INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION VIEW

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3138, 17 July 1917, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION VIEW

OF EARLY MEDICA1 'j EXAMINATION. At the meeting of t'Jie Wellington Industrial Association la; st evening, the following resolution was received from the Canterbury Industrial -• Association, which asked for the support (if the Wellington Association"That in view of the first ballot ,of the Second Division probably being taken within the ne:tt three months, it is imperative in faarness to the men belonging to this class, and in order to prevent dislocation of business and minimise industrial disorganisation, that local or trying-out camps should be established, so that no man snaould be obliged- to close up his business or leavo a situation until absolutely certain that when sent to Trentham he, wouj, d not be' returned as medically unfit; and that the matter bo placed before the Efficiency Board with a request that the board should recommend to the Government accordingly." Most of those present agreed that the scheme .suggested in the resolution appeared qaite unworkable. If Wellington, as one centre, obtained trying-out camps, all the ot'Jiflr centres of the Dominion would at once want similar consideration. One sjieaker asked whether it was likflv that any man could attend a trying-out ca;mp and keep his business at the same 1 time. Another said that even a scheme for medical examination of Second Division men before thev were balloted had bisen considered by the authorities to be -unfeasible. The meeting appointed a committee consisting- of tte president and vice-pre-sidents to confer with the Chamber ot Commerce, the Employers' Federation and the Second Division League upon means of securing early medical examination for SeponcJ Division reservists. .