THE G2 MEN.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1918, Page 3

THE G2 MEN.

5000 FOR RE-EXAMINATION. i Tlio special Medical Board set up for the re-examination of reservists previously declared unlit for active service has started work again. It is at preI sent sitting in Auckland, and during I the next four or five months it will ! travel right through New Zealand and j examine about 5000 men. These com* : prise ha Hated men drawn after the | Sixth Ballot, and First Division volunj toorK. It is expected that a substnnj tin! proportion of the men will be reclassified and sent either to the training camps or to the Cl. Camp for special training. The re-examination of rejected volunteers is a necessary part of the system. Reservists who volunteered and were given leave without pay after being classed unlit avoided the ballot and it is essential that their papers should pass through the hands of the Cl. Board lor reconsideration the “clean-up” of the First Division is to he complete. The re-exami,nation of rejected Second Division volunteers will come later. The men will be called after the exhaustion of their class by the ballot. This rejected A Class volunteers will not lie called up for reexamination until all A Class men who di c ] not volunteer have.been called. A draft of recruits is to enter the Cl Camp this month, the mobilisation beginning on January 15. No reinforcement is. to be mobilised this month. The next draft, the Thirtysixth Reinforcement, will go into camp during the days Feb. 5-9. The classification of ha Hotted men and volunteers by the Medical ‘Boards is not fully understood. The men are graded by the hoards as follows at the first examination:— A.—F!i|t Soi - active service beyond the seas. Bl—Fit for active ""service beyond the seas after operation in camp or public hospital. B2—Fit for active service after recovery at home. 01—Likely to become fit for a'ctive service after special training. 02—Unfit for active service beyond the seas, hut fit for service of sonic nature in New Zealand. D—-Wholly unfit, for service whatever. Men who are classed Cl arc placed in the Cl Camp, where they are given special training with the object of making them fit. Men who have been classed C2 or D may be called before the Cl Board for re-examination if the medical officers, after looking at the records of the first examination, consider that there is some chance of their proving lit for training in the C.l Camp .