CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.— (i) The number of pupils in N.Z. Catholic schools is .about 12,000. (2) No figures available. (3) The cost of educating a pupil in the public school is over £5 per annum, and, taking this as, the basis of calculation, the Catholics of the Dominion, by maintaining their own schools, save the Government at least ,£60,000 a year. We have no means of ascertaining the approximate yearly cost of conducting Catholic schools. (4) The number .of children at State primary schools at the end of last year was 141,071, and the receipts, by Education Boards for the maintenance of ( primary schools was over^ ' (s) 'We have no means of finding out.
T.H. — We have no means of finding out the information you ask f^r.
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New Zealand Tablet, 3 December 1908, Page 21
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126Untitled New Zealand Tablet, 3 December 1908, Page 21
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