SECOND DIVISION MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 68, 20 March 1917, Page 6

SECOND DIVISION MEN.

— • _ MEDICAL EXAMINATION SUGGESTED The Auckland Recruiting Committee has been quite alive to the position likely to arise in the calling up of the Second Division. The Minister for Defence (Sir James Allen) in his reply to Mr. B. MeCallura, M.P.. on the question of the.Second Division,.says:—"l note jour suggestion that an opportunity should how be afforded to men in "'the Second Division to' go before a medical Board to have .their physical status determined, so that they may be in a position to arrange their affairs, if "passed fit. .1 think you'will agree, on reflection that such a course might cause grave hardship in many cases. Experience has shown over and over again that a man paesed fit to-day may "be rejected on a re-examination, even one month hence, and vice versa, and the chances of a reversal of the medical verdict are infinitely greater after a lapse of three or six months." Th e following letter was sent to the Minister for Defence (Sir James Allen) by the secretary of the Auckland Recruiting Committee (Mr. M. Copeland) : " The Auckland Recruiting Committee, taking into consideration the likelihood that at some future date the Defence Department may have to call up men of the Second Division, and to avoid hardship 0 n business men who" could "not be spared at short notice from their business, passed the following resolution •'— 'That this Committee ask the Defence Department to make prbvmoh for the medical examination at once of those in the second division who desire it so that certificates of fitness "or" otherwise can be issued to those' examined to enable them to make their "arrangements accordingly." °