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Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1919, Page 3

Lieutenant-Colonel Slceman, in a covering letter to the Minister for Defence on a report as to tlie medical condition of the cadets attending the sixth instructional course at Trcnthnm camp, states that the course was attended by 251 cadets from tlie secondary schools in the Dominion—namely, the pick of the youth of New Zealand —and the report, therefore, is most interesting and instructive. “The disproportionate number (40) of cases ot flat feet,” he adds, “is both marked and curious, and will considerably interfere with the marching capacity of these lads when they attain territorial age. Attenion has been paid to this point in the exercises contained in the new syllabus of cadet training, which will considerably help to rectify this defect. With this exception, few major troubles were detected, showing that the majority of physical imperfections aro remediable provided they are taken in time.” In the same class it was found that there were only 15 lads whose teeth did not require attention.