REPATRIATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 8

REPATRIATION

$ SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. The law and the regulations dealing ivith repatriation baro'blen presented in a useful form in a. pamphlet just issued by the Government. The publication defines the constitution and functions of the district boards and local committees, and contains tho regulations that have been issued under the Repatriation Act passed by Parliament last session. The assistance that the Government is prepared to give the soldiers and their dependants is more extensive than many people (realise. The pamphlet shows that the Government will—(1) Grant loans up to .£3OO for tlio'purchase of businesses, and plant by discharged soldiers and soldiers widows. (2) Pay educational fees for soldiers or soldiers' widows. (3) Grant loans up to J!SO for tho purchase of furniture for soldiers or soldiers' widows; and (4) make allowances to apprentices who have resumed their indentures, to approved trainees in private factories and workshops, to widows (without children) undergoing'vocational training. Then the Government will make loan 9 up to .£SO for the purchase of tools of trade, professional instruments, and other articles of equipment required by discharged soldiers entaring employment. It will make payments, up to a certain weekly income, to soldiers awaiting employment, to soldiers receiving training in technical schools, and to soldier students receiving training in commercial or professional occupations. . Finally, the Government will provide free passages frqm New_ Zealand for incapacitated soldiers Mid widows of deceased soldiers, and free passages to Now Zealand for widows of deceased soldiers; and it will provide freo transportation within New Zealand for soldiers proceeding to the locality in which employment has been found.