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From: "Beryl O'Gorman" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] Schools in Victoria history - Great find
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:50:30 +1100
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Ada waxed lyrical about VPRS files, on which subject she is somewhat of an
expert!

Thanks Ada
Great to have the pleasure of your company on this list. We appreciate your
expertise.
No, they don't have to be State Schools, so I'll follow up on that.

I'm also looking foward to getting into the correspondence files. Some
interesting material there on the conditions under which teachers worked in
the bush.
Anything relevant to WW1 and to the depression is of particular interest
with regard to problems faced.

And in the building files I actually found the original correspondence from
my grandfather, as spokesperson for a grouip of farmers, arranging for the
setting up of a school in Gippsland.

Cheers

Beryl O'Gorman
Greensborough Victoria Australia
List Admin

> Do these have to be State Schools?
>
> If not, take a look at
> VPRS 10300 "Closed Schools"
>
> There are some interesting schools here: You might (with your German
> ancestors in mind) find the Lutheran Schools which had to be closed 1914
> because of WW1 and understandable anti-German feeling, a nice little
chapter
> in the 6,000 words?
>


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