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Schools, 1940

2,557 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 128

Paper Economy In N.Z. Schools AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 30 June 1940 · page 5

School headmasters have begun an economy campaign in the use of paper in schools. A return to the use of slates is…

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The Schoolboy Detective This Week: Mystery Of The Missing Hides

The Sun · Sunday 30 June 1940 · page 2

ROB PEARCE was very surprised when he received a letter one Saturday morning from a boy he had known a…

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Film of Rugby School "Dead End" Kid Wears Old School tie for

The Sun · Sunday 30 June 1940 · page 6

Billy Halop, who made his name as one of the "Dead End Kids," will be seen as a pupil of Rugby School in the new film,…

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Epidemic of Colds Is 'Usual' Camps, Schools Suffer

The Sun · Sunday 30 June 1940 · page 11

Described by doctors as "just the seasonal type of severe cold and mild influenza," an epidemic is taking…

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Music in Schools. English Standard High

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 July 1940 · page 4

MUSICAL education generally is more extensive in England than in Australia, according to Miss Dorothy White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. White, of…

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Perimond Injured in Hurdle School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 July 1940 · page 11

G. Johnson is confident, Perimond will make a good hurdler, but he has had an early setback. Perimond over-reached at a jump and…

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Scholars and Resuscitation

The Sun · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 10

Many schools in the metropolitan area are being taught resuscitation methods by instructors of the Royal Life-Saving Society…

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£11,175,740 in War Funds. Latest Returns. Efforts by Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 8

Gifts and interest-free loans received by the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra in the week-end amounted to £77,000, making the totals:…

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Schoolboys' Patriotism. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 5

Sir.—I should be glad if you would allow me space to remove a possible misconception due to a necessarily brief report of my address to the Millions Club…

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Schools' Football

The Sun · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 14

A team from De La Salle College, Armidale, played Newington College at Newington to-day. Half-time scores: Armidale 6 (M. Rogers…

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Bombs Hit School London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 July 1940 · page 2

German planes damaged a school in the north-east of Scotland yesterday with incendiary bombs…

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Annual Social Sunday School Teachers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 6

Bishop W. G. Hilliard presided at the fifth annual social evening of the Parramatta Rural Deanery Sunday School Teachers, at St. Paul's, Harris…

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School Teachers. Appointments and Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 7

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

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Schools Busy on War Effort

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 8

Auburn schools are playing an outstanding part in the local war effort. By donations and an effectively-organised series of events culminating in a…

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Close Race for School Honors

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 7

The race for honors in 6th class half-yearly examinations at Castle Hill Public School resulted in Alan Bowden (643 marks out of 800) winning from…

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P'matta Schools Do Their Bit

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 1

During June £150 was raised at Parramatta Intermediate High School as a contribution towards the N.S.W. Schools War Gift Fund…

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School of Arts to Be Sold

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 2

The Toongabbie school of Arts, which has served the residents of that district for more than 30 years, is to be sold by public tender. The…

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English Schoolgirls Evacuated — Testing Bren Gun Carriers — Guernsey Island Port — Runaway Bus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 14

Schoolgirls from the south-east coast of England crowded at the door of a railway carriage while passing through London en route to the west of England…

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Training for Air Force. Instructors Chosen. Two New Schools. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 9

Appointments to No. 2 Service Flying Training School, Wagga (N.S.W.), and No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School were…

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Catholic Evidence Method. Simplified for Primary Schools Notes for Teachers. Sanctifying Grace (continued)

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 July 1940 · page 12

In our last Instruction we said that our first Parents lost the Gift of Sanctifying Grace by their sin. Now this Sanctifying Grace which we…

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