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Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Number Item of Persons. 1921-22. VOTE No. 42.—EDUCATION DEPARTMENT— continued. 1921-22. Subdivision No. XII. — Child Welfare —continued. 97 97 Salaries and Wages— continued. Probation Homes.—Genkral Division — continued. 4 Christchurch— £ 1 at £250 ... ... 2.50 1 at £210 ... ... 210 1 at £160 ... ... 160 1 at £150 ... ... 150 770 Less deductions for board ... 120 650 3 Dunedin— 1 at £240 ... ... 240 1 at £160 ... ... 160 1 at £150 ... ... 150 3 550 Less deductions for board ... 40 510 Children's Home. 2 Miramar (Wellington)— 1 at £230 ... ... 230 1 at £104 ... ... 104 2 145 145 Wages of temporary employees 334 300 Reduction in salaries as recommended by the Economies Commission *31,158 1,400 29,758 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 99 100 101 98 Other Charges for and incidental to — Boarding-out of children, maintenance of infants in foster homes and upkeep of orphans whose parents have died from influenza ... Law-costs Libraries at Government schools, pictures, and publications Maintenance of inmates in Government Schools and of probationers in Probation Homes, medical attendance of infants, and general upkeep of the institutions, including stock and work on land ... Maintenance of inmates in private Industrial Schools: Capitation, refunds of maintenance payments, &c. Maintenance of inmates sent to other institutions ... Payment to Post and Telegraph Department for services of officers in connection with payments for children boarded out ... Refund of inmates' earnings ... Refund of maintenance payments 84,000 50 50 21,000 102 2,860 100 103 104 630 250 500 105 106 * Includes cost-of-living increase to scale salaries or wages.