BRITISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1932, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

The education budget

ALL ROUND REDUCTION SHOWN

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RUGBY, April 18

When the Minister for Education, (Sir Donald Mac Lean, presented his departmental estimates in the House of Commons, he said tha,b they provided for an Exchequer expenditure of £42,892,676 which .shows an economy of £5.509,000 on last year. In 1906 the estimates were only about £12,500,000. "With the sums that were raised from the rates by the local education authorities, there was about; £100,000,000 for educational purposes ill Great Britain. That was more than half of the total national expenditure for one year before the war. He doubted whether there was any country in Europe ’today whose budget contained so generous a provision for education. Regarding 'the recent economies Sir D. Mac Lean said that there were reductions under every head, except teachers’ pensions and scholarships to students.

NEW BRITISH DUTIES. LONDON, April 18. The continental interest in the British Budget is unprecedented, owing ito there being expected an announcement of new tariff duties. Numbers of business firms have sent representatives to London, and especially many long-distance) telephone calls have been booked. It is repoiked that the Cabinet is not in entire agreement regarding die proposals, but that the members have agreed to differ, as he tore.