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Schools, 1949

2,339 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 117

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 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…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

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…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

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…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Ferry Blaze Turner 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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Good Morning Dear Teacher

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 5

Fourteen-years-old Granville Technical Schoolboy, Barry Kellaway, who recently won…

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A Century at Fort-st. School

The Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 18

In April Fort Street Girls' High, Fort Street Boys' High and Fort Street Primary School will celebrate the Centenary of the school that in the early days of the colony began as Fort Street National School…

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School For Convicts In Dartmoor

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 9

LONDON.-- Of 500 prisoners at Dartmoor Prison, more than 300-- entitled to "free association" -- have…

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Mount Druitt Colyton Public School

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 6

Mr. L. G. Johnson, from Bangalow, North Coast, is the new headmaster of Colyton Public School. He commenced duty on February 2 last. Mr…

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School Handball

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 3

The New South Wales Schoolboys' Handball Association will begin its pennant season on Sunday, March 6, at 10 a.m. Three…

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A Page For Catholic Schools Instalment No. 5 In A Study Of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 2

ACT II., Scene IV., begins outside Macbeth's Castle. Rosse and an old man enter (1) Plot Development…

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Sub-normal boys went to school

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

THE St. John of God Training Centre for sub-normal Boys at Morisset, N.S.W., is now functioning at high…

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Reporter Ordered Off School Premises

The Biz · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 8

The headmaster, of Old Guildford Public School, Mr. J. R. Crittenden, ordered a "Sunday Herald" reporter off the premises on Thursday. He said that…

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Teachers, Pupils Made Tree-conscious

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 15

VICTORIAN Department of Education in pursuing the excellent policy of instructing and interesting teachers and children…

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Ort Inaugurates Jewish Trade School in Athens

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 10

ATHENS (By Airmail).—A religious ceremony marked the inauguration here of the first Jewish school for vocational and…

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Other Cable Items Besieged by Students Demonstration At School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Feb. 25 (A.A.P.) —Police flying-squads to-day dispersed a crowd of students who had besieged a girls'…

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Snowy River “Arsenal” Will Mean Fewer Homes, Hospitals, Schools

Tribune · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 6

The Government’s £185,000,000 Snowy River scheme will mean fewer houses, fewer hospitals and an even slower rate of school building, Through various Government and capitalist-press admissions it has leaked out that the main purpose of the scheme will be to supply power for British war…

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Woman, Aged 81, Addresses School Lip-reading Class Nursery Rhymes Come to Aid of Deaf

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 27 February 1949 · page 4

At its school in Bond Street, Sydney, the Australian Association for Better Hearing makes extensive use of familiar nursery rhymes to teach lip reading to partially deaf pupils. "Nursery rhymes are…

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