MEDICAL INSPECTION OF TERRITORIALS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 389, 23 August 1911, Page 5

MEDICAL INSPECTION OF TERRITORIALS.

Tbf smaiic.si iwnminalion of territor i a!:■ . :-»s seme; eutiet}: in No. 16 : area bar- not yd bcon completed, fhene.h lip in i;.;*.«• nearly ,'UH) have been cr;:ui!i;;c;i. i! is hoped that all these ri'i: *i: will present themsclvf!' withrP ■ -:i nay, y\ c.i'iin!iio {hi doctor's report at Amhericy, snterhury. they have a recruit f n<re wise will he hard to beat. He ):• )> \ i<f a;;e, elands Oft 4)0, I)up i'!; ( :■! measurement of 43in, wein.bs \ ;>h% -i Ih. and is in splendid physical comliton. Such a recruit ia of comer most exceptional but we have in i! ! id.strict oi'iie a number of extTensely jir-e phyj-itim*, some finely built. p.n r. of timicr '.'l years, standing «;it and ovi \vcij-hi;i|'; )to l.lj stone ami with el:r; is nit attiring «'U> to 40 niches. One vvHinj; p.ianl. a half-caste, iUanilf oit. '• n height with a chest nu'innw emest of ! m and a weight of "H-t nib. Hi.* a<:e was stated by his i: lends to be in yearn. It ia Under* t ; tood hi:- rrrvires are not likely to be !•< tjujivd. i)i (he Tontnpere district, Otago, '.lm- medical edicer found the majority had (■>;<• i llent teeth, and raises the epa-st ion why so, more than elsewhere. In t hi:- district, the Maoris have generally line 1 e"t hj, and it leads to the BUginn that, remoteness from town life and ij\'in;: close to nature may I-;i \ e 11 ,■ i'! h i n;r to do with it.