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Schools, 1950

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Schoolboys Will Help In Mapping Arctic Circle

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

FIFTY schoolboys from Britain are now preparing spend their summer holidays near the North Pole. They will camp for six weeks in a…

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Schools From Britain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 12

THE N.S.W. Premier (Mr. McGirr) said that the state Government was considering importing from England prefabricated aluminium school…

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A Step on the Way to Peace: the Reform of Schoolbooks History as it is... and as it is written

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 4

SPEAKING to a meeting of teachers at Tours in 1919, Anatole France exclaimed: "We must burn all books that teach hatred!". Thirty years…

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Annesley Speech Day

The Methodist · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 5

A party from Sydney visited Annesley for the Annual Speech Day. The visitors were Rev. S. R. Bowyer-Hayward, Rev. C. L. Connor, Messrs. C. F. Newman (Treasurer of the College) and R…

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Notes and Comments Church Schools

The Methodist · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

One of the problems confronting church schools to-day is that of maintaining an adequate and efficient teaching staff. It is a problem by no means confined to church schools, but with them…

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The Witness of the Church School

The Methodist · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 1

Address given by the Rev! Alan Walker, M.A., in the City Hall, Brisbane, at the Jubilee Speech Night of Somerville House, the Brisbane High School for Girls…

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School Holiday Camp Trains

Tribune · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 8

Trains leave Sydney on Monday for the School Holiday Camp at Springwood at 8.42 am and 9.58 am…

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Swimming Coach Carlile Resigns! Out Of Games Team; Pupils Give Opinions

Truth · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 28

WITH all the big guns of swimming shooting at him from all angles, Forbes Carlile, capitulated in his lone fight against officialdom and yesterday…

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Back to School

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 16

"An apple for the teacher... fooey! Where's your imagination?" "Swop yuh a ham sam tch fer a dim sim!"…

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The school strike was backed by a priest

The Sun · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 15

Rows of empty desks greeted the new Roman Catholic school mistress when she arrived to take over the little red brick schoolhouse in the Bavarian village of Standarch…

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Two Boys Get 11,000-Volt Shock; Gravely Burned Two schoolboys received a shock of 11,000 volts yesterday while trying to reach a bird's nest on an electric light pole at Birrong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 1

They were shockingly burned and were admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital, Auburn, in a critical…

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Plans to deal with record crop of pupils

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 7

"Something approaching a miracle had been achieved in providing classrooms, teaching staff and school furniture for this year's record school enrolment, the Education Minister (Mr. Heffron) claimed today…

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Schoolboy Dies in Earth Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--A fall of earth today buried and killed an 11-years-old boy who was seeking "pirate treasure" in a hole in the Elwood State schoolyard…

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Schoolboys Buried Playing "Soldiers"

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Three boys playing "soldiers" in Elwood School park yesterday were buried when a 3ft. hole they were using as a trench collapsed on them…

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Schoolboys Buried Playing "Soldiers"

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Three boys playing "soldiers" in Elwood School park yesterday were buried when a 3ft. hole they were using as a trench collapsed on them…

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School of Arts Committee Looks Ahead

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 5

Merrylands School of Arts committee hopes to re-habilitate the institute by fostering activities which were popular in…

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School or Timber Yard?

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 5

The Department of Education has protested to Parramatta Council against the construction of a timber yard on land…

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Merrylands School of Arts Annual Meeting

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 3

At the annual general meeting of the School of Arts, Merrylands an encouraging sign was the large attendance, including several new members, which…

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Schoolboys Again Wearing Straw Boaters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 1

Straw boaters, scarce since the war, are now once more part of the itniform for boys at many G.P.S. and associated schools in Sydney. Here, boys try on some at a city store which has sold 2,000 straw hats since Christmas…

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Boy From Hong Kong Is Early For School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 4

First boy to turn up for the new school term at St. Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill, is 13-year-old Peter Coleman, who…

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