MILITARY RESERVE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 6

MILITARY RESERVE

MEDICALLY EXAMINED FAIRLY GOOD STANDARD A fairly good standard of medical fitness is apparent among members of the 6th (Hamilton) Company of the National Military Reserve who are being medically examined this week as the first step toward mobilisation of the unit. The standard required is that of army home defence, which is somewhat below the standard required for active service overseas in any part of the world. The examinations commenced on Tuesday and will conclude tomorrow. To date the examination returns show that 122 members of the reserve have been examined. Of these 81 have passed fit for home defence requirements and 41 have been rejected. MEN IN BALLOT FURTHER EXAMINATIONS In medical examinations of men drawn in the first ballot for the territorials, a board at Taumarunui on Monday examined 35 men, 22 passing fit, five being temporarily unfit and eight rejected as permanently unfit. The fit pass percentage was thus almost 63. FIT MEN IN MORRINSVILLE Twenty-three men called up in the recent ballot for territorial service were examined yesterday by the medical board. Fourteen were passed as fit, five classified permanently unfit and four declared temporarily unfit. To date 85 men have been examined at the Morrinsville Defence Office, and 45 of these have been declared fit.

WRONG ASSUMPTION STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The Director of National Service, Mr J. S. Hunter, said the assumption in a report from Auckland that the ballot held recently to fill vacancies in the Territorial forces had produced insufficient men and that a second ballot of a similar nature was to be held throughout the Dominion was entirely incorrect. Nobody could possibly say what number the ballot would finally produce, for appeals had not been heard and the medical examinations were incomplete, but the indications were that the number called up in the ballot was about right to produce the number of men required. Mr Hunter said the scheme of training provided for its being spread over the training season. The first ballot was held to produce men who were to bring up to war strength the Territorials who went into camp in October. The next ballot was to bring the January quota to war strength. 500 WELLINGTON APPEALS (By Teletrrann. —Special to Time*) WELLINGTON, Tuesday

Appeals against being called up for Territorial service in New Zealand have been lodged by or on behalf of 560 of the 1900 men from the Wellington and Hutt Valley area who were drawn in the recent national service ballot.