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Schools, 1948

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Paper Sued For Libel By Teacher

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 6

Miss Mary Helen Meaney, former headmistress of Glebe Public School, said in the Supreme Court today that she took such a keen interest in her pupils that she gave up…

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Paper Sued For Libel By Teacher

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 6

Miss Mary Helen Meaney, former headmistress of Glebe Public School, said in the Supreme Court today that she took such a keen interest in her pupils that she gave up…

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Paper Sued Far Libel By Teacher

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 6

Miss Mary Helen Meaney, former headmistress of Glebe Public School, said in the Supreme Court today that she took such a keen interest in her pupils that she gave up…

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Paper Sued For Libel By Teacher

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 6

Miss Mary Helen Meaney, former headmistress of Glebe Public School, said in the Supreme Court today that she took such a keen interest in her pupils that she gave up…

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Villawood Public School Opening of Public Address System

The Biz · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 8

On Tuesday, April 6, the largest gathering of parents and friends in its history assembled at Villawood Public School…

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Countrywomen's Interests Scarcity Of Accommodation Restricts Enrolment At Farrer Agricultural School

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 12

DUE to lack of accommodation, Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School, Tamworth, this year enrolled only 50 new students. Many city boys could not gain admission. The school today is limited to…

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Diamond Jubilee Of School

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 13

P.L.C. Croydon, oldest Presbyterian school in Australia, celebrated its diamond Jubilee last month. Over 800 ex-students of the college…

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Letters to the Editor School Classes in Huts a Crude Makeshift

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

Sir,—After badgering the Education Department since May, 1945, for extra accommodation at Greenwich Public School, we…

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Alleged Fan-tan School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

Police arrested l8 men last night when they raided an alleged fan-tan school in a house in Campbell Street, Surry Hills…

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Defamation Alleged Teacher's Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 5

Miss Mary Helen Meaney alleged in an action begun in the Supreme Court yesterday that she was grossly defamed…

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£250 for teacher in Rock libel case

The Sun · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 3

Verdict for £250 damages was given in the Supreme Court today to Mary Helen Meaney, headmistress of Randwick Home Science School, for libel published in The…

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School and Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 2

Sir,—One of the great benefits to be derived from the public celebration of the Centenary of Education in New South Wales…

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Teacher Gets £250 Damages

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 6

A Supreme Court jury yesterday awarded £250 damages to a school headmistress who sued the Rock newspaper for libel. She is Mrs. Mary Helen…

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School Star in Big 'Ball

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 11

CHICAGO.--The Cubs recently won a 10-club scramble to sign George Zoeterman, 17- years-old left-handed high…

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£1300 Theft at Baccarat School Caused Near War

Truth · Sunday 18 April 1948 · page 32

Theft of £1300 from a King's Cross baccarat school, reported in Truth last Sunday, nearly touched off a gambling war which, by comparison, would have made the Melbourne…

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Teacher's £250 Libel Verdict

Truth · Sunday 18 April 1948 · page 23

STATE school headmistress for many years, Mary Helen Meaney this week in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Herron sued William Walter Campbell and John Wallace Campbell, of The Rock Newspaper, for £1000 damages, claiming that she had been libelled in an article…

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The Schoolboy Detective the Frightened Spook Part I

The Sun · Sunday 18 April 1948 · page 3

ROB PEARCE, the schoolboy detective, walked slowly through the gates of Granges College, feeling that…

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Police Raid 'Red' School

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 April 1948 · page 6

MONTREAL, Sat. -- Montreal police last night raided what they described as a…

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Pages for women School dances follow the Head-of-the-River regatta

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 April 1948 · page 28

YOUTHFUL barrackers at the Head-of-the-River regatta on the Nepean River yesterday gave the "new look" a day out. Velvet was most popular in smart new suits…

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Pupils Blamed for School Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 5

Police and firemen believe that schoolchildren yesterday tried to burn down Erskineville public school by setting fire…

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