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Statement of Expenditure and Recoveries, etc. —continued

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Country Library Service— continued Less recoveries— £ £ £ Subscriptions 2,973 Salaries 24 Books 543 Travelling-expenses 22 3,562 68,548 Vocational Guidance Salaries 21,868 Office expenses 332 Printing and stationery 297 Office furniture and fittings 292 Rent of offices 1,524 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department for telephone and 716 postal services Travelling and transfer expenses 1,955 Sundries 9 26,993 Less recoveries— Salaries 26 v *Services rendered to other Government Departments .. 10,875 Travelling-expenses 16 10,917 16,076 Miscellaneous Conferences of education authorities 677 Examination expenses 10,944 Grading of teachers, costs of appeal, inquiries, &c. .. 698 Projectors, gramophones, and radios for schools (recoverable) 2,321 Payment for damages to motor-vehicles other than departmental 78 vehicles Teachers' Superannuation Fund — Annual contribution under Act 43,000 Additional allowance to widows and children 15,866 Additional subsidy 98,000 Additional subsidy (loss of interest) 1,470 158,336 Visual education : Equipment for schools, &c. 6,082 Sundries 35 Grant to New Zealand Council for Educational Research 3,000 Grant to Waitangi Trust Board 100 Publicity 2,915 Expenses of delegates overseas 1,197 Exhibition of schoolwork 72 Grant to Federation of Play Centres 100 Grant to League of Hard-of-hearing 500 Grant towards maintenance of occupation centre : Abbotsford, 300 Dunedin. Grant for salaries and expenses, Nursery School, Taranaki Street, Wellington 760 188,115 Less recoveries— Examination fees, &c. 13,672 Projectors for schools 2,456 Sales of publications 134 Sundries .. .. .. „ .. 33 16,295 171 820 Net total, excluding new buildings, &c. 7,691,693