Repatriation Department

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1921, Page 4

Repatriation Department

WELLINGTON. Dec. 3 The progress return as at 20fh November shows:

Employment.-—The Department has placed 26, (KM discharged .soldiers in employment and there are at the present time 302 names oil the "Employment Wanted” Register (Auckland 78, W’ellington 123, Canterbury 63, Otago 38). It was necessary, during the months, to pay unemployment sustenance in one case of hardship.

Training.—ln addition In 1.391 students who have been assisted linai'ciai!y with grants for the payment of fees and the purchase of textbooks the Department has arranged vocational training lor .).91>3 partiallv disabl-d soldiers, apprentic s etc., and ,X>B3 <3 this number have completed then comscs and have been absorbed in various industries. There are now only 820 still being trained. During the past month 16 men commenced training and 109 completed their courses and obtained employment. The total amount expended to date on the provision of facilities for training and for the sustenance of trainees is £368,819. financial Assistance. Loans to assist discharged soldiers to establish themselves in businesses or piolTssion ■ have been granted in .A. 986 cases at a cost of CM .107.106. A further 13,190 men have received advances Totalling Co |3,300 for the purchase "f household funiimie or tools of trade and 3 993 have been granted financial assistance in other directions, the aiiiouu. paid to or on behalf of soldiers unde; all headings being L2.131.51it.

Repayments.- Of the Total ainotllit advanced C1.730,16' is l.v wav "1 loan and of this slim the to;: I collected hy the Department in inpayment ol sinloans, up to 31 St October 1921. amounted to C. 8 1,106 or < I "I the l " ::l l '"an advances. Expcndiluic . n soldiers dining, October amounted l>> C 22.322 wid'lst collections from .-oldieis for the month totalled C 38.212.