FREE PASSAGES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16609, 5 December 1919, Page 3

FREE PASSAGES.

FOR SOLDIER SETTLERS

By Telegraph—Press Assn.- -Copyright. (Received Deo. S, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. i. The Government has decided to grant free passages to ex-service men from India or other stations outside Europe to the Dominions under the Overseas Settlement Scheme, provided the overseas Governments approve. The Australian authorities have au--thorised a grant of free third-class passages to any Australian soldiers who have taken their discharge overseas and may now desire to return to Australia. A similar privilege will be extended to wives.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.