REPATRIATION DEPARTMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1919, Page 5

REPATRIATION DEPARTMENT.

progress return- as at 20th JUNE, 1919, The number of returned soldiers on I purtment ' 8 "Sister now totals S3,KM. This includes 27,159 men who have returned to the Dominion since the beginning of the year. H.Wl'rS 0 " cards are now held b y the District Repatriation Officers as follows: Auckland 8317, Wellington 11,190 cZ o-oJ 86 fi & ureß include cards for S 6 , J" 011 who returned prior to Wl9, and have enquired regarding as™nce m e 1)e P ar tment. TOe reports appended show that tlready 594 loans totalling £131,466 to assfct discharged soldiers to start in business have been approved by the Ministerial Board, and that during the past month £53,000 was actually paid on hehalf of soldiers in the way of furniture lu ® lneß8 ' training fees, 25%! W * geS ' a6Bißtance * *PP»n-

The returns show that the total numtI 10 !? ftt present be ™«r trafnod by hj« %££&£«* m that dwiß * i! A 2 i tte Department second bil- . * or 8 21 ' men who applied for inch further 883 mßn financial asmtanco to enabfe thttn to start m business, and 7»4 applied for grants for furniture and tool/of trade, The amounts being paid oat by various Boards and committee* show %■ large increase. During the first mfinth ' * aTCh the a® o ®"* P*H *« > itrm S* t,W) Bec °n a »"«< lurn the **W nwntli £36,991). and dnring the month tmder revise £53,079, maVing a total of £114,295.