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    South Australia - Education

    Country Schools and Allied Matters

    "Country School Masters" is in the Register,
    4 and 7 February 1850, pages 3d and 2c-3d and
    13 March 1850, page 2c.

    "Schoolmasters' Residences" is in the Advertiser,
    30 January 1862, page 3c.

    A letter from a country school teacher is in the Register,
    6 July 1864, page 2h.

    "Bush Children" is in the Advertiser,
    15 October 1866, page 2f.

    "Education in the Bush" is discussed in the Register,
    14 March 1867, page 3b,
    "A Bush School" on
    12 February 1869, page 2g.

    Comments on country schools are in the Observer,
    23 April 1870, page 13e.

    "Supervision of Country Schools" is in the Observer,
    6 September 1873, page 15b.

    "Schools in Sparsely Populated Districts" is in the Observer,
    26 October 1878, page 21a.

    "Schools in Country Places" is in the Register,
    10 January 1883, page 4g.

    A complaint from a country school teacher is in the Register,
    2 July 1883, page 7c.

    "Country School Buildings - Iron v Wood and Stone" is in the Observer,
    11 February 1893, page 31d.

    "Our Northern Schools" is in the Register,
    18 June 1901, page 4g,
    "Education in the Country" on
    20 June 1901, page 6i,
    27 July 1901, page 3h and
    5 June 1905, page 8e.

    "Running Country Schools" is in the Register,
    25 June 1903, page 3f,
    "Heroes of the Bush - Education in the Back Blocks" on
    26 July 1906, page 6e,
    "Back Blocks Teachers" on
    31 August 1911, page 5f.

    "Provisional Teachers and Country Life" is in the Register,
    20 October 1903, page 6h.

    "Education in the Backblocks" is in the Register,
    26 July 1906, page 6f.

    "Our Country Schools" is in the Advertiser,
    3 August 1909, page 6b,
    "Rural Schools" on
    6 November 1909, page 10f,
    "Back Blocks Schools" on
    22 May 1912, page 8g.
    "Rural School Teachers" in the Register,
    29 May 1916, page 4b.

    "Back Blocks Teachers" is in the Observer,
    9 September 1911, page 47c.

    "Schools in the Wild" is in the Observer,
    25 May 1912, page 41e.

    "Lo! The Poor Teacher - Life on the Outskirts" is in the Register,
    30 June 1914, page 6h.

    Information on and a photograph of "An Outback Family" are in the Chronicle,
    28 September 1918, pages 11 and 24,
    "Children in the Outback" on
    30 March 1933, page 32.

    "Teaching Outback" is in the Advertiser,
    23 January 1919, page 7a.

    "Way Outback - Teaching the Children" at Mulka is described in the Register,
    15 February 1919, page 9g.

    "Reaching Out" is in the Register,
    1 March 1919, page 7d.

    "A Summer School for Country Teachers" is in the Observer,
    17 January 1920, page 45b,
    "Country Schools" on
    1 January 1921, page 43e.

    "The Never-Never - Teaching Children of the Bush" is in The Mail,
    5 November 1921, page 2d.

    "Educational Pioneering", information on correspondence schools, is in the Advertiser,
    26 February 1921, page 9d.

    "Work of Correspondence Schools" is in the Register,
    21 October 1924, page 4d.
    "Correspondence Schools" on
    19 July 1927,
    5 April 1928, page 9d,
    "The Unseen Teacher - Education in the Outback" in the Register,
    11 July 1928, page 10h, page 12h,
    "Children Who Learn by Post" in the Observer,
    20 April 1929, page 71a,
    "Education in Outback" in The News,
    13 November 1930, page 14e.

    "Children in Country Schools" is in the Advertiser,
    26 June 1922, page 9d,
    "Rural Teaching" on
    9 January 1924, page 8g,
    "Rural Schools" on
    16 April 1924, page 12h,
    "Outback Children and Education" on
    1 October 1925, page 15f,
    "The Wayback Child" in the Chronicle,
    19 April 1924, page 56a,
    "Improving Country Schools" on
    23 August 1924, page 48a.

    "Teaching Country Children" is in the Register,
    20 June 1924, pages 9e-10 (photo.),
    Observer,
    28 June 1924, page 58c.

    "Schools of the Outback" is in The Mail,
    3 July 1926, page 1e.

    A photograph of teaching woodwork to country children is in the Chronicle,
    26 January 1924, page 38.

    "Education Outback - Problem of Half-Caste Children" is in the Register,
    14 January 1925, page 10d.

    "Education in the Country" is in the Advertiser,
    26 January 1927, page 12g,
    20 May 1927, page 17f,
    "Teaching in the Bush" on
    13 July 1927, page 11d,
    "Education Outback" in the Chronicle,
    28 May 1927, page 58e.

    "Closing of 154 Country Schools Recommended" is in the Advertiser,
    15 July 1931, page 15g.

    A photograph of toys beimg made for outback children is in the Chronicle,
    6 August 1931, page 31.

    "School of the Air - Organised Broadcasts Begin" is in the Advertiser,
    19 September 1931, page 11f,
    "Radio in Education" in The News,
    17 October 1931, page 4e.
    "Teaching by Radio" is in The News,
    2 August 1933, page 3e.
    Also see South Australia - Communications - Wireless and Radio.

    "Ambitions and Hopes of the Children Outback" is in The News,
    18 January 1933, page 4e.

    "Education in the Outback" is in the Advertiser,
    4 July 1934, page 14g,
    "The Little Bush School" in the Chronicle,
    31 October 1935, page 51.

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