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Schools, 1929

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Safety Principles Taught in Schools

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 15

Owing to the increase in the number of accidents to pedestrians, the City of Budapest considers it is necessary to teach traffic laws and the correct methods…

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12 Coal Industry Crisis — Back to School

Evening News · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 12

THE BONE OF CONTENTION.—With the refusal of the coal miners to agree to a reduction in wages, the eyes of industry gene rally are focussed anxiously on possible developments in the coal fields. The picture shows a rake of trucks of coal, the price of…

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Over the Jumps Randwick Schooling

Evening News · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 2

SEVERAL horses were schooled at Randwick that morning. A fine exhibition over six fights of hurdle was given by Namarah (Troy) and Emblemayne (Davis)…

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High Standard. School Successes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 17

Two matters of absorbing interest to many hundreds of households during the past week relate to school pupils who stand either on the threshold or at the terminal point of…

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Back to Work. Primary Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 10

To-day all the primary schools in the eastern division of the State resume work after the mid-summer vacation. Their next vacation, apart from Good Friday and Easter…

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Teacher Transferred

The Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 13

West Wyalong, Tuesday. -- The Literary institute entertained Mr. J. Frank, headmaster of the district school, prior to his departure for…

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Chasing the Colonel a School-mistress Sends Two Hundred Love Letters London

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 6

MORE than two hundred love letters written by u schoolmistress to a D.S.O. lieutenant-colonel were referred to in the King's Bench Division…

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Vast Army with Clean Faces and Shiny Knees 229,090 Kiddies Trooped to School Extra Week in West

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1929 · page 7

About 100,1000 Now South Wales kiddies yesterday discovered the utility of imaginary lines. THEY Will return to school next…

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No Teacher. Upper Burringbar School. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 17

Although 20 pupils were present at Upper Burringbar school yesterday morning to resume studies after the holidays, no teacher was in attendance…

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For the Schoolgirl

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 9

a route for me," she said yesterday. "This they did in complete detail, even marking the smallest and most remote villages." Some of her notes have passages such as…

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School As Dance Hall. Stanwell Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 16

The new school at Stanwell Park, which is as yet unenclosed by a suitable fence, suffered considerably at the hands of holiday-seekers on Anniversary Day, when it was…

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Teachers. Transfers and Appointments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 11

Teachers.—Messrs. J. Mudie, Bega to Ando; L. Clatworthy, Mt. Kembia to Ettrick (R.); C. Trelford, Osborne to Atholwood; O. Morris, Munyabla to Baid Hill; F. Simpson, Cessnock to Mongogarie; J. Daniels,…

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School Inspectors. Australasian Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 16

The fifth blennial conference of the Australasian Association of Inspectors of Schools was opened yesterday by Mr. S. H. Smith, the Director of Education, at the Teachers'…

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School Inspectors. Annual Conference. Training of Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 17

The annual conference of the Australasian Association of Inspectors of Schools continued its session yesterday at the Teachers' College, Mr. J. W. Gray (senior inspector of schools…

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Worthy Schoolmaster Farewelled by Residents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 7

The members of the Canley Vale Parents and Citizens' Association assembled in the Masonic Hall on January 17, to tender farewell to the popular members…

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Northmead Public School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 11

Showing new additions on Extreme right…

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Deniliquin. Convent Schools' Year

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 39

At the conclusion of their scholastic year the pupils of the convent schools of Deniliquin gave a bright concert in the Town Hall before an exceptionally good audience. The…

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My Book of the Week Cream of Unconscious Wit Some Hilarious Pages of Gems — Collection of Bulls, Howlers, and Spoonerisms — Schoolboy Classics

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 18

BULLS, blunders and howlers are very much all the same, the common feature being the creation of amusement by a…

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Miss Annie M'Killop A Pioneer of St. Joseph's Schools Some Reminiscences of Mother Mary's Days of Struggle

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 10

A NOTABLE link with the past was snapped when, on the first Friday of 1929, Miss Annie M'Killop passed away in her 82nd year. To a…

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Schoolboy Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 17

Jack Lemmond, aged 12 years of Wattlestreet, Ultimo, was knocked down and run over by a motor lorry while he was crossing the Street near his home at about 4 o'clock…

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