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Schools, 1929

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Learned in Hard School

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 13

DAVE RUSSELL, of Lowanna, Wee Waa, has good reason to congratulate himself on having to quit the coal pits at Newcastle to tackle a selection…

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School Destroyed by Fire Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 6

The Buayin State school, with the whole of the contents. and shelter sheds. was totally destroyed by fire the The police are investigating…

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Grey Baron Schooled

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 2

Grey Baron, who is engaged in the Hurdle Race at Canterbury this afternoon, was schooled over three sets of battons of Randwick yesterday…

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The Danger Line School Superintendent's Views

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1929 · page 26

MISS L. E. RECTOR, a district superintendent in the public schools of New York City, believes that tolerance is gaining ground generally, but that it does not give much help to the pupils…

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Line on G.N. FORM Chaumont's Useful Schooling Sandhurst Joins Immortals Flemington

Truth · Sunday 2 June 1929 · page 3

MUCH interest attached to the Hopetoun Steeplechase as three Grand National Steeple candidates, who are well up in the betting lists, were to sport silk. They were last year's favorite Chaumont, Sandhurst, and Parquin…

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Schoolboy "Howlers"

The Sun · Sunday 2 June 1929 · page 2

A dilemma is a savage horned animal. An oracle was an ancient Briton boat. Concentric means strange, unusual. A sceptre is an unbeliever…

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Albury Rural School. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 10

A largely attended public meeting last night carried a motion expressing its dissatisfaction at the delay in carrying out necessary Improvements at Albury Rural school, and…

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Great Public Schools' Match. Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 4

The Armidale School beat Sydney High School by 7 points to 6 in the G.P.S. match at Armidale to-day. GLEBZ-BALMAIN TEAM BEATEN…

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New Girls' School. Opened at Fivedock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 6

The fine new girls' public school at Five-dock was opened by the Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) on Saturday afternoon. There was a large attendance of parents and pupils…

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Schoolmaster Honored

The Sun · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 6

Mr. J. Turnbull, headmaster of Plumpton - Rooty Hill, public school, who has been appointed to the Meadows school, was entertained at a…

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New School at Brobenah Leeton

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 8

The Department of Education is calling tenders for the selection of a new public School at Brobenah, on the Murrtionbridge irrigation areas…

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Thrifty Scholars £150,848 in Bank

The Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 6

That by "taking care," pennies swell to pounds, has been splendidly exemplified in the record of thrift which has…

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Scholars Lost to Australia Inadequate University Pay

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.--"I am afraid that Australia will not be able to retain the services of that brilliant scholar, Sir Archibald…

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Australia's Great Scholars. Bought by America. Mr. S. H. Smith's Warning. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 11

Among the passengers arriving in sydney from San Francisco on the Makura at the end of this week are Mr. R. P. Franklin, headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School. Mr…

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Overcrowding. Auburn Public School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 4

Although there are more than 2000 children attending the Auburn Public School, one of the largest in Australia, the playing area for all these children is less than an acre in…

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Sport of Politics McDICKEN on Schools

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 5

At the official opening of additions to the Glris' Public School at Five Dock on Saturday afternoon. Mr. H. J. McDIoken, M.L.A., member for Ryde…

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Weston School of Arts

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 8

Sir.--We the members of the O.B.F. of U., of Weston passed a resolation or protal against the tretment by the Western school of arts committee of…

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League Gossip Newcastle Stars One Left at Home Those Teachers

Evening News · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 2

NEWCASTLE sent many line Rugby League players to Sydney this season, and three of them have been very much in the picture…

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Test for Steeple Candidates the Big Fences Chasers Schooled Stony and Others

Evening News · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 2

SOME prominent candidates for the Australian Jockey Club Steeplechase were schooled over fences at Randwick to-day. There…

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Crooks' School "Professor's" Training of Criminals

The World's News · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 10

A "TRAINING school" for international crooks, to whose highly organised technique a number of recent hold-ups and mailbag robberies in London and Paris is…

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