EDUCATION ESTIMATES.
ECONOMICS IN BRITAIN. SAVING OF £5,500,000. PROVISION STILL GENEROUS. By Telegraph—Piess' Association—Copyright. (Received April 19, 6,5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. April 18. The Minister of Education, Sir Donald Maclean, presi nted his departmental estimates in the House of Commons to-day. He said they provided for an Exchequer expenditure of £42,692,676, which shows an economy of ; 15,500,000 on last year. In 1906 the estimates were about £12,500,000. With the sums raised from rates by the local education authorities there was about, £100,000,000 for education purposes in Britain—more than half the total of tin national expenditure for the year before the war. The Minister said he doubted whether there was any country in Europe to-day whose Budget contained so generous a provision for education. Regarding recent economies he said there were reductions unde • every head, except teaghers' pensions and scholarships to students.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21162, 20 April 1932, Page 9
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142EDUCATION ESTIMATES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21162, 20 April 1932, Page 9
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