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Schools, 1936

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Club Notes. Care at School Crossings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 6

Now that most of the schools have reopened after the holidays, the N.R.M.A. is making, an appeal to drivers to exercise particular care at school crossings. It is pointed…

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New School of Arts. Paterson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 12

Mr. C. E. Bennett, M.L.A., opened the new School of Arts. Mr. V. C. Thompson, M.P., and Mr. A. Howarth, M.L.A, were also present, with representatives from…

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BRIEFLY. Nursery School Reopens—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 4

Among the many schools which will reopen next week will be the Nursery School Training Centre at 208 Dowling-street. Woolloomooloo. The tiny pupils of the school…

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Education and Life. Two Groups of Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 10

There is still much debate on the aims and methods of education. Till recently the debate lay between the commercial world and the established schools. Now it [?] rather…

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Teacher Missing. In Central Australia. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 12

Grave fears are felt for the safety of Mr. Ellis Bankin, a Victorian school teacher, who left Alice Springs on January 9 on a motor cycling tour of the south-western portion of…

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At School Till 15

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 9

London, Thursday.--The new Education Bill provides for raising the school- leaving age from 14 to 15. Provision is made for exemption…

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Cars and School Crossings

The St George Call · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

Now that most of the schools have reopened after the holidays, the N.R.M.A. is making an appeal to drivers to exercise particular care at school…

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School Teacher Set Out for Ayre's Rock. Fears for Safety. Alice Springs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 21

There is still no news of the missing schoolteacher, Mr. Ellis Bankin, who left Alice Springs on January 9 for Ayre's Rock and the Peterman Ranges. To-morrow morning,…

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Public School

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 3

School activity was resumed on Tuesday, when the enrolment, due no doubt to the very trying weather conditions, was not as large as it was prior to the…

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Night Tennis School of Arts Competition

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 8

The School of Arts men's night tennis competition was continued this week. On Monday Woodlands could not scrape up a team against…

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Penrith Inter.-High School Staff Changes

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 4

School returned on Tuesday after the Christmas vacation, with the following staff changes:—Mr. L. Mobbs, from Young I.H.S., succeeds Mr Marshall…

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A Schoolboy's Lament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 13

If you are Jack or Tom or Dick, You have a decent name; But when you're Aloysius! Geel You hang your head in shame…

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Rail Men's Study Lectures in Training School at Newport

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 8

Railwaymen from all parts of the State will take their annual leave at a training school and study class, organised by the executive of the…

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They Write With Their Toes Plucky Postal Pupils

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 3

Paralysed in both hands, writes with his left foot. Born without arms, writes, paints, and draws with his toes…

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Class Distinction Runs Riot at Canberra School and Car Snobbery

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 1

WHEN it comes to petty snobbery and class distinction, no small town in Australia can teach the national capital…

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Walked Out Dancing Teacher Left Home

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 10

ON the grounds that bis wife was about to take her departure for England, Frederick Stuart Wilson, of Bellevue Mill, had his…

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Higher Status for Teacher

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 11

(The issue of a teachers' certificate uniform throughout the Commonwealth is the aim of the Australian Teachers' Union to bring the…

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Learning To Go On The Air Radio Tyros to Have School

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 13

Whether you get the job or not will depend on your record. If it reflects a breezy personality, if the diction is…

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Bank's Gift to Library of Teachers

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 48

The Commonwealth Bank is making an annual gift of £100 to the Cooper Library of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation, in recognition of the…

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Missing in the Wilds Teacher-cyclist's Fate in Doubt Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 1

A SUGGESTION that Bob Buck, one of the most experienced bushmen in the inland, may be with Ellis Bankin, the Victorian…

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