TWO SORTS OF FITNESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 212, 16 October 1916, Page 3

TWO SORTS OF FITNESS.

Four Liverpool recruits went before a military medical officer, and were duly certified in the usual way and simply according to their physical condition. As several of them did n, realise the limited scope of the examination, they expressed surprise on being informed of the results. it amazed a burly navvy (the “Liverpool Post” remarks) to learn that he was' fit only for garrison duty. Greater, however, was the astonishment of a powerful docker, a casual labourer, when he received a certificate for sedentary occupation only. “What’s that” he gasped. “Clerical work,” replied the corporal. “And .what’s that?” The corporal’s definition was “Writing.” The Docker: “Never wrote a strok in my life.”