TEACHERS TRANSFERRED ISSUE 3 Trove Tuesday 3rd May 2022

 

Teachers were often transferred around various schools, not always by choice.  These notices are readily available thanks to TROVE and make some interesting reading. Can you find a favourite teacher or school in this post? As this is Issue 3 for Teachers Transferred, you can easily search for Issues 1 & 2.. or use the links at the end of this page.

You will also find some links for extra reading.. 

What was your favourite school? Any stories and/or photos happily received.   Please click to enlarge.

Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Friday 23 November 1906, page 2   National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article124018713

1920 Townsville State School

The Herald Melbourne  31 Jan 1921

1923 Advocate Burnie Tas 

 1924  Singleton Argus (NSW - 1880 - 1954), Saturday 20 December 1924, page 6 nla.news-article80958833.5 

1924 Bowral  Public  School

1924 Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. - 1909 - 1954), Saturday 21 June 1924, page 8    nla.news-article118561283.5 

1926  16 Jan  Northern Star Lismore

1934 Courier Mail Brisbane 19 Jan 1934

Teaching in Tasmania: three teachers’ lives, 1868-1945

1938   Examiner (Launceston, Tas. - 1900 - 1954), Saturday 10 December 1938, page 6  nla.news-article52240296.5 

1939     South Australia  Cowell Higher Primary School

1939 Eyre's Peninsula Tribune (Cowell, S.A.)21 Dec 1939

Leonora News (WA - 1944 - 1950), Thursday 9 December 1948, page 2   nla.news-article258916322.5

1949 Maylands Primary School

Thanks to Garry Gillard

1948     Kalgoorlie Miner (WA - 1895 - 1954), Friday 10 December 1948, page 2  nla.news-article95713134.5 

West Australian (Perth, WA - 1879 - 1954), Saturday 10 December 1949, page 6   nla.news-article47816732.5       

Horsham Times (Vic. - 1882 - 1954), Friday 30 December 1949, page 5   nla.news article73103175.5

Cairns Post (Qld. - 1909 - 1954), Thursday 24 July 1952, page 5   nla.news-article42746955.5

Mail (Adelaide, SA - 1912 - 1954), Saturday 12 April 1952, page 25    nla.news-article55746171.5.

Canberra Times (ACT - 1926 - 1995), Tuesday 10 June 1952, page 4   nla.news-article2857057.5.

1901 State School Clayfield (later known as Eagle Junction) Qld

Townsville State School

Teaching in Tasmania: three teachers’ lives, 1868-1945

South Australia  Cowell Higher Primary School

Maylands Primary School

TEACHERS TRANSFERRED

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ABSCONDED CONVICTS Trove Tuesday 26th Apr 2022

 

 Details can include names, home, name of ship of arrival, age, physical description, any identifying marks, occupations/trade, sometimes personal relationships.

Note the various dates from when they absconded, some did so years before these notices.

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 20 April 1836 (No.218) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672154

National Museum Australia

An example of two different types of convict labour. In the foreground are two convicts erecting a post-and-rail fence, whilst behind them an unironed gang brings timber to the Port Arthur settlement (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, DGA 64/v.1, ‘Gentlemen Convicts – The Centipede’, Thomas Lempriere, ca 1836).

Illustration no 232: ‘The carpenter’s shop’, from ‘Illustrations of useful arts, manufactures, and trades’ by Charles Tomlinson, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, [1858]. Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums

New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 4 May 1836 (No.220) National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672289

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New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Wednesday 11 May 1836 (No.221).National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230672290

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