37. The number of Teachers paying premiums in the various Balance classes on 31st December, 1904, was : Sheet of 38. The following statement relative to the Pension Fund has been furnished to us by the Teachers' Pension Office:The Income and Expenditure of the Pension Fund during the year 1904 were as follows: The invested Capital of the Fund stood thus :- On 1st January, 1904, debt of the Church Temporalities Stock in hand, Stock bought in 1904, £891,887 3 7 941,088 11 2 Stock sold in 1904, In hand 31st December, 1904, 8,577 14 3 £932,510 16 11 £1,300,000 00 * NOTE. The sum of £18,000 in aid of the Teachers' Pension Fund was paid over by us within the year to the Fund. Expenditure on Schools and Teaching Staffs. 39. As far as we have been able to ascertain, the aggregate annual expenditure on the Schools from all sources, including Parliamentary Grants, school fees, and local subscriptions, amounted to £1,379,692 118. 1d., as shown in the following table. This would give an average of £2 178. 74d. for each child in average daily attendance during the year: 40. The amounts paid by the State in the financial year 1904-1905 to the Teaching Staffs of the principal classes of day National schools were as follows: Payments to Teaching Staffs of Principal Classes of Schools. 41. The payments to the Teaching staffs out of the funds Various placed at our disposal by Parliament were made under the follow- kinds of ing general heads:-(a) Salaries; (b) Capitation Grants. Payments. The amount paid in 1904-1905 in Salaries, and Capitation Salaries, Grants, to principal and assistant teachers, workmistresses, manual &c. instructresses, pupil teachers, and monitors was £1,216,535 6s. 8d.† 42. The total income of the Teaching Staff (day and evening Total National schools) from the State and from local sources, for the Income of year was as follows: : ន 8. d. £ 8. d. 1,217,463 1 3 or 98.3 per cent. 1,217,463 1 3 Subscriptions, &c., (exclusive of (a.) From Vote for Primary Education (ordinary): Salaries, &c., (b.) { Free Residences), 19,574 5 2 Teaching Staff. These totals differ from those given in paragraph 39. The difference is accounted for as follows: This difference is the local expenditure on building and repairing the schoolhouses, &c. 94,131 0 11 The payments to Evening Schools excluded from this Table amounted to £23,511 138. 7d. + Exclusive of Retiring Gratuities, £927 148. 7d. The expenditure from the vote on account of Pupil Teachers in the Model Schools amounts to £4,936 78. Od. 43. SALARIES from STATE SOURCES alone (exclusive of the Annual Capitation Grant) of the PRINCIPAL and ASSISTANT TEACHERS in the Service, on the 31st December, 1904. Principal Teachers' Incomes from State Sources. 44. Return showing, for different classes of National Schools, the average rate of annual income (January, 1905), from State sources alone, of the Principal Teachers, for work done inside school hours. NOTE.-This Return includes only Salary and residual Capitation Grant. “Marlborough-street "(Dublin), The Commissioners of National Education. "St. Patrick's" (Drumcondra, His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. 1 Sept., 1883 "Our Lady of Mercy" (Carysfort Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin). "Church of Ireland" (Kildareplace, Dublin). "De la Salle" (Waterford), "St. Mary's" (Belfast), The Most Rev. Dr. Henry, Bishop 1 Sept., 1900 "Mary Immaculate" (Limerick) The Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer, 1 Sept., 1901 Bishop of Limerick. 46. The following Table shows the number of candidates for admission to training (one and two years' courses) in 1904 in each of the Training colleges, and the antecedents of those admitted to the two years' course : |