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Schools, 1939

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The GIRLS of CLIFFDALE Schoolbell Rescue

The Sun · Sunday 1 January 1939 · page 2

IT was a hot summer's afternoon with a flutter of insects in the air. The coppery gold sky was darkening slowly. Three girls sat…

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The Schoolboy Detective The Bully

The Sun · Sunday 1 January 1939 · page 2

ROB PEARCE, who hoped to be a detective when he grew up, and who was always reading detective books, had a trick which, alter long…

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This Month's Summer Schools First Co-Educational Camp in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 8

SHOWING signs of taking on in Australia is the popular oversea idea of summer camp[?] whereby two birds are hit with one stone and people exchange views or learn thing[?] while having a holiday. This new year, Sydney will have at least four varieties of summer camp, ranging from th[?]…

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An Officers' Training School. Why Public School Cadets Do Not Enlist. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 8

Sir,—May I be allowed to endorse your leading article in Thursday's "Herald," concerning the present condition of the public school cadet corps? Mr. Robson is assuredly…

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Fitness Campaign Opens On January 16 Teachers' Camp Begins State Physical Drive Director's Plans

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 6

The Director of Physical Education (Mr. Gordon Young) commences his physical fitness campaign for…

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Ship Master's School Fan Mail

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 6

Captain J. Laird, master of the Turakina, of Glasgow, receives a fan-mail any film star would envy. Yesterday, on arrival, he read hundreds of letters from the 1100…

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A Long Journey to School

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 14

Dear "Worker,"—I was very pleased to see my last letter in "The Worker." We are having a very hot harvest out here. We have about 240 little…

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Pupils' Revue

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

The Annual Revue by the pupils of the Trenerry School of Dancing held in the Granville Town Hall recently was highly successful each item being well…

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Dancing Pupils' Picnic

The Biz · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 1

On December 17, Miss Laura Atlee, F.D.A., of Fairfield, held the first annual picnic for her pupils, who all wore their school colors. The trip, which was…

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Sunday School Picnic

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

St. Paul's Sunday School picnic was held on 17th December. Owing to the intense heat and terrific gale, the children were entertained in The…

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Annual Speech Night. Christian Brothers' Intermediate Commercial School, Burwood

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 19

St. Mary's Parish Hall, Concord, was crowded on Wednesday, 16th ult., the occasion of the Christian Brothers' animal speech night. In the unavoidable absence…

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When School Begins Again. What the School Child Should Weak

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

Burdening the boy or girl who is entering school for the first time with too much clothing is wot only bad taste but a bad health practice. Every mother Wants her…

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The Primary Schools. Our Industries

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 12

Coal in Australia varies greatly in appearance, composition and value. The best coal is found in bods that are slightly newer than the great fields in the Northern…

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St. Joseph's School, Leeton. Annual Concert

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 31

Councillor M. J. Gleeson, the newly-elected shire president, was given a great ovation by the assembled children, their parents and friends, when he attended the…

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Dincese of [?] St. Patrick's School, Goulburn

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 30

Opened less than 12 months ago, the Junior Technical College, attached to the Christian Brothers' School, Verner-street, Goulburn, has achieved splendid results. The…

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Convent School, Kempsey. Concert and Prizegiving

The Catholic Press · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 33

The school hail, West Kempsey, crowded on the occasion of the annual concert and prize-giving of the convent school. The conceit programme this year excelled the fine efforts of previous years,…

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Auburn-Lidcombe News Would Be Teacher Again Retirement of Headmaster Long Career

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

Three clergymen are among more than 2000 ex-students who have passed through Granville Central Technical School since Mr. W. M. Steinbeck…

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Results of Scholarship Examination. Sydney Commercial Art School

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 22

The results of tho Scholarship Examination held at Sydney Commercial Art School in December, 1938, are as follows: 1st Place: Miss Gloria Gotch, Holy…

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School Boy Howlers Old and New

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 37

Julius Caesar was murdered in the Cenotaph. Who is the heir to the British Throne? The Prince of Whales…

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School of St. Therese, Yenda. Commercial Examinations, 1938

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 11

Typing.—Elementary: Denise Beal 98, Ena Paten 97, Eileen Hall 96, Julia Turton 88. Intermediate: Ena Paten 99, Eileen Hall 99, Joan O'Brien 97…

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