REPATRIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1920, Page 5

REPATRIATION.

NEW PLYMOUTH COMMITTEE. A meeting of the New Plymouth Repatriation Committtc was held last evening, there being present:—Messrs C. H. Weston (chairman). W. J. Chaney, T. Furlong, C; Carter, F. W. Okey, R. ,T. Clarke, E. Whittle, T. C. List, J. R. Rowlands, F. Hartnell, H. R. Cattley, and the secretary (Mt. A. S. AUen). Five loans of £SO each for the purchase of furniture, approved by the Waitara and Opunake Repatriation Committees, were confirmed, as were two loans of £3OO for the purchase of busmess, recommended by the Opunake Committee; an application approved by the Auckland Committee for twelve months' training in fibrous plaster making with a Now Plymouth firm; and another application, approvad b> the Wellington Committee, for farm training in the Taranaki district, were confirmed.

Two men were granted allowances for training as motor ear engineersThe secretary reported that since lust meeting two men had been placed in positions. Two others required employment as clerks.

Applications for loans, were recommended as follows:—£300 for the purchase of an interest in motor car business, £SO for a tea room business, and f'W for the purchase of a motor cycle. Two other applications for £3OO and £f!000 for the purchases of businesses wore held over for furthcy inquiry.

Five furniture loans of £SO each were granted, as was a loan of £ls for the purchase of tools.

Payment of three correspondence course fees was approved. The Director nf Repatriation wrote asking the Committee to get into touch with any tubercular men in the district, and ascertain whether anything further could bo clone to assist them, and to send the Department full particulars. Should the Committee come across any men seriously disabled in lost limbs, it mifrht also inouirc in sncli others wavs, omch as those who have 'eases whether there was any way in which the Department could assist them, and send particulars of each case.