the proposed rearrangement:-- I wonder how many mothers realise that the ten days' holidays the public…

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Every Boy Was There on Time Sydney High School's First Day in New Building

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

Perhaps the greatest failing of the average schoolboy is his unhappy knack of arriving late for his lessons. But masters of the Sydney High School…

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Dramatic Rescue of Schoolboy From Cliff Ledge Death-defying Ascent by Two Men Heroic Ambulance Officer and Police Sergeant--Victim Critically Injured Slip Would Have Been Fatal

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

A dramatic rescue of a nine-year-old schoolboy was made by police and ambulance officers on the rugged cliffs near Queenscliffe yesterday afternoon. To reach the boy who had fallen 30 feet on to…

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On the Tracks the Jumpers Hurdles : Steeples Randwick Schooling

Evening News · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 2

B. R. PAYTEN, who has done remarkably well with the hurdler, Grosvenor, appear to have another promising Jumper in the shape of…

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Old School Friends Fort Street Smoke-o

Evening News · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 6

MANY schoolboy friendships were renewed last night, when members of the Fort-street Old Boys' Union held a smoke concert in the Allera tea-rooms…

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