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Schools, 1939

3,286 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 165

Repairs to Schools. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 6

Several thousand pounds have been made available by the Department of Education for repairs to school; in the inspectorate of Mr. W. G. Lee, who is stationed, at Lithgow…

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What the School Child Should Eat. Health Department’s Notes

The St George Call · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 6

The experience of nursery schools, where at least one meal Is served to very young children, has shown that when the daily routine of a child’s life…

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N. Syd. Girls High School Ball

Daily News · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 5

At the North Sydney Girls' High School Parents and Citizens' annual ball on July 22 Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Spender will receive the debutantes…

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Burlakov School of Ballet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 9

The Fiist Australian Ballet will hold a cabaret dance evening on Saturday, May 27, at 8 p.m. Entertainment and supper provided…

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School Children Shiver

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 3

LAST week the N.S.W. Education Department, stirred reluctantly into action by teachers' complaints and Press publicity, decided…

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Radio In Schools Becomes Essential Designed to Supplement, Rather Than Replace, the Ordinary Class Routine

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 22

A RADIO in every school and a speaker in every class-room. This should be the aim, not only of the whole radio industry, but also of all the educational…

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Sophisticated American Schoolgirls

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 May 1939 · page 12

At fourteen, American girls use lipstick and go to dances, said Mrs. H. S. Steiner who, with her husband and two…

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National Register Clerks School Examination For Men Of 60

The Sun · Sunday 21 May 1939 · page 16

Two hundred or more returned soldiers will struggle next Saturday with an examination in arithmetic and spelling. And…

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The Schoolboy Detective The Singer

The Sun · Sunday 21 May 1939 · page 2

ROB PIERCE and his pal, Lionel Martin, stood in front of a large grey house almost hidden from the road by a row of trees. They had…

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Where It Is Kinder to Be Candid Cinesound's Talent School In Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 8

THREE hundred Sydney men and women are learning to walk and talk correctly, to move gracefully and to express emotion sincerely. They are taking lessons weekly and are as assiduous in their studies as the most avid medical or law student!…

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Milson's Point School. Repairs Promised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 13

The decision of the North Sydney Council to give the Education Department 15 days in which to carry out repairs at the Milson's Point school, brought a prompt reply from…

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Wearin' the Old School Tie

Daily News · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 4

Does anyone want an old school tie? If so, he can have mine with pleasure…

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Heating of School. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 7

Replying to Mr. Hamilton Knight, M.L.A., who suggested that £1/5/ a year for the purchase of wood fuel to heat Marrangaroo public school was inadequate, the Minister for…

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Schools' Jubilees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 10

The golden jubilee of Narrabeen and St. Ives public schools will be celebtated this week. At 10 o'clock to-morrow the bell at…

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Fascist Influence in Schools

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 3

NEW YORK, Apr. 30.—Several thousands of the nation's most outstanding educationalists publicly announced by manifesto yesterday their intention to…

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Bride to Carry Prayer Book She Used at School

The Sun · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 9

A PRAYERBOOK, which she used for ten years when a student at Wenona School, North Sydney, will be carried by to- night's bride, Miss…

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Star Schoolboy for West Subs

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 May 1939 · page 15

Joe Aboud, former King's School arid All Schools breakaway forward, will train with Western Suburbs Club tonight…

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Off to School Wenty's Film Star Must Study

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1939 · page 1

Known as Wenty's Shirley Temple, little Beryl Omerod, an attractive Wentworthville five-year-old, is probably the…

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Cars and Surf Why Fewer Children Go to Sunday School Veteran's View

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1939 · page 2

"Motor cars and the surf." In those five words Mr. George Watt, veteran Sunday school superintendent, explains the smaller…

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Damage at £250 Fire at School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 24 May 1939 · page 11

Fire caused more than £250 worth of damage at a portable classroom at Liverpool Public School last week. Valuable…

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