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Table V —Showing Departmental Expenditure Plus Loans and Special Grants Authorized for Year ended 31st March, 1950, and to Date

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Item. To 31sfc March, 1949, From Outset. Year Ended 31st March, 1950. To Date From Outset. £ £ £ Administration expenses 1,683,907 342,017 2,025,924 Educational facilities, including books, tuition fees, and 1,267,074 190,562 1,457,636 subsistence allowances Farm training, including fees and subsistence allowances at 433,383 25,015 458,398 approved agricultural colleges and training farms and subsidies to approved employers Training of blinded ex-servicemen 68,111 13,171 81,282 Grants to Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League 180,311 28,327 208,638 Land and building for trade training schemes, Disabled 239,077 7,086 246,163 Servicemen's Re-establishment League, &c. Plant and equipment for hostels, &c. 7,968 13 7,981 Purchase and establishment of artificial-limb factories .. 27,689 1,492 29,181 Special grants to ex-servicemen 37,534 3,405 40,939 Special grants to Returned Services' Association 33,856 1,750 35,606 Therapeutic employment for ex-servicemen 25,161 141 25,302 Trade training : centres operated by Rehabilitation Depart3,828,928 994,252 4,823,180 ment (includes establishment and operational charges, trainees' wages, separation allowances and travelling expenses, tools, plant, and equipment) Private firms and Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment 1,256,445 99,691 1,356,136 League (includes subsidies to employers and separation allowances) Travelling expenses of ex-servicemen, including fares. 41,251 766 42,017 furniture removals, and loss of earnings Advertising and publicity . . . . 17,787 3,476 21,263 Motor-vehicles purchased for trade training centres 12,409 20 12,429 Plans and specifications, including Plan Service 3,784 255 4,039 Tool-store (cost of tools for resale to ex-servicemen trades134,892 15,430 150,322 men) Losses on rehabilitation loans 15,077 4,734 19,811 Small Farms Act leases : Losses and interest concessions . . 55,327 55,327 Rehabilitation allowances 431,885 431,885 Loans (Rehabilitation Loans Committee) 61,485,641 11,697,481 73,183,122 Loans (Maori Rehabilitation Finance Committee) 708.139 73,011 781,150 Purchase of lands for settlement development and other 13,349,860 3,618,455 16,968,315 expenses in connection therewith Miscellaneous 5,308 71 5,379 Totals 85,350,804 17,120,621 102,471,425