REPATRIATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16748, 25 May 1920, Page 2

REPATRIATION.

NEW PLYMOUTH COMMITTEE,

A meeting of the New Plymouth Repatriation Committee was held on Monday night. Present: Messrs. C. H. Weston (chairman), C. Carter, H. R. Cattley. W. J. .Chaney, R. J. Clarke, T. Furlong, F. Hartnell, F. W, Okoy, J. R. Rowlands, E. Whittle, and the secretary (Mr. A. S. Allen). An apology for absence was received from Mr. T. C. Inst.

Tho payment of retained portion of subsidy to a farm trainee who had satisfactorily completed his period of training, was authorised.

An application for a loan of £3OO to purchase a business tvas deferred for further investigation. An advance of £b>o for stamp duty and expenses was recommended to the Ministerial Board for approval.

■IVo applications for furniture loans of £75 oach, recommended by the Opivnako Committee, and one from the Waitara Committee for £SO, W ere granted. Six other applications for furniture loans for amounts from £25 to £76 were also granted. A loan of £SO for tools of trade and initial expenses was made to a returned soldier starting on his own account ns a carpenter.

Financial assistance for thirteen months was granted to two discharged soldiers who desired to learn carpentry and an application from a disabled soldier (recommended by tho Waitara Committee) who desired to learn a new trade was also approved.