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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, 1946

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General Administration £ £ £ ' Salaries of Head Office staff 51,284 Part salaries | of Inspectors attached to Head Office 4,107 Overtime and meal allowances 1,645 — — 57,036 Office furniture and fittings 1,166 Office expenses .. 1,839 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department for telephone 2,834 and postal services Travelling-expenses 1,123 Education Gazette— Salaries .. .. .. .. 890 Printing, postage, &c., office and other requisites 3,067 3,957 Printing and stationery 588 Printing and stationery— Storage with Government Printer .. 127 Miscellaneous 7 68,677 Less recoveries— Services rendered to Teachers' Superannuation Board 2,043 and to other Departments Education Gazette : Sales and advertising, &c. 90 Postage and telegrams 405 Printing and stationery and sale of publications 71 Teachers' certificates, fees for 670 Sale of surplus, stores 300 3,579 Primary Education 65,098 {Including Intermediate Schools or Departments under Control of Education Boards) Teachers' salaries and allowances 2,531,098 Teachers' salaries and allowances —Chatham Island schools .. 2,430 2,533,528 Education Boards—Grants for administration and general 53,108 purposes School Commmittees' allowances —Cleaning,- heating, &c. 197,511 School and class libraries 27,783 Supply of books in necessitous cases 769 Special assistance to deserving students 20 Removal expenses of teachers 1,473 School buildings and sites— Maintenance, including alterations to make safe against 250,888 earthquake Rebuilding or repairing buildings destroyed or damaged by 5,643 fire Rent of buildings and sites for school purposes 5,210 Valuation fees and miscellaneous 399 Grants towards cost of swimming baths not on school grounds 298 Grants to Fire Brigades 4 262,442 Maintenance and cost of disposal of buildings not used for school 1,299 purposes Boys' and girls' agricultural clubs 1,150 Grants in aid of free kindergartens 24,828 Grant to pre-school education centre, Dunedin 248 Conveyance, &c., of children — By rail 12,641 By road and water 326,702 Boarding-allowances 12,004 Purchase of new buses 14,575 Q99 Conveyance of instructors and teachers 8,100