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Schools, 1950

2,603 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 131

Special Schools for Farmers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 9

Special schools for pig raisers and dairy farmers, who are anxious to learn the "know how" of increased production are to…

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Going to Sunday School

The Methodist · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 11

It is a good and lovely thing to go to Sunday School. In January of this year I had a letter from the Circuit Recorder (Lower Blue…

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Teachers For Peace

Tribune · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 6

MISS THISTLE Y. HARRIS, president of the Teachers’ Peace has written to the Editor of the Tribune pointing out that her…

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Patients Flock To Teacher-Healer Health Machine's Amazing Successes

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 13

In the interests of the sick and suffering, either, the Commonwealths or Victorian Government should order an immediate…

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The Schoolboy Detective Part I The Boy from Kangaroo Gap

The Sun · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 7

BILL WATKINS sat on his favorite rock in the paddock and looked wistfully towards a distant peak, blue…

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School Crew at Training

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 14

THE King's School Eight practising for the Head of the River race next Saturday. E. R. L. White (Bow); J. D. Bryant (2); T. S. Barton (3); R. G. Stranger (4); I. H. Gavel (5); C. A. Wood (6); R. J. Oldfield (7); N. S. Donnelly (stroke); C. R. Scott (Cox)…

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He Abducted A Schoolgirl— And Started A Career

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 10

Hollywood could not better the real life story of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the man who eloped with one heiress, then abducted a 15-year-old schoolgirl, and then spent his years in Newgate Gaol planning his…

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Charm Training For U.S. Teachers From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 15.—The Philadelphia Board of Education yesterday announced a Teachers' Charm School—"to make women teachers prettier and pay checks fatter."…

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Baronet turns moated home into topnotch girls' finishing school

The Sun · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 16

LONDON, Monday. -- Ex-Guards officer Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld and his 30-year-old wife are opening a finishing school for girls in their 15th Century mansion. Oxburgh Hall,…

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Sydney Diary Marathon dancing revival: Camden Diggers: Schoolboy prank revived: Unhappy war brides

The Sun · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 13

WITH so many strange things emanating from Paris, it is not surprising to learn that marathon dancing, which hit Australia…

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Carnival to Aid Spastic School

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 6

Beauty contests, roller-skating exhibitions, athletics, novelty bike racing and model aeroplane…

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SPORT --and those who make it Double to teacher

The Sun · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 26

Nineteen-year-old Teachers' College student Amy Floyd holds the distinction of having gained selection for…

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Boarding School for Mannequins

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 12

A former mannequin arrived from London in the liner Orcades yesterday to establish in Sydney the first mannequins' boarding school in Australia…

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Good Morning Dear Teacher

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 5

"The Granville Technical School will have trouble this year in accommodating more than 500 boys for the football…

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Change in Schools Rural Plan Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 4

Mr. E. D. Darby (Lib., Manly) said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that regional committees…

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Prefabricated Timber School. Demonstration at Ralph Symonds Ltd., Sydney

Construction · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 3

A new type of building constructed entirely from timber for school buildings was officially demonstrated by Ralph Symonds Ltd. at their St. Peters Plant on Friday, April 14, 1950, in the…

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Teachers' Pay Rise

The Sun · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 11

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Queensland teachers will receive salary increases ranging from £1910 to £5910-…

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Fears For Six Missing Schoolgirls Growing

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 4

With alarm for their safety growing, police today intensified their search for six young schoolgirls who disappeared from the Rozelle district during the night…

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A Page For Catholic Schools Leaving Certificate French Passages And Renderings

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 20 April 1950 · page 3

LEAVING Certificate students should benefit from an examination of the following French passages for sight…

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Catholic Education Office Notes Campaign for the Mass in the Schools

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 20 April 1950 · page 2

SCHOOLCHILDREN of the Archdiocese of Sydney are making special efforts during 1950 to assist in the campaign for more and better assistance at Mass. The Diocesan Inspector of Schools has received the following…

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