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Cost of Education. 

 The gross expenditure ou State Scliools foi' 1891-2-3-4 was — 



1891 £769,565 



1892 768,395 



1893 715,219 



1894 661,055 



Tliis gives an average for tlie four years of £728^558. Tliis sum 

 reduced to an average per liead of the average annual enrolment of 

 pupils for the four years amounts to about £2 10s. (two pounds ten 

 shillings) ; that is^ the average cost per child enrolled for the four 

 years ending December, 1894, was £2 10s. per annum. 



The total amount spent by the Department of Public Instruction in 

 1894 was £661,000. This sum is independent of Government expen- 

 diture on institutions not immediately controlled by the department 

 last named. 



It is not possible to give the exact figures representing the private 

 expenditure for the same object ; but it is thought safe to affirm that the 

 entire annual cost to New South Wales of its educational system, both 

 public and private, is not less than £1,200,000. This means, reckon- 

 ing money as being worth 4 per cent., that the increase arising from 

 £30,000,000 is handed over every year for the purposes of education. 



