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Schools, 1931

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Tragic End to Cricket Match School Boy Killed Skull Fractured by Ball

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 1

STRUCK on the base of the skull with a cricket ball, while he was playing at the Hurstville Technical School yesterday, after…

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SCHOOLBOY McGRATH Still Winning Good Form Yesterday in Tennis Championship Games

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 3

VIVIAN McGRATH, the 14-years-old Sydney High School player, had another successful day yesterday, when the All Schools Age Tennis Championships of New South Wales, for boys and girls, were advanced another…

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Youthful Army of Soviet Plan to Raise Huge School Force London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 9

IN view of its ultimate effect upon the Disarmament Conference, the League of Nations was greatly perturbed at the secret service…

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School Teachers. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 8

The following changes in the teaching staffs of schools under the Education Department are announced:- High School Teachers.—Messrs. T. Clyne, West…

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Trying to Break "Into" School

Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 6

Incredible though it may seem, these Sydney High lads were at the school before the gates were open!…

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School Age Stir Extension Opposed In Lords Labor Taunts London, [?]

Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 7

MOVING the second reading of the School [?] Bill on the House of Lords. Lord Ponsonby roused protests when…

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Does Surfing Spoil Swimmers' Training? Famous Swimmers' Views Are Divergent:: Pros & Cons One School Favors Exercise in Surf—Other Says It's Harmful Frank Beaurepaire's Definite Advice

Referee · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 1

POPULARITY of surf bathing in Australia, and the proximity of the next Olympic Games, to be held at Los Angeles…

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Not to Be Encouraged. Militarism in State Schools

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 7

The N.S.W. Minister for Education (Mr. W. Davies) announced last week that no form of militarism would be encouraged in the State schools. It was recently…

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All Schools Age Championships

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 18

V. McGrath, who has been chosen to represent New South Wales against Queensland at Rushcutter Bay on February 26 and 28, is competing in three events in the all schools age championship. He is…

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School Attendance Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 17

Mr. Arnold Weber, headmaster of the Greta Public School, and formerly of Coonamble, in a letter to the Editor, refers to the report that a pupil, Neal Bradley, of Cooerwull, had…

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Tudor House School. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 14

The Rev. C. P. Brown the nominee of the Archbishop of Sydney on Tudor House School Council, having returned his commission, Dr. Wright has appointed Miss Fairfax to the…

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V. McGRATH AGAIN Semi-finals of School Tennis Girls' Games

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 3

SEMI - FINAL stages were reached in,the majority of the events in the all schools' age tennis championships at…

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New Infant School

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 7

This afternoon at 2.30 the Minister for Education (Mr. Davies) will open the new infant school erected on the estate of the late Lady Hay, at the…

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Secondary School for Taree. Blessing and Opening. Address by Bishop Gleeson

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 33

Sunday, the 8th inst., marked an important event in the history of the Catholic community of the Manning, when the secondary school, which has been evolved out…

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Here's Hoping Auburn School Land Brigg's Plan

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 13

When the Minister for Education comes to Auburn next week, he will be asked to resume certain land near the Auburn Public School in order to enlarge the…

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From Relief Tax Building Auburn West School Suggestion to Premier

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 7

Financing the building of the proposed school at Auburn West from the unemployment relief tax was advocated by members at the last…

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Labor Meetings at School (To the Editor.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 12

Sir.—I would like to enter my protest against the action of the Minister for Education in turning our public schools into political meeting places. I notice…

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Parents Can't Afford School Books MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 8

No fewer than 10,000 parents and guardians have applied to the Education Department for free grants of school books, on the ground that they…

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School Age Bill Thrown Out By The Lords 168 Votes to 22 Bishops Among The Minority LONDON

Evening News · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 5

BY 168 voles to 22, the House of Lords to-night rejected the Government's Education Bill, which sought…

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Bishop Gleeson, C.ss.r., and Free High Schools

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 24

HIS LORDSHIP DR. GLEESON, C.SS.R., blessed a new Catholic Secondary school at Taree on a recent Sunday, and towards the conclusion of a striking address he touched upon the glaring injustice and unnecessary extravagance which are associated with free High School education. "When…

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