REPATRIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 158, 5 July 1921, Page 3

REPATRIATION.

■ _.-._.— ... ■ 49 -——_■~ WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT. The latest report issued by the Repatriation Department shows that the register of the Department now contains the names of 79,487 discharged soldiers. Since its inception the Department has placed 24,192 discharged soldiers in employment, and the number remaining on the "employment wanted" register on June 20 was 395, distributed throughout the various districts as follows: Auckland district 115, Wellington 122, Canterbury 70, Otago 91. During the past month applications for employment were received from 718 men, and 505 of the men were placed. Unemployment sustenance was paid in three cases of hardship. During the past month 54 men commenced training, whilst 162 com- ' pleted their courses and were drafted out to employment. The total expenditure to date on training facilities, sustenance of trainees, etc., is £340,787. Loans to assist discharged soldiers to establish themselves in businesses or professions have been granted in 5721 cases at an expenditure of '£1,058,600. A further 12,257 men have received advances totalling £570,352 for the purchase of household furniture or tools of trade, and 3701 others have been granted financial assistance in other directions, the amount paid to or on behalf of soldiers under all headings being £1,981,683. At May 31, 1921, the amount collected in repayment of loan amounted to £588,178, or more than one-third of the total advances. Collections for the month of May were £38,525, a rate of over £460,000 per annum.