BRISKER RATE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20993, 21 December 1939, Page 6

BRISKER RATE

RECRUITING IMPROVES HAMILTON AREA RESPONSE MORE MEN FOR SECOND DRAFT Although the rate o£ recruiting in the No. 4 (Hamilton) area has been rather slack in recent weeks, there has been a marked impetus to volunteering in the last few days. Now that returns are to hand from the country officers and various transfers have come to hand from other areas, it has been found that 29 men enlisted last week, one of the best responses for many weeks. It is thought that the calling of men for medical examination for drafting to the second echelon has impressed upon young men of military age that the time is not far distant when the echelon will go into camp. More men, therefore, are hurrying to enlist. It has been decided that a medical board will sit in Hamilton every Wednesday at 10 a.m., to examine the men who are enlisting each week. Other medical boards will be arranged weekly in the country districts in the area where the response in recruiting warrants. Dental Treatment An alteration in the instructions for dental examinations has been made, and will result in many men of the temporarily unfit class being drafted to the second echelon to train for military service abroad. Of the men who have been examined in the No. 4 military area, 151 were classed as temporarily unfit, but as many as 77 will now take their place with the men who are fit for active service in any part of the world. Dental defects were responsible for classing those 77 men as temporarily unfit. Treatment has made 34 of them available immediately for despatch to camp, and the remaining 43 will be given requisitions from the Army for lull dentures. Extractions will be made and after the necessary time has elapsed the dentures will be fitted when the men are in camp.