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194 7-48. 1948-49. VOTE—EDUCATION— continued Voted. Expended. Subdivision No. I — General —continued £ £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to — continued Conferences : travelling-expenses and costs of investigations and reports, &c, of education conferences and committees (including United Nations conferences and committees held in New Zealand) 1,000 1,000 1,259 Examinations —School Certificate, special bursaries, Teachers', Technological, &c. : honoraria of examiners and supervisors, hiring and cleaning of accommodation, materials, freight, &c. (part recoverable) 8,500 8,500 8,130 Exhibits and displays : cost of preparing, transporting, and displaying — British Council and other exhibitions from overseas 500 2,700 1,653 Museum 450 450 450 Physical education 10 100 2 School work 350 100 7S Expenses of departmental officers and teachers travelling overseas (including expenses of delegates to United Nations conferences) (a) 1,500 6,000 (h) 7,893 Expenses of interviewing non-departmental officers 50 50 75 Fitting up accommodation—Works expenditure (c) 16,950 Other expenditure 1,350 1,000 907 Grading and registration of teachers: travelling-expenses and other costs of Grading Committees and Appeal Boards (including travelling-expenses of appellants) 100 800 721 Motor-vehicles —■ Maintenance of (other than vehicles for transport of school-children and institutional vehicles) 900 450 402 Purchase of .. {d) 57,000 41,000 29,669 Bepairs, &c, to private vehicles and property damaged in accidents 300 300 59 Office equipment 7,500 8,300 5,621 Office expenses 5,500 3,150 6,340 Overtime and meal allowances 7,250 5,105 7,232