RETURNING SOLDIERS
THE QUESTION OF EMPLOYMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent)'. Wellington, April 2. The number of returned soldiers on the register of the Repatriation Department on March 31 was 38,658, including over 13,000 men who have returned this year. Of the men who reached the Dominion during January, February and March, 605 have been played in employment by the Department. >No unemployment sustenance has yet becrf required to be paid in the Wellington District Office, while there have been 94sustenance cases in Canterbury, 40 in Auckland, and five in Otago, making a total of 139 unemployed cases for New Zealand where sustenance is being paid by the Department. The Department states that on March 31 there were 210 discharged soldiers heing trained under the Government schmes, 30 in technical schools and 180 as subsidised workers in factories or workshops. The number of returned men who have applied for assistance to start in businesses in 213 and 'of these 77 applications have been approved. Most of the rest are under inquiry.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1919, Page 6
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