POLITICAL NEWS.
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(FHOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.,) Wbilingtobt, September 7. ■■■ There has been laid on the table of the House a statement showing the apportionment; between the several provincial districts of the amount expended out of loan from the commencement of the public works policy 1 to 1881 as follows -.—Auckland, £2,680,900; Hawke's Bay, £817,325 ; Wellington, £2,620,500; Taranaki, £604,006; Nelson, £904,030; Marlborough, £287,200; Canterbury, £3,008,532; Westland, £811,064; Otago, £4,714,862 ; general, £1,346,705 ;
total, £17,795,143. At the dictation of the Hon. Dr. Grace, the Ifew Zealand Times has had to apologise for some strictures made on the Premier by an anonymous contributor to its columns, who has made himself notorious under the norn de plume of " Ignotus." On the motion of Mr Hutchison there was laid on the table of the House yesterday a return in reference to the normal schools in the colony to the 25th August, 1881. There are four schools in the colony at Dunedin, Ohristchurch, Wellington and Auckland. The total number of teachers employed is thirteen, of whom six are visiting teachers, at an annual salary of £3459.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3180, 7 September 1881, Page 3
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