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Schools, 1931

2,881 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 145

Two Missing Woman and Schoolboy

The Sun · Saturday 28 February 1931 · page 8

Two cases of missing people have been reported to the police. Mrs. Doris Nicholson, 31, disappeared from her…

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Art School in Theatre Lobby

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 February 1931 · page 1

Misses Frances Wallis and Edna Cottrell, art students at the Sydney Technical College, and entrants in the competitive demonstration of applied art, at work in the lobby of the Prince Edward Theatre. The contest is in conjunction with the sea son of "Morocco," and the…

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Record of Service Popular Teacher Retires

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 February 1931 · page 9

Miss E. Fitzpatrick, headmistress of the Rozelle Domestic Science School for thirty-one years, retires from the Education Department to-day. This…

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School Staffs

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1931 · page 6

The Editor, Sir. -- Schools are certainly Overstaffed in the country. The school attended by my family is staffed by two teachers (man and woman), the man…

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Flat Failures for Hurdles Attente Schools Admirably

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1931 · page 3

NOTWITHSTANDING the slowness of the time hie registered, Attente, by outstaying Kelene in the 13-furlong trial over five obstacles…

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Girls’ Evening Continuation School

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1931 · page 4

The Kogarah Girls’ Evening Continuation School reopens on Monday, March 2, at the Kogarah Public School. Classes are held here in Dressmaking,…

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Schoolboy Howlers

The Sun · Sunday 1 March 1931 · page 2

A Junket is a small vessel used by the Chinese. A foul is a bird. "Loanable" means the lending of a bull…

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Cigarette Smoke on Schoolboys

The Sun · Sunday 1 March 1931 · page 3

Talk at the club was saved from being politically depressing by an old school-fellow of Smith's. And we were schoolboys…

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At R.p.a. New Clinical School Rockefeller Gift

The Sun · Monday 2 March 1931 · page 6

Out of funds which, it is said, will be provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, a building will be erected at the eastern…

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Catholics Want "Fair Deal" Archbishop on Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1931 · page 8

When he opened the new Stella Maris Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, at Long Bay yesterday afternoon, Archbishop Kelly announced…

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Building and Construction Convent and High School, Manly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1931 · page 6

We illustrate to-day the new convent building in Collingwood-street, Manly, for the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, recently completed by Messrs. Eastment and Clark,…

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Motor Accidents. Schoolboy Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1931 · page 10

A motor bus, swerving to avoid another vehicle at the intersection of Waratah-street and Dalhousie-street, Haberfield, at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, mounted the footpath and…

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Great Public School Fees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1931 · page 10

In a letter to the Editor a correspondent urges that the Great Public School fees should be reduced. It is maintained that what was lost by the decreased rate of fees…

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In Parliament To-day Communist Teachings In Schools?

Evening News · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 6

There was uproar in the Legislative Assembly to-day during the time for questions without notice, when Mr. Carter asked the Chief Secretary if…

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Bush School Tracks

The World's News · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 31

THE bush school track is generally free from traffic dangers, but many adventures enliven the long walks. Pour youngsters on a three-mile track on the…

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Educational Broadcasts to Schools

The World's News · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 19

AN innovation of widespread interest in the Melbourne programmes commenced on Monday, March 2, in the form of the "Broadcasts to…

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Socialist Vienna Guards Its Youth Child Welfare Work and School Reform Reveal the New City

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 4

EVERY student of Vienna will tell you that you know little of the transformation that is going on in that city unless you have studied its child welfare…

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Schools' Section Youth's Opportunity What Place has Youth in These Troublous Times?

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 30

A MAN who knows the game of politics as played to-day told me quite seriously the Nationalists should have put up Don Bradman for East Sydney. He…

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Schoolboys' Draw M.C.C. Team Too Hot Grahamstown

The Sun · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 4

South Africa's schoolboy Fifteen, in reply to the English cricketers' 180, made 130. T. W. Goddard took five wickets for 31, M. W. Tate two for…

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Schoolboys Surprise M.c.c

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 3

CAPETOWN (S. Africa), Tuesday. -- The M.C.C. cricketers, now that the tour is drawing to a close, are feeling the strain. This was evidenced In yesterday's play…

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