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Schools, 1942

2,651 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 133

Teachers' Move for War Loading

Truth · Sunday 3 May 1942 · page 18

NEW SOUTH WALES public school teachers may ask for a war loading of 6s a week. At yesterdays council meeting of…

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Three Weeks At Sea With Schoolboy Map HOBART

The Sun · Sunday 3 May 1942 · page 7

A young New Zealander voyaged alone across the stormy Tasman Sea to Tasmania in 19 days in a 27ft. boat, guided by a page torn from a schoolboy's atlas and a small compass…

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Wash-house As School for Evacuee Children

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 May 1942 · page 6

Children evacuated to Springwood from an orphanage taken over by the Army are using washhouses and verandahs as schoolrooms, Teachers' Federation president McGuinness said yesterday…

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Women Teachers for English Public Schools

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 5

LONDON.-- Boys of 17 and 18 are in some cases being coached by women teachers of 21, according to Mr. L. W. Taylor, secretary of the…

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Teachers Want War Wage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 7

The president of the Teachers' Fedration, Mr. A. McGuinness, moved at a meeting of the council of the Teachers' Federation on Saturday…

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Hurdles School

The Sun · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 8

Result (Welsh), Blackie Miller (Russell), and Kinmar (Stanton) cleared four standard hurdles in pleasing style at…

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"Conquest School" Prepared Japs For Pacific War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- The military technique the Japanese would use in an invasion attempt on Australia is explained in the "Readers' Digest by Mark Gayn, ex-editor of the China Press, Shanghai. He…

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"Conquest School" Prepared Japs For Pacific War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- The military technique the Japanese would use in an invasion attempt on Australia is explained in the Readers' Digest by Mark Gayn, ex-editor of the China Press, Shanghai. He…

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"Conquest School" Prepared Japs For Pacific War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- The military technique the Japanese would use in an invasion attempt on Australia is explained in the Readers' Digest by Mark Gayn, ex-editor of the China Press, Shanghai. He…

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"Conquest School" Prepared Japs For Pacific War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- The military technique the Japanese would use in an invasion attempt on Australia is explained in the Readers' Digest by Mark Gayn, ex-editor of the China Press, Shanghai. He…

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"Conquest School" Prepared Japs For Pacific War

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.-- The military technique the Japanese would use in an invasion attempt on Australia is explained in the Readers Digest by Mark Gayn, ex-editor of the China Press, Shanghai. He…

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Schools' Autumn Vacation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 4

All schools under the control of the Education Department will close for the autumn vacation on May 7. They will reopen on May 19. Other Schools…

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McKell, Army and Schools

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 2

"This resolution asks us to say that it is inimical to the best interests of the nation that schools should be taken over…

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McKell, Army and Schools

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 2

"This resolution asks us to say that it is inimical to the best interests of the nation that schools should be taken over…

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A Ten-mile Ride to School

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 6

Dear Worker,—I have not written to your interesting Page before, which I enjoy reading very much. I have two miles to walk to school…

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Use of Schools by Army Premier's Assurance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 9

Federal and State Ministers are endeavouring to draw up a plan that will make it unnecessary for educational institutions…

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Educating the Very Young in Wartime England a New Nursery School, Yorkshire, England. Architect: Oliver Hill

Construction · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 11

Despite the fact that England is at war, her considerateness for growing children and particularly the wee-tots has never waned. Not all the money goes into bombs. Some of it goes to build up life, as this kindergarten shows. To plan streamlined buildings and remove all angles on the plan and elevation maintains the modern trend, so that war or no war the style and development of architecture…

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Girls Train at New Women's Army School

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 7

A PPROXIMATELY 100 girls commenced their training course at [?] new Australian Women's Army Service School at Randwick today…

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Teacher Bars Sabbath N.E.S. Digging

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 5

The headmaster of Randwick Intermediate High School (Mr. F. Pernell) said today that he would not permit parents of…

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Girls Train at New Women's Army School

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 7

APPROXIMATELY 100 girls commenced their training course at new Australian Women's Army Serice School at Randwick today…

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