New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 7, 11 April 1916, Page 6

New Zealand

RETURN OF THE MAHENO. TWENTY-SIX COT CASES. SOLDIER’S REMARKABLE CASE. Per Press Association. Auckland April 11. The Maheno arrived at daybreak and anchored in the stream, with 320 returned invalids, mostly from Egypt, but some from Egyftt, ffpfl with eight officers and four nurses, all undbt the charge of Lieut-Coloriel Elliott, of the New Zealand Medical Corps. There are twen'ty-sijc .cot -cases. One man lost both tegs', two lost one \eg each, others an arm or an eye. One returned soldier is a remarkable example of surgical skill. He is a young engineer, who had the back of his' skull blown away, but so skilfully was it patched up that he is able to wtllk about. An official reception to the returned men will be held at 4 p.m. tfAtfOflAL RECISTRATfM coWpLEfifcc THE ROLL. ' stringent regulations. -V" ■ ; ■ ' Per Trrnh Association. Wellington, April 11. The staff of the Government ?SaS?stician’s office has been largely increased, for the purpose of completing the National Register. Some 150,000 names are in the possession of the Department, for the purpose of inquiry, and whether the persons therein set out have ot- have not sent on their registration cards, careful inquiry is being made through the police as to the correctness of the names, and whether the persons ai’e of military age. Oh receipt of the information, the' Department will be ready to prosecute all those not in the register. The Cabinet agreed that 14 days’ grace be allowed to all unregistered men, and the dates will be announced in due course, and prosecutions will follow. The Cabinet has also determined to issue a further proclamation requiring all persons who arrived in the Dominion since the date of the National Register to forward registration cards, anddt will also be necessary for those who have arrived of military age since that date to forward cards. Those proclamations will pe continuous. In future every man who has been a soldier and been discharged, will, .in the event of sickness supervening and arising out of the wound supposed to have been healed, or of any other form of illness, be entitled on application to the Health Department, to rccive curative treatment in exactly the same way as if he were still a soldier. The matter will he administered by the officers of the Department throughout the Dominion. The applicant will be examined by medical officers of tbc district who acts for the Department, and he must promise in writing to sub,tec. himself to discipline in the same way as if ho were a soldier. The Minister of Health estimates that the Department will be aide to handle 2000 men when a rush takes • fffbce at the end of the war.