FREE TREATMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 8

FREE TREATMENT.

TEMPORARILY UNFIT.

MEN CALLED IN BALLOTS,

Instructions have been issued by the Army Department that men called for service by ballot for either the Territorial Force or the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force who have been classed as being temporarily unfit for active service in any part of the world are to be provided with remedial treatment at the expense of the Government. The length of treatment, however, must not exceed four weeks.

Provision is also made that where men could bo clacsed as grade 1 by being fitted with spectacles, these be supplied at Government expense, but the glasses arc not to be issued until the men enter camp.

Men whom It Is considered will respond to treatment in the stipulated time are first to be medically examined, after which they will undergo X-ray examination. Any who are found fit on re-examination without treatment being resorted to will automatically be claesca as grade 1.

Pay at the army rate of 7/ a day, together with the usual dependent*' and subsistence allowances and travelling warrants are to be payable according to the circumstances in each case.

In eases where a man fails to comply with instructions to report for re-exami-nation, X-ray examination or remedial treatment he is to he reported to Army Headquarters immediately