THE EX-SOLDIER
REHABILITATION AID
LAND SETTLEMENT
The total number of men assisted through the Rehabilitation Board by. loans for businesses, farms, and other purposes was 14,765 up to July 31 last for a total amount of £9,541,000, said Mr. E. L. Cullen (Government, Hawke's Bay), a member of the Rehabilitation Board, during his Budget speech in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. That was the expenditure as far as the board was concerned to July 31, but he felt that twice that amount would be needed in the coming year. A large number of men had returned and they were applying not only for land settlement, but for the purchase of businesses. The area of land acquired by the Land Purchase Board to July 31 was 137,000 acres and of that amount 33,000 acres had been settled for soldier settlement, added Mr. Cullen. That was altogether apart from the area of land purchased individually. Properties taken under Section 51 of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act numbered 93 single units and 93 properties that could be subdivided. He disagreed with a contention that production had not increased as a result of the settlement of one thousand-odd returned men on the land. He would say it had increased by about 30 per cent. . EDUCATION FACILITIES. Referring to the number of men who had taken advantage of educational opportunities offered by the Rehabilitation Board, Mr. Cullen expressed the hope that many more returned men would make use of that opportunity. It was pleasing to see a very large number of young men who went away with their education only partly finished again picking up the threads. The general education system of the board was to encourage that. Not only were young men taking advantage of that opportunity, but men from 35 to 40 were making application for a general brush-up in the professions they carried on prier to the war., Mr. R. M. Algie (National, RemUera): This is the era of the new enlightenment.
Mr. Cullen: It is the new world order.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 9
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341THE EX-SOLDIER Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 9
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