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Schools, 1947

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Archery for Schoolboys

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 June 1947 · page 3

ARCHERY is included in the curriculum of Wesley College, one of Melbourne's biggest schools. Picture shows Mr. A. Rewell, a leading Victorian archer, instructing students at the college yesterday…

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Milk Cart Boys Sleep in School

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1947 · page 4

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--Teachers had complained that boys who worked on milk carts before school went to sleep during their…

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Milk Cart Boys Sleep in School

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1947 · page 4

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.--Teachers had complained that boys who worked on milk carts before school went to sleep during their…

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The Schoolboy Detective the Mystery of Grey Rock Creek

The Sun · Sunday 8 June 1947 · page 7

[?]EAD THIS FIRST: Lionel Martin sees a man leap from the bridge it Grey Rock Creek. He is carrying a bundle. He disappears. Lionel [?]ls what he has seen to Rob Pearce, the schoolboy detective. Early next morning the boys are at the creek, digging and hoping to find…

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On the ball Poaching stirs the League . . . Schoolboys whistle for referees . . . Played for two countries

The Sun · Sunday 8 June 1947 · page 10

TO AND FRO. The poaching bogy haunts Rugby League in the city and in the country. Country officials started it by warning members of the Country first and second teams against accepting offers…

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Sunday School picnic

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 June 1947 · page 4

All sorts of interesting things have been brought to the Sunday School picnic, and ten things to eat fit into the crossword. You can find these things by looking for them in each person's conversation. For instance, in 6 Across you can see the answer is BUTTER, taken from "Make the goat BUTT ERic." Cash prizes of 76, 5-, 26, and Gold and Silver…

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All the school kids had folding money

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 June 1947 · page 27

THOUGHT of another y[?] (Indiana) High School [?] husky, greying Maridieth I[?] A month ago he suffered a…

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Denies SA Schools First Aid Equipment

Tribune · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 7

ADELAIDE. — Request from the Amalgamated Engineering Union to the Playfard Government that it provide first aid equipment in all SA…

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Radio Round-up Child Jury On Family, School Problems

The Sun · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 6

"Juvenile Jury," a programme in which five children between the ages of 11 and 12 will attempt to provide answers to problems sent in by listeners, will begin soon on 2CH and 2UW. The five children who will…

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Schoolboys' Soccer

The Sun · Tuesday 10 June 1947 · page 14

Sydney (playing to make the fourth team), beat Queensland 1-nil In the interstate schoolboys' Soccer carnival, which…

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Married Teachers Of Govt. Homes' Children Face Roofless Future

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

A husband and wife, teachers at the Westmead junior Technical shelterless when a court order to quit their home becomes effective. Though the school serves hundreds of children from the Housing Committee Village, the Commission has refused to grant a ho me to the teachers…

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Good Morning, Dear Teacher

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 4

Within one short month, the infants of Westinead will occupy their streamlined quarters in the new school…

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Children Wait In Rain For School Bus

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 4

Children from Merrylands Housing Centre had to wait in the rain on Woodville Road for School buses, Ald. Bradley declared at…

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Sheter Shed Needed. School Children Stand in Rain

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 4

[?] Commission be [?] to [?] shed inside the gales of the community settlement?" asked A[?] at the meeting of…

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Paper "Bomb " On Letter Box; Woman Schoolteacher Burned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

A Sydney woman's hand was burned when a piece of paper exploded on her letter-box on Monday…

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High Schools' Union First Grade

The Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 16

Sydney Tech. 11 (K. Free try. A. Drainsfield goal and two penalty goals) beat Parramatta 8 (E. Briton try and penalty goal. B. Isles goal)…

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St. Marys Platinium Jubilee of St. Marys School

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 5

The committee of the St. Marys Back-to-School Week (70th Anniversary) met in the school on Tuesday last, 10th inst., to discuss further plans for…

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Springwood Nursery School Association

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 8

The monthly meeting of the Springwood Nursery School Association was held in the Presbyterian Hall on Thursday, June 5, A special welcome was…

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"The Merchant" Should Be Excluded From School Study Another Viewpoint on a Gravely Important Controversial Subject

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 7

Following the publication, in recent issues of "The Hebrew Standard," of the opinions of Alderman E. S. Marks on "The Merchant of Venice" Mrs. Sarah Rosenberg, of Bulkara Road, Bellevue Hill, presents herewith a contrary view, oh a subject of deep interest to world Jewry…

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New School For Pymble

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 5

HIS EMINENCE Cardinal Gilroy will bless the foundation-stone of the new parochial kindergarten and…

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