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Schools, 1937

3,514 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 176

Drift From Sunday School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 May 1937 · page 1

In a well-to-do Sydney suburb, children attend Sunday school only when it is too wet for their parents to us their cars…

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Talkies In Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 May 1937 · page 6

THE Education Department's A efforts to install talking pictures in schools are to be commended…

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School Essays on Royal Show

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 May 1937 · page 23

The Royal Agricultural Society's essay competitions for school children, on aspects of the Royal Show, attracted thousands of entries, and took several weeks to judge…

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Nine Guns for Pupils

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 18

Mr. V. S. Forbes, who arrived by the Moreton Bay yesterday, is vice-principal of a school where every pupil has a string of horses and three servants…

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Shows are Great Feature of Life in Australia.—Schoolgirl Essayist

The Land · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 5

"AGRICULTURAL shows," wrote Marie Healey, winner of the Group 3 prize in the R.A.S. essay competition, "form an important feature in…

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Dairy Science Schools

The Land · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 16

The Director of Dairying (Mr. L. T. McInnes) has arranged for ten dairy science schools to be held during the present season. The programme is as follows: Casino, June…

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Manly High School. Plans in Preparation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 5

The erection of a junior High School for Manly has been approved, according to a letter from the Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) to Mr. A. A. E. V. Reid, M.L.A.,…

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School and Blackberries

The St George Call · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 2

A complaint was received at the last meeting of Hurstville Council from the Department of Education, advising that a report had been received from the…

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Want Exm. Burdens Lightened Teachers' Fedn. Urges More Examiners Vic. System

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 10

REFERRING yesterday to Statements made in the course of a lecture given by Mr. L. C. Robson, headmaster of the Sydney Church of…

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Old Boys' Union Holds Dance In Support Of Bursary Fund Waverley Christian Brothers Dolls In School Colors Used As Place Cards Hospital Ball

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 13

DOLLS dressed in blue and gold, the colors of the Christian Brothers' College. Waverley, and attached to a larger doll by streamers in the same…

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Premier at Fort-st. Speech Day

The Sun · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) will be present at the speech day of Fort- street High School on Friday afternoon. An old boy, Mr. Stevens never…

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Young People's Dept. the Sunday School in England

The Methodist · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 6

Recently the English Methodist Sunday School Department issued a new edition of the Report of the Methodist Church Commission on Sunday School work, brought right up to date by the…

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Hurdle Schooling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 22

Australian Bee (Berryman) jumped three big hurdles in fine style and at a fast pace during schooling at Randwick yesterday. High Fire (Abrahams) showed aptitude for…

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Yachting School. Plan for the Winter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 23

The Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron proposes to hold classes of instruction for amateur yachtsmen during the winter. The preliminary syllabus will include the rule of…

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The Bushland School

The Sun · Sunday 23 May 1937 · page 1

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Back to School on Tuesday Autumn Vacation Now Nearing End

The Sun · Sunday 23 May 1937 · page 3

More than 250,000 children will return to State primary and secondary schools on Tuesday when the autumn vacation ends…

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The Schoolboy Detective Smugglers

The Sun · Sunday 23 May 1937 · page 2

ROB PEARCE and Lionel Martin were walking among the thin, waving grass at the top of a high cliff, looking out to sea and…

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"Don Giovanni." Conservatorium Opera School. Good Orchestral Playing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 6

With signal courase, members of the Conservatorium Opera School set out on Saturday night to scale one of the glittering mountain-peaks of musical literature—Mozart's…

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Transfer of School Headmasters. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 9

The president of tne Lismore Hign school Parents and Citizens' Association (Mr. A. E. Brand), at a farewell given by the association to the headmaster (Mr. W. F. Hatfield)…

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Big Catholic Campaign: Nation -Wide Seek State Aid for Schools

The Sun · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 1

SPONSORED by the recently formed Catholic Taxpayers' Association, a Commonwealth- wide campaign…

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