Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Schools, all years

Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1948

1,885 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 95

NSW Needs More Schools Quickly

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 7

Three hundred and fifty thousand schoolchildren packed into the State’s out-of-date, ill-ventilated, ill-lit and badly equipped schools last week for the first term of 1948…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Quick Action Stops Loo School Closure

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 7

QUICK action by local organisations prevented the closing last week of Plunkett Street school, Woolloomooloo…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Catholic Hierarchy Revives Sectarian School Clamor

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 5

CURRENT clamor by the Catholic Hierarchy for subsidised sectarian schools has revived a church feud which…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Penrith Central School Staff Changes

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 6

SCHOOL resumed on 3rd inst., with a number of changes in staff personnel. Indication of the advanced…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Teachers Wed in Vacation

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 6

Mr. Lester Fragar (abovementioned), son of Mr and Mrs Reg Fragar, of 188 Stafford Street, Penrith, was married to Miss Patricia Olliver, daughter of…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

A Page for Catholic Schools An Analysis of Lord Byron's Poem: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 19

IT would seem well nigh impossible to understand fully the significance of the poem, "Childe…

Continued on Trove, page 19 →

Opening Day At Kindergarten Training School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 7

A large number of first-year students, accompanied by their parents, attended the opening for the year of the Sydney…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

New Schools Wanted Need Foe Early Action

The Biz · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

The Minister for Education, Mr. R. J. Heffron, announced last Saturday, that £20,000,000 would be spent on new schools and new sites in the next four…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Bad Conditions at Schools

The Biz · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

Several aldermen, at last meeting of Cabra-Vale Council criticised the bad conditions under which the children have to be taught at Canley Vale, St…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

School Weather Sheds

The Biz · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 1

The Minister for Education (per Mr. S. J. Freeman, M.L.A.), has informed Fairfield Council that tenders were being called for the erection of weather…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Tree Planter's Guide Tree Memorial at Manilla School

The Land · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 15

IN 1946 Manilla District Rural School planted on one side of its agricultural acres a living memorial of 19 Liquidambars, to endow in perpetuity, the memory of Manilla's men who fell in World War II. Cost of the trees was borne by the R.S.L., and ground…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

School Records

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 18

A BOUT 230,000 pupils will attend Government schools in Victoria in 1948 the Minister of Education (Mr. W. S. Kent Hughes) sold. This is…

Continued on Trove, page 18 →

Police Make Urgent Appeal to Parents: Visit Schools Stolen grenades in hands of children

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 5

Detectives believe; hundreds of children; in the Leichhardt, Annandale, and Balmain districts are in possession of hand grenades pillaged from a White Bay Wharf…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Golf Now As School Sport

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 13

For the first time in the 55 years' existence of the Public Schools Amateur Athletic Association, golf is now included…

Continued on Trove, page 13 →

Religion School

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 2

The Religion School re-opened last Sunday and was very well attended. A Confirmation Class for girls between the ages of 12 and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Dancing Teacher From London

The Observer · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 6

Miss Ruth Turner will be in charge of Miss Sievers’ Dancing Classes at Cronulla this year. These Classes are held in the School of Arts…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Case of the Murdered Sunday School Flirt From Our New York Office

The World's News · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 10

THE untimely death af an attractive girl in the little American town of Paterson, New Jersey, once laid suspicion at the door of every…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Schoolboy Hurt in Tram Accident

The Sun · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 1

Arthur Wright, 15, schoolboy, of Illawarra-road, Marrickville, was critically injured when he leaned out of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Follies Charm School

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 5

"IS that the Minister for information? This is Mr. Bonney speaking from New York, Mr. Calwell-- you…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Parents to Continue Boycott of School

Truth · Sunday 15 February 1948 · page 5

North Narrabeen parents who kept their children away from school this week, will continue the boycott until the Government meets their demand for a school bus…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →