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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1946

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION—continued

(a) Increase in students' allowances. (b) Increased demand for art and craft materials. (c) Increased salaries and also additional staffing. (d) Includes special grant of £1,000 to each training collego for equipment of library. (e) Provides for recent salary increases. (/) Certain liabilities outstanding ; depleted stocks to bo replenished. (g) Intended to assist private schools to provide bettor amenities for practical courses in woodwork, metalwork, &c; expenditure hold up owing to building difficulties. 10

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Number of Persons. 1945-46. 1944-45. 1945-461944-45 VOTE—EDUCATION—continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. V. —Training of Teachers £ £ £ Charges fob and incidental to — Training Colleges — Allowances and advances to students and transport expenses .. .. .. .. .. (a)242,000 200,000 204,263 Apparatus and material .. .. .. (b) 1,400 750 660 Fees for medical examination of applicants .. .. 10 10 8 Salaries of staffs of training colleges and of practising schools (in excess of usual staffs at public schools), also officers attached to training colleges for museum work, and travelling-expenses; also grants to widows of deceased teachers .. .. .. .. (c) 54,500 42,000 43,456 Incidental expenses, libraries, special instruction, &c. .. (d) 9,000 5,460 4,228 Students'University College and other fees .. .. 6,500 5,500 6,461 Training of teachers (other than students of Training Colleges); refresher classes and conferences, including travelling expenses and allowances of instructors and teachers ; also expenses of teachers on approved visits to other schools .. .. .. .. .. 2,200 1,250 1,012 Contingencies .. .. .. .. .. 10 10 Estimated credits-in-aid under Section 51 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926 (see end of vote)— Recoveries on account of students' university £ college fees .. .. .. 20 Sundries .. .. .. .. 10 30 Total—Subdivision No. V .. .. 315,620 254,986 260,088 Subdivision No. VI—-Native Schools Salaries — 527 509 Salaries and travelling-expenses of teachers of village schools ; expenses of relieving teachers, &c., and payments to estates of deceased soldier teachers in lieu of leave ; also grants £ to widows of deceased teachers .. (e) 167,450 Less value of residences .. .. .. 6,500 160,950 142,974 Other Salaries I. 243 979 3 3 3(£790 to £840) .. .. .. .. .. 2,420 2,269 J 530 512 163,370 145,243 143,979 Other Charges for and incidental to — Advertising, translation fees, fuel, planting, sanitation, water, &c. .. .. .. .. .. 800 800 625 Books, apparatus, and other school requisites .. .. 3,000 3,000 ' (f) 1,457 Conveyance by road, ferry, &c., and board of children .. 22,000 18,200 19,768 Grants-in-aid to private schools for Maori children .. 4,500 7,000 (g) 902