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APPENDIX

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE AND RECOVERIES In respect of all Services under the Control or Supervision of the Minister of Education during the Year ended 31st March, 1926.

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General Administration. £ £ £ Salaries .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29,132 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. .. .. 1,076 Telephones .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 252 Postage and telegrams .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,743 Books of reference, newspapers, &c. .. .. .. .. 100 Printing and stationery .. .. .. .. .. 4,388 Office furniture and fittings .. .. .. .. .. 539 Council of Education : Travelling-expenses, advertising, &c... .. 163 Overtime and meal-allowance .. .. .. .. .. 163 38,556 Less miscellaneous recoveries .. .. .. 1,228 37,328 Elementary Education. Teachers' salaries (including pupil-teachers' and probationers' 1,691,431 allowances) Teachers'house allowances .. .. .. .. 45,702 1,737,133 General administrative purposes (including School Committees' .. 142,186 allowances) Organizing-teachers' salaries and travelling-expenses .. .. 10,663 Removal of teachers .. .. .. .. .. .. 576 Correspondence School: Salaries, &c. .. .. .. .. 2,388 Manual instruction: Salaries, capitation, and material .. .. 75,234 School and class libraries .. .. .. .. .. 2,054 Purchase of gramaphones for schools .. .. .. .. 2,880 School buildings and sites — Maintenance and repair of school buildings and residences 106,051 Rent of buildings and sites used for school purposes .. 5,665 Schools destroyed or damaged by fire : Rebuilding and 5,301* repairs Payment to Lands for Settlement Acoount for school-sites 875 New buildings, additions, sites, and teachers' residences : 269,844f Education Purposes Loans Act, 1919 —•—-—-—•—— 387,736 Inspectors —■ Salaries .. • • • • • • .. .. 32,026 Travelling and removal expenses .. .. .. 10,173 Telephones, office requisites, &c. .. .. .. 271 Extra clerical assistance, typing, &c. .. .. .. 385 Alteration to office accommodation .. .. .. 157 43,012 School physical services— ■ Salaries of instructors .. .. .. .. 5,171 Courses of instruction .. .. .. .. 11 Travelling and removal expenses .. .. .. 3,702 Material: Officers' requisites, uniform allowances, &c. .. 131 — 9,015 Conveyance and allowance for board of school-children (rail- .. 42,963 way fares, £12,918 ; boarding-allowances and conveyance by road and water, £30,045) Conveyance of instructors and teachers .. .. .. •. 7,890 Advances for purchase of school buses .. .. .. .. 850 Fares of children attending Standard VI examinations .. .. 20 School Journal: Salaries, printing, &c. .. .. .. .. 7,771 Education Gazette: Printing, &c... .. .. .. .. 1,046 Subsidies on voluntary contributions on account of public .. 17,927 primary schools, including district high schools Expenses connected with appointment of supervisor of school . • 48 music ' ' ' ' ' 1 • , j- o i. , 2,491,392 Less miscellaneous recoveries (including School _ _ g Journal, £1,009 ; Education Gazette, £235 ; teachers' salaries, £159; special examination fees, £47 ; Correspondence School, £136 ; gramaphones, £3,156) 2,486,374J Secondary Education. Payments to Education Boards for— District high schools : Secondary teachers'salaries .. .. 48,939 National Scholarships .. .. •• •• 11,143 Payments to Secondary schools and colleges for— Salaries and incidental expenses .. .. •• •• 201,703 Manual instruction capitation .. .. •• •• 3,385 Subsidies on voluntary contributions .. .. .. • • 2,383 New buildings, equipment, furniture, sites, &o. : Educa- 118,447 tion Purposes Loans Act, 1919 Maintenance of school buildings .. • • • • 10^ — 118,549 From reserves revenue in accordance with Education .. 10,363 Reserves Amendment Act, 1914 Carried forward •• •• •• •• 396,465 2,523,702 * During the financial yeaT £4,938 was recovered from the Fire Insurance Fund in the hands of the Public Trustee. t Includes £83, cost of raising loans. X Including £53,610 from the natioaal-enioffinent raservjs rjvjnu; aid £109,040 from primary-education reserves.