TRANSFERRED TO NEW OFFICES

Southland Times, Issue 25434, 5 August 1944, Page 7

TRANSFERRED TO NEW OFFICES

Work Of Rehabilitation Department

Because of the increased amount of business to be dealt with the Rehabilitation Department in Invercargill has found it necessary to transfer from its offices in H. and H. Motors building in Don street to offices in Royds Bros, and Kirk’s building. The transfer will take place today and the department start work in its new offices on Monday. The department will occupy the whole of the space previously occupied by the National Service Department and in addition will have offices on the ground floor of the building. Specific inquiries such as farm and trade training, loans for the purchase of houses and farms and so on, will be dealt with in the upstairs offices, while general inquiries will be answered at the ground floor offices. Previous to the transfer all correspondence and files on national 'service and rehabilitation had been co-ordin-ated. Consequently the Rehabilitation Department has had to separate its_ files from national service files in readiness for the transfer to the new offices. The district rehabilitation officer (Mr S. O. Merlo) stated yesterday that the department had received every cooperation from business firms in Invercargill,- and that the employment position was at present very sound. He expressed the hope that all business firms in the city would co-operate by informing the department as quickly as possible when vacancies arose. This would simplify the difficulty of settling returned men into civilian life, he stated. -