FORMIDABLE BILL
COST OF EDUCATION Expenditure on education has increased rapidly during recent years. The public purse was called upon to the extent of _ £3,910,241 for the financial year which, ended on March 31 last. The Year Book for 1928 supplies a series of comparative figures showing the increase in the cost of education since the beginning of the present century. In 1899 the expenditure was £519,000, or 13s 4d per head of population, and in 1914 £1,301,000, or 23s Id per head. In 1.920 it had risen to £2,544,000, or 42s 2d per head. The details for the past five years are as under: — . ~ _ , , Expenditure. Per head. £ s. d.
“ The exceptionally marked increase of recent years in the total education,” comments the review, is in a large measure due to the increase in the numhers receiving instruction, this being particularly marked in the case of post-primary schools. In the last decade the school population has increased bv 22 per cent. Combined with this factor, rendering increased expenditure inevitable, the purchasing power of money has, of course, decreased enormously since pre-war days, so that much of the increase m cost is more apparent than real.
1923 ... . . 3.187, OflO 48 7 1924 ... . 1925 ... . . 3,247,000 . 3,643,000 48 53 8 7 1926 ... . . 3,814,000 54 10 1927 ... . .. 3,910,000 55 1
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Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 12
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216FORMIDABLE BILL Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 12
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