AIDING SOLDIERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24971, 14 August 1944, Page 4

AIDING SOLDIERS

FORMS OF ASSISTANCE STATE HOUSING PREFERENCE NO. IV. * : # Clarification of many points concerning the policy to be adopted in dealing ) with applications by returned service, men or men demobilised from the home forces for various forms of assistance is contained i" the recent circular issued by,the Director of Rehabilita. tion, Mr F. Baker. '* The circular states that eligibility .# { for the allocation of State houses is ; f confined to returned servicemen, wives I of prisoners of war, and widows of ser- > vicemen. Priority is based, on the bou& • | iiig circumstances of the applicant, rather than his service, and the time for which the application has been lodged. In cases of relatively similar urgency, service should be taken into account. Si ■ Disabled Servicemen All ex-servicemen are eligible for any assistance the. Rehabilitation Depart- ? ment can give where, on their dis- f charge, their return to business or employment is jeopardised by existing " ; wartime controls. Under the general s ■ heading of employment, it is stated that all ex-servicemen are eligible for , assistance to obtain suitable civilian 1 employment. ■ The circular also defines those disabled ex-servicemen who are eligible for assistance through the Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League, f and, for this purpose, any man suffering from a4O per cent permanent dis- 1 1 ability or more may be regarded as a ; disabled man. All ex-servicemen- ate eligible to purchase motor-car* released by the Army, when the/; are available and essential to their re--1 establishment in employment, or where the use of a car _ becomes necessary through war disabilities. ' Furniture and Tools of Trade , The following personnel are eligible ■ for a furniture loan immediately, sub- J iject to it being required to establish or. re-establish a home:—All ex-service-men who have served outside New Zealand or 12 months or more within New ! Zealand; all widows of ex-servicemen j and wives of prisoners of war; and ex--1 servicemen, irrespective of service, !i- ---' who were required to dispose of their I homes or furniture on entering' the I forces. , . The following are eligible for . loans for tools of trade immediately, subject ' to the tools being required to establish • or re-establish the ex-serviceman in a J civilian occupation: —Any ex-service-I man. irrespective of service, who ii " assisted to learn a trade under the Re- [ habilitation Board's trade training ' scheme; any serviceman with overseas service, or 12 months or more in New ! Zealand; any serviceman, irrespective 5 of service, who had commenced to learn a trade in the forces, and wishes to continue in that trade on returning to civilian life; any serviceman, irrespective of service, who was a tradesman before entering the forces and requires tools to resume his trade. 1 (Concluded)