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Schools, 1939

3,286 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 165

Sunday School Experiments

The Methodist · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 6

The Rev. R. N. Gledhill, Lockhart, writes:—Apropos of the recent correspondence on the attendance of children at Sunday school and church services, the following experiment in this circuit,…

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Transport of School Children. Muswellbrook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 10

The Department of Education has advised that it is prepared to allow a subsidy at the rate of 9d a child a clay for the transport of post-primary pupils from neighbouring…

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Cleveland Street School Houses Named After "Old Boys"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 10

The Cleveland Street Intermediate High School has been divided into houses, which will be named in honour of Old Boys of the school…

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Teacher's Appotntmrnt. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 10

Mr. Dudley Jones, B.A., LL.B., who has been a member of the teaching staff at Wolaroi College for the past five years, is leaving Orange to join the staff of the Sydney…

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Education in Country. Teachers' Complaint. Discrimination Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 18

The country committee of the Teachers' Federation, at its meeting yesterday, demanded equality of opportunity for country and city children…

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School of Modern Writers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 9

Mr. Roy smee will lecture on "Winiam Morris. Poet and Revolutionary," in Room 13, third floor, Post Office Chambers, 333 George Street, on Monday, May 15, at 8 p.m. Non-members are invited…

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Former Teacher Dead at 89

The Sun · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 2

Mr. John McCarthy, aged 89, formerly a well-known school-teacher, died to-day at his home in Russell-street, Five Dock…

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Winter School Meets This Week-end

Daily News · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 5

This week-end the Campion winter school of social studies will be field at Riverview College. Sydney. This is an annual conference of Catholic…

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Eat Lunch in Cemetery Kogarah School Charges

Daily News · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 3

Pupils or Kogarah Boys' Intermediate High School eat their lunches in a disused cemetery. This statement was made by the…

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Man And Schoolgirl Injured

Daily News · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 1

A young schoolgirl and a man suffered painful injuries when knocked down by cars within a few minutes of each other last night…

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Teachers Speak Out Kiddies Lunch in Cemetery Urge Varsity Extension

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 6

TEACHERS at yesterday's meeting of the Teachers' Federation's country committee attacked conditions in suburban…

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Weekly Travel SERVICE--No. 63 Paris At Last!--School Primer Pictures Live The Wife Of The Porter Is Thrifty

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1939 · page 14

THE train for Paris at last. The days spent in Holland and Belgium have been wonderful enough, but always…

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Blackfriars Correspondence School

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1939 · page 2

Although of great importance to thousands of country children, Blackfriars Correspondence School may be little known to the many city people who live close to it. IT is a majestic building, situated…

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The Schoolboy Detective A Matter Of Spiders

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1939 · page 2

ROB PEARCE glared at his young cousin, Ted Thompson, who sat eating an apple on top of the garden gate. He munched loudly as he…

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Hurstville Oval. Schoolgirls Not Allowed to Use it

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 11

The Hurstville council, at its last meeting, decided on the casting vote of the Mayor, Aid, Mallard, to refuse to allow girls of the Hurstville Domestic Science School to play…

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Heating of Schools. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 7

At a meeting of the Katoomba Parents and Citizens' Association it was decided to secure from the municipal electrical engineer an estimate of the cost of wiring and installing…

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Library Books for Schools. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 7

The district council of the Parents and Citizens' Associations is sponsoring a central library scheme, which is making good progress. Nine boxes of books have been…

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Social Study at Winter School 400 At Riverview Week-end

Daily News · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 2

Second of the annual week-end Winter Schools organised by the Campion Society of N.S.W. ended at Riverview College yesterday…

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Would Abolish Private Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 May 1939 · page 8

The abolition of private schools was advocated by Dr. W. G. K. Duncan at a conference on adult…

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Rhodes Scholars. Majority Return to State. What Records Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 13

Inquiries show that all but eight of the 34 Rhodes Scholars who have been sent to England from New South Wales since 1904 have met what Dr. Wilton E…

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