COST OF EDUCATION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5179, 16 September 1927, Page 2

COST OF EDUCATION.

LAST YEAR’S EXPENDITURE.

SUM OF £3,987,416

According to the annual report of the Minister of Education laid before Parliament this week the total expenditure on education last year, including endowment revenue, amounted to £3,987,416, as against £3,895,031 for the previous year, an increase of £92,382. Provision had to be made for large payments of a non-recurring nature, in connection with the site for the new agricultural college at Palmerston North and the neiw medical school in Dunedin. The pre-war expenditure on education w’as was m millions, and the present expenditure, it is stated, is equivalent to only 2% millions, in 1914 owing to the depreciation of the £. The cost of elementary education per pupil in some other countries was set out in the report as follows : England and Wales, £ll 5s 9d ; Norway, £l4 14s ; Holland, £l2 10s ; United States, £l2 17s; Onttario, £l3 19s ; British Columbia, £l7 19s ; Queensland, £lO 19s 3d; Victoria, £8 16s; New South Wales, £l4 12s 6d ; Capetown (including primary and secondary), £l6 13s ; Transvaal (including primary and secondary), £2l 4s 2d. In New Zealand the cost of primary education is £l3.