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Schools, 1939

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Newcastle Dominican Collegiate School

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 27

On the evening of November 30, a delightful outdoor entertainment was presented by the pupils of the Newcastle Dominican Collegiate School. "Star of…

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Officers' Training School. Appeal to Ex-Public School Cadets. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

Si,—This committee would be glad of an opportunity to conect what might prove to be a wrong impression created by the letter of Mr. Bruce C Sincla[?]-Smith, on the subject…

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Back to School in Gay Colours. Innovations in College Uniforms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 24

EVEN school girls are becoming fashion-conscious these days, and must have the set of a tunic, the cut of a blazer, and the line of a collar…

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Defeat Often a Good Teacher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 13

The New South Wales side in this match was perhaps only a shadow of former State elevens, and it was backed by little expeuence—an unusual…

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The Schools. Lesson Broadcasts. 402 Schools on List

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

Of 402 schools on the Broadcasting Commission's Index, 131 are in the [?] tropolitan area and 271 in the country. There are 324 public schools on…

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Move for Fitness in Schools Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

The campaign for physical fitness was needed more to-day than ever before in the nation's history,…

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Political Science Summer School

The Land · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 13

The Australian Institute of Political Science, will hold its annual summer school at Canberra, from Friday, January 27, to Monday, January 30…

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Detectives' School. Commissioner's Plan. Efficiency Move

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 11

A school for detectives, which will be attended by about 200 plain-clothes police and others, who have not passed the examination for the rank of…

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Officers' Training School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 8

Recent correspondence in our columns, published under the above title, offers an instructive example of how easily, in an eager chase, fresh…

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Wedding at School Chapel. Of Country Interest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 4

A wedding of wide country interest took place last night at the chapel of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, of which the bridegroom, best man, and all the…

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Letters Officers' Training School. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 3

Sir,—Mr. B. C. Sinclair-Smith suggests that boys who have received cadet training at Great Public Schools are unwilling to enter militia regiments "on the basis of raw…

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Forced Schooling for Deaf, Blind

The Sun · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 6

The New South Wales School for Deaf and Blind Children, at Darlington, has asked the Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) for…

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Training New Detectives 200 Constables For C.I.B. School

Daily News · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 5

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. MacKay, yesterday inaugurated a school for detectives at the Criminal Investigation Bureau…

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Reports Ants, Lice in School

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The Waratah Public School, attended by 450 boys, is white-anted, lice-infested, and unsafe and unfit for habitation, according to a…

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Big Drop in School Rolls

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 7

State school enrolments are decreasing at a steady rate of 2500 a year. There were 17,000 fewer State school…

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Picnics For Nursery School Children

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 10

THERE is great excitement at the Nursery School at Redfern, because the president, Mrs. C. P. Johnson, is…

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Detectives' School To Be Launched Four Weeks' Instruction Then Examination

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 4

A school for detectives is to be launched in Sydney. The scheme has been under the consideration of a committee of senior officers for eight months…

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A.j.c. Apprentice School Model for Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 15

Arrangements are being made for Queensland to adopt the Sydney system of schooling apprentice jockeys. Dr. John Power, a progressive…

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A New Year Message from the Director of the Y,P. Department to Our Sunday School and Youth Workers and All Others Concerned

The Methodist · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 9

Dear Friends,—For the past couple of years the Young People's Department has maintained, almost unbrokenly, a column in "The Methodist," touching on matters…

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Y.p. Department Sunday School Increase Prizes

The Methodist · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 11

The award of the "Varcoe Cocks Memorial Increase Prizes" for the Sunday Schools showing the greatest percentage increase in enrolment…

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