Repatriation Department

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1922, Page 4

Repatriation Department

WEU.INivTOX, Sept. 10. The folic .vini; progress return us at o-.t!i An " list. 1922 'is nnnomic-ed. ' P:,nploVment.-ili a Department lias placed 23,203 discharged soldiers m employment and there are at the present time 259 names on the employment Wanted” Register, (Auoklund 71: Wellington 08; Canterhuiy addition to 1.438 students who have been assisted t.iM.eiaily with grants for Die payment oi fees and the purchase of text-l ooks . the Department has arranged t otational training for 6,0,0 partly disabled soldiers, npprentiort etc and 5.814 of tins number hate pletcJ their cour.-es and ha absorbs! in various u*. in‘ r tho month of August H 1 mewed training and IS I trainees completed their courses. There are g men still being traineed v.*; ■ lb subsidised workers and ,■ ivete workshops or factories, » pin.vcc mo 1 d Tauheremtrainees at 'ioakuia -. , m k-au Training Farms etc., . others at Universities etc. the total amount expended to date on t ic' V'°' vision of facilities for training andjm the sustenawe of trainees is £ • ’ 'Financial assistance. -Loans to assist discharged soldiers to establish t«em selves in businesses or professions have been granted in 0.209 cases at a cost of £1,142,093. A further L ,133 men bare received advances tola U £723,857,857 for the purchase ol house hold furniture or tools of trade and 4,491 lmve been granted financial assistance in other directions the amount paid to or on behalf of soldiers under all headings being £-r i Uepavinents. —Of the total amount of £2,270,820 expended on behalf ot soldiers £1,865.942 represents loan advances for the establishment ol usinesses or for the purchase of household furniture etc. and up to the 31st duly last the Department had collected in respect thereof £l,0Gl,ol(.