Work Of Rehab. Board
Subsistence Allowance For Overseas Bursars Considered Sufficient
“This strengthens the Board in its original opinion,” said the Minister of Rehabilitation, the Hon. C. F. Skinner, when figures were tabled at the monthly meeting of the Rehabilitation Board showing average weekly wages received by tradesmen and other workers in industry in the United Kingdom and how they compared with the subsistence allowance granted with rehabilitation overseas bursaries to New Zealand ex-servicemen study ing in Great Britain. “Our allowances compare very favourably with what the average worker earns in Britain. In view of that I feel there is no need to increase the bursary, which at its present rate is all that can reasonably be expected from the public purse.” The figures presented to the Board showed the average weekly earnings in 16 large United Kingdom industries as £6 Is 9d. The rehabilitation overseas bursary, as apart from payment of fees, books, passage monies and voyage allowances, includes an annual subsistence grant of £250 sterling for a single bursar and £328 sterling for a married bursar. This amounts to £4 16s sterling a week for a single man and £6 6s sterling a week for a married man.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 36, 9 April 1948, Page 7
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