ALMOST £45,000,000

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 17, 16 April 1947, Page 3

ALMOST £45,000,000

REHABILITATION AID AUTHORISATIONS FOR ALL PURPOSES Most recent figures available, which show the position as at the end of February, disclose that at that date authorisations made for all rehabilitation purposes totalled £44,752,090, says a statement from the Rehabilitation Board. Of the above total, £34,369,471 represented loans authorised in respect of fanns, houses, businessse, furniture, tools of trade and miscellaneous other purposes including grants. A further £4,835,558 is accounted for as follows: Trade training at Board’s centres, £1,828,144; other trade training schemes, including subsidised training with private employers and training at centres of Disabled Servicemen’s Reestablishment League, £1,185,846; farm training, £329,458; education, £827,258; blinded servicemen, grant and training, ‘£36,272; Disabled Servicemen’s Re-establishment League grant and loan, £116,800; special grants, £26,173; rehabilitation allowances, £431,714; intermediate scheme for therapeutic training, £21,661; travelling expenses, removals, etc., £31,018; exchange on overseas separation allowances, £1244.

Authorisations for Maori rehabilitation made through the Maori Rehabilitation Finance Committee or under the Native Land Act, 1936, or Native Housing Act, 1935, totalled £386,349. This is apart from assistance rendered Maori ex-service-men through the normal channels open to Maori and pakeha alike. Expenditure authorised for the purchase of land for servicemen settlement and its development was £5,160,682. Here again this is apart from advances made for the purchase by almost 3500 ex-servicemen of single unit farms of a total value approximating £13,500,000.