MEDICAL EXAMINATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 4

MEDICAL EXAMINATION

MEN FOR TERRITORIAL UNITS. BEGINNING ON MONDAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 2. Because of the importance of making up deficiencies in Territorial units as soon as possible, the medical examination of men drawn in the first ballot has been expedited and will commence on Monday. A start was made today with sending out notices for the first groups to appear before medical boards. Provision has ben made for men who, through sickness and other disability, are unable to attend at the appointed place. They will be examined by a visiting board in .their own homes. Men so situated should, as soon as they, receive notification, communicate with the area officer. The men are to be paid for the time spent in undergoing medical examination. This is in conformity with the practice introduced in the last war as soon as compulsory service was introduced.

All appeals against being called up must be communicated within ten days of publication of the “Gazette” to the secretary of the manpower committee in the area concerned. Sixteen thousand names have been drawn in the first ballot, but only 6070 are required immediately for Territorial units. Allowance has been made for medical unfitness and appeals, and to compensate for wastage through enlistment in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. »