Committee Approves in Principle estimates of ordinary and extraordinary expenditure of the Education Department for 1939 were considered by the S.M.C. Education Board on January 20. The total estimates for extraordinary expenditure was $25,100, of which the main item was $9,500 for additional gymnastic apparatus, a bicycle shed, a wire screen for the playground, and a stage curtain at the Western District Public School. After discussion by the Board, the appropriations were approved in principle for submission to the Finance Committee.
The estimates of ordinary expenditure for the Education Office and Foreign Schools totalled $755,630.
In a report submitted, the Treasurer and Controller stated that the necessary amendments had been made to the Estimates to provide for the recently approved alterations in Repatriation Pay Adjustment and Temporary Bonus for the Foreign and Chinese staff. The expenditure appropriations had' also been subject to detailed examination and, in agreement with the Superintendent of Education, such amendments thereto as appeared to be necessary had been effected. A comparison of figures contained in the 1938 Budget with those in the Estimates for 1939 was as follows:—1998 1939
Education Office 10,160
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