EDUCATION GRANT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22489, 5 August 1936, Page 16

EDUCATION GRANT

INCREASE OVER £650,000 FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN PROVISION FOR BUILDINGS [nv TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON. Tuesday An increased expenditure of over £650,000 is provided for in the Education Department estimates, £3,419,689 being allowed, against last year's vote of £2,759,652, which was over-expended by £35,446. Iho principal increases are in primary education, which is expected to cost about £300,000 more, secondary education and training of teachers, each of which accounts lor about £IOO,OOO more, and school buildings, for which £75,000 | more is allowed. Tho principal items of educational expenditure, compared with the amounts actually spent last year, are as follows: — Vote Spent lu:til-37 lu:ift-30 £ £ Primary education .. 2,l7'_VJ!) t 3.SiiH.iiO t Post-primary education t>!i."»,377 Higher education .. Training of teachers 11!).-Ill) School buildings .• 2'JU.Uo ltj(i,o08 Social agencies .. J(i-,!<71 167,114 Increase in Total Salaries The restoration of salaries and tho re-admission of five-year-old children is responsible for a sharp increase in the I allowance for salaries of teachers, j £1,693,100 being allowed for primary j schools, compared with £1,518,918 last j year. I Following an increase in tho allowI ances to training college students at j tho beginning of this year and tlio ro- ! opening of the Wellington and DunI edin colleges, tho cost of allowances to students is fixed at £110,500, against only £35,683 spent last year. The total cost of training colleges is set at £119,-110, compared with a vote of £-18,000 and an expenditure of £55,053 last year. To overtake work in arrcar, additional provision has been made for maintenance) and renewal of school buildings and improvement of grounds. The estimates, with the amount spent last year in parentheses, include tho following:—Public schools and training colleges, £147,000 (£60,091); secondary schools, £19.500 (£1554); technical schools, £9500 (£2624); native schools, £7OOO (£5498). Funds for School Committees Increased funds are provided for school committees, incidental expenses being set at £156,000. against an expenditure last year of only £103,647. There is a special provision of £16,000 for improvements to school grounds. Several concessions are made to secondary school pupils. To provide books in necessitous cases a grant of £IOOO is reinstated, while it is proposed to pay a boarding allowance and to convey pupils by road as in the caso of primary school pupils. A sum of £14,600 is allowed for board and £11,300 for road transport. Total expenditure on post-primary education is estimated at £695,377, against an expenditure of £539,483 last year, when tho vote was £579,773. Universities and Kindergartens

University education is allotted £86,619, against last year's figure of £74,823, of which £71,897 was spent. The Auckland University College allowance is £14,545, with an additional £1725 for the School of Engineering. This is in addition to endowment revenue, £2274. Provision is made for the granting of additional bursaries a;ul scholarships. A grant of £3500 is made to the Workers' Educational Association, it being stated that this restoration is necessary to enable the work to be maintained. The grant to freo kindergartens is practically doubled, an allowance of £6OOO being made, compared with last year's expenditure of £.'5065. The child welfare allocation is slightly higher at £134,790, while there are small increases in grants for the education of the blind, deaf and feeble-minded. BOUNTY OF THE STATE GRANTS TO LEGISLATORS [BY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The custom of granting special annuities to ex-members of tho Legislature, witlows of ex-members and other persons having special claims on tho Crown is continued, the appropriation in this year's estimates for the Pensions Department being £7586, against £577'J last year. Grants of £IOO each are to be made to the following ex-members of Parliament:—Messrs. F. N. liar tram. A. Bell, W. A. Chappie, J. S. Dickson. V. H. Potter, T. W. Rhodes and W. T. Wood. To Messrs. A. E. Glover, C. E. Major, G. W. Russell grants of £l2O each are provided, and for Mr. G. Witty, an ex-member of tho Legislative Council, tho grant is £lO2 5s 2d. Widows of ex-members of the Legislature who are to receive tho State bounty aro Lady Pomare, £150; Lady Fowlds, Lady Luke, Mrs. H. E. Holland and Mrs. M. Mills, £l2O each; Mrs. K. Colvin, Mrs. K. T. Dickie, Mrs. G. M. Earnshaw, Mrs. A. E. Ell, Mrs. M. Hall, Mrs. B. Hogg and Mrs. M. Horn, £IOO each; Mrs. E. H. Brown, £7B; Mrs. L. V. Kitchett and Mrs. E. M. McKenzie, £75 each. In the Internal Affairs Department estimates provision is made for a compassionate allowance of £4OO to the widow of the late Mr. P. A. do la Porrello, M.P. Provision is also made for a grant of £'J7 8s to Mrs. L. Hood, the widow of Captain Hood, who was lost while attempting to fly across the Tasman Sea.