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DETAILS OF ESTIMATES FOR THE

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION— continued

(a) Provides for additional publications. (b) To provide for higher transport costs and expansion of services. (c) Includes £578 not brought to charge, 1947-48. Allowance increased from £5 to £lO per annum as from Ist April, 1947. (d) Provision to meet large increase in demand for films and film strips due to greater number of projectors in schools.

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1947 -48. 1948-49. YOTE —EDUCATION —continued Voted. I Expended. Subdivision No. I —General—continued £ £ £ Other Charges for and incidental to — | continued Payment of monetary equivalent of leave due to deceased officers 50 50 4 Payments to Post and Telegraph Department 13,500 11,665 12,528 Poliomyelitis epidemic : cost of preparing and despatching assignments, and postage on pupils' work 18,500 Printing and stationery 9,500 8,000 "7,832 Publications —Education, Education Gazette, Post-primary Bulletin, Primary Bulletin, School Journal, pamphlets, text-books, &c. printing, printing material and apparatus, royalties, copyrights, payments to authors, 59,778 &c. (part recoverable) (a) 66,700 59,000 Rent (including maintenance of grounds) .. 8,250 7,890 8,410 School journeys for special purposes 500 500 151 Special assistance to deserving students in cases of hardship 1,200 1,300 1,060 Teachers' superannuation : contributions of teachers with Armed Forces 550 550 Transfer and removal expenses 1,250 1,250 1,058 Transport of school-children (including maintenance of departmental vehicles used for such purposes, allowances to teacherdrivers, &c.) .. .. .. .. (6) 577,000 536,475 529,187 Travelling allowances and expenses 11,500 8,090 9,653 UNESCO: New Zealand's proportion of expenses — 13,136 Annual contribution 13,782 13,067 Revolving fund 1,709 1,895 j 1,906 Uniform allowances : physical-training instructors (c) 1,300 250 Visual education: equipment, materials, films, film strips, gramophone records, 9,406 &c., for National Film Library (d) 23,275 16,000