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Schools, 1948

1,885 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 95

Black Ban on School Proposed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 5

LITHGOW, Saturday.-- Unless the Education Department began immediate construction of new…

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Black Ban on School Proposed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Saturday.-- Unless the Education Department began immediate construction of new…

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Parents' Threat To "Black" Ban School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Friday. — Parents of Glen Davis schoolchildren will impose a "black" ban on Glen Davis Public…

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Wife Preferred Old School Pal

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 7

SOUTH COAST miner William Henry Lane told Mr. Justice Edwards in the Divorce Court on Wednesday that an old school friend, whom he had not seen for many years and invited home for the weekend,…

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The Schoolboy Detective the Frightened Spook Part Viii

The Sun · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 3

"YOU will see," went on Detective Robertson, "that there is no door in this lower cellar. Stone upon stone --…

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Parents May Ban State School

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 5

Parents of children attending Wentworthville School will he asked to keep their children at home unless sanitary conditions at the school are improved this week…

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Repairs start an school windows

The Sun · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

Workmen are repairing and replacing window at Hargrave Park settlement school. They are putting windows…

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School Carnival

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 2

A fancy dress carnival held by the Berala Parents and Citizens' Association, cleared £20…

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School Sport

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 4

Westmead Central second grade Rugby League defeated Hornsby 8-3 in the competition last week…

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School to Have Satisfactory Sanitation

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 3

Satisfactory sanitary arrangements at Wentworthville School have been promised, the headmaster (Mr. O…

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Tennis Aids School

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 11

To raise funds for school equipment, picnic tennis days are held each month by the Granville Infants' School Mothers' Club at…

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School Condition "Appalling"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 9

Conditions at Blacktown School were "appalling in the extreme," the shire president…

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Guildford School of Arts

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 3

A special meeting of the above will be held on Wednesday. June 9. at 8 p.m. and all citizens are invited to attend The object is to arrange for extensive…

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School of Acts Stall

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 4

The Guildford school of Arts Ladies Committee held a successful stall last week, the patronage being very satisfactory. winners of competition—…

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Bishop Toohey Confirms "Correspondence Pupils"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 1

His Lordship the Moat Rev. John Toohey, D.D., Coadjutor-Bishop of Maitland, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation for the first…

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The Area Schools Proposal Another Address to Educational Council Questionnaire to Be Submitted to Department

Nepean Times · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 1

NEPEAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL, which for some months has been discussing a problem which has developed owing to report of its President and secretary last year on the deplorable state of small school buildings in the district, and a…

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St. Marys public School Empire Day Celebrations

Nepean Times · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 2

Empire Day was fittingly celebrated at the Public School, St. Marys, on May 24. The pupils came together in a general assembly, when items…

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School Uniforms Wearing of Them Urged

Nepean Times · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 7

Penrith Central School has a recognised uniform for girls, coloius brown and gold, the wearing of which is not observed as much as it was in former…

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Train Alteration Unsuitable to School

Nepean Times · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 4

At the meeting of Nepean District Educational Council last Thursday evening, Mr. E. C. Edwards, principal of the Penrith Central School, drew…

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Penrith Land Board Meets at School of Arts

Nepean Times · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 3

Penrith Land Board (Messrs. P. N. Boddington, chairman, C. J. Welch, and O. W. Fletcher) met on 31st ult. at Penrith School of Arts (the Court…

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