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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS XV.—MINISTER OF EDUCATION— continued.

: 1916-17. Special Schools continued. £ £ V. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS— continued. VOTE No. 88— continued. Other Charges for and incidental to—. 2 Boarding-out of children ... ... ... , 24 500 3 Good-conduct money for inmates ... ... 25 4 Grant to Postal Department in connection with payments for children boarded out , ... ... 100 5 Interest on balance of purchase money, Nelson Receiving Home ... ... ... 28 6 Legal expenses of inmates ... ... ... ' 5 7 Libraries at Government schools, pictures, and publications ... ... ... ho 8 Maintenance of inmates in Government Schools, and general upkeep of the institutions, including stock, implements, and work on land ... ... 22,000 9 Maintenance of inmates in private Industrial Schools: Capitation, special grants, refunds of maintenance payments, &c. ... ... ... 2,400 10 Maintenance of inmates sent to other institutions ... 200 11 Refund of inmates'earnings... ... ... 25 12 Rent, office requisites, telephone, &c, for probation officer, Auckland ... ... ... 100 13 Rent— Christchurch Receiving Home ... ... 145 Te Oranga Home (Christchurch), (land) ... 15 14 Rewards for arrest of absconding inmates ... 10 15 Special Instruction, including fees of instructors, cost of equipment and material ... ... 400 16 Travelling expenses and allowances, including fares of inmates ... ... ... 2 000 17 Contingencies, including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... 100 I s52,083 Less credits under sections 263 and 264 of the Land Act, 1908 ... ... ... 1 ! 50,433 Less estimated credits under section 48 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 ... •••26 000 24,433 Total—Vote No. 88 ... ... 40 40,981 SCHOOL BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, AND SITES. VOTE No. 89. Charges for and incidental to — 1 General Maintenance of Sohool Buildings under Control of Education Department, including Additions to Buildings, Alterations, Rebuilding, Furniture, Fittings, Fencing, Rents, Additions and Improvements of Sites, and Incidental Expenses — Industrial schools ... ... ... 2,000 Native schools ... ... ... 1,000 Otekaike Home ... ... ... 250 School for the Deaf ... ... ... : 100 2 Grants to Education Boards— For general maintenance of school buildings, and for additions to buildings, alterations, rebuilding, furniture, fittings, fencing, rents, additions and - improvements of sites, Ac. ... ... 86,000 B ■v