School name: Borambil (1)
Other name: -
County name: Bligh
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Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date
Public School Apr 1879 Dec 19621
1878
15 August 1878
BORAMBIL.
A School Wanted.
You would much oblige the people of Borambil, as well as benefit other places perhaps similarly circumstanced, by giving place in your valuable and wide-spread Mercury to the following observations. For the information of the public, and in particular for our "Paternal Government," I must mention that Borambil is a Government township, situated about three miles from the village of Dalkeith or Cassilis (which, by the way, is private property, the Government not having one rood of land to dispose of there), and about twenty-five miles from Merriwa; on the main road to Coolah and Coonabarabran, as well as the western road to Uarbry, Denisontown. Dubbo, and Mudgee from Maitland, Being so well and publicly situated, it should soon be a prosperous town, if our rulers would only do their duty, and give us what we are really entitled to - good roads, and the means of educating our children. More than five months since, an application was sent to the Council of Education, and accepted, pending the Inspector's report, who is only a day's journey from here {about sixty miles), being resident in Mudgee, But, strange to say, during five months he cannot spare a day or two to visit the place for which the application has been received. I hope we will not have to trouble our true and honest member on the matter. 'Tis pitiable to see little children, male and female, having to walk to Cassilis, a distance, as I have before mentioned, of more than three miles, through black muck, and over a very high and long black soil ridge, to school. There are thirty-two(32) children at Borambil of age to go to school, if they only had an opportunity of doing so. I presume no parent who has affection for his children would condemn them, as the Council of Education appears to do, to the hardship of travelling to the Public school at Cassilis. Oh! for compulsory education over such a distance, and on such a road. But I make a mistake, there is no road, only a part of the way; not an inch of metal outside the boundary of Borambil township; and about Cassilis there may be three quarters of a mile installed. The intervening space is next to impassable in wet weather, Fancy a team of horses, or bullocks, with perhaps half a loud on, trying to get up the hill. The horses or bullocks go to their arms at every step they take, while the dray or waggon, as the case may be, is sunk to the axle-bed in black sticky muck. By the way, some of your readers may not know what this means. According as the wheels move along this black muck adheres to them, and in a short time there is a heap on so that you can see no part ot the wheel, and then there is a dead-lock, when it has to be removed with a spade or chopped off with an axe. And a person walking on it has great difficulty in getting along, as it will accumulate on your boots, and you have to give a dexterous kick to shake it off, (Unless your joints are strong and vigorous, and your boots well fastened and a tight fit, you may injure yourself, or kick off the boot with it. And not one shilling has been expended on such a place, nor on any portion of it, during the last twelve months. And over such a place children have to walk to a school. Tis the duty of our Government to expend part of the public money where necessary for the public good; and as a school is much needed at Borambil, we must speak and ask for a portion of the public expenditure for the erection of a school, and also for the metalling and repairing of the roads in our vicinity, as they are in a most wretched state.
There are several families who have allotments purchased in the town that would come and live there, if there were a school to send their children to; and almost all the inhabitants of Cassilis are owners of building sites at Borambil. So that by a little expenditure on the part of the Government, they would very soon realise a portion of it by the sale of some of the remaining Crown lands in the township.
Borambil, August 11{FOOTNOTE()}BORAMBIL. (1878, August 15). The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), p. 7. Retrieved February 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18820960{FOOTNOTE}.
Miss Emma Evans Appointed
On 22 Jun 1880 Miss Emma Evans was appointed teacher at Borambil Public School2 .
1914
29 January 1914
Qualifying Certificates.
Results of December Examinations
Names of Successful District Candidates.
We print today a list of the successful candidates who sat for the qualifying certificate examination in this and adjoining districts. All the candidates took the same examination papers as the city boys and girls. Under the Bursaries Endowment Act., the bursaries allotted by the board are divided in the ratio of school population. This works out, so that one-third of the Bursaries are given to candidates from Sydney and suburbs, and two-thirds of the bursaries go to the country districts. These bursaries and scholarships are tenable at the country high schools or the district schools, but the names of the successful bursars and scholars will not be available until next week.
MUDGEE DISTRICT.
Borambil - May R. Thrift3
.
1922
30 January 1922
Qualifying Certificate Examinations.
MUDGEE DISTRICT.
The following conclude the list of passes:-
Borambil - Lillian Anastasia O'Malley, Josephine M. J. Matthews4
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