AID TO RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 31, Issue 27, 8 April 1919, Page 3

AID TO RETURNED SOLDIERS.

LONDON, April 5. The Press Bureau states that the Pensions Ministry announce that the Government have now recognised the obligation to assist from State funds demobilised and discharged officers and men who joined the forces after the outbreak of war in order that they may be enabled to re-start business. The assistance will be cither given in periodical payments to meet current obligations like rent, insurance premiums, school fees, and mortgage obligations, or in a lump sum for the purchase of stock in trade, shop fittings, etc. Officers and men of British nationality ordinarily domiciled overseas serving in the United Kingdom forces • are eligible for the Home Government’s facilities for higher education at the universities or in agriculture. A limited number' ordinarily domiciled in the United Kingdom will be assisted to take courses in Dominions oversea. The Board of Education’s poortion of The Board of Education’s portion of the scheme enables qualified oversea excourse at a university in the United v Kingdom, while others ordinarily domiciled in the United Kingdom will be assisted in studies in oversea universities.