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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1944

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION—continued.

(а) Includes cost-of-living allowances estimated at £1,900. (б) Includes cost-of-living allowances estimated at £2,400. (c) Includes cost-of-living allowances estimated at £2,950. (d) Includes cost-of-living allowances estimated at £11,500. (e) Includes cost-of-living allowances estimated at £7,120. (/) Includes cost-of-living allowances estimated at £1,991. (g) Number of officers, 12. Travelling-allowances, £1,039 6s. lid.; travelling-expenses, £543 165.; motor hire, £62 2s. lOd. mileage allowance, £15 17s. 9d.

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Number ol Persons. 1942-43. V OTE—EDUCATION—continued. 1943 44. _ ll)43"441942 43 _ > > _ Voted. Expended, ■ Subdivision No. III.—Post-primary Education —continued. [_ Other Charges for and incidental to — £ £ £ Books, &c., in necessitous cases .. .. .. 600 600 537 Conveyance of school-children, and allowances for board of children who have to live away from home to attend school — Board of children .. .. .. .. .. 35,000 35,000 30,413 School-children by rail 13,500 13,500 11,642 School-children by road, ferry, &c. .. .. . . 33,000 32,000 21,569 Correspondence School: Transferred from " Primary Education" .. .. .. .. .. 2,800 3,000 3,868 Grant to — Marlborough High School (Marlborough High School Act, 1899) .. .. .. .. .. 600 400 200 Reefton School of Mines for services rendered by the school to the Secondary Department of the District High School .. .. .. .. .. 100 100 100 Incidental expenses (including Intermediate Schools and Departments)— Secondary Schools .. .. .. .. (a) 42,500 41,660 41,259 Technical Schools .. .. .. .. .. (5) 48,000 49,000 48,583 Combined Schools .. .. (6) 12,000 12,900 11,700 Manual instruction in Secondary Schools: Capitation .. 8,000 7,420 8,245 Salaries and allowances of teachers, student teachers, and vocational guidance officers (including Intermediate Schools and Departments) and travelling-expenses of itinerant instructors and vocational guidance officers; also grants to widows of deceased teachers under regulations and payments to estates of deceased soldier teachers in lieu of leave— District High Schools .. .. .. .. (c) 110,064 113,000 111,401 Secondary Schools .. .. .. .. (d)247,029 243,000 245,225 Technical Schools .. .. .. .. .. (e) 222,300 232,000 212,639 Combined Schools .. .. .. .. .. (/) 54,000 56,200 51,299 School and class libraries— Secondary Schools .. .. .. .. 1,850 1,700 1,821 Technical Schools .. .. .. .. .. 300 300 305 Transfer and removal expenses .. .. .. 50 50 97 Travelling allowances and expenses .. .. . . 1,500 1,800 (g) 1,661 Vocational guidance : Purchase of library books, &c. .. 20 20 10 Contingencies (including unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of this subdivision) .. .. 10 10 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote) — £ Salaries .. .. .. .. 400 Endowment revenue : Akaroa and Hokitika High Schools .. .. .. 300 Sundries .. .. .. .. 50 750 833,223 843,660 802,574 Total—Subdivision No. Ill .. .. 856,352 864,439 827,176 Subdivision No. IV.—Higher Education. CfiARGES FOR AND INCIDENTAL TO— Adult education (including grants for Workers' Educational Association purposes) .. .. .. .. 12,000 10,000 10,000 Grant to University of New Zealand for general purposes .. 8,400 8,400 ' 8,414