B.—7a

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Table K.—Expenditure (Exclusive Of Special Trusts) — continued.

which appears in a slightly modified form in the Annual Eeport on Higher Education (E.-7, 1912) ; in the present table students' fees paid to professors have been taken from the heading of " Miscellaneous " and added to " Salaries." This statement includes both recurring and non-recurring items. Of the total expenditure, £5,150 appears to have been non-recurring; the total of the recurring items was therefore about £52,700. We shall probably not be far wrong if we put down the total of recurring items of expenditure for the four colleges during this year (1912) as £53,000 : — £ Salaries of staffs .. .. .. .. .. .. 42,500 Administration .. .. .. .. .. 7,000 Libraries and laboratories .. .. .. .. .. 2,500 Interest, &c. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000 Total .. .. .. .. £53,000 Proposed Total Annual Expenditure. Omitting such items as interest, which one would be glad to see disappear from the college accounts, it will easily be gathered from what has been said under the various heads that the proposals made in this report involve the following annual expenditure : —

Table L.

Table M.—Present Revenues Of The Colleges (Recurring).

University College. Expenses on Endowments. Interest. Libraries. Scholarships. Miscellaneous. Total. £ s. d. £ s. d. 5 17 11 17 0 £ s. d. £ s ,d. 153 0 10 | 307 13 3 69 4 10 265 2 2 56 11 9 £ s. d. 164 18 2 301 13 1 709 1 7 1,726 5 11 £ s. d. 11,217 7 9 10,592 2 0 16.313 10 6 19,720 16 11 Auckland Victoria (to 31st March, 1912) Canterbury Otago (to 31st March, 1912) 192 i2 8 \ 411 8 2 143 10 8 ; 552 3 11 342 1 3 964 16 1 Total of four University Colleges 586 10 8 265 2 2 2,901 18 9 57,843 17 2 Canterbury Agricultural College .. 32 0 5 4,994 18 0 8,617 9 10

i Auckland University Victoria College. College. Canterbury College. Otago University. Total. Salaries of staffs .. Libraries Laboratories, upkeep of Administration Totals .. £ £ 11,000 11,000 250 250 550 550 2,000 2,000 13,800 13,800 £ 14,000 250 1,000 2,200 £ 19,000 250 1,400 2,300 £ 55,000 1,000 3,500 8,500 17,450 22,950 68,000

Auckland University College. Victoria College. Canterbury College. _L Otago University. Total. Year 19. [0. (Taken from £ 4.000 2,000 1,200 24 ; I.-13 A, 1911, as corrected.) £ £ 4,000 2,000 2,000 1,500 261 7,500 2,261 162 9,811 1,955 3,142 10 88 Statutory Special Addition to statutory, &c. Manual and technical capitation £ 500 £ 8,000 8,000 3,200 285 Total from Government Endowments and interest Fees Miscellaneous 7,«24 659 2,253 22 2,500 7,833 5,601 2,453 19,485 18,465 12,951 2,573 Totals 10,158 9,627 15,302 —— i ■ 18,387 53,474 Year 1911. (From Returns furnisha 4,000 2,000 1,200 66 id by the Colleges, Items being re 4,000 2,000 2,000 1,500 502 '.arranged.) Statutory Special Addition to statutory Manual and technical 750 8,000 8,000 3,450 568 Total from Government Endowments and interest Fees Miscellaneous 7,266 743 2,364 176 1 7,500 2,502 114 9,258 2,221 3,064 11 103 .j 2,750 6,547 5,616 2,702 20,018 16,662 1.3,265 2,992 Totals 10,549 9,846 14,927 17,615 52,937 Mean of 1910-11 . 10,354 j j 9,737 15,114 18,001 53,206