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Schools, 1940

2,557 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 128

Women's News Bridegrooms From Navy And Air Force Wed at School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 10

The best man at the wedding of Miss Althea Doreen Wallace to Sub-Lieutenant Haydon Ord Coleridge Farr, which took…

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Air Armada's Raid on Paris 240 Bombers Attack in Waves Children Perish As Schools Are Hit Grim Trail Of Ruin: 'Nazis Will Pay For This!' LONDON

The Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 1

Schoolchildren were among the dead and injured, when between 240 and 300 German planes, in waves of 25, raided Paris this afternoon. Streets were littered with glass and debris and overturned cars and…

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Air Fitters Go to School Ultimo Centre Opens On

The Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 7

Five hundred members of the R.A.A.F. will be billeted at Ultimo until their courses at the new Mechanical Engineering School are finished. Bunks have been provided along the walls in the…

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Much Art of School Quality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 8

The general standard of the work in the Australian Art Society's annual exhibition, which opens today at Farmer's Blaxland Galleries, is very…

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School Teachers. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 6

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

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The Teacher's Prayer

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 5

GIVE me but childhood's steps to guide Along the paths of Truth; Let me but place her shining torch…

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Rides Six Miles to School

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 9

Dear "Worker,"—I enjoy reading your interesting Page, though I have not written to it before. My father has been taking "The Worker" for about…

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Old School Tie Methods. Not Wanted in This War

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 8

Strong criticism of the Government's war effort was voiced in the Federal Parliament last week by General G. J. Rankin, U.A.P. member for Bendigo…

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Winter School at Keera House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 7

THE annual winter school for members of the Country Women's Association will be held this year at Keera House, Deewhy, from July 15 to July 29. Classes have been…

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£1000 Award to Schoolboy

The Sun · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 9

John Frederick Lancaster. 14, of Portland, who was blinded in one eye. following an explosion in the science room of Portland…

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Protest Against School Site

Daily News · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 2

Kogarah Council is seeking the support of other councils in the St. George district in a protest against the Government's proposal to build…

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45 Killed In Paris Bombing 149 Hurt By Nazi Raiders Bombs Hit 8 Schools London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 3

One thousand and fifty German bombs, dropped on Paris yesterday, killed 45 people and injured 149…

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New School at Blackheath Opened by Monsignor Phelan

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 19

Catholics of the popular Blue Mountains district of Blackheath were filled with gladness on last Sunday week, 26th ult., when their handsome new school, which wil fill…

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Primary School, Hints for Teem Testing

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 12

Class teachers should correct, mark, and tabulate errors in examination books, and then hand them to the head teacher for inspection…

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School-Church to be Opened at Berala. Next Sunday, June 9

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 15

BERALA'S IMPRESSIVE CHURCH-SCHOOL. His Grate the Archbishop of Sydney (Most Rev. N. T. Gilroy, D.D.) will bless and open the new school at Berala on Sunday, 9th hist. The school will be blessed at 9.45 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m., and the usual meeting will follow…

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Catholic Action. State School Children's Visit

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 22

About 200 children, pupils attonding non-Catholic schools, spent a happy afternoon at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, "Kincoppal," last Sunday. Very Rev. Father…

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Lean Days for Schools of Arts

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 1

COUNTRY schools of arts are not what they used to be. An exchange points out that the war is pushing a number of them out of…

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Sunday School Anniversary Congregational Church

The Broadcaster · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 4

Very successful Sunday School anniversary services wort held at the Guildford Congregational Church last Sunday in the morning a packed church greeted…

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South Granville School Objection to Rooms for Ball

The Broadcaster · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 3

The president of South Granville P and C. Association (Mr. W. K. Halsall) writes: "The president of the South Granville…

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The New Church School at Berala

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 22

Special interest has been manifest by the Rev. Father C. Donovan, B.A., of Berala, and his people in the ceremony on Sunday next, when his Grace…

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