EDUCATION GRANT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22846, 29 September 1937, Page 16

EDUCATION GRANT

NEARLY £350,000 MOKE SALARIES A LARGER ITEM GREATER CONCESSIONS MADE [BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON. Tuesday Expenditure on education will be increased by nearly £350,000 under the Education Department Estimates, which provide for £3,745,325, against last year's vote of £3,457,8:57. out of which £61,603 was not spent. Primary education is the principal item, and is expected to cost about £IIO,OOO more than last year. 'Approximately £63,000 more is granted to secondary education, and over £'25,000 more will be used in the training of teachers. School build- • inn allowances show an increase of over £105 ; 000. Principal items of educational expenditure, compared with amounts actually spent last year, are as follows: Vole Spent 1937-118 IU3U-U7 £ £ - Primary education .. 2,273,.">05 2,1(13,31)0 Post-primary education 7-11,0 J'2 078,70:1 Higher education 3iy,lt'J7 8(1,705 Training of teachers 17;i,CllO 118,374 School buildings .. 127(1, 100 170.808 School agencies . . 177,807 1(10,213 Salaries and Maintenance Costs Salary allowances in all departments will be increased from £2,277,538 last year to £2,354,920, a total increase of £77,382. Primary school teachers' salaries will account for £1,755,000, which is an increase of £59,923. Post-primary salaries will ndvanco £12,469 to £568,200, and salaries paid to training collego instructors will total £31,720, showing an increase of £4990. Special provision is mado for tho salaries of vocational guidance officers attached to technical schools. Allowances And advances to training college students, together with transport expenses, aro fixed at £127.260. This represents an increase of £16.848 on tho amount spent in this direction during tho past year. Extra provision has been mado for maintenance and renewal of school buildings and improvements to grounds. The Estimates, with the amounts spent last year in parentheses, include the following:—Public schools and training colleges, £ISO.OOO (£123.660); secondary schools, £22.000 (£1828); i technical schools. £12.500 (£IBB/); j other schools, £12.200 (£15,237). A sum of £12,600 has been voted for alterations to school buildings to diminish earthquake dangers, the comparative expenditure for the past year heing £3450. Benefits and Concessions Funds for tho incidental expenses of school committees have been reinstated at £156,000. A sum of £155,995 was used for this purpose last year. An allocation of £IOOO is made, as against £597 spent last year, for the purchase of radio sets, gramophones and records for schools. School and class libraries will benefit to the extent of £SOOO, compared with £llO9 spent last year. New school buses being necessary for consolidate centres, £14,500 is allocated for purchases, against expenditure of £6106 over tho past year. Many concessions to school pupils aro provided for. Grants totalling £3OOO are made for tho provision of books in necessitous cases, two-thirds of this amount being set aside for primary school children. Sums of £99.000 (£84,157) and £7500 (£4501) are fixed for transport and board allowances for primary scholars, and for similar purposes in the case of secondary school pupils amounts of £18,300 (£11,713) and £24,850 (£3994) have been allowed. Tho grants for last year,.in tho latter case, covered only the third term. Increases in operating costs aro also taken into account in tho new, estimates. Funds for Other Services University education is allotted £113,927, against last year's figure of £87,069, of which £86,705 was spent. The Auckland University College will receive £15,975, with an additional £2300 for tho School of Engineering. This is separate from endowment revenue of £2370. Provision is mado for the granting of additional bursaries and scholarships, an item of £20,445 being included for tho reintroduction of tho University National bursary system. The grant to the Workers. 1 Educational Association has been almost doubled. A sum of £6500 is fixed, against the allowance of £3500 last year, all of which was spent. An amount of £IOOO is ear-marked for adult education in Public Works camps. Free kindergartens will obtain £IO,OOO, compared with last year's expenditure of £4886. The grant includes allowances toward building costs. The child welfare allocation is slightly higher at £145,953, while there aro small increases in grants for the education of the blind, deaf and feebleminded. STATE FOREST SERVICE MORE MONEY AVAILABLE EXPANSION AT ROTORUA [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER"] WELLINGTON. Tuesday ; Increased activity in the State Forest Service is indicated by the substantial increase in tho vote for the current year. Tlitj service is being provided with a total of £399,522, an increase of £171,679 over last year's amount. Further planting is to be done in most of the forest areas and reserves throughout tho country, the following sums being provided for tho work in the Auckland Province: Kaingaroa, £120,390; Koto-ehu, £10,000; Wniotnpu, £8724; Whnkarcwarewa, £8176; Maramarua, £4627; Riverhead, £4387. Grants for nurseries include Kaingaroa, £3BOB, and Potorua, £3160. Further expenditure at Potorua includes £40,000 for sawmill and wood-working plant, £9OOO for logging and transport plant, and £IOOO for a creosoting plant.

STATE ADVANCES LOANS

VOLUME OF BUSINESS SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS [by telkgraph—special reporter] WELLINGTON, Tuesday ■ Loans granted by the State Advances Corporation from April 1, 1936, to .July 31_, 1937, totalled 5129, representing £5,437.019, according to a statement made by the Minister of Finance, tho Hon. W. Nash, in the Budget speech. • The Minister quoted the following table, giving details of the loans: Urban— Number Amount Krpotion of dwellings 1,111 £1,012,820 Refinancing . . .. 1,735 01(5,OOH Other purposes . fits 370,470 3,001 2,378,81)1) Rural— Refinancing .. 1,188 2,007,000 Other purposes . 287 450,430 1,475 3,058,120 Total authorisations 5,100 5,437,010 " Tho process of transferring to tho corporation tho whole of tho discharged soldier-settlement mortgages, totalling £11,525,000, is now complete, and corporation stock amounting to £8,760,000, bearing interest at 33 per cent, has been issued.to the Crown in settlement, the balance of £2,765,000 constituting a contingent liability of tho corporation," Mr. rsash said. "The corporation has now on its books mortgages totalling over £51,000,000." b