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Schools, 1940

2,557 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 128

Fatal Collapse at Ceremony. Principal of School of Mines ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 11

A few minutes after the beginning of the speeches at the opening of the Bonython Jubilee Building at the South Australian School of Mines to-day, the principal, Mr…

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The Schools. Easter Holidays. Winter and Spring Vacations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 4

Schools under the Education Department close this afternoon for the Easter holidays. They will reopen on Wednesday…

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School Children Do Not Get Books Free Brisbane, Mar. 20

Tribune · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 3

“The Premier, Mr. Smith, is either very badly mis-informed, totally ignorant or deliberately lying when he says that Queensland school children are supplied with text books and school requisites free.”…

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Transfer of Teachers

The Propeller · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 3

The Department of Education notifies the following appointments and transfer of teachers and, assistant teachers in connection with local…

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Connell's Point School

The Propeller · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 1

At the annual meeting of the Connell's Point Parents and Citizens' Association praise was extended to the retiring officers for building up the…

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Domestic Science School

The Propeller · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 7

Last Saturday afternoon a cooking demonstration was carried out by girls of the Bexley Domestic Science School under the auspices of…

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Extends Free School System

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--All pupils to the age of 15 will be exempt from payment of fees at high, junior technical, and day schools…

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Early Schooling Helps Hurdler

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Schooled over hurdles as a yearling. Davena has developed into a particularly safe and clever Jumper…

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Picnic at Par[?]amatta Park. Guildford Congre[?]ational Sunday School

The Biz · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 8

The about held a very [?] Parrama[?] Park [?] Saturday. A [?] number of [?] and [?] attended. and many parents joined [?]…

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Lansd[?]wne School of Arts Dance

The Biz · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 6

The La[?]sdowne School of Arts monthly dance, held on Saturday last. was very [?] and successful nearly 100 b[?]ing present. Mr. Rey Breed[?]n was M.C…

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Church of Christ. Canley Vale. Bible School Picnic and Concert

The Biz · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 6

The annual picnic of the above was held last Saturday at the playground and it was one of the happiest and [?] largely attended for some years…

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Fort Street Girls' School Presentation of Prizes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 5

The Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, addressed students at the Fort Street Girls' High School yesterday when he presented prizes to successful students, including…

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Polish Relief Fund. Dolls Made by Schoolgirls

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 6

A number of dolls made by girls of the Haberfield Demonstration School for Polish refugee children in Europe have been sent to the organisers of the Polish War Victims'…

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Technical Schools' Swim Gala

Daily News · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 9

Annual swimming carnival of the Commercial and Junior Technical Schools will be held at the North Sydney Olympic Pool on Thursday,…

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Music isn't "cissy" in the English schoolroom

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 4

HOW many winners of boxing competitions in Australian schools would select as trophy a volume of…

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Ravenswood College Domestic Science School Opened

The Methodist · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 4

A new and important step in the progress of Ravenswood College was taken on Saturday last, 16th, when the new and up-to-date Domestic Science School, donated by the Pattinsbn family,…

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Music Teachers' Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 7

The Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, will open the 1940 Conference of Music Teachers, organised by the Musical Association, in Paling's Concert Hall, Ash Street, on Tuesday, March 26,…

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Big Betting in an Exclusive "School" Woman's Story Of Alleged Loans

Truth · Sunday 24 March 1940 · page 25

A VIVID picture of exclusive gambling salons in expensive Sydney flats, where fashionably-dressed women secretly gathered in the dead of night to wager for stakes around chemin de…

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The Schoolboy Detective This Week: The Old Mine Shaft

The Sun · Sunday 24 March 1940 · page 2

INPATIENTLY Rob Pearce looked out of the train window at the landscape flashing by…

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Teachers And The Dole

The Sun · Sunday 24 March 1940 · page 1

THE case of the unemployed student teacher in New South Wales, wins new interest from a…

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