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APPENDIX.

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE AND RECOVERIES In respect of all Services under the Control or Supervision of the Minister of Education during the Year ended 31st March, 1923.

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General Administration. £ £ £ Salaries Clerical assistance 26,458 081 27,139 659 405 2,488 4,291 39 165 66 2 Travelling-expenses Telephones, office requisites, books of reference, &c. Postage and telegrams Printing and stationery Office furniture and fittings Council of Education : Travelling-expenses, advertising, &c... Overtime and meal-allowance Sundries Less miscellaneous reooverios 35,254 625 34,629 Elementary Education. 1,518,054 Teachers' salaries (including pupil-teachers' and probationers' allowances) Teachers' houso allowances 1,558,281 130,030 40,227 General administrative purposes (including school committees' allowances) Organizing-teachers' salaries, &c. Removal of teachers Correspondence classes Manual instruction : Capitation and material School and class libraries School buildings and sites — Maintenance and repair of school buildings and residences Rent of buildings and sites used for school purposes Schools destroyed or damaged by fire —Rebuilding and repairs and rent of temporary premises Payment to Lands for Settlement Account for school-sites New buildings, additions, sites, and teachers' residences — Education Purposes Loans Act, 1919 91,217 8,812 8,948* 9,961 660 19 73,835 1,762 315 175,411 Inspectors— Salaries Travelling and removal expenses Telephones, office requisites, &c. Extra clerical assistance, typing, &c. 284,703 28,689 9,233 103 371 38,390 School physical services— Salaries of instructors Courses of instruction Travelling-expenses, &c. Material for uniforms, &c. 3,915 22 2,175 74 6,180 34,781 7,355 9 8,933 460 13,287 Conveyance and allowance for board of school-children Conveyance of instructors and teachers Fares of children attending standard VI examinations School Journal —Printing, &c. Education Gazelle —Printing, &o. Subsidies on voluntary contributions on account of public primary schools, including district high schools Less miscellaneous recoveries 2,166.658 1,458 > Carried forward .. .. 2,165,200t 2,199,829 * During the financial year _6,548 was recovered from the Fire In I Including £41,394 from national-endowment reserves revenue ai iurance Fund in the id £103,293 from prir hands of the Public Trustee, nary- education reserves.