ASSISTANCE TO SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 195, 13 May 1920, Page 4

ASSISTANCE TO SOLDIERS

■ NUMEROUS BUSINESSES FINANCED. ' ■ Aci interesting return, covering two rears' operations, has been compiled, by the Wellington District Repatriation Board showing the extent to which as- • sistance Ims been granted to returned soldiers who have been anxious to 6ot up in business for themselves. Between February, 1918.' and April 20, 19''0 the board financed 250 .returned soldiers' businesses in Wellington alone, tliß detail figures being as follow-.—Ad-vertising, 2; architect. 1; automobile, supplies, 1; artists, 2; baiter, 1; boxmaker, -1; butchers, 4; bootmakers, b;: boot manufacturers, 3; bricklayer, 1; billiard saloons, 2; bond and storage, 1; builders, 7; brick quo tile manufacturer, lj carriers (motoity, 22; carriers (horse), .11 j chimney sweep, 1; cabinetmakers, 3; chair makers, 3; chemists, 5; commission agents,-2; confectionery and tobacconists, 2; cycle and motor, 1; concrete block manufacturer, 1; concrete construction, 1; consulting, engineer, It . dentists, 2; dairy, 1; electrical engineers, 3: "electro-plating, 1; fishermen, i; fruit and confectionery, 10; farms, o; foundry, 1; fishmonger, 1; firewood, 2; grocers, 19; general dealers, 2; garage, 1; hairdressers, 3; hotel (private), 1; hawking. 1; indent agents, 13; insurance agency, 1; jeweller, 1; land and estat agents. 3; laundry. 1: livery stables, 1; moto; engineers, 9; milk vendors, 4; music teachers, 2; manufacturer mathematical instruments, 1; medical practitioners, 3; Native agent, 1; paint- ■ ers 3; plumbers, 4; pickle factory, 1; pig farms, 2; printers, 3; nhotograplier, 1; restaurants, 8; soft goods, 5; solicitors 3; saddlery and harness liianufacturcrs, 3; stationers, 3; sharcbroker, 1; soda fountain, 1; soagrass furniture manufacturer, 1; shipping and Customs, 1; limber merchant, 1; tailors, 4; taxis, • 12; tent manufacturer, 1; tinsmith, 1; upholsterers, 2; vulcanising, 1; vacuum cleaning, 1; wood and coal merchants, 2.