NEW ZEALAND & THE WAR.

Mataura Ensign, 24 April 1917, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND & THE WAR.

1 HEALTH OF RECRUITS. PRECAUTIONS IN CAMP. WELLINGTON, April 20. The Defence authorities have decided on a new scheme for the prevention of epidemics among recruits entering camp. All the fresh drafts will go into camp at Tauherenikau after having been equipped at Trentham and at Tauherenikau. Tho men from every district will be kept in separate canvas camps. The object of the new plan is to restrict the spread of disease which recruits may have brought in with them. This is an idea which the director of medical services has had for some time, hut the training staff has always opposed it strongly on the giouud that such a segregation of men would seriously hamper training operations. It has happened that infectious disease has been most troublesome during the winter months, and this segregation experiment is to be given a trial during the winter. The number of men in a tent will be limited to eight, so that the risk of the spread of disease by contact -frill be minimised, and near at hand there will be an isolation hospital. Steps are to be taken also to detect disease at the. earliest possible moment. Swabs of throat of as many of the men as can be examined wifi be taken before thev leave their own districts, and tlie remainder will be examined immediately on their arrival in camp. Under this scheme the recruits will have a very hard breaking in to camp life, bub, curiously enough, it seems to be a. fact that men in tents do not suffer- bysickness so much as the men, in the more comfortable huts.

WAR FUNDS ASSOCIATION. WAIKAKA BRANCH. The adjourned annual meeting ot the \\ aikaka branch of the War Funds Association was held on Saturday last, there being 30 present. The meeting showed that great interest is being taken as to tho administration of the various funds. Several matters were brought up and discussed. Information was gladly given. Mr A. G. Thomson presiding. The following were appointed as a committee: —-Messrs J. Turnbull, 1). Cameron, A. McQueen, A. Barton, A. G. Thomson and G. hj. Mair. At a committee meeting following Mr A. G. Thomson was elected chairman, J. Turnbull councillor and G. L. Mair secretary and treasurer. THE WAR REGULATIONS. Cl IA RG KS A D.J OUI IN HD. CHRISTCHURCH, April 121. The charges against the managers of the ‘Lyttelton Times’ and ‘Press’ newsnmv’i’s of infringmg the "War Regulnti'ins hv pit 1 lishing shipping 'ntnrmation were adjourned lor a week.