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Schools, 1934

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Sensation by Schoolboy in Big Golf Is Versatile London

The Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 2

Surprising defeats of ex-champions marked the fourth and fifth rounds of the British Amateur Golf championship…

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Diphtheria Rife In Mildura Schools MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 13

Mildura schools are suffering from an epidemic of diphtheria. There are already 29 cases in one school, and, if conditions do not improve, the school…

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Teaching Aviation in School "Smithy" Urges Dept. To Take Action Model Trophy

The Labor Daily · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 11

SIR CHARLES KingsFord Smith, in receiving the Australian Wakefield trophy yesterday, as president of the Model Flying…

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School Holiday Tennis

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 4

Intending competitors in the school holiday tournament on May 21-22, which comprises boys' and girls' doubles and mixed doubles, are reminded that entries must be…

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Schools' Race Geelong Grammar Changes Style

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Geelong Grammar School crew which is to race The King's School and St. Peter's (Adelaide) crews on…

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For School Children

The Biz · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 4

At the request of Guildford Mothers' Club. Holroyd Council has promised to consider placing on its next works programme the cementing of the footpath…

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Salaries of School Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 19

The Vice-president of the New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation (Mr. M. Mackinnon), in a letter to the Editor of the "Herald," says he does not think the general…

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Intermediate High and Central Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 20

Fixtures for Tuesday are:- BASEBALL Chatswood v Randwick, Willoughby Park, No. 3. Hurstville A v Belmore A Rockdale Park Petersham…

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School Sport. Winter Competitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 20

Bois High intermediate High and Central School will commence their competitions next week. High Schools on Wednesday and the Intermediate High and Central Schools on Tuesday…

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Not to Meet School Rowing Crews

The Sun · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 7

The proposed challenge race between the Sydney Grammar Eight, winner of the Head of the River title last Saturday, and an eight from…

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England's Children Improvement Is Demanded Schoolmeals

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

Representatives of more than 20 child welfare, religious, political, educational and women's organisations formed a…

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Teachers for Boys Men Preferred to Women Early Life

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

The question as to whether women are suitable teachers for boys is one that often agitates, a section of the…

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Many Shocks Schoolboy's Golf Wins in England

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.--The sensations of the fourth and fifth rounds of the British Amateur Golf Championship were the defeats of ex-champions…

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For School Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 14

THE Sydney University group of the Old Falconians held a dance in the Union refectory last night in aid of the old boys' endowment fund of…

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German Schools in Australia. (By Prof. Dr. A. Lodewyekx.)

Die Brucke = The Bridge · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 7

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Girls Start A Polo School And Excel At It

The Sun · Sunday 29 April 1934 · page 22

From left to right (top): Miss Phyl Skene on Pekin. Miss Skene, Curtis Skene, Mrs. Skene, and Bob Skene. Miss Marie Lysaght and Suzanne Crookston. Miss Jacqueline Crookston. Bottom left: Miss Suzanne Crookston. Bottom right: Miss Marie Lysaght on Hy-Brasil…

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The Schoolboy Detective the Cheat

The Sun · Sunday 29 April 1934 · page 2

OLD Mr. Tyler, the history master at Granges College, was known as "Stale Dates." He had a most disconcerting way of pouncing on a…

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"Very Little Trouble" Parramatta Industrial School Girls

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 2

Mr. Alexander Percy Humphreys, who is superintendent of the Girls' Industrial School, Parramatta, and also exercises supervision over the institution at La…

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Schools Rowing. Sydney Grammar School. Melbourne Visit Abandoned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 6

It has been definitely decided that the Sydney Grammar School eight-oar crew, which won the Head of the River race, will not visit Melbourne to compete against the Melbourne…

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Teachers' Salaries. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 6

Sir,—For the first time since the Salaries Reduction Act was enacted, the hard facts of the teachers' case for salary restoration have been brought before the public by the informed…

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