COST OF EDUCATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10406, 20 July 1912, Page 3

COST OF EDUCATION.

DOUBLED IN LAST 13 YEARS.

Press Association. An Important statement on the ! finance ot education, showing that its cost has nraoticaily doubled in a .cloven years, was presented to the j&s{?j3SOon Commission to-day by • gogben, Inspector-General of tf r ' v Oomnsring the year crease of primary education in psblio and native schools 40 £360,000, The total increase in secondary ©dnoafeion, including secondary flObools and secondary departments o* ™ s r trict High Schools. and secondary schools £78,000. total increase of technical education is £50,000, and the total increase of higher education £16,000. In 1900 there was an average attendances of 32,418 [at [sole teacher schools, the average cost being £8 17s 3d. In 1910 the average attendance at snob schools was 32,793, while the average cost amoanted to £7 0s Bd. of which salaries represented £6 8s 2d.