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Abstract

A MEMORANDUM by the financial secretary to the Treasury explaining the estimates for Civil Services and the Revenue Departments, 1904–5, was issued on Tuesday. The estimat for education, science and art, is 15,798,217l., which is an increase of 1,217,893l. above the amount for 1903–4. The 1903–4 figures include a supplementary estimate o 45,000l. for the relief of the National Antarctic Expedition —a service of a quite exceptional character, for which any provision that may prove to be necessary next year will be made in a similar form. The bulk of the addition arises on the vote for the Board of Education, as the result of recent legislation, but Public Education (Scotland), Public Education (Ireland), and Universities and Colleges (Great Britain) also show increases. The Board of Education (England and Wales) requires 985,131l. more than this year. Of this increase 50,580l. is for grants for training teachers, pupil teachers, &c, and 52,303l. for grants in respect of education other than elementary. The principal increase, however (889,888l.), is for grants towards expenditure on public elementary schools. Universities and colleges, Great Britain, will require an additional 32,100l. to provide for grants for the new universities at Liverpool and Leeds (for each of which 2000l. is included), and for the proposed augmentation of the grants in aid of colleges, for which 54,000l. is inserted, or double the amount voted in the current year.