"Is it inu\" askod Mr Field in the House last week, "that recently' SO reservists v:or» -vcauiined by a Medica] Board in P»lnu>i\ston North and that only fix passed the test? If this is correct, can the Minister for Defence give.-sv.jwa-fron for this extraordinary conditions of things?" Sir Jamas Allen replied: "It undoubtedly happens that in partieuUr batches I there are found largv. numbers of mm physically unfit,; but. because a pariiYulajr lot of (i-l men were rejected it does not follow that .ill the recruit-- in the district aiVord n similar propoitwi. The president, of rlio board in question states that most, of the men examined on the occasion referred to had already been rejected as voluntary recruits."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9051, 23 July 1917, Page 4
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