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The 198 Government-aided schools for natives had a total enrolment of 15,286, and received in 1911 grants in aid to the amount of 1^»773Z. ; and the 31 Government-aided schools for the children of Indians had a total enrolment of 3,089 in 1911, for which a grant of 3,866?. was expended.

Finance —Since the coming into effect of the Union there is only one financial statement for the four provinces together. Particulars are given above under the Union. The only provincial revenue at present is the amount voted by Parliament by way of subsidies for the performance of the services and duties assigned to the Provinces. The following tigures show the estimate of expenditure to be defrayed by the Natal Province during tlie year ending March 31, 1913, and a comparison with the approximate expenditure in the preceding year : —

TITLE.

ESTIMATES 1912-13.

General Administration Education .... Hospitals and Charitable

Institutions . Roads and Local Works

Union

Subsidy in

1912-13.

Revotes and

Savings from

1911-12

Estimated Total Expen- diture 1912-13,

£

21,100

177,700

34,600 297,600

£ 3,452

76,192

ESTIMATES 1911-12.

£

21,100

181,152

34,600 373,792

19,852 162,339

31,086 264,389

The following Services are rendered free by Union Govern n.ent Departments :—

E.stimate of Departmental Receipts of the Province.

Public Health . Posts, Telegraphs, and

Telephones . Printing and Stationery . Forestry .... Prisons' Department . Public Worlds Department

Total

1912-13

1911-12

£ 125

£ 30

1,360

2,800

25

2,000

2, .^00

25

3,200 6,000

2.400 3,500

13,510

10,755

191 2-] 3

Education Receipts Hosjiital Fees . . | Game and Fish Preser- j vation (Permits and i Miscellaneous Receipts) Superannuation Rents, Fees, and Sales of Government Property

Total

£

19,850

4,100

650 1,420

1,000

1911-12

27,020

£

19,967

3,900

§00 1,648

995

27,010

Industry —Up to the end of 1911, 8,311,000 acres of land had been alien- ated, 2,203,000 acres conditionally alienated, and 6,999,000 acres remained unalienated. These figures exclude 4,495,000 acres granted and leased up to the end of 1911 in Zululand and the Northern Territories. On the Coast and in Zululand there are vast plantations of sugar and tea, while cereals ot all kinds (especially maize), fruits, vegetables, the accacia mohsstma, the bark of which is so much used for tanning purposes, and other crops grow

prolifically. The production of maize in 1909 was 5,093,460 bushels ; and of