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NO DOCTOR AVAILABLE (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. To have been brought into Christchurch from places as far afield as Methven for their army medical examination, and then be told to come back next week because the doctors ceased work at mid-day, was the experience of five country workers on Wednesday. Only seven men remained to be attended to when thev were tcld they could not be examined that day.
When the statement made by the recruits was referred to army officers they said the matter was one for the Health Department, which arranged sittings of medical boards through a regional deputy, Dr. C. T. Hand Newton. The army's duty to arrange for men to attend sittings of the boards.
"If more men are called up for medical examination than the doctors can examine in the time, the examination of some must be postponed to another occasion," said Dr. Hand Newton, when invited to comment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 119, 22 May 1942, Page 6
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