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A BIG BILL

COST OF EDUCATION

According to the annual report of the Minister of Education laid before Parliament yesterday, the total expenditure on education last vear, including endowment revenue, amounted to £3,987,416, as against £3,895,034 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 new medical school in Dunedin. The pre-war expenditure on education was If millions, and. the present expenditure, it is stated, is equivalent to only 21 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 ss. 9d.; Norway, £l4 Ils.; Holland, £l2 10s.; United States, £l2 175.; Ontario, £l3 195.; British Columbia, £l7 195.; Queensland, £lO 19s. 3d.; Victoria, £8 165.; New South Wales, £l4 12s. 6d.; Capetown (including primarv and secondary), £l6 135.; Transvaal (including primary and secondary), £2l 4s. 2d. In New. Zealand the cost of primary education is £l3.

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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 10

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A BIG BILL Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 10

A BIG BILL Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 10