REPATRIATION DEPARTMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2492, 12 October 1922, Page 4

REPATRIATION DEPARTMENT.

PI'OGiH ESS RETORT. A progress relttni m in-.- R.-palrla-Lion Department as at tl'-bli Septi inner. J 922. shows that the ik-.iartmciu Iris placed 28,300 disclmrgt d soldiers in employment. and there me at the present time 157 names on tin- "< mpl.iymenl wanted” register i Auckland AYrllinotoii 55, GantcD ;;rv M. Otago 22). Jit addition to I indents who have been assisted financially with grants iur Lite payment ol f,-<-s and tin pureliase ol text honks. tin- department has arranged vocational training For (iOSI partially disable | soldiers. apprentices. etc.. and of this number 58-12 have eompleLed their courses and have been absorbed in various industries. During: September 12 men volume need training; and 28 trainees completed their courses. There are 212 men still being trained, viz.. 151 subsidised workers and apprentices in private workshops or Factories. II trainees at. Iluakunt and Tauherenikau training: farms, etc., and 50 others a: universities. etc. The total amount expended to date on the provision .-d facilities fur training; and for the -u-d.eimnro ol trainees is L'393.123. Loan.-, to assist discharged soldiers to establish them selves in businesses or professions Imve been emitted in (>3111) ea--. - at a • ist ot L 1 .146.200. A further 15.505 men imve received advances lota Ming; C7;11.1-17 for the pureliase of hoiisah. Id i urn it nr--or tools-01-lrade and 151(1 have been urn n led financial assistance m other directions. ARo----i he- mi h-ss llmu 02,115 men have nr...- I assistance Imm the department to the extent <9 22,283.780. Of this sum 11.877.113 represents loan advances lor ihe <-stah-lishim-nt of businesses or for the purchase of household furniture, etc., and

up to the 31st. August last the department had collected in n-piel- thereof Cl .U 91.195.