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Schools, 1940

2,557 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 128

The Schoolboy Detective This Week--Submarine Plans

The Sun · Sunday 14 April 1940 · page 2

"HE might be a spy," said Lionel Martin as he walked down a tree-lined path leading to a small grey house…

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Schoolboy Australian Code Star

The Sun · Sunday 14 April 1940 · page 50

D. Kelly, a Queensland schoolboy, representative, was one of the most impressive players in the Australian Code trial games at Erskineville Oval…

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"The School for Scandal."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 April 1940 · page 4

THE Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools' Association (Inc.), Kindergarten Union of New South Wales. and French-Australian League of Help will receive proceeds…

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Flying Training Schools. New Sites Announced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 April 1940 · page 9

New flying training schools under the Empne Air Scheme are to be established at Nanomine, Camden, and Wagga, while further schools are likely…

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G.p.s. Youth Missing From His School

The Sun · Monday 15 April 1940 · page 7

Police are searching for a 16-year-old G.P.S. schoolboy, who left his school before evening chapel on…

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Air Training School Opens May 1. 300 Recruits to Begin Courses. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 11

Nearly 300 Air Force recruits will begin courses for pilots observers, and radio operator-air gunners in the Empire Air Scheme on May 1 when…

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N.s.w. Flying Schools. Air Board Control Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 11

The Air Board proposes to merge the three private flying training schools at Kingsford Smith Airport—the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales, the Kingsford Smith Air…

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G.P.S. Schoolboy Missing. Wanted to See World

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 11

Peter Mansfield Shelley, 16, of Beresford Road, Rose Bay, a G.P.S. schoolboy, is missing, Although he was to have rowed in his school's second four crew at the G.P.S. regatta…

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Probate of Wills. Bequest of £500 for Sunday Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 14

Mr. Michael Carroll, formerly of Redbank, near Molong, made a bequest of £500 to the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst for the benefit of Sunday schools in the Molong district. Mr…

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Hobart's Sight-saving School Yellow Blackboards and Blue Chalk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 2

NOT for the first time in its history, Tasmania is pioneering a new development in children's education. Next month the Minister for Education, Mr. Ogilvie, will open in Hobart a Sight-saving School where about twenty-five boys and girls with defective sight will be trained by methods which should conserve and…

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School Room Condemned. Unfit for Habitation. "Disgrace to Department."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 10

"The manual training-room at the Sydney Technical High School in Albion Street, Paddington, is unfit for human habitation," said the health inspector,…

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Singing Teacher Gassed Perth

The Sun · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 2

Hugh Torrance, 45, singing tea[?]er, and one-time member of "The Dandies" touring show, was today found dead at his rooms in West…

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M.H.R. Leaves School for Parliament Canberra

The Sun · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 8

Mr. T. W. White, M.H.R., who has enlisted in the R.A.A.F. and is attending a training school at Flemington, arrived here to-day for the…

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New School Urged "Conditions Are Deplorable" Repairs Promised

The Sun · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 7

"Deplorable conditions exist at the Sydney Technical High School, Albion-street, Paddington, and no time should be lost in remedying them," to-day said Mr. M. O'Sullivan, M.L.A. for…

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Tiny Tot Toddled Off -- to School!

Daily News · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 2

WHILE police searched for her throughout the metropolis, four-years-old Joan Ingleton was having an impromptu school lesson yesterday. Joan's dog caused her to wander away from her home In Thornton Street,…

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School Teachers. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 9

The Department of Education yesterday announced the following changes in personnel of the teaching staffs in New South Wales schools:…

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Schoolgirls' Success At W. S. Eisteddfod

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 5

The Parramatta High School Choir is delighted with the success of two of its enthusiastic members—Elaine Scott and Betty Brown at the Western Suburbs…

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Ship Model Tank at School Swedish Enterprise

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 2

The institution for ship designing of the Chalmers Technical High School of Goteborg will soon have at its disposal one of the largest and most up-to-date equipped model tanks in Europe, states the Swedish International Press Bureau…

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Convent Schools' Tennis

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 17

Archbishop's Shield.—Kensington beat Normanhurst, 5-35 to 1-16; Kincoppal beat Parramatta, 5-34 to 1-20; Bethlehem beat Santa Sabina, 4-34 to 2-15; Kirribilli beat Rose Bay, 6-42 to 0-29…

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Teachers' President Not "Red." Reply to Critics. Son Fights for Britain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 15

The president of the New South Wales Teachers' Federation, Mr. A, McGuinness, addressing the Public Service Association's conference yesterday, said it had been…

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