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Schools, 1950

2,603 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 131

"Caned on Back," Claims Schoolboy 'Mind My Leg,' Boy Says He Told Master

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- "I don't want the cane, sir, I don't want the cane," a schoolboy said he told the headmaster of Belmont public school on…

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Mining Banned in School Yard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mining in the school grounds at Wedderburn has been forbidden by an order made by…

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Mining Banned in School Yard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mining in the school grounds at Wedderburn has been forbidden by an order made by…

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Mining Banned in School Yard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mining in the school grounds at Wedderburn has been forbidden by an order made by…

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Mining Banned in School Yard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mining in the school grounds at Wedderburn has been forbidden by an order made by…

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Mining Banned in School Yard

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mining in the school grounds at Wedderburn has been forbidden by an order made by…

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Caned on Back, Claims Schoolboy Headmaster Charged With Assault

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- "I don't want the cane sir, I don't want the cane," a schoolboy allegedly told the headmaster of Belmont public school on…

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"Caned on Back," Claims Schoolboy 'Mind My Leg,' Boy Says He Told Master

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- "I don't want the cane, sir, I don't want the cane," a schoolboy said he told the headmaster of Belmont public school on…

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Train Service for School Children P. AND C.A. and Railway Department

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 2

Many children who attend Penrith Public School travel to and from the town by train, and the problem of getting them home in reasonable time…

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Inter-School Football Penrith High School v. Westmead Boys' Home

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 4

Westmead Boys' Home, very courteously, arranged a series of social matches on a special sports day, on July 5 in order to provide Penrith…

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Penrith Mothers' Club Protest Against Using School for Elections

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 6

The monthly meeting of Penrith Infants' School Mothers' Club was held on Wednesday afternoon, July 5. The president (Mrs. E. Price) presided over…

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Fight For Catholic Schools To Continue

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 1

LONDON.—His Eminence Cardinal Griffin has repeated his promise that the rights of Britain's Catholic schools will be taken up again at the next general election. British political leaders have warned Church leaders against such action. "We are not going to give…

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A Page For Catholic Schools Ultimate Disillusionment Is Lot Of Caesar's Murderers

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 3

IT does not seem necessary to analyse the final Acts of Julius Caesar along the lines employed for the first…

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History May Be Repeated (Winning essay in the May competition by Jean Cain, St. Joseph's School, Cargo.)

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 2

DURING the week it was announced over the radio that a large company is about to re-open one of the old mines of…

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Teacher's story of caning

The Sun · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 9

NEWCASTLE, Thursday, Cyril Clifford Jopling, headmaster of Belmont Public School, in the Children's…

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Hurstville Home Science School. Annual Field Day

The Propeller · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 1

One of the main features of the annual field day of Hurstville Domestic Science School held at Hurstville Oval on Wednesday, July…

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The School's Oldest Living Ex-Pupil Mr. Tom Coleman

The Biz · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 13

Now ninety years of age, Mr. Tom Coleman, the school's oldest living expupil, was born at Smithfield in a slab house in a clearing off Liverpool Road…

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Thoughts After Ten Years in Charge of Smithfield Public School

The Biz · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 12

When, in December, 1938, while in charge of Marsden Park Public SchooL I received word of transfer to Smithfield public School, I had no thought that…

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Smithfield School Centenary—1850-1950

The Biz · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 13

Smithfield—the cradle of education and Local Government in this district—celebrates the centenary of Smithfield Public School on July 22, 1950. Just one hundred years ago Mr. R. Timmus, the school's first teacher, opened Smithfield National School in temporary premises, with an attendance of 27 boys and 24 girls…

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Keen Interest In Tractor School

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 11

BEFORE the closing date set for applications to attend the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture's Tractor Maintenance and Farm…

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