Grain Export Doubled.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1939, Page 4

Grain Export Doubled.

The volume of grain exported through Die Port of Vancouver in the crop year ended July last amounted to 41,432,993 bushels as compared with 12.714.509 bushels in (lie proved trig crop year. Health of Soldiers. The fact that only one death had occurred among soldiers since the mobilisation of the Special Military Force was emphasised by the Minister of Defence when referring yesterday to the work of the medical service of the army. This death. Mr Jones said, was not the result of any illness contracted in camp, but was due to a type of abdominal condition existing before enlistment. which could not be discovered by the ordinary medical examination. "This state of affairs must be regarded as eminently satisfactory,” said Mr Jones, "as new troops, coming as they do Irani widely varying phases of civil life into completely different conditions, are particularly susceptible to disease. Realising Diis, the Government and the array authorities made every provision to ensure that die health of Die soldiers would be maintained. The details of the scheme laid down were carried out by the Army Medical Service/'