REHABILITATION OF SERVICEMEN
N.S.W. SOLDIERS' LEAGUE PROPOSALS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, November 2. The New South Wales State'Council of th« Returned Soldiers' League has adopted a. " blueprint for rehabilitation" submitted by :a special committee. The report is regarded as the mast comprehensive schema for rehabilitation of Australian service personnel yet compiled. It was drawn up after investigations lasting four ; months. The main recommendations are:—A £SOO advance to ex-servicemen and war widows to establish themselves in businesses or professions ; a. £4O clothing allowance to servicemen and servicewomen on discharge; a war gratuity free of income tax and based _on length of' service overseas; a weekly living allowance for discharged personnel while they are awaiting; employment and during temporary periods of involuntary unemployment. The report criticised the Commonwealth reconstruction training scheme as being " too narrowly and rigidly conceived."
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Evening Star, Issue 25323, 3 November 1944, Page 5
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