Other name: * sometimes spelt Bayley
County name: Phillip
Transferred:
Location note:
URL for linking: https://nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au/schoolHistory?schoolId=450
Operating dates:
Type of school Opening date Closing date Half-time partner schools
Public School Aug 1881 Jul 1905
Half-Time School Oct 1905 Mar 1910 BOTOBOLAR1
On 1 Apr 1884 Thomas Langbridge was appointed teacher at Bayly Public Schhol2 .
5 February 1905 Mr H Scott, Bayly, member Public Service Association3 .
31 August 1905
Half Time Schools.
Some weeks ago we stated that it was the intention of the Department of Public Instruction to close Botobolar School, and reduce Upper Botobolar and Bayly Cross Roads to half-time schools. We entered a strong protest against this, and it was then denied that the Department had any such intention. However, time has proved we were right, and the reduction of the schools has taken place. The Botobolar school, on which over £200 was spent two or three years ago, is closed, and will stand as a monument to the want of foresight of the responsible officers of the Department. Mr. O'Conor is always talking about his advanced policy, but if the history of the schools out Botobolar way is to be taken as a sample, we do not think much of it. It seems to be the policy of the Department to lavish money on high schools, technical colleges, &c, and neglect the schools of the bush4
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