REPATRIATION WORK.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16506, 6 August 1919, Page 3

REPATRIATION WORK.

A SATISFACTORY REPORT. Par Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 6. The report of the Director of Repatriation shows,, that the number of returned soldiers now on the department’s register is 60,302, including 33,63" who have returned since the beginning of the year to date. The ’.Ministerial Board lias -approved 84C loans, totalling £189,555 to assist discharged soldiers At> start in business, and during the past month £70,000 has been actually paid on behalf of soldiers in the way of furniture, tools, business sustenance, training fees, etc. The total number of men at present being trained for new trades by the department is 1185, and during the month the department secured billets for 978 men who sought _ assistance The number of men remaining on the “employment wanted” register on July 20 was” 437, being distributed as follows: Auckland 156, Wellington 80, Canterbury 166, Otago 35. The number granted unemployment sustenance to date is 532, but on July 20 only 47 throughout the whole Dominion wore still in receipt of this relief, namely 39 in Auckland and eight in Canterbury.