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POPULAR conception of a school mistress: A tall, forbidding, angular creature with straight hair and no hope of getting off the shelf. Popular conception of a school master: A hump-shouldered,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sir,--As a result of the dispute between the Railway Department and members of the Australian Railways Union concerning climatic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WAGGA Friday.--A start has been made by the Sydney contractors. The McConnell Building Co. Pty., Ltd., for £200,000 worth of work on the R.A.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New South Wales children went back to school during the week. In the metropolitan area, hundreds of them went back to:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →COMMENT about a cocktail party, said to have been held in private quarters at Cranbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strong criticism of the Education Department for having failed to build new schools in the metropolitan area was voiced yesterday at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"It is the usual type of meaningless remark which one often hears," was the comment of Mr. L. C. Robson, headmaster of the Church of England Grammar School, on a statement made in Melbourne about "the old school tie" by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIX year old children who attended school this week under, the new compulsory enrolment age, will not spend…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WHAT do you, as a citizen, think of an Education Department which permits the conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a caravan of five motor-buses and five taxis, more than 100 teachers left Ivanhoe yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DURING the week the first of the half million school children in New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Complaints that some schools were overcrowded and that the Education Department had not made adequate provision for filling vacancies on teaching staffs caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shocking revelations regarding conditions in some of the schools were made yesterday by "The Sunday Sun." Under-staffed schools, over-crowded classrooms, roofs, windows and walls in disrepair, inadequate drinking facilities were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway Department will be asked to refund £3 to each teacher involved in the cost of the bus trip from Ivanhoe to Broken Hill, after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The first flying school to train men for the Empire air scheme, will begin in April-- three months earlier than the schedule proposed by Britain at the air conference in Canada…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A GA[?] and dainty frock with bell flowers (top left) for the five-to-seven-year-old is knitted in a clear buttercup shade and the embroidered flower stems are…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SEVERAL school teachers in a party of 55, including 35 girls, were on the verge of collapse when they reached Broken Hill yesterday morning after travelling for two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The shortage of accommodation in super-primary schools was alarming, declared the president of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation, Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following were elected as the executive of the Teachers' Federation for the year 1940: President, Mr. A. McGuinness;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Olive Webb, 9, of Moree, will fly more than 300 miles from Sydney to Moree today to be in time for school opening tomorrow. She has been spending a…
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