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1947-48. 1948-49. Voted. Expended. VOTE —EDUCATION —continued £ £ £ Subdivision No. II —Buildings, Land, Furniture, and Equipment —continued Charges for and incidental to —continued Fire brigades, grants to, in recognition of 30 30 services at fires 5 Fire damage : rebuilding, replacing, and repairing buildings, furniture, and equipment destroyed or damaged by fire, and alterations to and rent of temporary premises 10,500 14,230 during rebuilding (part recoverable) 10,000 Fire-protection work outside grounds (includ50 50 9 ing grants for such purposes) Grants towards cost of swimming-baths not on 10 10 school-grounds 2 Improvements in approaches to grounds and protective works outside grounds (includ400 150 371 ing grants for such purposes) Improvements to buildings and grounds, other than school buildings and grounds, reserved for school use (including grants 300 300 for such purposes) 1,300 Improvements to grounds 50,000 36,250 31,813 Maintenance and cost of disposal of land and buildings not used for school or institutional purposes .. • • • • 1,500 1,400 1,795 Maintenance of buildings, grounds, furniture, and equipment (including small additions, removals, renewals, fencing, storm damage, water charges, &c., and including grants to Education and other Boards for main(a) 360,658 O H if O tenance purposes) 320,000 297,250 Rent: buildings and land 9,000 8,550 8,753 Seddon Memorial Technical College Board: refund of proceeds sale of land purchased 1,650 1,350 from Board funds 300 (a) Includes £40,990 supplementary grants to Education Boards for replacement of school furniture and equipment.