MEN REJECTED
INCLUDED IN BALLOTS MR SEMPLE EXPLAINS. PHYSICAL CONDITION MAY IMPROVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Dealing with the question of why men who volunteered for service in Expeditionary Force and failed to pass, the medical examination were I called upon by ballot, either for service in the Territorials or overseas, the Minister of National Service (Mr Semple* stated today there was a prospect of the physical condition of any reservist improving to a degree which would justify, his regrading. It was hoped that men in the lower gradings now being drafted to the Territorials for three months’ intensive training would be so benefited physically that many who were eligible by age for service overseas would eventually be found fit for service in the Expeditionl ary Force. Volunteers and ballotted men who were classified as Grade 4. permanently unfit, would not be included in the ballots.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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148MEN REJECTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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