45

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Maintenance (including all salaries, scholarships, main- £ tenance, manual instruction, administration, supervision, and repairs) .. .. .. .. 829,509 New buildings, additions, and other permanent improvements .. .. .. .. .. 58,315 887,824 The moneys to meet this were provided as follows: — £ Minister of Finance .. .. .. .. 784,209 Reserves and interest .. .. .. .. 82,424 Tuition fees .. .. .. .. .. 21,191 Total .. .. .. .. 887,824 Of the total, 88-3 per cent, comes directly out of the revenues of the Dominion, 9-4 per cent, from reserves and interest,jfand 2-3 per cent, from tuition fees; in the case of Chicago, 3-6 per cent. is*provided by the State, 88 per cent, by means of the city school tax (local), 6-7 per cent, comes from rents and interest, and only a small fraction per cent, from school fees.* Chicago spends £1 ss. per head of the population on primary and secondary education (reckoned as above) —namely, for new buildings, &c, Bs. 3d., and for all other purposes, 16s. 9d. ; New Zealand, similarly, spends 18s. 7d. per head —namely, Is. 3d. per head for new buildings, and 17s. 4d. for other purposes.

Table F1. —Cost per Pupil of maintaining various Classes of Schools (exclusive of Expenditure on New Buildings, but including Expenditure met from Rents).

Table F2.—Cost per Pupil of maintaining various Classes of Schools (exclusive of Expenditure on New Buildings, but including Expenditure met from Rents.

The cost of maintaining the various kinds of schools in Chicago is shown in Table Fl as the cost per pupil; and in Table F2 the cost per pupil is shown for New Zealand schools, as nearly as possible on the same basis— i.e., all expenses are included except the cost of new buildings, additions, and improvements.

* In Chioago all education provided out of the city funds is free to all residents in the city.

Chicago. [N.B. —These figures are taken from the report of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago for the year ended 30th June, 1906.J Average Roll. For Salaries of Teachers. All other Expenses. Total. Elementary Schools High Schools Manual-Training High Schools Normal School* Parental School Schools for Deaf Blind Apprentices*; Evening Schools 231,297 10,839 1,185 366 212 200 27 229 9,714 £ s. d. 4 6 6 10 3 10 13 14 8 33 5 0 25 4 0 24 8 10 32 13 1 1 18 10 1 19 6 £ s. d. 17 5 1 10 11 4 15 3 15 17 8 51 1 2 (not given) 1 14 3 £ s. d. 5 13 11 11 14 9 18 9 11 49 2 8 76 5 2f 24 8 10* 34 7 4 1 18 10 2 10 6 0 11 0 ♦Excluding cost of practising schools, iIncludes board. JDoes not include board. §Three months only in each year. No allowance; are made to sti uients for board, &c.

ieni is. New Zealand, Averace Roll For Sala ™s All other ExAverage nou. of Teachers penses. Total. Primary Schools Secondary Schools District High Schools Training GollegeG Weraroa Boys' Training Farm .. School for Deaf Manual and Technical 141,900 4,270 2,594 261 126 70 17,y92 £ s. d. £ s. d. 3 8 6 1 11 7 11 2 3 *i ll 1 7 0 9 '3 111 14 11 9 9 3 3 13 3 1 33 16 8 22 15 2 6 14 2 £ s. d. 5 0 1 15 13 4+ 10 2 8 23 15 0J 46 19 9§ 29 9 4|| 3 5 21f •Including scholarships. tFees amount to £21,191 or £4 19s. 8 jlncluding University College fees i>, average £34 18s. 2d. a head, and make Hit §Includes board. IIDoes not include the net cost of boa] £51 6s. 9d. T[Whole year. d. per head ; so aid for students 3 total per head > that the net cost per head is £li i, but excluding allowances to st £58 13s. 2d. 0 Us. Id. ;udents, which •ding, £21 17s. 5< i. a head, whicli makes the total cost per pupil