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in 44 cases by purchase, and in 125 cases by hiring. In most 

 of the remaining cases the land was acquired by gift. The 

 total acreage of the land so acquired was 852a. or. igp. 

 The purposes for which the lands were acquired included 

 recreation grounds in 113 cases, burial grounds in 31 cases, 

 and for various other purposes. 



Technical Education. Return showing the extent to which ^ 

 and the mannei' in which ^ Local Authorities in the United 

 Kingdom have applied^ or are applying, ftmds to the 

 purpose of Technical Education {including Science^ Arty 

 Technical y and Manual Instructtoii] during the years 

 1895-6 a7td 1896-7. \H.C. 119.] Price is. 6d. 



This return shows the amount spent on technical education 

 by local authorities in the United Kingdom — with the 

 exception of nine which have made no return — during the 

 year 1895-6, together with the estimated expenditure during 

 the year 1896-7. Particulars are also given of the amounts 

 raised by loan on the security of the local rate under the 

 Technical Instruction Act, 1889 — mainly for the erection of 

 Science, Art, and Technical Schools. Of the nine smaller 

 authorities which have failed to furnish any information, 

 only one or two are believed to have applied any money to 

 educational purposes during the two years in question. With 

 regard to the expenditure on technical education out of rates 

 levied under the Public Libraries* Acts, the return only 

 inchides that portion of the rate which has been applied to 

 the building or maintenance of science and art schools, art 

 galleries, or museums. Only those boroughs and urban 

 districts (England and Wales) the councils of which have 

 made grants out of the rates under the Technical Instruc- 

 tion 'Acts, or devoted part of the proceeds of the Public 

 Libraries rate to the building or maintenance of science and 

 art schools, art galleries, or museums have been included in 

 the return. The grants made to those authorities by county 

 councils, out of the residue received under the Local Taxation 

 (Customs and Excise) Act, are accounted for in the expendi- 



