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Schools, 1937

3,514 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 176

G.P.S. Cricket Competition. Third Round. Riverview Meets Sydney High School at Centennial Park

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 27

Last Saturday, 20th inst., Riverview and Sydney High School met at Centennial Park. Riverview batted first, but the accurate bowling of Cristofani…

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Catholic Teachers' Conference in Sydney. Arrangements for May Sessions

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 26

This year it is expected that the Catholic Teachers' Conference will be more practical than any held during previous years, as the committee has made…

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Talkie Set and Wireless. Blakehurst School. First in N.s.w

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 19

The Blakehurst Public school, which is now Hearing completion, will be fitted with new talkie equipment and a complete wireless unit by the Parents and Citizens' Association,…

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School in Iron Shed Described As Unhealthy. Indignation at Coonabarabran. COONABARABRAN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 19

Strong protest were made at an indignation meetings at Coonabaraoran on Tuesday night against the teaching of children in a galvanised iron shed at the showground…

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Farm Course in Schools Exhibits Reveal Scope of Work

The Sun · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 12

THE Junior Farmers' exhibition at the Show not only reflects credit on the efforts of the boys concerned but it attracts attention…

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Blakehurst's New School. Talkie Equipment Installation

The Propeller · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 4

The new Blakehurst School, now in course of construction, will be one of the most up-to-date schools in the State. It is to be fitted with a…

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Transfer of Teachers

The Propeller · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 4

The Department of Education notifies the following appointments and transfer of teachers and assistant-teachers in connection with local…

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School Presentation

The Propeller · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Revesby Parents and Citizens' Association, Mr. H. L. Dale, B.Ec., the new headmaster of Kingsgrove School, was…

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Accidents of the Week. School Girls Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 4

While crossing the roadway to school yesterday morning two little girls, Rae Bentley, aged 10 years, of Penshurst Street, Penshurst, and…

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Schoolmaster's Death. Grenfell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

The death has occurred of Mr. W. H[?] Hewson, at the age of 62 years. Mr. Hewson had been in charge of the Quandong School for the past l8 years. He took an active interest…

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School Girls Injured

The St George Call · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 2

Rae Bentley (32), of Penshurst Street, Penshurst, suffered injuries to the head, and Patsy Rose (10), of Mercury Street, Penshurst, injuries to the…

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Talkies for School

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

A complete wireless unit and talkie equipment, valued at £300, will be one of the features of the new Blakehurst School, which is at…

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Maitland School

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 9

MAITLAND, Thursday. -- The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond), has advised Mr. Howarth, M.L.A., that plans and specifications for the new…

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Work Before School Is Condemned Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 2

Heavy work for children was condemned by the Chief Medical Inspector of Schools in the report of the Education Department,…

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Fire In School

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 1

A fire in a class-room at the Christian Brothers' school, Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, last night, damaged a number of books and a press…

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Scholars' Farm-Work Opposed By Unemployed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 7

UNEMPLOYED youths complain that schoolchildren who work on their home-farms outside school hours are keeping them out of a job. This new aspect of child-labor…

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Royal Schools Music Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 8

Mr. Clement Hosking will speak on folk songs at the meeting of the above club in the Forum Club, on April 2, at 8 p.m…

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Our School

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 11

OUR school-room is big and airy. There are eight ventilaters around the walls and two big ones in the celling. The room has six big…

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The Schoolboy Detective The Will

The Sun · Sunday 28 March 1937 · page 2

ROB PEARCE, for the hundredth time that day, read a clipping from a newspaper, which was now very much thumbed and showing…

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Orange Institution. State Aid for Church Schools Opposed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 5

A resolution to support only those parliamentary and local government candidates who pledged themselves to oppose all attempts to secure State aid for Roman Catholic schools…

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