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Schools, 1936

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Close Holiday Cancelled At New King's Wish Services To Go On As Usual Hotels, Schools to Open Church Services Will Be Held ' on

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 7

THE immediate cancellation of the close holiday arranged for Tuesday and the summoning of special meetings of Cabinet Ministers and…

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The King's Wish: Carry on Shops, Schools, and Offices Will All Open on Tuesday Church Service Later: Two Minutes' Silence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 7

Tuesday, Still a day of national mourning, will not now be a close holiday. All business and other activities will go on as usual. This reversal of the previous plan results from…

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Prof. Mackie Condemns School Conditions. "Overcrowded, Unhealthy." Girls with Curvature of Spine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 18

Conditions of work were condemned by Professor Mackie in a paper which he read yesterday at the summer school of the Australian Institute of Political…

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High Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 14

All public schools, both primary and secondary, resume attendance after the Christmas vacation on Tuesday. New first-year pupils in High and…

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The Life Stor Y of King Edward VIII—No. 1 Empire's Most Popular Figure His Early Days As Child Schoolboy, Cadet Intimate and Enthralling Narrative Begins

Truth · Sunday 26 January 1936 · page 18

EDWARD VIII., King of England, and Emperor of India, will follow in the footsteps of his illustrious father. As a boy, he left nothing…

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Hard Lot Of Country Teachers Poor Houses and at High Rents Unhealthy, Neglected Alleges Official

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1936 · page 7

Allegations that some country teachers were living in school houses "unfit for human habitation," for which they "paid the highest rent in the neighborhood," and that they were buying manual training materials out of their own pockets,…

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The Schoolboy Detective Cheats

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1936 · page 2

TED TAYLOR, one of the laziest boys at Granges College, became so ill on the day before the history examination (complaining of pains…

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School Days Again Re-opening Next

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1936 · page 2

PUBLIC schools will reassemble next Tuesday, the original date, and not on Wednesday, in conformity with the…

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104th ANNIVERSARY King's School Celebration

The Sun · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 6

The 104th commemoration of the foundation of King's School, Parramatta, and Old Boys' Day, will be celebrated at the school on February…

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Education. "Great Changes Coming." Dr. Duncan's Views. Summer School Session Ends. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 8

Dr. W. G. K. Duncan, Director of Tutorial Classes, University of Sydney, summing up the papers and discussions at the Summer School of the Australian Institute of…

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New School at Ryde

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 4

Archbishop Sheehan, at Hyde, on Sunday afternoon opened and blessed St. Charles' School, a building erected at a cost of £6000. The archbishop warmly congratulated the…

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Fire Destroys School. Leeton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 10

Yanco Public School, a weatherboard structure, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The fire brigade from Leeton attended the outbreak, but was unable to save anything…

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Social Study. System in Schools. New Methods of Education

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 4

When she was in America visiting her parents, Mrs. Irving Jacobs, of Vaucluse, attended school classes— but not the schoolroom classes as…

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Education System Is Criticised Dual Schooling Not Democratic, Says Doctor New Principle Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

THAT a prima facie case had been established for the discontinuance of a system which permitted the existence of Government and…

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Public Schools in Australia Warmly Criticised

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 9

CANBERRA, Monday.--The existence of public schools side by side with Government schools, in Australia is undemocratic, and tends to…

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Is Missing School Teacher Cyclist Alice Springs

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 13

Ellis Rankin, a school teacher, who reached Alice Springs some weeks ago from Queensland, via Urandangie and the Jervois Ranges, on a…

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World Sorrow. Schools and Bourses Close. Mussolini Attends Service. London, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 15

Telegrams from other capitals indicate that mourning was world-wide. In France schools were closed, and two minutes' silence was observed in the theatres…

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Our Opinion (The opinions expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Master Builders' Association, unless otherwise stated.)CANBERRA School of Forestry What Does N.S.W. Attitude Indicate?

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 1

Recently an announcement was made that the New South Wales Government would cease in future to send cadets to the Forestry School at Canberra for training, and that more…

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Protest Meeting to Be Held Transfer of Teacher Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 12

Mr. E. P. Dring, manual work teacher at Parkes and Forbes schools, whose last-minute transfer to the Lithgow Trades School aroused…

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Successful Scholars

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 5

Two girl pupils of Blessed Peter Channell's School, Berala, were successful in the recent intermediate certificate examination…

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