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Schools, 1941

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Teachers Learn Physical Fitness

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 7

"PLEASE acquire ... 2 stretchers, 3 paliasses, 2 pillows, 1 table and stick to support same, 2 students, 3 blankets and 2 chairs for each tent" were the instructions chalked up on the blackboard in a schoolroom at the Brookvale School this morning…

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Building Schools to Start

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 6

The £350,000 school building programme, which has just been announced, is the first stage of the State's…

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Teachers Volunteer For Physical Course

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 7

One hundred and forty school teachers will go into camp at Brookvale Showground today for a voluntary 10 day course of physical education…

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School Plan Praised "Biggest Move in 20 YEARS"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 4

'The biggest advance in State education made by any Government in the past 20 years."…

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Better Schools. Aim Under New Programme. More Technical Facilities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 11

Congestion in many schools will be relieved, and improved technical education facilities will be provided, by the new school building and improvement…

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School in Railway Carriage. Far West Experiment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 5

To meet the needs of the children of fettlers at Darnick, the Education Department has arranged with the Railway Department to convert…

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Granville News Renovations to Library Granville School of Arts

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

Extensive renovations are being carried out in the library at Granville School of Arts. The ceiling and upper portion of the…

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Hills Schoolmaster Departs

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 6

Mr. T. E. Jones; headmaster of Baulkham Hills Public School for the past six years, has been transferred to Normanhurst. He will be succeeded by Mr. T…

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Fond of School

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 4

Dear Worker,—This is my first letter to The Worker. My father has been taking it for several years. I am nine years old. I like school very much, and…

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Teachers' Camp. Physical Training at Brookvale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 7

At the Brookvale Showground 153 teachers from the Education Department have gone into camp for the third annual physical training course…

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Macquarie River Bursts Banks — Free French Organiser in Melbourne — Air Crews at School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 14

Flood waters from the Macquarie River took control of this car as its driver tried to negotiate a section of the road between Warren and Gilgandra. The river burst its banks at the week-end and a levee was built to keep the water from inundating Warren…

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New Public Schools for N.S.W. £350,000 Building Programme

Construction · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 15

It has been announced by the Government of New South Wales that a school building programme amounting to £350,000 is to be carried out…

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Swimming Teachers to Tour

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 14

Five instructors to tour country centres were appointed by the Learn-to-Swim Committee of the State…

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St. Brigid's Girls' School, Marrickville. Successful Candidates in Public Examinations

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 5

The following pupils of St. Brigid 's Girl's School, Marrickville, were successful in recent State and Commonwealth Public Service examinations:…

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Yarra Bay School. Opening on January 26

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 10

A cordial invitation to members and friends of the Catholic Women's Association is extended by Rev. Father S. O'Sullivan, of Malabar, to attend the opening of…

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Schoolboys' Howlers

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 3

A phlegma[?]ic person is one who has chronic bronchitis. A pollytcian is a kind of parrot. A connoisseur is a man who stands…

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School of Arts Win-the-war Effort

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 5

At Its meeting held on Thursday evening last, the committee decided to communicate with the Chamber of Commerce as to the possibility of…

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New School Building Programme Sewerage Installations

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 8

An extensive school building programme recommended by the Minister for Education, Mr Drummond, and involving the sum of nearly £35,000 has…

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Swimming School

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 4

The vacation swimming school, postponed from last week owing to the state of the river, commenced on Monday according to schedule…

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Air Warfare Big School for R.A.A.F. Trainees

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

PERHAPS the biggest single prohibited area in the Commonwealth, 600 square miles of land on the far-northern N.S.W. coastline, is cloned to the public…

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