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Schools, 1937

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Dancing Teacher's View

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 14

Mrs. Wally Hall, of Parramatta, is all for it:— In reference to recent remarks passed by Dr. Boyd Scott concerning modern…

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Swimming Carnivals Arrangement for Schools

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 2

Several requests from schools in the district for permission to hold swimming carnivals at the baths have been before Granville Council, but the difficulty…

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School Choirs on the Air

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 10

A session of wide appeal to parents is Uncle Frank's "Cheer-up" session, broadcast from 2GB each Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Now that the…

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Mechanic Schools General Motors-Holden's Plan for Training Employees

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 11

THE competent training of motor-car mechanics has for long occupied the attention of the leading distributors in Australia. General Motors-Holden's, Ltd.,…

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St. Gabriel's School for Deaf Boys, Castle Hill, N.s.w. the Appeal

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 20

Until Christianity dawned on the world the condition of the deaf mutes was deplorable. They were considered by a few pagan writers, as under the curse…

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The Late Sister Mary Bernard Murphy. a Noted Teacher of the Good Samaritan Sisters

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 26

To a wide circle of relatives and friends, the news of the death of Sister Mary Bernard Murphy, on February 25, at St. Vincent's Hospital, came with a…

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The Schools. Leaving Under Age Limit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 4

Information supplied by the Education Department shows that 5.6 per cent. of the children who leave State schools are under 14 years of age, 61.3 per cent. are between 14…

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More Physical Training School Swimmers Prove The Need

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 2

The need for physical training in the schools was emphasised during the teachers' luncheon at the schools' swimming carnival at North Sydney…

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Sunday School Picnic

The Propeller · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 2

On Saturday last the Oatley Methodist Sunday School held its annual picnic at, Gunnamatta Bay Pleasure Grounds, Cronulla. As usual the…

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Bromwich and Schoolmates Presentation at Hurstville

The Propeller · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 6

Over 1000 pupils of the Hurstville Central Technical School assembled in the grounds yesterday morning when the new Davis Cup player, John…

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Jaywalkers Must Attend "School"

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 14

BERLIN, February 8.--The authorities of Hanover have devised a novel and instructive penalty for jaywalkers. Pedestrians who cross the street…

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School Strike. Parents Assault Teacher. LONDON, March 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 12

Fifty parents of schoolchildren who are on strike at Achill Island (Ireland) assaulted the teacher and roughly handled two constables. Police reinforcements were necessary before…

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Suppression Of Catholic Schools

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 3

VIENNA, Feb. 7.—The “Retchspost” publishes a circular from the Dean of the Archbishopric of Munich-Freising, describing graphically the manner in…

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How German Youth Keeps Fit -- -- Sports Time in The Schools

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 16

AN AERIAL VIEW of tugs nosing the Queen Mary from her berth at the start of her voyage to New York, after an eight weeks' overhaul in dry dock at Southampton. ELEVEN were killed and 72 injured when fierce fighting broke out…

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Graduated From a Good School London

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 13

His four years in the A.I.F. probably helped Mr. Erie Partridge, a former Queenslander, in his three-years' task of compiling a 1000-page…

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Primary Schools' Cricket

The St George Call · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 4

In the first match of the P.S.A.A.A. cricket competition, 1937, played last Friday, Bexley and Carlton South played a draw, the scores were Bexley 187,…

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What Rhodes Did For Australia Fine Scholars on the Job Are Now Leaders in Public Life

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 12

IT is 34 years since the first Australian Rhodes Scholars were appointed. They were John C. V. Behan (Vic.),…

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School Additions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 12

Archbishop Mowll dedicated the chapel and opened the new additions to St. Catherine's Schcol, Waverley, last night. The original building was constructed in 1857. The…

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Lightfoot-burlakov School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 11

A studio evening will be held at 6 Henriettalane, Sydney, to-night, at 8.15 o'clock…

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Conservatorium Opera School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 11

Next Wednesday, March 10. a lecture with practical illustrations on operatic training and its value to singers will be given at the Conservatorium of Music by Mr. Roland Foster. Miss [?]…

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