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(a) Includes incidental expenses, £5,250, and conveyance, £1,625. (b) To cover late claim of previous year. £ll,OOO provided on main estimates. (e) Based on final expenditure on salaries for previous year. £19,100 provided on main estimates. (d) Regrading of positions. Additional salary to careers teachers, reduction in endowment income available for salaries, &c., necessitate extra provision. £467,000 provided on main estimates. (e) Increased provision necessary on expenditure figures to date, based on new salary scales. £462,000 provided on main estimates. (/) Expenditure to 30th September, 1947, based on new salary scales, £51,000. £94,400 provided on main estimates.

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For Services chargeable on the £ £ £ Consolidated Fund —continued ORDINARY REVENUE ACCOUNT —ctd. VOTE—EDUCATION—continued Subdivision No. III. —Post-primary Education —continued Other Charges for and incidental to — [ Payment of increased costs for wages, materials, equipment, stores, &c., consequent upon the Arbitration Court pronouncement and cessation of subsidy payments (a) 7,000 Conveyance of school-children and allowances for board of children who have to live away from home to attend school: school-children by rail (additional) (b) 4,000 Incidental expenses (including intermediate departments) : combined schools (additional) (c) 2,700 I Salaries and allowances of teachers, student teachers (including intermediate departments), and travelling-expenses of itinerant instructors and student teachers ; also grants to widows of deceased teachers ( under regulations and payments to estates i of deceased soldier teachers in lieu of 1 leave — j Secondary schools (additional) (d) 20,500 I Technical schools (additional) (e) 34,450 Combined schools (additional) (/) 4,200 Payment of increases arising out of Arbitration Court pronouncement — I | District high schools 4,500 Secondary schools 11,450 Technical schools 9,850 Combined schools .. .. .. j 2,150 Total—Subdivision.No. Ill .. 1 100,800 101,225