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Schools, 1949

2,339 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 117

Reunion Party Yesterday For Ascham Teacher

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 5

More than 70 members of the Ascham Old Girls' Union attended a reunion party for one of their former teachers, Miss…

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The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, February 19, 1949 Medical School Congestion Must Be Relieved

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 2

The warning uttered by Professor J. R. S. McDowell as to the serious probable consequences of continued…

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Primitive School Conditions Must Go, Say Parents

Tribune · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 7

MEMBERS attending the inaugural meeting of the St. John’s Park Parents and Citizens’ Association declared they…

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Schoolboys help save grape crop

The Sun · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 1

A hundred lads from Maitland secondary schools today came to the rescue at Dalwood vineyards. They…

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School parents feel pinch

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 5

Education in Australia is free--provided you can pay for it. THIS year parents in the middle-class and lower income groups…

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"The Minister Told Me To." Teacher Orders Reporter Off School Premises By A Special Reporter

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 4

The headmaster of Old Guildford Public School, Mr. J. R. Crittenden, ordered me off the premises on Thursday. He had been instructed to do so by the Minister of Education, Mr. R. J. Heffron…

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Notorious Pervert Runs Sunday School!

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 32

ONE of the State's most notorious perverts is Keith Alfred Biden (49), a man whose depraved actions during the past 17…

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School Children Taught to Swim

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 4

An instructor. Mr. R. March, teaching children to swim at North Sydney Pool during the school holidays…

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Fine Sprint by Schoolboy

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 19

Noel Hayes, Associated Schools' 220-yards champion, stole the limelight from the seniors yesterday by a really brilliant display of sprinting…

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Schoolboy jockey has first win

The Sun · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 16

BRIAN KILLIAN, 15, who won his first race on Kardella in the Welter Handicap at Canterbury…

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The Schoolboy Detective the Phantom Ship Part Xvii

The Sun · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

AS they had their meal, sitting on the edge of one of the bunks of the gipsy caravan, the schoolboy…

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Penrith School honors half-caste Joyce Herbert

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 7

Fourteen-year-old half-casfe aborigine Joyce Herbert has been elected a class captain at Penrith High School for the second year in succession…

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Teachers must be completely normal

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 7

BRISBANE, Sat.--Any boy or girl who was not completely normal in speech or appearance must have great personal force to be a teacher, Mr. L. D. Edwards said…

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Schoolgirl wakes to find man in bed

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

Early today defectives were searching Manly for a young man who, they allege, attempted to indecently assault a 15-year-old schoolgirl at a residential on Ocean…

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Feery Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahitihad rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horned Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti ad rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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Ferry Blaze Turned Sunday School Picnic to Holocaust The Story of The General Slocum Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 11

IN the late afternoon of November 3, 1927, extra editions of the newspapers told horrified Sydney people that the steamer Tahiti had rammed the Watson's Bay ferry Greycliffe…

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