REPATRIATION.
A meeting of the New Plymouth Repatriation Committee was held last evening. Present: Messrs. CH. Weston (chairman), W. J. Chanoy, T. Furlong, C. Carter, F. W. Okey, R. J. Clarke, E. Whittle, T. C. List, J. R. Rowlands, H. R. Cattley, E. B. Ellerm, and A. S. Allen (secretary). The secretary reported that since the last meeting three men had been placed in employment; farm training had been arranged for a trainee approve;! ay the Wellington Board; a local man had commenced farm training. There were five names on the unemployment register, all but one of whom desired light work. Three applications for loans of £3OO each to purchase motor lorries and a car were approved, as were a loan of £IOO to purchase farm stock and implements, one of £2OO for dairy cows, and £l5O for cows and implements. Two furniture loans of £SO each were granted. A carpenter was granted a loan of £lO for tools. Trainees' allowances were granted in respect-to an es.'-soldier who, through disability, could not take up his old occupation and desired to learn cabinetmaking, and to another who was taking up farming work..
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1919, Page 5
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191REPATRIATION. Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1919, Page 5
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