School Supplies
"X.Y.Z.": Should the parents of the children attending a subsidised school buy their children's pencils, pens, and books, or should the Government buy…
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Schools' Swimming. Intermediate-Junior High and Central Schools. Randwick Wins Shield
Randwick Junior High School placed a strong team in the swimming championships of the Intermediate and Junior High and Central Schools, at North Sydney pool, yesterday, and won the W…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tennis Fixtures. Junior Age and School Championships. (Draw for to-morrow.)
Girls' doubles, under 17 years: 9.0. M. Wilson and M. Bevis v P. Bates and I. Dorahy (D); 12, G. Pank and C. Procter v winner (D). Boys; doubles, under 17 years: 11.30. D. Rocavert…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →School's Help for War Fund. Ton of Old Clothing
Fill your Diggers' comfort bag with your left-off clothing and household linen, wool silk, and cotton." A week ago 8.30 empty calice bags bearing…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →3000 School Children to Form Tableau
More than 3000 children from Catholic schools will form a tableau at the St. Patrick's Day sports at the Showground on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Exam. Forcing in Schools Attacked
"Insane competition" among teachers for examination results was attacked last night by the Deputy-President of the Teachers' Federation (Mr. MacKinnon). "Some teachers take their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swimming. St. Catherine's C. OF E. School for Girls, Waverley. (Held at Coogee A[?]uarium.)
Sentor championship [?]0yds: B. Donovan (3s 4-5s). 1; O. Court, 2: S. Snellgrove, 3. Junior championship, 50yds: A. Donovan (36s), 1; C. Mollison, 2; N. Wills, 3…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Teachers' Guild Officers
The following office-bearers of the Teachers' Guild of New South Wales have been elected for the current year:—President, Rev. Father Noel Hehir, St. Ignatius' College;…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Music Teachers' Easter Conference
The Musical Association of New south wales will hold its 1940 Easter conference on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 26, 27, and 28, in Paling's Concert Hall, Ash Street. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Want School Age Raised to 16 YEARS A.L.P. Branch Reports
THE raising of the school leaving age to 16 years was advocated in a motion carried unanimously at the last meeting of Canterbury branch of the A.L.P. Important correspondence was received from the Central Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Minister "White-Anting" Teachers' Reply
"Mr. Drummond detests Communism, but he is a pastmaster at the white-anting practice," said the Teachers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schoolteacher Gaoled Armidale
AT the armidale Quarter Sessions, James Stewart Ross (26), schoolteacher was convicted on two of four counts of having committed…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →"Wearing the Old School Tie"
AN amusing picture of life at an English public school lias been skilfully drawn by Ian Hay in "Housemaster," which…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Schoolchildren For Kosciusko
The State Tourist Bureau has arranged for schoolchildren to holiday at Kosciusko during the May vacation…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →School Tennis Boys in Grand Display
In the best junior boys' doubles match of the season, R. R. ("Bobby") Barnes and R. McCarthy yesterday beat…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Schoolboy Detective This Week: The Missing Speed King
SWISH! Rob Pearce was walking home from Granges College one afternoon when a brush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Plan Schools' Progress Rapid Expansion Promised Melbourne
More than 1500 technical airmen, mostly fitters recruited for service under the Empire Air Training…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Old School Tie" Is Fading As War Hits Britain's Rich LONDON
England's famousc public schools are making desperate efforts to survive the effects of war. It is conceded now that the public school system as it exists to-day is doomed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jiu-jitsu Girl Treats Her Teacher Rough
Private Jim James, aged 21, of Hurstville, has a 15-year-old girl friend who can throw him over her shoulder. She is Miss Joyce Fitzpatrick,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boarding-school seen as herd life
LONDON, Saturday. -- "Boarding-school life is herd life," says Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, Labor M.P., former Minister for Education and Postmaster-General. "It is peculiar that the…
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