MORE THAN £19,000,000

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 39, 30 January 1946, Page 2

MORE THAN £19,000,000

OVER ALL AUTHORISED

EXPENDITURE

REIIA BLILITATION TO DATE

Most recent figures available, which show the position as at November 30 last give the over-all authorised expenditure, for rehabilitation to that date as £19,022,9-19, states the Rehabilitation Department. Of that total, much the greatest part—13,610,929 —-was for loans authorised to ex-servicemen and women for farms, houses, businesses, furniture, tools of trade and miscellaneous purposes, while a further £3,206, (573 was for the purchase sub-divi.sion and— improving of land for ex-servicemen settlement.

The teaching of building trades at the Rehabilitation Board’s trailing centres accounted for £707,795 of the authorised expenditure, while £388,503 was earmarked for other forms of trade training including subsidies to private employers, assistance to. ex-servicemen resuming or reviving apprenticeships, and for the training of disabled servicemen at the 'centres of the Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League. Authorised grants, to the league totalled £52,000, and a further £lO - 281 had been set aside for the training of blinded servicemen.

The increasing amount of educational assistance being afforded exserviccmen and women was reflected in the total sum authorised for that purpose—£2o9,666 at November 30. Farm training at the same date accounted for £97,305. Next to trade training the largest amount authorised—apart from loans —was for the payment of rehabilitation allowances. These are paid to ex-servicemen and women unable to find suitable employment and in no ease for more than 13 weeks. Air together £521 058 had been authorised on that account by the end of November