NUMBERS MAINTAINED

Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 8

NUMBERS MAINTAINED

REGISTERING FOR SERVICE FIGURES FROM MEDICAL BOARDS Thirty-nine registrations for military service at home or abroad received at the Drill Hall yesterday bring the total for Area 11 (Dunedin and Oamaru) to 648. An average of 15 country registrations is being received by post daily, and the medical boards are still dealing •with numbers who present themselves for examination. Some difficulty is being experienced by tile clerical staff of the registration office by persons failing to fill in the registration forms correctly. In the space provided for conjugal condition are printed “ Single, married, widowed, divorced, or judicially separated,”; and the person making out the form is required to strike out those which do not apply. Some registrations have been received with this line intact, and difficulty and delay is experienced in obtaining the correct details. In the space for the date of birth also some simply write the year, but it was pointed out bv the registration officer (Captain R. H. Cleland) to-day that the day and month must also be stated. Failure to fill in the forms correctly necessitates the staff communicating with the person who filled it in for the purpose of obtaining the full details, thus causing trouble and delaying the papers going forward. Figures showing the results of the examinations made by the medical boards up to last night were made available by the area staff officer (Major A. Bongard, M.C., N.Z.S.C.) this morning. Of 545 persons examined 284 were passed as fit for service. Those rejected included 148 temporarily unfit (mostly on account of teeth), and 113 permanently unfit. It is considered that a considerable number of those classed as temporarily unfit can make themselves fit in a very short time by undergoing a course of dental treatment. Registrations are classified as follows ;—No. 1 group (officers on the reserve or active list), Group No. la (retired or ex-officers), Group No. 2 (single men), Group No. 3 (married men without children), and Group No. 4 (married men with children): — The registrations received yesterday were:— —Group I. Major John Laurence Anderson. Lieutenant Llewellyn Oswald Asten. Lieutenant John Henderson Kempthorne. , , Captain Thomas Jacob Graham Pugh (Mosgiel). —Group 2. Stanley Russell, Abernethy, Tom might (Cromwell), William Alexander Bracegirdle, Kenneth Gibb Butler, David Laurence Cooney (Alexandra). George Wilson David, John Farquhar Gardner (Alexandra), Charles Alan Glennie, James Hemw Giles (Naseby), George Thomas Hammond, James Hamilton (Maungatua), Gordon Hope, Allen James Maurice Henderson, Howard Mayo Madigan (Alexandra), Douglas William Morrison (Ranfurly), Andrew Kirk M'Kenzie (Kyeburn), lan Allister M‘Lay, Donald Allan Mmr, Barry Francis O’Hagau (Cromwell), Bartlett Provo (Alexandra), Vincent George Spain (Alexandra), Frank Marin Sparrow, George Roland Swam (Purakanui), William James Tait, Sidney Richard AVanty, Francis John Williamson (Patearoa). —Group 3. Patrick Sarsfield Flood, Duncan Thomas Sutherland (Macrae s plat), William Robert Thompson, William Wilkinson. —Group 4. Sydney Borne, Frederick Samuel Brown (Alexandra), John Roland Holmes, Archibald Mercer, Richard M‘Laren.