VPRS 10273 Domestic Arts Schools (Girls' Schools) Correspondence

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Correspondence received by the Education Department from Domestic Arts (later Girls' Schools) throughout the State is filed in this series. Written correspondence (as opposed to returns of forms) has a registered number and may be annotated with notes of action taken and/or the suggested outlines of a reply. Later correspondence may have a carbon copy of the reply attached. Full details of correspondence sent to schools may be found in VPRS 10275 Outwards Letter Books, Post-Primary Schools and VPRS 10059 Outwards Letter Books.

Correspondence dealt with such matters as requisitions for school supplies and the forwarding of accounts for payment; teachers' appointments, examinations and payments of salary, evaluation by Inspectors and leave; the granting of school holidays; copies of newspaper cuttings about the school and publications by the school; requests for interpretations of Departmental policy; parent and/or community complaints; requests for special assistance or staff and regular returns required by the Education Department.