schools

Brisbane school ground improvement scheme, 1931. These images appeared in the first annual report of the Queensland Department of Labour and Industry on the ‘operations and proceedings’ under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts 1930. Queensland schools benefited from relief funds which went towards clearing up and improving playgrounds. These images show works completed at Sherwood and Windsor State schools in Brisbane. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1931

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Slate pencil found in Paradise. Slate pencil excavated from a Paradise home, complete with metal holder.

Education in Queensland, 1908. School facilities better than in some southern States. From Land seekers guide to Queensland, Brisbane, Pulsfields, 1908

Fairholme School sports day, Toowoomba, 1958. Slide by Heatherbell Mellor, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Sports day, Thursday Island, 1966. Slide by Elna Kerswell, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

South Sea Islander School Children, Mackay, 1932

Mackay, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1932

12 November 2010

Location

Mackay, QLD

Australia

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12 November 2010

Collection of Queensland State Archives

List of South Sea Islander School Children, Pleystowe, Walkerston and Dumbleton Schools, Mackay. Noted are ages, grade, school and remarks about where the children live and how they get to school.

School children Yandina, 1902

Yandina, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1902

26 October 2010

Location

Yandina, QLD

Australia

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26 October 2010

Brisbane

Department of Education

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

School children town of Yandina, 1902. Sketch map indicates how far each child in the area must travel to school in Yandina. A total of 21 parents have 48 children who travel between 50 yards and 4½ miles to school. Other children ride, come by train or come by boat and walk to the school. Taken from Yandina school file, Department of Education, Brisbane. Collection of the Queensland State Archives