CALL TO THE COLOURS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13966, 24 August 1917, Page 3

CALL TO THE COLOURS.

RE-EXAMINATION OF' REJECTED MEN. '— SPECIAL "TRYING-OUT''' CAMP ARRANGED. 1 (Per Press Association.) • WELLINGTON, August- 23. It is officially announced that the reexamination of rejects for military service wilt bo commenced at Auckland.oil. 'September M.,,Sucii 'iiiieii as arc passed will go into spccinl camps at Feathcrston,Omd thenito drafts for the front. Other military districts will be taken in rotation. Only those will bo reexamined -whose papers do not disclose' vital defects. • °Thc training at this camp will aim. at the creation' oil 'physically lit men by building up the physique. - The first draft is expected to arrive 011 September 2Gth. All the men will enter the camp on the same .footing,

RESPONSIBILITY OF STATE, COMPENSATION FOR FINANCIAL LOSS. (Per Press Association,) WELLINGTON, August t. In the House this afternoon, replying to Mr P. G. Webb, the Minister, of.Defence said the position of men ordered into camp, who sold their business in order to do so, and who were afterwards discharged as medically unlit, was amongst the most difficult problems the defence Department had to deal with. The question whether they were entitled to compensation would be considered by Cabinet.