WAR PREPARATION

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20915, 21 September 1939, Page 6

WAR PREPARATION

NEW ZEALAND’S ARMY ACTIVITY IN THE WAIKATO RECRUITS STILL BEING ENROLLED With medical examination proceeding and new recruits being enrolled for New Zealand's special volunteer military force, there is considerable war preparation in the No. 4 military area. Recruits now total 1115. Of these 896 are sir.i?le men of the age for active military service, and 70 are officers. Already 529 men have been medically and dentally examined in the No. 4 area. Of these 355 have been found fit for active service at home or abroad, 104 temporarily unfit, and 70 permanently unfit. The following are the details of tho medical examinations in the centres so far visited by the medical boards: — Hamilton: 284 examined; 186 lit; 69 temporarily unfit; 29 permanently unfit.

Te Kuiti: 122 examined; 89 fit; 10 temporarily unfit; 23 permanently unfit.

Taumarunui: 37 examined; 24 fit; 7 temporarily unfit; 6 permanently unfit.

Te Awamutu: 51 examined; 32 fit; 13 temporarily unfit; 6 permanently unfit.

Huntly: 35 examined; 24 fit; 5 temporarily unfit; 6 permanently unfit.

Additional Volunteers

The following men have registered for active service since yesterday:— Hamilton: Walter Frederick Ashley, Arthur Laurence Bayes. Wilfred Archer Bridgman, James Neil Campbell, Arthur William Catelev, George Alexander Cole, Walter Charles Collier, Raymond Alexander Connolly, Thomas Simpson Elrick, Carl James Futter, James Terence Hawke, Stephen Raymond Hooker, Charles Henry Humphries, Arthur John Jonson, Terence de Couray Lambert, Murdock Bane MacKenzie, Roy Edward Martin, Frederick Charles Neville, 'Harry Norton, William George Odgers, Albert Ernest Prendergast, John Edward Roper, Tom Walters, Frederick Matthew Ward, Thomas Charles Stanlay Ward, Eric Alfred Williamson.

Te Kuiti: Sydney Dixon, Thomas Duffy, Roy Mortimer Green, Rex Dennis Griffith, Roy James Harrison, Edward James Hunt, Leonard Jones, Richard Abraham Keighley, Pik&u Mahanga, Angus McLeod Munro, Francis James Romayne, Herbert Daniel Tall, Graham Tautari, Leonard Stephen Turn ball. MORRINBVILLE ENROLMENTS No. 2 MILITARY AREA FIGURES Of the 933 enrolments In the No. 2 military area, 192 men have enlisted for service from the Morrinsville district. The No. 2 area includes the Thames Valley, Bay of Plenty, and the central* portion of the North Island south as far as the Wellington province.

In the area 562 men have been medically and dentally examined, 280 being fit, 268 temporarily unfit and only 14 permanently unfit. The men temporarily unfit are mostly suffering frem dental trouble.