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Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 4

The Otago Repatriation Board, of which Mr James" Begg, is chairman, at their meeting last week granted loans amounting In the aggregate to £1,273, to enable soldiers to start in business. Provision was made for starting six soldiers in new trades—that is to say, they were granted subsidies. These six are wounded men who by reason of their own injuries cannot now follow the occupations they were enraged- in prior to the war. They have been helped to learn new trades, and the subsidies arc to bring up their incomes in the” meantime to a living wage. Eight applications for educational training at the university were held over pending the conference at Wellington on the 13th at which all questions relating to education ere to be discussed. The members of tire conference from Otago will ho Mr H. D. Tennent and Mr J. Begg from Dunedin, Mr M. Thomson from Invercargill, and Mr Ireland Horn Oamarn.,