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Newspaper advertisement from the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, volume 1, number 10, Saturday, January 20, 1838 in black and white, reading:

Mrs Hillier begs to inform her friends and the public of Adelaide that she has opened a school for a select and limited number of young ladies and from a long experience in the arduous task of education. Mrs hillier flatters herself that her system of instruction and unremitting attention to her pupils cannot fail to be approved by the parents of these young ladies entrusted to her care. Pavilion cottage near the Gillies Arcade Curries street. January 20, 1838

Jane Hillier arrived in Adelaide from England in 1837 and was the first teacher to advertise her school for middle-class children.