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Schools, 1931

2,881 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 145

TEACHERS v MANLY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 17

New South Wales Teachers experienced their second defeat of the season against the Manly Club at the local oval yesterday. The four first-grade men, J. Yeldham, F…

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Selling Our Honour. Schools and Public Life

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 17

Sir Otto Niemeyer gave sound and needed advice when he urged young Australians to take an active interest in public affairs. Hitherto they have not done so; indeed, to daily…

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School Inspectors. Three New Appointments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 12

The appointments of Messrs. John W. Mann, B. A., David Drake, B. A. nnd John Adam as acting inspectors of schools have been recommended by the Public Service Board as from…

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Robbery at School

The Sun · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 6

The Trinity Grammar School, Prospect-road, Summer Hill, was entered by a thief, who stole altogether £13 5s from rooms. The losers were…

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Man in the Street What Readers Are Thinking (To the Editor) Non-union Teachers

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 7

Sir,--A Labor Minister for Education proposes to dismiss about 600 permanently employed and about 300 temporarily employed married women…

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School Limericks

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 8

THERE'S a boy by the good name of Willie, Some other boys thought he was silly. But at break-up of school…

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Directory of Public Schools

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 17

An indispensable item for the library has Just been published in the form of the 1930-31 Education Directory and Gazette. It contains a fund of…

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Pitched and Tossed, Yet Played Two-up Expensive Launch Which Housed a Big School For a Year Chuck Called "Heads" and Got 30

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 12

"ONCE aboard the lugger and we are all set" appears to have been the motto of a group of men who, until recently, engaged in a game of two-up on Sundays. BEER, a luxury motor launch, and a picnic jaunt to the spot…

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Never Late at School Seven Years

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 5

Never late and never absent That is the seven years' record of Campbell…

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Oldest School Teacher

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 7

Bathurst, Monday.--Miss fan rah Keyes, said to be the oldest school teacher in Australia, who was principal of Pixie Ladies' Colle[?] in…

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Firemen Save School COWRA

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 7

Prompt action by the fire brigade saved the newly-erected high school building from damage, when a weatherboard cottage within three feet of it…

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School Sport Association's Busy Period

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

WITH the re-opening of the schools on February 3, the N.S.W. Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association enters upon the 42nd year of its…

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Youth Watches Races in Boaters Schoolboy Spectators Girls, Too Fashions at Randwick

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

Family parties were much in evidence, and school hat-bands on straw boaters were dotted at frequent intervals in the crowd as…

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Beach School Lessons on the Sands

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4

Those youngsters who cannot be coaxed to school indoors these hot days would revel in lessons on Goulburn island, where the kindergarten…

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Teachers Who Would A-spooning Go Six Carpeted Minister Puts His Foot Down

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1

THE Minister for Education, Mr. Davies, is a votary of mixed bathing, but he does not approve of mixed training camps for…

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School Children Married 483 in a Year

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 2

The discovery that 483 New York school children were married during the past year has caused considerable surprise. Attendance at school is compulsory to…

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Teachers V Education Department

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 11

The following will represent the Teachers against Head Office Education Department. to-morrow. at Hurstville Oval. commencing at 10.30 a.m.—Fahey, Hill, Jagoe, McMillan, Whitting, McAllister, Fowler,…

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Death Dive for Two Instructor Saw Pupils Smash to Earth

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- While their instructor flew 30ft. above them two men crashed from about 500ft. in a D.H. Moth 'plane at…

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School Teachers. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 7

The following changes in the teaching staffs of schools under the Education Department are announced:- Teachers: Messrs. C. Edwards, Forbes River to…

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Interest the Children in Aviation! Teachers Note Deficiency Wide Scope

Referee · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 22

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN teachers in conference at Adelaide recently directed attention to the desirability of…

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