SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1923, Page 7

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TfTBTTt INCIDENTAL EXPENSES!

Regulations issued yesterday provide - that the purposes for which incidentalallowances are paid to secondary-schools-shall be such only as are comprised " under the following heads: (a) "-Office; staff salaries, including clerical assist-' ance for principals; (b) other office lex-.; penses, including payments for furniture^ v equipment, stationery, postage, telephones, rent, insurance, cleanings fuel,-r and incidental bank charges'; (c) raf Biid q£ travelling expenses to board membjers" in accordance with section 93 of the Education Act, 1914; (d) legal expenses iiot connected with administration of endow-' ments; (c) material, apparatus, and Btationery for school classes; (f) printing < and advertising in connection with'"theschool; (g) cleaning and sanitary service," heating, lighting, and water supply in connection with school buildings; (h) care and improvement of 'school grounds; (i) school libraries; provided;that'expenditure in connection with boarding- , houses shall not, without tha approval of the Minister, be included as incidental expenses. If provision has been made for the cost of all the items specified above the incidental allowances may be expended on other purposes for which the board's funds are available, and for the'purpose of subsidising contributions from parents and others for the purchase of material and apparatus for the encouragement of organised school games. ■- No part of the incidental allowances or of other grants from tike Consolidated Fund shall be used for school prizes or lor any expenditure connected with the Iqwet department. ■■- - ■'-'-