New Zealand

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 8 January 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

OTAGO RECRUITING IMPROVES. Dunedin, Last Night. A sufficient number of men has been obtained to complete the Otago quota of infantry for the third and fourth reinforcements, but names are being taken and medical examinations conducted for recruits for the fifth reinforcement, which will go into camp about the middle of February.- The fifth reinforcement will be confined *to mounted rifles and infantry. MILITARY HOSPITAL AT TRENTBAQt PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ASKED. Wellington, Last Night. The New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association is appealing for public subscriptions in aid of a proposal, formulated after consultation with the Commandant, to establish a military base hospital at Trentham, -which is the standing camp for the whole of New Zealand. It is pointed out that this camp will presently contain 3GOO men, and will continue in existence eertainly for a period of two years. It is not only a mobilisation camp, but also a demobilisation camp, so that men invalided at the war will be discharged at Trentham, and not indiscriminately in ttio various parts of New Zealand or England, thus improving on the conditions which prevailed in respect of military discharges after the Roer war. At present serious caseß are sent to the Wellington Public Hospital, and this practice will continue, but in a big camp like Trentham many less serious cases and convalescents require accommodation and treatment under military doctors and orderlies. Tho Government proposes immediately to build a small camp hospital,'and the Medical Association hopes, with the public aid, to increase the accommodation and equipment to the full extent required. This will relieve the tax on the capacity of the Wellington Public Hospital, and make for efficiency and economy.