WORK OF REPATRIATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17125, 2 April 1919, Page 9

WORK OF REPATRIATION.

BOARD AT HIGH PRESSUW ACQUIRING BUSINESSES^ MANY .APPLICATIONS. The District Repatriation Board is working 'at high pressure. On Monday and yesterday the Finance Committee considered a large number of cases involving applications for advances to enable men to start lusinespes of various descriptions. To date many applications have !en granted to experienced men to acquire existing businesses ouch as groceries, etc., but not many have been granted for the purpose of allowing men to start new bus. nesses. The policy of the board in sri-h applications is to first consider whether the application, if granted, will ba for the benefit of the soldier, and secondly if it will benefit the State. In no case can advances be made as a reward. The whole matter is • considered from the point of view of repatriation. The board expects to be established in its new and more spacious rooms in the New Zealand Insurance Company's holding by the end of this week, in future applications for advances for businesses will be. taken on Mondays, and those for advances for furniture, tools, etc., on Tuesdays. A member of the board stated, yesterdav that there may be a number of- applicants whose cases have been delaved so lore that they have beccme disgusted. Ho pointed out, however, that when" the board first sat it had no less than 200 applications already in and ; t had not been physically possible, to defJ with them as promptly as members had wished. This back work was now bein#? overhauled and very soon there would be no delay '