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Schools, 1940

2,557 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 128

Ort Farm School In France

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 4

PARIS, April 5th. The French Ort Union has purchased an estate in the Department of Lot and Garonne, where it is to establish…

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Schools for Airmen. Opening on Monday. 293 Men to Attend. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 April 1940 · page 15

Air tiaining schools established under the Empire An Scheme will open throughout Australia on Monday. The first in-take of 293 pupils will begin…

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New Civil Aviation School. 20 Planes Ordered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 April 1940 · page 15

Twenty Rearwin high-wing training monoplanes have been ordered by National Aircraft Pty., Ltd., to establish a new civil flying instruction school at…

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Air Scheme in Top Gear 293 Trainees Enter Schools

The Sun · Saturday 27 April 1940 · page 3

With the opening of new schools in N.S.W. and Victoria, and the absorption of the first batch of 293 air crew trainees from all parts of the Commonwealth, the Empire Air Scheme will shift into…

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Sydney's Hurdlers Much Schooling Poor Fields In Races

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 April 1940 · page 13

THIS is supposed to be the hurdling season. It might be, but one wouldn't think so, judging by the size of the fields competing in…

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Tommy' As Teacher

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 April 1940 · page 3

"ATTENTION, please." A Tommy with the B.E.F. in France helping a French student in her English exercise. French teachers have been mobilised, and the Tommies are lending a hand…

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High School Football RUNAWAYS

Truth · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 13

THE opening round of the High Schools' football competition provided almost a complete whitewash for the four winners,…

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"Woman" Cookery School And Empire Kitchen

The Sun · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 12

In view of the success of the "Woman" day-time cookery classes, which are held at 3 p.m. daily, except Wednesday, in the…

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Sentences School Playmate London

The Sun · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 2

Two men who went to school together 45 years ago met again in Old Bailey to-day in the role of judge…

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Wedding In School Chapel

The Sun · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 5

THE Chapel of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney, was the scene yesterday of the wedding of Miss Marjorie…

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The Schoolboy Detective This Week: "Farmer Grump's" Gun

The Sun · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 2

"FARMER GRUMP," as he was known to the boys at Dilesdale, had been a gamekeeper in England before…

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What King's Physician Thinks Of School

The Sun · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 4

LORD HORDER, the King's physician, defined his ideal school for the ideal child when he spoke at Parents' Day at Bedales School,…

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School Trial

The Sun · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 5

"LET AB be a straight line inter -- " I was interrupted here by a little girl with a note. "From one of the…

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Poet wrote school song

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 28 April 1940 · page 37

Three hundred ex-students joined in the singing of the school song, the words of which were written by another former…

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Primary Schools. Attendances Decrease by 36,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 10

At the end of last year pupils attending primary schools in New South Wales were 36,000 fewer than in 1931, but the attendant at super-primary schools increased during…

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School Excursion Rates As Usual

The Sun · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 3

The Railway Department announced to-day that excursion rates which normally apply during holidays to permit teachers, parents and scholars…

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Would Not Give Name Of Old School

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 3

LONDON, April 17.--George Lawrence Whitehouse, who appeared in court in uniform, and was said to have been to a public school and a…

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Still Day Of Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.--The day of the great public school was not done, Mr. Brian Hone, who has been appointed headmaster…

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Shore Old Boys Play Draw With School

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 13

Shore Old Boys' Rugby Union team played an exciting 16-all draw with the school at North-bridge yesterday…

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Successful Pupils

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 1 May 1940 · page 9

Pupils of the Trenerry School of Dancing were successful at an Eisteddfod in the Protestant Hall, Parramatta, on Anzac Day. The successful pupils…

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