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Schools, 1947

2,377 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 119

£650,000 to Buy New School Sites

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 7

The new State Government would spend £650,000 in the next three years to buy sites for new schools, the Minister for…

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Sunday School Scholars' Examination

The Methodist · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 7

The Examination Superintendent reports that just on 2,500 scholars, from 230 schools, sat for the Y.P. Department's Examination on 18th April. The papers are now classified, and should all be in the…

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Mother's Day and Sunday School Unday

The Methodist · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 1

SOME time ago I saw a cartoon depicting a tram on its rails with the pole contacting the overhead cables; in place of…

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Adelaide Lecturers at Preachers' School

The Methodist · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 2

At the Local Preachers' School arranged by Rev. Principal Eckersley, of Wesley College, Adelaide, to be held at the college from 24th May to 7th June, 1947, several interstate lecturers will assist the…

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Health In Schools Neglected. Parents Declare

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 4

Sanitary conditions at many schools, especially in the country, were disgraceful, delegates declared at the annual conference of the…

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A Gentleman of the Old School the Follies of 1947

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 10

TO-DAY our daily newspapers focus attention on "socialites," whatever they may be. But against this parvenu foreground Mr. McCuaig presents the descendant of the old regime, great-grandson of the bearer of an historic name…

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Prep. Nursing Schools

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 4

"TO-DAY (April 22) I went in to Australia House, London, where I read an article in Smith's on the problems associated with nursing, particularly the unbridged gap…

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Schoolboy Blamed for Ether Attack on Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.--Police believe that a schoolboy last night attacked a 14-year-old girl and clamped an ether-soaked rag over her mouth. The attack took place as the…

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U.S. School Bans Shakespeare's Play

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.). -- Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice has been struck off the list of required reading for students of Haverhill High…

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Long Way to School

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 2

JACK (14) and CHARLIE LIM JUEN (12), Chinese hoys who sailed today in the. Yochow to attend school in Canton, where…

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Long Way to School

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 2

JACK (14) and CHARLIE LIM JUEN (12), Chinese boys who 7 sailed today in the Yochow to attend school in Canton,where…

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Long Way to School

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 2

JACK (14) and CHARLIE LIM JUEN (12), Chinese boys who sailed today in the Yochow to attend school in Canton, inhere…

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Killara kindergarten opens addition for 30 more pupils

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 May 1947 · page 46

PRESIDENT of the Kindergarten Union of N.S.W. (Mr. Charles Lloyd Jones) and Mrs. Jones were guests of honor at the…

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School For Domestics

The Sun · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 3

Aimed at raising the status of domestic workers, a special training school was opened today at the YWCA, when two trainees…

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Unknown Jockey Hurt in School

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Monday.--An unknown jockey made his appearance on a strange horse in a steeplechase school at Flemington this morning…

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Unknown Jockey Hurt in School

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Monday.--An unknown jockey made his appearance on a strange horse in a steeplechase school at Flemington this morning…

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Unknown Jockey Hurt in School

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Monday.--An unknown jockey made his appearance on a strange horse in a steeplechase school at Flemington this morning…

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Unknown Jockey Hurt in School

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Monday.--An unknown jockey made his appearance on a strange horse in a steeplechase school at Flemington this morning…

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Unknown Jockey Hurt in School

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 23

MELBOURNE, Monday.--An unknown jockey made his appearance on a strange horse in a steeplechase school at Flemington this morning…

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£30,000 School to Train N.g. Officers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 May 1947 · page 13

CANBERRA, Monday.--Full Cabinet tonight approved the expenditure of about £30,000 on a permanent school to train officers for work in New…

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