DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1917, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

RE-EXAMINATION OF "D" MEN. OWING TO ERRORS IN GRADING. Wellington, Last Night. The Director General of Medical Services has sent a memo to the Minister of Defence regarding the cases which had been originally classed D, who had been called upon to present themselves for medical, re-examination. Colonel Henderson states that in the beginning the medical" boards had insufficient experience to guido them in the grading of the men partihillv unfit for service. They did not fully understand that the men must) not be so graded unless they were mental or physical wrecks. Some of the men who were graded D should have been ranked C, or even higher. The medical board which is re-examining the files of the C men also looked over those of the D men, and when it was apparent that, they should not bo classed D, and that possibly they might be made fit for active service, the men were called up for re-examination. ,

* | SAFEGUARDING TROOPSHIPS. CABLES AS TO INSURANCE AND CARGOES. TO BE OFFICIALLY CODED. Wellington, Last Night. The Central Chamber of Commerce has been notified by the Marine Department that all cablegrams relating to tlie insurance and cargo on vessels carrying troops from New Zealand will be required to be sent to the chief post office, Wellington, for transmission to the High Commissioner in the official code, and that the High Commissioner will decode tlie messages, which are subject to censorship both in New Zealand and London, and finally the messages would be sent to the addressees in Britain.