REHABILITATION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6243, 17 June 1946, Page 5

REHABILITATION

OVER £27,000,000 AUTHORISED DETAILS OF COSTS TO DATE With an increase of £1,799,253 during April, the total authorised cost of rehabilitation to date had reached £27,287,878 by the end of that month (according to a statement released by the Rehabilitation Board. The published figures, however, do not take into account those relating to farm and trade training and education before the beginning of April, 1944. The current total is made up as follows: Authorised loans £19,804,240, trade and farm training and education £2,213,042, blinded servicemen £21,065, grants to Disabled Servicemen’s Re-establishment League £52,000, special grants and allowances £590,611, aid to Maoris under Maori Rehabilitation Finance Committee, Native Land Act, and Native Housing Act £240,475, and purchase and development of land for settlement, together with related expenses, £4,366,445. An analysis of the £19,804, 240 worth of loans authorised up to the end of April shows that they were apportioned as follows; For the establishment of demobilised men on their own farms £7,302,067, for the erection of houses £4,023,410, for the purchase of houses £5,622,566, for the estabishment of businesses £1,608,- , 070, interest-free furniture loans £l,196,650, interest-free loans for the purchase of tools of trade £28,585, and miscellaneous £22,892.