COST OF EDUCATION.
“INCREASE MORE APPARENT
THAN REAL.”
Expenditure on education has increased rapidly during recent years. Teh 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 oenturv. 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 1920 it had! risen to £2.544,000, or 42s 2d per head. The details for the past five yeans are as under: Expenditure. Per head.
‘•The exceptionally marked increase of 7‘ceent years in the total cost of education,’*’ comments the review, “is in a large measure due to the increase in the numbers receiving instruction, this being particularly marked in the case of post-primary schools. In the last decade the -school population _ has increased by 22 per cent. Combined with this factor.* rendering increased expenditure inevitable, the purchasing power of money has, of course, decreased enormously since l pre-war days so that much of the increase in cost is more apparent than real.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 5
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221COST OF EDUCATION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 5
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