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Fine Display By High School Girls

Parents viewing the outstanding display in arts and home science yesterday at the State High School, had reason to be proud of the children, and thankful to the teachers in charge.
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The 6th Grade girls showed a variety of skirts and blouses in printed cottons. The 7th Grade display included simple house coats, pyjamas, gymnasium pinnafores, and bloomers. The higher grade showed more elaborate styles in frocks, winter suits, ballarina frocks, and lovely overcoats, besides a variety of beach wear.

Country girls who travel in on Fridays had made sweet styles in frocks, beach wear, skirts and blouses.

Mrs. Hoyle gave the girls great credit for their application to the work and their enthusiastic hard work. Every grade had worked very hard, she said.

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Maryborough Chronicle, 7 October 1950

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Students Show Their Work

Tempting dishes of food and many of the latest hat styles and clothes are featured in the display of millinery, dressmaking and cooking at the Domestic Science High School parents’ afternoon and evening today.

The teenage trend to wear puddle-jumpers and brightly checked shirts was reflected in the junior section of the dressmaking class where some 14-years-old girls had made themselves such outfits for the coming summer season.

One of the most outstanding exhibits in the sub-senior class was a corduroy velvet suit of pillbox red featuring a swing-back topper and straight skirt. Miss Judith Pennefather, who made this suit, has made a corduroy hat to match with soaring pheasant feathers.

All classes in the millinery also reflected the latest fashion trends for both summer and winter wear. There were numerous samples of re-blocked felt hats and of new straw hats that had been woven

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Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

Although the concept of zoology as a single coherent field arose much later, the zoological science emerged from natural history reaching back to the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.

Over the 18th and 18th centuries, zoology became an increasingly professional scientific discipline. Explorer-naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt investigated the interaction between organisms and their environment, and the ways this relationship depends on geography, laying the foundations for biogeography, ecology and ethology.

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Expansion Of Manual Training In State Schools

Brisbane, May 13 – The expansion of manual subjects training in Queensland schools is planned for next year.

To meet the need for new teachers the public instruction department will appoint 20 additional teachers of manual training subjects.

The Minister for Public Instruction said today that students would be invited to apply for the positions by advertisements in newspapers.

Appointees, he said, would be obliged to undergo a training course in Brisbane during the period from August 23 to December 17 this year.

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Queensland Times, 14 May 1954

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Science as farm help

Teachers should encourage students to take up agricultural science as a career, Mr. A. F. Bell said yesterday.

Mr. Bell, Agricultural Department Under-Secretary, was addressing Queensland secondary school science teachers inspecting the department’s chemistry laboratory, during the last session of their three-day Brisbane conference.

One of Australia’s greatest needs, Mr. Bell said, was an adequate number of well-trained agricultural scientists to help farmers increase production.

Dr. A. L Reimann, Queensland University physics research professor, told the conference that teaching of physics in secondary schools should be broadened beyond the rigid subject matter of the secondary school syllabus.

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The Courier-Mail, 9 August 1952

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Science Necessary in Farming

Brisbane: A scientific approach to farming was essential for men on the land today, the Education Minister (Mr. Devries) said yesterday.

He was speaking at the Gatton Agricultural College. At the college 194 youths, aged 15 to 17, from many parts of Queensland, are taking short summer courses in agriculture.

“This course will enable you to go back to your farms and utilise and spread the methods you are learning here,” Mr. Devries told 60 young farmers after watching them receive special instruction on soil conservation methods.

Queensland Junior Farmers’ Clubs were playing an important role in ensuring the future agricultural development of the State, he added.

The 60 youths in the soil conservation course will complete their practical field instruction on January 22.

Other students include 74 youths from Mackay sugar growing areas who are attending a week’s school in tractor maintenance.

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Nambour Rural School.

Blacksmithing Class.

The blacksmithing shop at the Rural School is nearing completion. On Monday “our plumbers” put on the roof, under Mr. Stewart’s supervision. The building is situated under the camphor laurels, at the back of the workshops; no “spreading chestnut tree” was available. Nearly all the equipment for teaching blacksmithing is on the premises, and soon you will hear the rural boys “swing the heavy sledge with measured beat and slow”. The classes will be in charge of Mr. Donald; and lads who work with a will may be sure of receiving careful instruction in this old and honourable art.

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Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser, 31 October 1919

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The A.B.C. Of Dresscutting and Drafting

Home dressmakers will be delighted with the release of “Commonsense Dressmaking and Drafting for Adults”, the third of a series by Miss Muriel Staehli, which male dressmaking for beginners and others as simple as A.B.C.

The name of Miss Staehli is synonymous with domestic science throughout Queensland. Hundreds of teachers have been trained in her dressmaking and drafting methods at the Teachers’ Training College Domestic Science School, Gregory Terrace, and home dressmakers have found her books invaluable.

Book I deals with dressmaking and drafting. It is written with the object of teaching garment cutting, so that no matter how fashions change drafting can be adapted to suit the style of the moment.

Book II is entitled “Kiddies’ Clothes” and takes the pupil through every phase of this important subject. The third and latest book makes the drafting of women’s patterns as simple as

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Woodwork extended

Because accommodation for woodworking classes at the Central Technical College cannot meet the demand classes are to be established at three metropolitan schools. The Minister for Education (Mr. Devries) announced this today.

He said that the classes at the Central Technical College, which had been conducted for a number of years, had always been reasonably well filled, but this year the number of applicants for enrolment had greatly exceeded the number that could be accommodated.

However, as such classes, which provided training in a useful hobby, were held in most manual training centres throughout the country, to meet the unexpected demand in Brisbane he had approved that classes be established at three of the main metropolitan manual training centre – East Brisbane, Sherwood and Breakfast Creek.

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Brisbane Telegraph, 25 March 1953

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Students Did The Cooking…

Girls entertained school principal

Domestic Science High School senior class pupils themselves prepared the dinner at which they entertained their retiring principal (Miss G. E. Jones) in Brisbane last night.

The function, in the domestic science classroom, was the first of a series of parties for Miss Jones, who will retire on April 20.

The dinner prepared by the girls consisted of tomato soup, baked fowl, fruit salad and cream, and cheese savouries.

On Friday afternoon at Rowe’s the High School staff will entertain Miss Jones at tea, and next Tuesday the Old Girls’ Association will farewell her in the school dining room.

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The Courier-Mail, 11 April 1951

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