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Schools, 1940

2,557 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 128

Portable Rooms for School

Daily News · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 5

Children at Glen Davis will be housed in portable class-rooms until the Education Department has ascertained the permanent enrolment to be…

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Woman Lived In Schools, Court Told

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 4

Kathleen Clare Cameron, 29, charged at the Central Court yesterday with having stolen two dozen magazines and two skeins of wool from…

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Enraged Headmaster Slays School Officials San Francisco

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 3

Faced with the prospect of dismissal, an enraged headmaster yesterday shot and killed four school officials, wounded two women, and attempted suicide. He is Verlin Spencer, principal…

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Glen Davis to Have School

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 7

Portable schoolrooms will provide temporary accommodation for pupils at Glen Davis, pending the construction of a permanent school…

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Control Air Schools Defence Action Forecast

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 8

The Air Board is expected to requisition all private flying schools in Australia by the end of…

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"Youth Is Sacrificed" Must Leave School Too Early Teachers' President in Strong Attack

Daily News · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 6

"DURING and since the depression youth has been sacrificed and punished in a cowardly way for. the social sins of adults." So said the president of…

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The Primary School English, Spelling, and Composition

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 12

To be able to appreciate fully our own best literature, the style, the particular "tricks" by which an author secures his desired effects, the plot, the character, the…

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Dental Essay Competition. for Catholic Schools

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 28

The prevention of dental diseases is of national importance, since serious organic affections are wholly or partially checked thereby. The reduction to a minimum of…

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Catechists' Guild. Lesson 7: Original Sin. by Lalla Madden. (Based on Green Catechism, Lesson 5, defs. 1-4; Lesson 6, defs. 1-4.) to the Teacher

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 23

The aim of this lesson is to impress upon children the justice of God in punishing us for the disobedience of our first parents. Before class assembles, write, on…

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Secretariate of Catholic Action (This Page is Copyrighted to the Diocesan Secretariate, 66 King-st., Sydney 'Phone, B1587) Campion Society Winter School. "Christian Marriage."

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 23

The Third Annual Campion Winter School will be held at St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, on Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12, for the consideration of…

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Penrith School of Arts Monthly Meeting

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the committee of Penrith school of Arts will be held this Thursday night, at 8 p.m. Springwood Visit…

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The School

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 5

The P. and C.A. social has been postponed to next Wednesday. Word has now been received that the Department has purchased 2 acres…

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Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 25

The large audience that packed the petersham Town Hall on the night of April 30, for the annual Entertainment given by the pupils of the Christian…

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Great Public Schools' Football

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 24

With coaches still experimenting with the personnel and placing of their teams practice games were the order of the day last Saturday in G.P.S. football circles…

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Campion Society Winter School. "Christian Marriage."

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 16

The Third Annual Campion Winter School will be held at St. Ignatius College, Riverview, on Saturday and Sunday, May 11th and 12th, for the…

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His Grace Archbishop Gilroy at Maroubra Pays Tribute to Activities of Rev. Father D. Conaghan New Church Opened and Foundations of School Laid

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 15

In these days of general parochial activity associated with the Church, the parish of Maroubra, under the direction of its pastor, Rev. Father…

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Unique Enterprise at Tardun, W.A. Visit of Apostolic Delegate to Farm School

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 17

His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, accompanied by his Lordship Most Rev. Dr. O'Collins, Bishop of Geraldton, Very Rev. Dr. Hannan, and the Very Rev…

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— Social and Personal — Holbrook Picnic Races To=morrow.—Visitors from India. — School Holidays.— Approaching Weddings. Pre-wedding Party

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 18

More than 60 guests attended a pre-wedding party given at the Pickwick Club yesterday in honour of Miss Ann Suttor, elder daughter of the late Mr. R. B. Suttor and…

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The Schools. Autumn Vacation. Code for Bicyclists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 5

All schools under the Education Department will close this afternoon for the autumn vacation. They will reopen on Tuesday, May 21…

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Amusements. the School for Scandal."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 5

The University Dramatic Society will stage Sheridan' comedy. "The School for Scandal," this evening in the Great Hall, and again to-morrow and Saturday. The proceeds will aid the…

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