BUILDING UP.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 September 1917, Page 2

BUILDING UP.

TRAINING “UNFIT” MEN. Surgeon-General Henderson, in an interview on the subject of trainingmen classed as “unfit” for active service, and the re-examination of such men in the First Division of the New Zealand Reserve, says.— “Altogether the constant practice of the district medical boards is producing increasing efficiency in the medical examination of recruits, but lest misunderstanding should still exist in this connection, it is as well to repeat that the standard for such men is not being lowered in any way. The graduated course of trailing fixed is the same as that laid down by the Army Council at Home for young recruits? namely, those who go in at 18 years of age. Such men, classed as Cl, and sent into the ‘CI training camp’ at Featherston, will commence with short intervals of the easier forms of physical training, and with lectures at rest, and will perform no duties at the beginning before breakfast. They will be under the constant supervision of a specially-se-lected medical officer and an experienced physical a military officer who has lately arrived from England, where he was employed in similar preparatory training camps. Such as are considered fit will be posted to the reinforcement draft at monthly intervals. Those who have not attained the standard required will be kept on for a further period training, it may be for a month or more, and, as they shape, will either be posted to a reinforcement or discharged altogether. Of course j where it is considered that there is no prospect of a man being able to qualify for active service, he will be at once discharged irrespective of whether he has been in camp a month or nr.t.”