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Schools, 1937

3,514 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 176

School Sports

The St George Call · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 1

Application was made at the last meeting of Rockdale Council by the Kogarah Intermediate High School, seeking permission to use Scarborough…

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Teachers at Tennis Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 11

Miss Wooley, partnered by Mr. H. annexed the schoolteachers' tennis Rubles championship yesterday. Results: Mi's Field and Venell tied with Mrs…

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Holiday Tennis Tournament Schoolboys and Girls

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 12

NEW South Wales Lawn Tennis Association will conduct the annual school holiday tournament at Rushcutters Bay on Monday and Tuesday,…

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Schoolteacher Makes History Darwin

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 8

Miss Ena Dalton, a schoolteacher, has passed the Queensland Schoolteachers qualifying examination, being the first schoolteacher in the…

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Blazing Film Cause Of School Tragedy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 3

TALLINN (Esthonia), Thursday.--A motion picture film which caught alight in an elementary school in the village of Kilinginoemme caused the…

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Radio in 200 Catholic Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 7

Radio receivers are to be installed in 200 Catholic schools--practically the whole of those within the Sydney metropolitan area…

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School Tennis

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 21

The annual school holiday tennis tournament will be held at the White City on May 17 and 18. Boys' and girls' doubles and mixed…

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Agnostic Teachers Few, Says Minister

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 7

"I am of the opinion that there are probably fewer agnostics among the teaching service of the Education Department than among any other…

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2756 Detonators Go in Magazine Raid Schools Asked to Warn Children Police Fear Serious Accidents

The Sun · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 2

POLICE are trying to trace 2756 detonators stolen from a magazine in Greenwich. Schools have been asked to warn children of their danger should they be found…

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Farm Schools Eulogised Fairbridge Scheme Fund Appeal LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 1

At the festival service in connection with the Fairbridge Farm schools, Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P., eulogised the schools' valuable work…

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School Strike Urged for May Day Children Asked to Stand Solid and Stay Home Newcastle

The Sun · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 3

A ONE-DAY strike among schoolchildren is being organised by Newcastle and Cessnock May Day committees, which are appealing to the children to remain home from school on May Day, May 3, and take part in the…

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The Schoolboy Detective Footprints

The Sun · Sunday 25 April 1937 · page 58

ROB PEARCE was spending the week-end at his uncle's old home, a two-storey grey brick building, standing in extensive…

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N.Z. School for Motorists Who Break Law Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 25 April 1937 · page 5

A school for motorists who offend against traffic laws has been opened in New Zealand, but so far there are only two pupils…

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School Notes a Weekly Feature British History

The Sun · Sunday 25 April 1937 · page 14

REFORM BILLS, 1832-1867-1884. Edward I. (1295), MODEL PARLIAMENT. Every free man given vote…

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Canberra Grammar School. Stones From England. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1937 · page 11

The Canberra Grammar School annual fete was held on Saturday, under the auspices of the school parents and friends' society. The proceeds amounted to £270, which exceeds all…

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Newspapers Help Education. New Zealand Schools Closed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1937 · page 4

"School children in Wellington, New Zealand, are doing their lessons through the daily newspapers, because infantile paralysis is so bad that the schools are still…

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Strike Proposed. Northern School Children. Dispute Over Holiday. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1937 · page 9

A large proportion of pupils at practically every Public school on the northern coalfields may take part in a "one-day strike" on Monday, May 3. unless there is a change in the…

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No School on May Day? Strike Proposal Condemned NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Monday 26 April 1937 · page 10

Inquiries among school teachers in Newcastle to-day indicated that there was no reason to suppose that the schools would remain open on…

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Out of School... Section for Girls and Boys Conducted by South West Wind. HtS Imperial Highness. Chapter Iv

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1937 · page 23

THE STATE PROCESSION. THE Prime Minister rapidly outlined the conversation which had just taken place between Leonard and himself…

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Educating Children in the Dark. Films in Australian Schools. What Is Being Done Abroad

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1937 · page 6

HERE and there in New South Wales nowadays children are settling in their scats in a darkened school-room. A screen is pulled down over a…

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