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Coming now to grants and subsidies, Government
may under the Grant Code make various grants to non-
Government schools which fulfil certain conditions as regards
buildings, the number of pupils entered for various examina-
tions, etc. It has been the policy in the past for schools
to regard those grants as almost automatic. It is however ncccssary to fix a limit to these increasing demands on the public purso.
Such sums as the Government considers
equitable are provided in the Estimates, and it will bo
the duty of school managers so to regulate their arrangements,
in consultation with the Director of Education, that their
requirements can be met from the sums provided. Unauthorized expansion involving claims beyond the amounts provided will
not be recognised by the Government as a legitimate charge
on the Revenue. The amounts now inserted in the Estimates have
been scrutinized very carefully and will it is hoped prove
adequate. It will be noticed that the sum for building
grants has becn reduced, and I invite the special attention
of persons interested to the remarks I have made clsewhere
on the inability of Government to subsidize schemes started
without adequate financial provision.
The $11,639 inserted for equipment for King's Collogo includes gymnastic apparatus, physics and chemistry aparatus for 3rd year pupils, drawing models and a fow minor items. Part of this sum will not be required until King's College is again available for educational purposes.
Head 29- Public Works Department.
There is a nett reduction of $31,677 on personal
cmoluments of the Public Works Department. Of the increases
$39,525 is for stipulated increments and $19,987 for now
posts. Of the decreases $31,280 is accounted for by posts
abolished