CALLED TO THE COLOURS

Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 6

CALLED TO THE COLOURS

YESTERDAY’S IMPROVED RESPONSE SIXTY-SEVEN UP TO MIDNIGHT With 07 registrations yesterday, tho total for tho special force which is being raised for service at home or overseas stood at 801 when the midnight return was made up last night. This increase in the number of registrations wis doubtless tho result of raising the maximum age limit to 40, which has permitted a number of those to register who had previously been debarred. A further examination will be conducted by a medical board at tho Dental School this evening, when it is expected that about 100 will bo dealt with. Depending on the finding of the medical board, the moil arc placed in one of five grades as follows: —The men placed in grade I. are irreproachably fit. Those in Grade I.a are fit with some small disability easily remedied, such as six hours’ work on tooth. Grade 11. men have no disease, but their physical development is not quite up to the high standard of I. Those men would probably find their way to the firing lino if the war lasts long enough. Grade 111. men are recruits requiring medical treatment over a period. It was possible that after such treatment they might be regraded into the top class. Grade IV. men have a definite disability and are totally unfit for any service. At tho registration office at the Drill Hall those volunteering are classified in groups No, 1 (officers on the reserve or active list), No. la (retired or exofficers), No. 2 (single men), No. 3 (married men without children), and No. 4 (married men with children). Yesterday's registrations were:—DUNEDIN. —Group lA. Captain C. H. Chapman. _ Second-lieutenant John Phillip Erie Niven. —Group 2. David Stanley Arthur, lan William John Begg, Joseph Bowie, Ernest Arthur Brockie, Simon Campbell (Tarras), Colin William Cheshire (Macaudrew Bay), George Faithful Cluleo, Richard Thomas Creighton, James Lawson Darling, Alexander Love Diehl (Green Island). Albert Gordon Foster, Noel John Hagerty (Haast Pass), Leslie David Haatie, Frank Long worth, James Edward Mason, Alexander M‘Leod, Alan James M‘Leod, Charles Hazlett _ MacMillan (Ravensbourne). Henry Keith Morison, Rex Thomas Moss, Thomas Wallace Neill, Albert Andrew Nordmeyer, Leslie O’Reilly, Reginald Joseph O’Reillv. Allan M‘Nae Peterson, James Scott Phillips, Finder Mackie (East Taieri), Thomas John Edward Pitts, Thomas Redmond, Donald Inkster Ross, Jack Alexander Sinclair, Andrew Campbell Sinclair (Pntcnroa), Norman Trcwby, John Hamilton Thompson. —Group 3. — Ronald Bnrford, Walker Caldwell, Frederick William Mark Hobbs, James Chisholm Murray, Stuart MacNaughton Robertson, Archibald Walker. —Group 4. Neil Macpherson Brown (Mosgiel), Robert William Conroy, Herbert Roland Crewe, Leslie Joseph Dickens, George Flannery, Frederick Charles Griffin, Ralph Baden Hall, William Lockhart (Pembroke), Malcolm M‘Gregor (Portobello), John Courtney Mooney, Robert Peter Gordon Munro, Alexander Marshall Paterson, William Edward Redditt (Waikouaiti), Charles Albert Richardson (Waitati), Arthur Staveley Roe, Clarence Alexander Rose, Harrv Sim, Alifford William Sloper, Patrick Smith (Sutton), James Albert Stewart, Oswald Albert Wahrlich.

THE FIRST DRAFT DEPARTURE FOR GAMP OCTOBER 3 The area staff • officer (Major A. Bongard, M.C., N.Z.S.C.) last night received from district headquarters (Christchurch) the dates on which the various drafts for the special force were to leave for camp to undergo preliminary training. The details are as follows: October 3.—The men selected for the machine gun battalion will assemble at the Dunedin railway station at 10.15 a.in. and will leave for Burnham by special train. The artillery details and the division of the motorised cavalry regiment will also assemble at the same time and will leave for the Waikato camp at Ngaruawahia. About 100 men will leave Dunedin by this train, which it is expected will arrive with men from the Southland district. October 4.—Headquarters and base details and divisional signallers will assemble at the station at 11 a.m. and will leave by the second express on their way to Trentham. October s.—The rifle battalion will assemble at the station at 10.15 a.m. and will leave for Burnham by special train. At 11 a.m. the engineers will assemble at the station and leave for Trentham by the usual express. October 6.—The New Zealand Amy Service Corps will assemble at the station at 8.15 a.m. and leave for Burnham by the express at 8.45 a.m.