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Schools, 1937

3,514 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 176

Sydney High School Crew

The Sun · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 3

The Sydney High School crew for the G.P.S. Head-of-the-River race.--G. Cheers (bow), M. Marshall (2), R. Brown (3), R. McNeill (4), J. Manila (5), E. Longley (6), K. Coleman 7), R. Higham (stroke)…

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Noted Speakers to Attend Royal Empire Society Summer School

The Sun · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

The Summer School of the Royal Empire Society in England will be held at Oxford from July 16 to 23. The provisional programme of…

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De Luxe to His School There He Goes! Luckiest College-Boy in Australia Pinnace for One

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 5

ONE of Australia's luckiest schoolboys goes to Scots College, Sydney. Even several of his pals, who can drive to school in Rolls Royces, feel envious. For the…

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To-day's Controversy What About School Children's Milk Supply? A Hidden Influence

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

Sir.--Once more we are on the threshold of winter, and the subject of supplying milk to school children will again arise. The present…

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Children Still Cherish Anzac N.s.w. Schools Won't Follow N.z. Lead

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1937 · page 2

"There is not the slightest indication of any desire to discontinue Anzac Day observances in our schools,"…

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Fire in Native School in New Zealand Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1937 · page 5

Schoolboys dashed into the mazing Waerengahika native college, near Gisborne, to save furniture and other valuables. Only the chapel escaped…

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The Schoolboy Detective Misunderstood

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1937 · page 2

LIONEL MARTIN held up a circle off a ham bone and stared critically at the design he was carving on it…

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Physical Training in Schools. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 7

Fifty teachers from schools in the Lithgow inspectorate witnessed a dance and physical training display at Lithgow Intermediate High School. Mr A Cameron (Co[?]rwull…

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Air Force Pilots and Airlines Not Substitute for School Says One

The Sun · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 11

THE Air Force is not an efficient substitute for a training school for airline pilots, the scheme for which has been rejected by the Commonwealth Government. This was contended to-day by an Air Force-trained…

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Empire Summer School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 14

The summer school of the Royal Empire Society will be held at Oxford from July 16 to 23. Speakers will include Parliamentary,…

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Cricket. High Schools' Match

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 16

Cricket teams representating northern districts' high schools and metropolitan high schools played a draw at Cha[?]wood Oval. [?]ern Districts. eight wickets for 137, declared, (Crocket 35. To[?]…

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School Cricket at Lithgow. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 9

A schoolboys' cricket team from Guildford was defeated by the Lithgow school team. The scores were: Lithgow, 162 (Burroughs 36, retired. Waddell 35, Luck 29, Cox 26; Russell four…

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Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Sheridan.) Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Vernon Treatt (instructed by the Clerk of the Peace.) Theft From School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 6

Frederick John Inger (l8), porter, pleaded guilty to having, at Maroubra, broken and entered a school house, and stolen a quantity of pencils and other articles…

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Preparatory Schools' Champions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 15

Three of the boys who helped Mosman to win the point-score competition al the associated preparatory schools' carnival at Coogee yesterday by winning championships. From left to right: B. Hurst (junior diving), J. Raves (senior diving and 12 years' freestyle, A division), and G. Cavill (open freestyle, A…

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Need for Training School. Government Subsidy Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 11

The statement by the Acting Minister for Defence (Mr. Thorby) that young men at the end of their period of short service commission in the Royal Australian Air Force would be…

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Out of School... Section for Girls and Boys Conducted by South West Wind. His Imperial Highness. Chapter I. the Royal Summons

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 23

"TT'S another four! Hurray!" Kingston House's Middle School Eleven was nt practice, and a delighted roar arose as Eldrich sent one of the fast bowler's hardest deliveries to…

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Encouraging Hockey in Schools

The Sun · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 2

To encourage hockey in schools, the Mosman District Hockey Club has allotted £10 for sticks for public school boys…

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Constance Burt Pupils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 10

Pupils ot Miss Constance Burt will give a recital this evening In Paling's Hall. Mr. Ronald Wilkinson will play violin solos, and the accompanist Is Miss Gladys Halt…

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Royal Easter Show School Essay Competition

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 8

THE Royal Agricultural, Society of N.S.W. is conducting a school essay competition on "The 1937 Royal Easter Show," for which £12/15/- prize money…

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Black and Gold Flowers in School Colours

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 9

Gold flowers with black lacquered, leaves, introducing the school colours, decorated the ballroom at David Jones's last night, when members of the…

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