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Table IV.—Showing Rate of Demobilization of Ex-servicemen and Ex-servicewomen to 31st March, 1948, as recorded by the Rehabilitation Department

Table V.—Showing Departmental Expenditure and Loans authorized (all Services) on Rehabilitation for Year ended 31st March, 1948, and to Date

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Date. Ex-overseas. Ex Home Service. Total. To 31st March— 1941 833 833 1942 3,478 3,478 1943 7,847 11,447 19,294 1944 22,535 20,121 42,656 1945 41,009 27,666 68,675 1946 106,989 44,411 151,400 1947 .. 128,416 54,094 182,510 1948 139,328 62,937 202,265

Item. To 31st March, 1947, from Outset. Yeax ended 31st March, 1948. To Date from Outset. Administration expenses Educational facilities, including books, tuition fees, and subsistence allowances Farm training, including fees and subsistence allowances at approved agricultural colleges and training farms and subsidies to approved employers Training of blinded servicemen Grants to Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League Land and building, vocational training centres Plant, machinery, and equipment Purchase of artificial-limb factory Special grants to ex-servicemen Special grants to Returned Services' Association Therapeutic employment for ex-servicemen Trade training— Centres operated by Rehabilitation Department (includes establishment and operational charges, trainees' wages, separation allowances and travelling-expenses, tools, plant, and equipment) Private firms and Disabled Servicemen's Re-establish-ment League (includes subsidies to employers and separation allowances) Travelling-expenses of ex-servicemen, including fares, furniture removals, and loss of earnings Advertising and publicity Motor-vehicles, purchase of .. Plans and specifications Tool-store (cost of tools for resale to ex-servicemen tradesmen) Small Farms Act leases Losses on rehabilitation loans Rehabilitation allowances Loans (farms, business, housing, tools of trade, furniture &c.) Purchase of lands for settlement, development, and other expenses in connection therewith (less £2,522,525 taken over Trader heading of " Loans ") Miscellaneous £ 961,273 534,272 242,627 34,871 83,976 168,621 4,842 8,125 26,774 23,791 23,527 1,504,619 642,382 34,112 10,056 3,615 3,614 18,846 21,443 836 431,618 35,711,646 5,726,095 4,195 £ 373,330 416,024 127,546 16,176 47,822 45,614 2,365 19,016 3,261 4,470 1,565 1,165,137 382,445 4,718 3,873 6,636 115 80,379 33,884 2,025 192 13,649,313 2,700,630 346 £ 1,334,603 949,833 370,102 51,047 131,798 215,224 7,207 27,141 33,368 28,261 25,092 2,677,357 1,024,915 38,779 13,929 10.251 3,729 99.252 49,266 2,861 431,810 49,360,959 8,426,725 4,541 46,225,776 19,086,882 65,318,050