SERVING OVERSEAS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 37, 23 November 1940, Page 8

SERVING OVERSEAS.

.; PPOTORS AND CHAPLAINS. ■pyq '• ■ v "■ ;' tjutiitui 1 'pENTISTS AND - 'NURSES ALSO.' , J.,i" (Per Press Association). • WELLINGTON, November 22. lectors, dentists, nurses and men in hply orders serving overseas witli' tdie 2hd New Zealand Expeditionary Force number 283. Attending to the bodily and spiritual needs of the soldiers, they are.,doing work of great value, and at considerable .sacrifice. Many others ftom, those.professions are also serving saltiers in, camps in New Zealand. With the. development of the Territorial twining system the heaviest calls have been made on doctors, dentists, nurses and chaplains. I New Zealand doctors serving with the?'forces overseas total 118, or approximately 9 per cent, of the medical practitioners registered in the Dominion when war broke out. Except probatjjlfc :, jfor civil engineers formerly employed by the Public Works Department,' ho other section of professional men, has made a larger contribution of service than the doctors. ,The number of dentists who have left the Dominion and are attached to camps overseas is 24. A total of 112 nurses is serving outside the Dominion. Chaplains with the forces overseas total 29. The denominational classification is as follows: Church of England 11, Presbyterian 7, Roman Catholic 7, Methodist 2, Congregational 1, Salvation Amy 1.