MEDICAL ORDERLIES
AND THEIR DISCHARGE.
Owing to the necessity; of having a fully-qualified staff of- medical orderlies on duty in the Dominion to deal with-the thousands of sick and wounded who are being.returned_to New Zealand this year, the Medical Department of the New Zealand Forces find it impossible to grant discharges to men at present employed in the military hospitals. The former-.employ-. ors of these men are earnestly requested, both .on the score of their duty to their country and to tho men. who have fought, and also as a,.duty to those men who are still able to render very valuable service to tho sick and wounded, to preserve places for those men whom the military cannot discharge at present. Every effort will be made to discharge the medical'orderlies as soon, as ■ possible, and _ a number of urgent esses connected with essential occupations have already received consideration, but first consideration, is the caro arid attention of tho .returning''invalids, and this , duty cannot be adequately done except by men who have- been' specially trained for ! the work, " ' , •
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 6
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176MEDICAL ORDERLIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 6
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