GONE BACK TO WORK
REHABILITATED MEN STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR (0.C.) WHANGAREI, this day. Already over 14,000 soldiers have returned from overseas, stated the Director of Rehabilitation at Whangarei, Mr. Baker, yesterday evening. Sixty per cent, he said, had gone back to their old employment, but still were entitled to receive certain rehabilitation benefits in the way of loans and housing. Throughout New Zealand a thousand rental houses or flats had been allocated to returned servicemen, and loans for the erection or purchase had been made to 449 others. These numbers were restricted to some extent by the shortage of building material and labour and high prices for constructional material. Approximately a third of the 14,000 were still undergoing treatment or still on Army pay, Mr. Baker said.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 294, 11 December 1943, Page 6
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