REPATRIATION DEPARTMENT’S WORK.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15862, 5 July 1919, Page 5

REPATRIATION DEPARTMENT’S WORK.

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 5,

Progress returns of the Repatriation Department at 20th June show the number of returned soldiers on the Department’s register to be 53,824, including 27,159 who have returned since the beginning of Che year. Already 594 loans, totalling <£131,465, to assist discharged soldiers to start in business, hare been approved, and during the past month =£53,000 was actually paid on behalf of soldiers in the way of furniture, tools, business, sustenance, training fees, subsidised wages, assistance to apprentices, etc- The total number of men being trained by the Department is 819. The Department secured during the month billets for 821 men who applied for such assistance.