REPATRIATION.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17061, 4 February 1921, Page 6

REPATRIATION.

DOMINION'S FEN2 W08& ' (SFECUL TO "THIS *8139."} DUNEDIN, February 3. Speaking at the complimentary bflta* quet,, whisk was tendered Mm at Cro»* well, Sir Wm. Fraser, as chairman the Ministerial Repatriation Boarf, gave some interesting figures I S "°F~ mg how wonderfully successful the repatriation scheme has been. H® mentioned that 15,713 returned had received in loan money £l,4w.ooftand of that sum a total of £405,000 tw already been repaid in monthly instalments. That meant that in another two or three years the money used *"r the repatriation of those men WOOM all be paid back,to the Dominion. *5? that was something to ite very ptw of. .. c Proceeding to give some details, S»J William stated tnac 5292 loans M been granted for men entering small businesses, amounting *• ; £965,272 ; 9445 loans amounting » £431,368 had been granted for nurture, and 976 loans amounting _ J 1 £19,323 had been granted for tool* No fewer than 6557 men ceg. trained, at a cost of £243,45(1 a* tho large total of 21,461 men had W# placed m employment or otherwise PjJ vided for, at a total cost of £1,009,WJ Tho speaker added that, in propg, tion to the great number or men *» had "made good" under the the failures Kid been Very few indwj/ In fact, considered in their Erooer latinn, they were almost nejiugiW*;.