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SIGHT TEST CARD HOW RESERVIST PASSED • V When he enlisted for the Terri- i orial Foroe at the age of 19 he >assed the eyesight test by learning he sight-reading chart off by heart, aid Kenneth Christopher Reardon, : lerk, whose appeal against military ervice was heard at to-day's sitting if the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal 3oard to-day. Mr. C. R. Orr W'alker, >.M., is chairman of the board. Appellant said he had been the 1 ast of four in the room at Rutland street barracks to be tested and he iad committed the chart to memory, •ealising that his defective eyesight ivould fail him otherwise. Since hen his father had died and he was I supporting his mother. His eyesight was so bad that he could not see a target bulls-eye at 25 yards. The appeal was dismissed, an Drder being made for a medical re?xamination. Exemption .sine die was granted the following munition workers:— George Henry Mattson. Leslie Stuart Taylor, William Jeffrey Collins. Leslie Macefield, Roy Crichton. Neville Simmonds. Arthur Edward Faithfull.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 141, 17 June 1941, Page 3
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