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Table V.—Showing Departmental Expenditure and Loans authorized (all Services) on Rehabilitation for Year ended 31st March, 1947, and to Date

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To 31sfc March, Year ended To Date from Outset. Item. 1946, from Outset. 31st March, 1947. £ £ £ Administration expenses 562,628 398,645 961,273 Educational facilities, including books, tuition fees, and subsis120,703 413,569 534,272 tence allowances Farm training, including fees and subsistence allowances at 74,407 168,220 242,627 ■ approved agricultural colleges and training farms and subsidies to approved employers Training of blinded servicemen 20,769 14,102 34,871 Grants to Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League .. 52,202 31,774 83,976 Land and building, Vocational Training Centres 89,562 79,059 168,621 Plant, machinery, and equipment .. 4,796 46 4,842 Purchase of artificial-limb factory 6,744 1,381 8,125 Special grants to ex-servicemen 17,834 8,940 26,774 Special grants to Returned Services' Association 18,341 5,450 23,791 Therapeutic employment for ex-servicemen 16,810 6,717 23,527 Trade training— Centres operated by Rehabilitation Department (includes establishment and operational charges, trainees' wages, 682,937 821,682 1,504,619 separation allowances and travelling-expenses, tools, plant, and equipment) Private firms and Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment 234,328 408,054 642,382 League (includes subsidies to employers and separation allowances) Travelling-expenses of ex-servicemen, including fares, furniture 19,412 14,700 34,112 removals, and loss of earnings Advertising and publicity 10,056 10,056 Motor-vehicles, purchase of 3,615 3,615 Plans and specifications 3,614 3,614 Tool-store (cost of tools for resale to ex-servicemen tradesmen) 18,846 18,846 Small Farms Act leases 21,443 21,443 Losses on rehabilitation loans 836 836 Rehabilitation allowances 419j 257 12,361 431,618 Loans (farms, business, housing, tools of trade, furniture, &c.) 18,294,166 17,417,480 35,711,646 Purchase of lands for settlement, development, and other 4,238,784 1,487,311 5,726,095 expenses in connection therewith (less £1,599,098 taken over under heading of " Loans ") Miscellaneous 2,696 1,499 4,195 Totals .. .. .. .. 24,876,376 21,349,400 46,225,776