REPATRIATION REGULATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1919, Page 2

REPATRIATION REGULATIONS.

ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS. By Telegraph.—Pres3 Association. Wellington, Feb. 19. The draft regulations issued by the Central Repatriation Board to-day provide for assistance and benefits as follows: Discharged and soldiers' widows are entitled to loans up to £3OO for the purchase of businesses and plant, and loans up to £SO, free of interest, for furniture. Soldiers, or soldiers' widows, receiving training are entitled to the payment of the educational fees. A 1 soldiers making applications are to be assisted to obtain employment. Soldiers awaiting employment are 'to receive such sustenance aa will ensure a weekly income, inclusive of pensions, of amounts ranging from 42s for a single soldier to CGs for a soldier with a wife and four children. Soldiers receiving training in technical schools, and students training in commercial or professional occupations, are to receive such sustenance as will ensure a weekly income, inclusive of pensions, up to from 50s for single soldiers, to 74s for a soldier with a wife and four children. Apprentices who have resumed indentures are to have their income, inclusive of pension, brought up to £3 a week. The income of approved , trainees in private factories, workshops, etc., ia to be brou,"'it up to £3 a week, exclusive of pension. Widows with one child undergoing vocational training will have their income brought up to 15s a week. Loans up to £SO, freo of interest, are to be made to soldiers wherewith to purchase tools to enable them to exercise their calling. Free passage from New Zealand is to be granted to incapacitated soldiers and widows of Boldiers. Free passages are also granted to New Zealand to widows of soldiers, and free passages within New Zealand to soldiers .proceeding to localities in which employment has been found.