HOUSING SCHEME
Australian Returned Men To Benefit
CANBERRA, Sept. 7.
Money will be provided in the Budget for the first instalment of the housing scheme for returned soldiers of this war.
Announcing this, the Minister for Repatriation, Senator H. R. Collett, raid the scheme would function immediately the money, labour and material were available. The scheme would allow returned men already married or intending marriage to have the choice CI the site, style of house and cost according to their means and taste. Mr Collett also stated that nine-tenths of the returned men of this war not undergoing hospital treatment had been placed in jobs. Some had returned to their former civil work and others had teen absorbed in munitions and miscellaneous new work.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 6
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124HOUSING SCHEME Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 6
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