REHABILITATION BENEFITS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24984, 19 September 1946, Page 4

REHABILITATION BENEFITS

RECIPROCITY PROPOSiII REPLIES FROM Al'S’lTUUll CANADA, AND BRITA® I (From Our Parliamentary Haptoo I WELLINGTON, September*! Replies on the suggestion of ncnsa cal rehabilitation benefits made bin Rehabilitation Board in New 2mn have been received from the Gewnfl ments of the United Kingdom, An tralia, and Canada. The attitude of Government was influenced & W policy on emigration. Both the Win Kingdom and Australia appeared af favourable to a scheme that wmMsw tice their younger men to settle de# where, and Canada, although the views of the board, set limiting £| tors on the assistance she was willigSi to give her servicemen domiciled W® side Canada. K A statement issued by the Betabiln tion Department says that the ban® having reviewed the matter in the liffl of these replies, decided to aiUiere* the following decision madt In Mn 1945: "that a person on arniin| WH new country where he is not man should be eligible for theMbn as nearly as practicable equlwSMM sistance, as that to which he titled in the country in which a serviceman, and that such aasMa® should be provided at the expwa® the government of the latter cousWW It was also agreed that this d<an® should be reviewed in the light decision by the Government oa Zealand's future immigration pwß* “This matter has been diKUMKMC often by interested parties; wd W Minister of Rehabilitation (the F. Skinner), when the question ciprocal benefits among Empire catoy tries was discussed at the last tMBIW of the board. “We shall proosW Ig a good many inquiries within tMMJ year or two, and we shall 80, have to tie the matter up, not only *® Empire ebuntries but with the States as well. The problem is there is such a disparity in vuWOJM habilitation schemes, New being in many cases so fat The Minister added that as he the reciprocal scheme would slmpß JJ tail administering, say. United »«■ dom benefits to United KtafttoQl® vicemen who had become domlcumj New Zealand, a reimbursement made in this country by the w® Kingdom Government of the involved. The same system work inversely in the case Oj/JJ Zealand serviceman living In