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Schools, 1937

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Obscene Pictures Sent to Girls' School Australian Sentenced To Gaol LONDON

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 12

AN Australian who sent indecent and obscene pictures through the post to a well-known girls' school in England…

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School Notes a Weekly Feature

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 25

IN this second instalment of school notes giving the essential matter of history, geography and English, the…

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Two Die in Road Accidents Victorian Teacher a Victim

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 2

Gordon Nicholls (45), a schoolteacher from Melbourne, staying with relatives at Sunnyholt-road, Blacktown, was fatally injured when…

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The Schoolboy Detective Model 'Planes

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 2

WHEN Mr. Stollitt offered a fine cricket bat to the boy who could make the best home-made model aeroplane, almost everybody…

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School Teacher Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 6

Leslie Claude Nicholls, 42, a Melbourne schoolteacher, who was spending a holiday in Sydney, and residing at Sunnyholt-road, Blacktown, died in Parramatta Hospital on…

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Teachers' Reply to Criticism Minister And Director On subsidised Schools

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 5

DECLARING that the statements of the Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, and the Director of Education. Mr. Ross Thomas, are…

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The Suburbs. Water for Municipal Baths During School Holidays

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 10

The Water Board had advised the Lidcombe Municipal Council that a free supply of water would be granted to the local municipal baths on condition that the baths were…

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Welsh Children. Ignorance of Australia. Teacher's Experiences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 10

Mr. Charles Hicks, a teacher in the Victorian Education Department, who returned from England by the Wanganella yesterday, said that the ignorance of Welsh children…

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Out of School... Section for Girls and Boys Conducted by South West Wind. Chapter Vii. a Desperate Situation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 23

"IS there anywhere we can hide?"—Jim heard himself saying, in a high, unnatural voice. "Come on, we can't be caught as easily as this." Before they had time to leave the kitchen,…

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Two-up School Raided at Bondi. 62 Men Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 7

Lionel Wright, 39, appeared before Mr. Sutherland, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of being the keeper, and Thomas O'Sullivan, the doorkeeper, of…

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When School Seems Far Away

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 14

A trio of healthy young Australians makes the most of summer holidays on the sands at Cronulla…

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£7000 Fire at Deaf Boys' School During Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 7

THE top floor of St. Gabriel's School for Deaf Boys, Castle Hill, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The fire occurred during the height of the storm at 3.30 p.m.,…

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Subsidised Schools: Federation Caustic

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 15

"Neither the Minister for Education nor the Director can answer the criticism, justly made against the subsidised school system, by levelling…

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Should the Schools Sway the Young?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 4

THE Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) believes in indoctrination in education. He revealed this yesterday at the…

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Rhodes Scholars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 12

The third biennial conference of the Association of Rhodes Scholars in Australia will be held at the Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, to-day and to-morrow. Delegates…

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School Teachers. Changes in Staffs. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 10

The Education Department announced yesterday afternoon the following appointments and transfers of school teachers:- First Assistants: Miss. M. Chambers, Naremburn…

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Faults of Education Examination System Criticised School Inspectors Bare Its Weaknesses

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 16

DURING a critical discussion this afternoon of the examination tangle," the School Inspectors' Conference decided to continue it in camera. Members said that views "which were a bit hot"…

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Hurled Through Window Of 'Bus Teacher Is Killed Six Injured at Burwood

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 13

HURLED through the glass of a 'bus side window, Lilian Rose Downer, a schoolteacher, was killed in…

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Bloodlust in Schools London

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 15

The Riga correspondent of "The Times" states:-- In response to a campaign conducted by agitators, hundreds and…

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The Schools. Pupils' Magazine. Twenty-first Birthday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 5

Next Monday the "School Magazine" will attain its twenty-first birthday. It was instituted by the department in February, 1916, with Mr. S. H. Smith, then inspector of…

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