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APPENDIX IV. Leaflet handed to Soldier by Interviewing Officer. Discharged Soldiers' Information Department. Telephone No. 2183. Telegraphic Address: " Decide, Wellington." The Government has established the above, Department with the object of assisting discharged soldiers to secure suitable employment and to obtain for them any information of which they may stand in need. , Committees have been set up in the principal towns to assist the Information Department in its duties. These Local Committees are advised of the names of men requiring employment and of the nature of the work which each man desires to obtain. Provision has been made with the Agricultural Department for the training of soldiers in general farming, dairying, fruit-farming, poultry-raising, bee-culture, market-gardening, &c. Arrangements have been made whereby men rendered incapable of following their former occupations can be trained in new trades at technical schools, or in workshops, factories, &c. The New Zealand Society of Accountants has undertaken to supply free clerical training, including book-keeping and general office practice, to partially disabled soldiers accredited by the Department, provided they have passed the Sixth Standard of Education. A special land-settlement scheme has been formulated for the benefit of discharged soldiers, and is being administered by the Lands Department. Any returned soldier who desires further information regarding any of the foregoing matters should write at once to the Information Department for the fuller particulars desired. All communications from or on behalf of soldiers should be addressed to — The Officer in Charge, Discharged Soldiers' Information Department, Aitken Street, Wellington, and the regimental number should always be given as well as the soldier's name and address.

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The Secretary, The Department is advised that the above soldier desires employment as indicated. Will you kindly get into touch with him as soon as possible, and do your best to place him early, promptly advising this Department of results by means of annexed Form B 2 ? J. R. Samson, [Date.] .Officer in Charge, D.S.l.D. APPENDIX Vh. Advice-note to Head Office rugarmng Men i j laceij. , 191 . To the Officer in Charge, Discharged Soldiers' Information Department, Wellington. The undermentioned discharged soldier has been found employment as indicated.

Discharged Soldiers' Information Deparimeri 4, Welling/on. RegReg. Schedule to Committees regarding Men desi :ring Employment. No. No. Name and Address. Occupation and Former Employer, Character. Occupation desired. ; i

, a Secretary. Reg. No. Name. Description of Employment. (Name of Employer, Glass of Work, and Wages.) Card noted :