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Schools, 1931

2,881 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 145

"News" Readers Look At The News Teachers' Pensions

Evening News · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 4

Sir,—Pensions due to teachers during December were paid on the 22nd of that month. According to the present method of paying teachers' pensions, no payments are to be made…

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37 Fines How Constable Lost £5 Launch "School" Manager to Pay £30

The Sun · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 7

The cost of joining a two-up school on a harbor launch which was raided by the police yesterday afternoon was £5, according to…

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For Teaching Teachers Classes in William St

The Labor Daily · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 5

The Minister for Education. Mr. Davies, will to-day, at 2.15 p.m., officiallhy open a summer school of method at the William Street Public School which will continue until…

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Police Raiders Swoop On Gamblers' Luxury Launch Ocean Buffet Den Was Trap for 36 First Floating "School" Comes to Ignominious End None Dared Sharks to Escape!

Daily Pictorial · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 3

In a sensational raid yesterday afternoon police arrested 36 men on a 20-ton launch, elaborately fitted for gambling, with a bar and buffet for the convenience of patrons…

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64 Schoolteachers Want One Job!

Daily Pictorial · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 2

URALLA, Sunday.--Mr. K. E. McMillan, called applications for a teacher for Big Ridge subsidised school, and in six days 64 applied…

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Fees Cannot Be Cheaper Art Teachers Fear Laziness

Daily Pictorial · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 4

Art, music, dancing, and elocution teachers are complaining that there is a great decrease in enrolments for the coming term…

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Summer School for Bush Teachers in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 12

The Minister for Education, Mr. Davies, visited the country teachers' summer school at the William-street Public School in Sydney yesterday. From left: Miss E. Goodman, Mr. Davies, and Miss R. Lilyblade…

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Outback Teachers. Summer School Opened

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 10

Nearly 100 school teachers from the outback, one of them from a place 90 miles northwest of Bourke, gathered at William-street Public school yesterday for the opening of…

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Ninety Teachers to Go to School

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 4

Ninety teachers from far out-back, small, subsidised schools, and who are not officially attached to the Department of Education, assembled at the…

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Reopening of School Urged Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 14

Representations have been made to the Education Department for the reopening of the Katherine school. It is understood that the department is opposed to the suggestion,…

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CRICKET. N.S.W. v Victorian Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 14

New South Wales Teachers had a comfortable lend when stumps were drawn at Rawson Oval yesterday. Their opponents, the Victorian Teachers, scored 78, and New South Wales replied with…

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Teachers V Royal Automobile Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 14

The team to represent the New South Wales Teachers against the Royal Automobile Club, at Hampden Oval, to-morrow, will be selected from Healey, Byrne, Jagoe, Fowler, McMillan, McKcller,…

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Country High Schools Successful Entrants

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

=AS a result of the primary final examination held last November, the following pupils have qualified for entrance to the Country Hight…

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School Boys Join in Hunt for Alsatian

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 13

GLEN INNES, Monday.--The Alsatian dog, valued at £150, which escaped from the Brisbane mail train at Glen Innes has not yet been…

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Summer School for Bush Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 16

Country teachers who are at the summer school at the William-street Public School, listening to a lecture yesterday by Mr. W. T. Frazer (standing)…

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School Teachers. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 19

The following changes in the teaching staffs of schools under the Education Department are announced:- First Assistants.—Misses E. Arens, Drummoyne to…

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The Story of Great Public Schools Melbourne Grammar Sporting Record of Famous Melburmans Norman Brookes, Ivo Whitton, and E, L a'Beckett—Old Boys Famous Names Include Ex-prime Minister, S. M. Bruce Great Achievements in Every Branch of Sport in Australia

Referee · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 13

THE Melbourne Grammar School has produced Prime Ministers, business magnates, scientists, and successful men in all the more serious walks of life, but what has the school done for sport? Immediately there comes to mind the names of…

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Second Don? Schoolboy Wonder

Referee · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 20

BATTING: 119 not out; bowling: 5 for 49. The above were Ben Bailey's figures in the mulch between…

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The LIBRARY Two Novels, a Diagnosis of Our Present Troubles, and the Schoolmaster at Home "The Square Circle," by Denis Mackail. "The Corpse in Canonicals" by G.D.H. and M. Cole. "Australia's Spurious Democracy" by Joseph Hamlet. "Old Eko's Note-Book," by N. F. Spielvogel. "Desiderata"—the Sixth Number. A Good Novel

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 18

MR. DENIS MACKAIL has rapidly advanced to a leading position in the ranks of British humorists, and he can always be relied upon to provide us with a story which is both interestingly…

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Interstate Teachers. N.s.w. Beats Victoria

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 18

The Victorian Teachers proved too weak for their N.S.W. colleagues at Rawson Oval yesterday, when the two days' "test" match was concluded N.S.W. won easily by an innings and 77 runs. C…

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