N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS
REPORT I'ROM ENGLAND.. Colonel Parlces. Director of Medical i Services in England, has furnished &I report on flie work of the corps, which j is now in the hands of the Defencs Minister. . "1 am pleased to be able to renort," says Colonel Parkes, "that the, New Zealand Expeditionary Force; Medical Service is satisfactory. Tha offer of return to New Zealand to long service medical officers highly ap-| predated. Duo consideration is giveuj to cveTy application, and care taken t<>j maintain a satisfactory balance, so thafci efficiency is in no way impaled. Aj New Zealand Medical CVrns Reserve | Dennt now nmr Aldwhot, to which nersomiel will he draped on arrival from the Dominion. There they will continue a course of _nn-to-dato training iy field duties. I have arranged wifii Hie CanibridKe Mihtarv Fosnital it /Mn-shot to take a draft of the Nw Zealand Medical Corps, other ranks, for a course of tmnina: in hosnit.nl duties, and also witli the gas school in the nrnVlibourhood for instruction in w defence measures. T<oth officers and men will therefore po forwavfl full* A small ho'tntnl of twenty beds for the nurses is about to he opened m a suitable house at Walton-on-Thamos.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 66, 11 December 1917, Page 4
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