REPATRIATION BOARD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11760, 20 February 1919, Page 2

REPATRIATION BOARD.

DRAFT REGULATIONS. CPer Press AMoeiatSoa.T Egg-j Wellington, Feb 19 | The draft regulations issued by the Central Repatriation Board today orovide for assistance and benefits as follow Discharged and soldiers’ widows are entitled to loans up to £3OO for purchase of businesses and plant and loans op to £SO free of interest for fnrniture. Soldiers or soldiers’ widows receiving training are entitled to payment of educational fees. Ail soldiers making application are to be assisted tojobrain employment. Soldiers awaiting employment are to receive sustenance as will ensure a weekly income, inclusive of pensions, of amounts ranging from 42s for a single soldier, to 66s for a soldier with a wife and four children. Soldiers receiving training in technical students training in commercial or professional occupations to receive sustenance as will ensure a weekly income, clusive of pensions, up to from 50s fur a single soldier, to 74s for' soldiers with a wife and tour cnildren. Aoprentices who have resumed indentures are to have their income, inclusive cf pension, brought up to £3 a week.

The income of approved trainees in private factories, workshops, etc., is to bo brought up to £3 a week, exclusive of pension. Widows without a . child under going vocational training will have their income brought to 35s a week. Loans up to £SO free of interest are to be made to soldiers to purchase tools to enable them to exercise their calling. L Free passages from Now Zealand are to be grouted to incapacitated soldiers and widows of soldiers. Free passages to New Zealand to widows of soldiers and free passages within New Zealand to soldiers proceeding to localities in which employment has been found.