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Schools, 1939

3,286 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 165

New Naval System for Personnel School To Train Youths Seeking Commissions

The Sun · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 3

The Australian naval authorities are adopting for the first time a system equivalent to the British Navy's "public school entry," with the object of rapidly increasing the commissioned personnel…

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High School Wanted

The Sun · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 2

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond), has promised to bring before Cabinet, Manly's request for a high school…

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Kogarah Evening Continuation School

The St George Call · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 6

This school will re-open on Monday, 27th just. Classes will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7.30 to 9.30. Evening schools…

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"A. W. Green" Shield. Schoolboys' Competition

The St George Call · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 5

St. George v. Marrickville, played at Henson Park.—St. George (1st innings) N. Brooks 10, C. Abbott 16, N. Fisher 25, S. Root 25, G. Touhill 8, T. Morris…

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School Cricket Hurstville's New Fast Bowles. Eight Wickets for 13

The St George Call · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 5

Hurstville Technical School has uneathed a promising fast bowler in J. Crawford, a youngster of only 14 years who last Tuesday, when playing for…

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Franciose Cycling Star As Schoolboy

Daily News · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 11

IT is not surprising that American cyclist Mickey Franciose became a champion. He has always lived in…

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Teacher Guilty of Assaults

Daily News · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 2

Jail could not possibly do his client any good, and would, in fact, do him a lot of harm, Mr. C. E. Martin, barrister, said on behalf of James Sydney Tyson,…

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Teacher's Bond for Assaults

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 4

James Sydney Tyson, 28, school teacher, who was found guilty by a jury at Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Wednesday of indecent assault on a…

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Annesley School, Bowral

The Methodist · Saturday 18 February 1939 · page 4

I was invited by the Council of the Annesley College, Bowral, to conduct the morning service in the Bowral Church on the first Sunday following the re-opening of Annesley College for the…

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New School Wanted. Protest from Gosford. GOSFORD

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1939 · page 5

If the Education Department is not prepared to build a new Public school at Gosford, the president and secretary of the Gosford Primary School Parents and Citizens'…

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School of Modern Writers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1939 · page 6

Mr. Will Lawson, the novelist will address the School of Modern writers in room 13, third floor, Post Office Chambers. 333 George Street, on Monday, at 8 p.m. Non-members are invited to…

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Coming-Out Parties Billed For Early March Melbourne Letter School's New Home: Farewells For Travellers MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1939 · page 4

WE felt this week that we had stolen a march on Sydney when the Cabinet returned from Tasmania and held a very delightful reception in the Blue Room at. Scot's. Seeing Dame Enid, Dame Mary and Mrs. McEwen hobnobbing with the Lady…

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The Schoolboy Detective The Car Thief

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1939 · page 2

"AND the wild mosquitoes eat, eat, eat, Whatever they chance to meet, meet, meet…

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Women Make the Best Golf Pupils

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 3

Women make the best pupils. I'd sooner teach, them. When you're giving a woman a lesson she wants to get things right and she'll take pains. But a man is impatient. He wants to HIT the ball…

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Teacher Becomes Short-story Prizewinn[?] Miss Earle Hooper Brings Back the Past

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 2

GOOD news, as well as ill, flies apace and the postman little knows which it is as he pushes the mail into the letter-box— but it was good news he brought to Miss Earle Hooper the other day when she learned that she had won a short-story competition…

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The Gentle Art of Salesmanship A School for Training [?]hop Assistants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 9

[?]HIS shirt," said the young salesman[?]in-training, holding up a sample [?] his fellow students, "has a woven [?] which is guaranteed to wash…

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Boarding School for the Only Child a Mother's Courage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 16

BOARDING school from the age of six is the only solution, but a complete and happy one, to the problem of the only child. That is the argument which a mother of an only child, a boy, eight years of age, vigorously develops in the following article…

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Golfer Wed At School Chapel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 10

A wedding of interest in golfing circles was that of Miss Bettie Bryant with Mr. Brian Saddington, which took place…

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Germany's New War School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 5

GERMAN INFANTRY-"High School," established near Berlin.--Picture above shows extremely mobile anti-tank guns accompanying infantry to go into immediate action against attacking mechanised forces., Experiments are worked out in order to find the infantryman's proper sphere in modern wars…

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Canberra Grammar School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 4

A stone to commemorate the opening of the new dining hall block of the Canberra Grammar School was unveiled by the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie…

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