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YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1949

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION—continued

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1947-48. 1948-49. V OTE —EDUCATION —continued Voted. | Expended. £ £ £ Subdivision No. X —Child Welfare —continued Other Charges for and incidental to — Clothing of children (including purchase of material, stores, and equipment for clothingmanufacture) 40,000 39,000 39,294 Department of Justice : payment for services rendered by the Registrar-General's Branch 20 40 40 Incidental expenses of maintaining children : medical, dental, funeral, and other miscellaneous expenses, payments on behalf of children, and grants for recreation of children (part recoverable) 14,750 14,500 14,587 Legal expenses 250 250 191 Maintenance of children in— Foster-homes: boarding-costs, &c. (part recoverable) 123,650 122,000 121,086 Government institutions: provisions, household expenses, class-room expenses, farm and garden expenses, live-stock, wages of inmates for work, and other miscellaneous expenses of maintaining the institutions (part recoverable) 18,350 17,500 17,560 Private institutions : capitation, &c. (part recoverable) 6,000 8,800 7,685 National Provident Fund: departmental contribution in respect of Child Welfare Officers 60 50 35 Preventive work 5,000 6,500 3,427 Transfer of maintenance 350 350 301 Transfer and removal expenses 500 750 234 Travelling allowances and expenses (including transit of children) 18,500 15,100 16,789 Contingencies 10 50 {a) 1 227,440 224,890 221,230 Total—Subdivision No. X 352,975 331,185 327,082 (a) Wreath, £1 2s.