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Item. 1910-11. SPECIAL SCHOOLS— continued. III. HOME FOR BACKWARD CHILDREN. 1910-11. Total number of officers .. 26 VOTE No. 90. Salaries — Principal at £200 and Matron at £70 Assistant Matron (4 months) ... Sub-matron, £60 (4 months) Medical Officer (10 months at £50 per annum) 2 Teachers: 1 at £180 (9 months), £135, 1 at £90 19 Attendants and servants: 1 at £116, 1 at £111, 2 at £106,1 at £91, I at £83, 2 at £78, 2 at £70, 4 at £65, 1 at £40, 2 at £45 (3 months). 1 at £52, 1 at £130 (5 months) Additional teachers, attendants, and servants and increases of salaries of attendants and others 270 23 20 42 225 1,307 100 Other Charges for and incidental to — Maintenance of institution,including provisions,clothing, equipment, stock, and implements Publications, advertising, Ac. .. Travelling expenses and allowances, including transit of children Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... 1,987 2 3 4 2,500 20 300 5 50 Less credits under sections 263 and 264 of the Land Act, 1908 2,870 240 Less estimated credits under section 42 of the Public Revenues Act, 1908 2,630 375 Total—Vote No. 90 ... 2,255 4,242 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES I 2 8 4 S o VOTE No. 91. Charges for and incidental to— Examinations : Teachers', Civil Service, and Scholarships Flags for schools Grant in aid of free kindergartens for infants under school age Illustrations, photographs, Ac, for Parliamentary Reports Legal expenses Milne Seismograph, No. 20 (Wellington), (maintenance and buildings) Text-book : New Zealand Geology, balance Writer's Fee and Printing "New Zealand Plants and Their Story," by Dr. L. Cockayne: Printing Postage, telegrams, and rent of boxes Public Reading-room, Canvastown (subsidy, £1 for£l) " Schoolmates " : Grant to cover cost of postage Store for general departmental purposes : Rent and incidental expenses 6,000 10 550 50 100 50 7 255 8 159 2,000 100 50 9 10 11 12 40