1953 History
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Newspaper articles
Govt. Buys Sites For 11 Suburban Schools
Wednesday 18 February 1953, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 10.
The State Government had bought 11 sites in Brisbane suburbs to build post-primary and secondary schools, Mr. H. G. Watkin said today.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217193342
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Three for 1954
Thursday 28 May 1953, The Couroer-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 5.
15 Suburbs named for schools THE Education Min- ister (Mr. Devries) last night named 15 suburbs for new sec- ondary schools in the Brisbane area.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50543163
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Three high schools' to open in Brisbane next year
Thursday 15 October 1953, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 2.
Three new State high schools will be open in Brisbane suburbs at the beginning of the 1954 school year with accommodation in each for at the fewest 250 pupils at the sub-junior stage.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217217756
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Four new state high schools, 3 in city, 1 in Dalby, by new year
Friday 16 October 1953, Brisbane Courier Mail (Qld), page 5.
NEW State high school accommodation for more than 750 pupils should be available in Brisbane when the 1954 school year begins. Executive Council yesterday approved building of three new Brisbane schools — at Banyo, Salisbury, and Indooroopilly— and one at Dalby.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51082925
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Less overcrowding
Monday 26 October 1953, The Courier Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 3.
49 Schools in 4 vears The State Government had built 49 new schools in the four years ended last June, the Public Works and Housing Minister (Mr. Hilton) said last night.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51092129
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Scholars' Free Rail Pass Move
Wednesday 04 November 1953, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 16.
When the new State high schools are opened In the new year in Brisbane, scholarship' holders, . except where circumstances demand it, will be, issued with free rail passes from the station nearest their homes to Banyo, Indooroopilly and Salisbury stations.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217167875
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Points Way To Progress
Thursday 05 November 1953, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 5.
The real hope of great progress lay in closer liaison among parents, business and professional leaders, and the school, the Church of England Grammar School . headmaster (Mr. H. E. Roberts) will say at the school's speech niaht toniqht.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217167254
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7060 for senior and junior increase of 930
Friday 06 November 1953, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 3.
A TOTAL of 7060 students will sit f or the junior and senior examinations in Queensland this year.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51071605
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4 New high schools ready for new year
Thursday 03 December 1953, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 6.
FOUR new high schools, worth £93,000 would take their first pupils when Queensland schools re-opened next year, a Public Works spokesman said yesterday.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51083381
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Building rush will help schools
Friday 11 December 1953, Brisbane Telegraph (Qld), page 36.
It was expected that all reasonable accommodation requirements |£or the 1954 school year would be met, the Minister for Works and Housin g (Mr. Hilton) said today.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217743878
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Good progress by builders on three new high schools
Wednesday 23 December 1953, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 3.
BUILDERS were making excellent progress D with three new Brisbane high schools, Public Works Department under-secretary (Mr. T. F. Lvons) said yesterday.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51089691
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School building record
Sunday 27 December 1953, Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld), page 5.
Queensland's present school-building programme was a record for the Stare, a Public Works Department spokesman said last night.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100181347
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Record school building
Monday 28 December 1953, Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld), page 2.
Queensland's present school-buIlding programme was a record for the State. a Public Works De partment spokesman said last night.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118429477
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Queensland State Archives
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1953 and 1956 Teacher Register - All Regions
DR127406
Teacher Register - All Regions (State and Provisional Schools; Rural Schools; Special Schools; Physical Education Staff; Teachers of Music; State High and Intermediate Schools, Teachers Training College, Technical Colleges, Commercial High School and Agricultural College).
1953 Pages 001-122
Return of all the School in Operation on the 1st January, 1953, with the Attendance of Pupils and the Status and Emoluments of the teachers Employed.
1956 Pages 001-073 only
Return of all the School in Operation on the 1st January, 1956, with the Attendance of Pupils and the Status and Emoluments of the teachers Employed.
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Queensland Heritage Register
History
The request to commence construction of Indooroopilly State High School was given in July 1953 by the Director General of the Department of Public Instruction (Herbert G Watkin) to the Under Secretary of Public Works. Expenditure of £26,494 for the erection of the first section of the school was announced in September 1953, and clearing work at the site began in October 1953.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=650035