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1905
6 September 1905
6 September 1905
One of the most charming positions around the town is that of the Mudgee Grammar School. It stands on rising ground, overlooking the town and commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country and the distant hills. For health the situation cannot be equalled. There is a fine playing field of more than 20 acres. Football is, of course, the game of the hour as shown in one of the illustrations. Physical training, which is regarded by the headmaster as a first importance, forms a part of the regular school work, under Mr. T. J. Heery, one of the assistant masters. The boys' sleeping rooms are large and airy. Sheep are kept in the school grounds, and killed on the promises. The school also has its own milk supply. Not only is the Mudgee Grammar School a valuable institution for the district, but boys go to it whose homes are in towns and whose parents wish them to live in a bracing country climate during their growing years. The headmaster. Mr. F. T. Miller, is an M.A. of Cambridge, where he was Scholar of Gonville and Caius College. He has had a great deal of experience as a school master, both in England and Australia, and on the walls of his study are photographs representing quite a history of his life - at Cranleigh and Liverpool in the old country, and at Rockhampton, and Townsville in Queensland. At Townsville, where Mr. Miller was for four years, headmaster of the Grammar School, he went through the unpleasant experience of having the school blown away in the cyclone of March, 1903 - illustrations of which appeared in this journal at the time. Fortunately, the pupils, who were all in the school, escaped to the open without injury; but it was an ordeal which Mr. Miller will never forget. Mrs. Miller herself looks after all the arrangements for the boarders at the Mudgee Grammar School. At present, the headmaster informed us, there are pupils reading for the Sydney University matriculation honours and the ordinary matriculation, for the Junior, and for commercial examinations. There is a special preparatory class, where young boys receive individual attention1
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