WAITING FOR A DOCTOR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 8

WAITING FOR A DOCTOR

RAILWAYMEN AND MILITARY SERVICE. Although the Second Division ballots have commenced, the Defence Department has not yet talten nearly all the men already called up belonging to the railwav service. These men were- not granted exemption, but the cases of tho biggest batch of railwa.vmen for which appeal was made by, the Department were adjourned sine die on an undertaken* »iven by the Railway Department that "tlier would release a certain proportion of the men called as soon 1 as nr. rangemenis could be made to do without. them in the service. Some time later a ballot wa.s taken by the Railway Department to determine which of the men called up should go out of tho service and into camp. No announcement has been made as to the tailing of anv other ballot of this kind, and in the meantime many moro railwaymen have been called bv the military service ballots. The position is that thore are hundreds of men belonging to the Fir=f Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve now in the railway service waiting to be medically examined. " It was suggested at a deputation of members of Parliament which wailed on Ministers regarding the restoration of suburban trains that there was a feud belwen the Defence Department and the Railway Department, and it is still being said that the Railway Department is not making it easy for the Defence people to take railwaymen into camp.