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Newspaper
Robertson Mail
Location
Robertson, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
2
The Mail outlines rules for changing advertisements including deadlines at 10 a.m. Saturday and noon on Wednesday for new selections. Changes must be submitted by 2 p.m. on Mondays and are subject to termination only at quarter end with payment of a fee.
The Mail notes entries for the Singles Competition on Mr. Evans's Mittagong Courts on Saturday. Also reports on land sale prospects near Bowral, the Grammar School moving to Moa Vale, and a prize dispute over a musical competition. Car accidents near Mittagong and Aylmerton School are mentioned with brief injuries.
Three Bowral rinks will play Mos Vale on Saturday. Players named include Stokes Marks Homann Huggett Gallagher Westbrook Griffiths Whatman Riley Rogers Hobbs and Jackson. It is hoped Moss Vale B-players will visit Bowral the same day.
At Burrawang Empire Day events were held with W J E Payne as chair. Reverend Thompson spoke on loyalty to the Empire and sang a loyal song. In the afternoon children enjoyed games, cash prizes, a plentiful luncheon, and all received a prize despite boisterous weather.
A large autumn gathering watched Minister Drummond lay the foundation stone for Bowral High School. Bowral leaders, the Mayor and District P and C officials praised progress, emphasized education expansion, and recalled Bowral’s long push for a dedicated high school amid growing state needs.
Bowral secondary pupils outnumber primary pupils. Quarter ended 20 March shows Primary 338 enrolment and 260.1 attendance. Secondary 380 enrolment and 352.7 attendance. Total staff includes nine Primary assistants and fourteen in the Intermediate High under Headmaster Charles A. Teasdale.
In January 1929 tenders were invited and Mr W A Gagnard’s tender for £19 167 was accepted. The two storey brick building on concrete footings will include 12 classrooms for 420 pupils, science room, library, study, assembly room, art room, headmaster and staff rooms, and separate male and female staff areas. Outbuildings include weather sheds, lavatories, tuckshop, two bicycle sheds, and a sanitary block. Completion is expected about one year from today under Education Department design and Public Works supervision.
The text shows a decade of rapid growth in secondary education with pupil numbers rising from 8 220 to 22 618 by 1928 and the number of high and district schools expanding from 40 to 81. In 1928 secondary pupils were 12 percent of total enrolment, up from 6.66 percent in 1926, with per pupil salary costs around £17 6d despite blended primary and intermediate systems.
In 1998 an estimated overall per pupil cost was 30 pounds per year covering salaries buildings maintenance and other services. Secondary teachers salaries totalled 298 909 pounds for 1028, reflecting the investment in staff.
Moon Vale players swept the first two events at the Third Annual Open South Coast and Southern Tablelands Golf Tournament in Goulburn on Monday. Youthful Tommy McCarthy won the bogey event while Mr and Mrs F G Com took the mixed foursomes with 83. Den Coonan, ex-Goulburn champion from Moore Park, claimed the Open title with 163, and W Brandon of Wollongong earned the district title with 164, ahead of Coonan. Wollongong also won the Teams Championship as visitors from Victoria and New Zealand competed.
In Bathurst tournament play H C Moulder of Condobolin drove a ball into a tree twenty feet high. His partner C E Finn, also of Condobolin, climbed the tree and using a branch as a seat played the ball to within a few feet of the pin.
E N Ward from Botanie Gardens prescribes making liquid manure by soaking fresh manure in 50 gallons water for a week, then diluting 1 to 3 parts water for field use. The same bag yields 60 more gallons diluted 1 to 1, plus a neat 50 gallons, with each 60 gallon batch aged a week. Apply 4 gallons per 16 feet of row. No extra stimulants needed.
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