REHABILITATION PROGRESS

Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1946, Page 2

REHABILITATION PROGRESS

♦ —Press Association

r i ■ * By Telegraph-

■ ■ ■ WELLI.N GTON, May 12. A further 164 Statc rental houses and flats wcre let to cx-scrvicemen during March, 'linder the 50 per ccnt, allocatioa system, states the Kehabilitatiou Board. This brought thc total nuinber so allocated to the cnd of that month to 5021. Of these 1447 have been in the Auckland district (33 in Alafch), 384 in the Hamilton district (21), Napier district 226 (2), Ncw Plymouth districf 142 (7), Wellington district 1$51 "(73), Nelson district 101 (6), Christchurch district 484 (7), Dunedin district 279 (8), Invercargill district 106. (-7)-r-totals 5021 (164). Gntil the end of March £25,4SS,625 had been authorised for the purposes of th6 Rehabilitation Board in tho rcestablishmcnt in civii life of former men and women of the Armed Forees, says a "statemcnt from the Board. Of that a'mount- £4,238,784 ' was for the purchase and dcvelppmcht of lands for settlement by servicemen, • while £227,402 was for assistance alforded Maori ex-scrvicemen and women either by the Maori Rehabilitation Finance Coinmittee or under the Native Land Act, 1936. -Apart- froru this many ;Afaoris have &een assistcd undor the gfineral rehabilitation scheme in the same way as pakehas. Authorisations for rehabilitation loans other -than finahcial assistance, amounted to £18,2^4,166, for trade and occupational •trai'nlhg £1,590,988, for fai'm training £143,317, education £433,907, blinded -ee'fvicem'eh £21,065, grants to Disabled Sofviceiilcn, 's Re-cstablishnicnt Lcague £52,000,* sfi'ecial grants, £17,835, rchabilithtioh allowances £534,273, interme&lafe scheme for temporarily disabled men) £15,6063 payments towards servicemen 's travelling expenses, remov'hls,' etc., £18,939, exchange on overseas ^eparation allowances £704.