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Schools, 1944

1,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 98

Hills District Pets on Parade at Castle Hill School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 9

On their best behaviour, dogs treated cats with the utmost politeness; and cats fraternised with goldfish, at a pet show held at…

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Schools Suffer From Lack of Dentists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 3

Eighty per cent. of school children suffered from dental caries, but only 20 per cent, received regular dental attention, the Principal Medical Officer of the Department of Education, Dr. Machin, said yesterday…

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Training Schools For Civil Service Proposed

The Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--All civil service clerks who regularly contact the public should attend schools, says a report on the training of civil servants. Prepared by a committee…

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Country Hostels Planned Accommodation For School Pupils Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 4

YOUNG, Wednesday.—The Premier, Mr. McKell, announced to-day that the Government was considering the possibility of…

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A Page For Catholic Schools Geographical survey of the outer fringe of Japan's Empire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 19

SPEAKING broadly, we may say that the Japanese Empire falls into two economic zones…

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Gift of Orphanage And School

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 2

AYROOR, Travancore, India.—Dedicated to St. Thomas, the Apostle of India, an orphanage and an industrial…

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School Holidays

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 5

All schools under the control of the Education Department will reopen next Tuesday after the autumn vacation. Great public schools and large…

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Training School for A.A.M.W.S. New Staff Appointments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 6

Captain Beatrice Hanmer, A.A.N.S., will leave Sydney early next week for Victoria, where she will be an instructor at the training school for…

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Teacher Farewelled. After Fourty-Six Years' Service

The Propeller · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 1

The assembly hall at Penshurst School was crowded on Tuesday, May 9, when a function, arranged by Penshurst Parents and Citizens' Association, was held to…

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Schooling for Civil Servants

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Schools to train civil servants in "the human touch" are recommended by a Treasury…

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Fairfield Public School

The Biz · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 3

The Mayor (Ald. Cliff Green) lias been informed that an officer of the Education Department will visit Fairfield and inspect a site for a proposed new school…

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Manpower Check on Vic. Schools

The Sun · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- All Victorian schools have been asked by the Manpower Directorate to supply details of children who left school at the end of last year…

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Blunden Sets School Literary Style

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Articles by Godfrey Blunden, Daily Telegraph war correspondent, are being studied in Melbourne schools for their lucidity of style. Senior English mistress at Melbourne Church of England…

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Stop Press Religion in Schools

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- State Cabinet is considering a request by seven churches, including the Anglican and Roman Catholic, that…

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Stop Press Religion in Schools

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- State Cabinet is considering a request by seven churches, including the Anglican and Roman Catholic, that…

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School Tribute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 4

The chairman of T[?] Scots College Council, Mr. W. Geikie, in presenting the annual report of the college to the Presbyterian Assembly, paid tribute to…

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Back To School

The Sun · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 3

Holidays over, Bill Gooley, 11, John Frazer Smith, 11, and John Wilson, 13, are not- so- happily wending their…

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Softball Challenge To School Cricket

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 12

Popularity of American games is causing youngsters in the eastern suburbs to lose interest in cricket. Mort Cohen, secretary of the…

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Old Schoolmates Meet

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 12

Two schoolmates met for the first time in 20 years at the Randwick-Wests Rugby Union match at Concord on Saturday…

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Stop Press Religion in Schools

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- State Cabinet is divided on the request by seven Victorian churches that the word "secular" be deleted from…

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