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Schools, 1954

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Woman dead in school

The Sun · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 3

A woman cleaner, found gassed in Wentworthville Public School today, is believed to have died on Friday…

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At School Dances

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 8

MISSES JULIAN BREWER, PAM HODGKINSON and GAI SCARF light the candles decorating…

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Schools' Union

The Sun · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 34

The annual Rugby Union match between The Armidale School and Riverview College will be…

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Hurdle School

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 40

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. --Te Anau, a novice jumper, gave a good exhibition in a school over three…

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Teachers Want Rise in Pay

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 5

New South Wales is facing a teacher shortage so serious that the educational welfare of hundreds of…

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Police Raid "Thomas's" Two-up School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 1

Police last night raided "Thomas's" two-up school in Darlinghurst and arrested 33 men…

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Teacher on Charge Driving Count

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 6

A man who police said was a school headmaster was remanded yesterday on a charge of having driven a…

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For the children of Hemmant (On the 90th Anniversary of their School)

Tribune · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 5

For ninety years—the past and future blend, And there are always children, to defend, To love, to guide, to cherish. Every day The school bell rings, they study and they play…

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Schoolboy Howlers

Construction · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 7

Paperhangers are m e n who are bound to go to the wall. Lazy: a man trying to get bald so that he won’t have to comb his hair…

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Mulgoa School Bazaar

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 6

On Saturday afternoon, May 15, the Mulgoa P. and C. Association held a most successful bazaar in the school grounds…

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Penrith High School Empire Day Celebrations

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 2

Empire Day yas celebrated at Penrith High School, on Friday, in two separate assemblies—the Senior assembly on Thursday…

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Penrith Public School Empire Day

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 1

Empire Day was celebrated at Penrith Public School on Friday, in boys and girls' departments with traditional procedure…

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Kingswood Public School New Building and Empire Day

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 7

A very pleasant little function was held In Kingswood Public School grounds on Friday morning, when Empire Day was celebrated…

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Springwood Public School

Nepean Times · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 8

Pupils are at present interested in a school accident insurance policy which provides for benefits for accident suffered up…

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Need For Religion In Schools Is Stressed by Judge

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 10

NEED for religious instruction in schools was stressed by His Honor Judge O'Sullivan at Mosman last week. His Honor was speaking at…

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Ceremony at Mosman MODERN £22,000 School for Mosman Parish

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 9

A MODERN girls' school was blessed and opened by His Lordship Bishop Lyons, Auxiliary to His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy, at Mosman last Sunday week. Costing nearly £22,000 without furnishings, the new school is situated…

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New £15,000 School Blessed By Bishop

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 11

FAILURE of Australian governments to do justice to Catholics in the matter of education caused astonishment to British migrants and did harm abroad to Australia's reputation for…

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An Educationist From Alaska Studied Australian Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 3

THE one-room, one-teacher school in the Australian bush town, and the one in the remote snowbound Alaskan village, are very much alike—according to Dr. Dorothy Novatney, Deputy-Commissioner…

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Use School Ideas In Plan For Play Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 3

PLANNING a room for a pre-school age child can be simplified if parents adopt some of the ideas used for equipping nursery schools. These methods arc just as useful, according to two American experts…

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Turkey Raisers' School at Wagga

The Land · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 51

The third annual school for turkey raisers will be held at Wagga Agricultural College from July 5…

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