OVER £52,000,000

Opunake Times, 22 August 1947, Page 2

OVER £52,000,000

REHABILITATION LOANS - RELATIVE. FIGURES An increase of over one and a half million pounds during the month of June brought the total sum authorised for the re-estab-lishment of ex-servicemen and women in civil life tp £62,523,755 says a statement released by the Rehabilitation Board., The relative purposes for which this sum has been authorised are: — Loans to individual ex-service-me and women £39,359,986, purchases and expenses in connection with land for settlement £6,681,106, training for trades (both at the centres conducted by the Board and on wage subsidies) £4,204,611, education £1,179,568, assistance to Maoris under the Maori Rehabilitation Finance Committee, the Native Land Act and the Native Housing Act (that is apart from assistance received by individual Maoris through ordinary channels) £427,305, grants, subsidies, and loans on behalf of the Blinded Ex-servicemen’s Trust and the Disabled Servicemen’s Re-establishment League £148,833, other miscellaneous items including special grants, allowances and expenses £522,346.