TACTICAL COURSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 103, 2 May 1940, Page 8

TACTICAL COURSE.

TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. i • , A week's tactical course for territorial officers in the Northern Military District will be held at the District School, Narrow Neck, from Saturday next. Attending the course will be 42 officers of all arms of the service. Manv of these have recently been transferred from the reserve of officers to fill vacancies caused by officers on the active lists of units being called for service in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

X-RAY EXAMINATIONS.

To examine recruits for the Third Echelon, whose chest condition has been queried as the result of the X-ray examination, a special medical board sat at the Drill Hall this afternoon. Of the first 300 examined only nine were referred to the medical board. After this evening's examinations at the Auckland Hospital 770 recruits will have passed through the X-ray examination. The hospital staff concerned has been engaged on the work for two hours on each of seven evenings, and the only men "who have been examined under the X-ray are those who could reach their homes the same evening. There are some 130 men from >fo. 1 Area, Auckland, who reside so far from the city that they cannot undergo the X-ray examination until they enter Papakura mobilisation camp.

CREW Or THE ACHILLES.

The X-ray examination of the whole complement of H.M.S. Achilles is to !>c undertaken at the Auckland Hospital next week. Between aOu and UOO men will be put through, and it was explained at the Xaval Base to-day that the examination was purely a precautionary measure after the ship's engagement at the battle of the River Plate.