MEN FOR THE FRONT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16496, 23 March 1917, Page 6

MEN FOR THE FRONT

, ■ ,— , EIGHT MEN VOLUNTEER. SIX PASSED AS FIT. -:: . ' — Eight .volunteers were examined at the city,> recruiting■' station . yesterday. '■ Six were accepted for active service ntid two were rejected .as medically ; unfit. ; : The station was not open for the examination of recruits ■• during the evening. The men accepted were:— A. T. Arthur, motorman, >.'■ Mount ■■ Eden. ■■■-.. T'"rjv.; Morris, minor, Grey Lynn. R. Patterson, miner.' Parnell. g. Russell, motorman, Epsom. l W.H m Smith, labourer. Kingstond. ;':: - it. N. Tattersall, plumber. Bcrcsford Park. • UNFIT MEN IN CAMP. REPRESENTATIONS TO MINISTER. _ Action has been taken by Mr. 'C. J. Parr, M.P., regarding men 5 beingj passed by Medical Boards as fit for, active 1 service when apparently they were unfit. > In a telegram to the, Minister for Defence, Mr , Prirr ;' said/ that in ■■■ his opinion the passing of unfit men ;by the Medical Boards >. had ::.-; ; become :'■'. a ■•". scandal. /Ho added that : one of ■:■ his constituents;/who had been rejected twice and subsequently passed a fit By the Medical Board, was now in, camp, and had been -ordered "■■ by the : camp doctors vto 'undergo an : operation against hi will. Mr. Parr asked whether •' the '; Minister,'was : aware that operations were ordered by the camp 1 doctors without the consent of the recruit, and ; said he felt ;i justified in asking /the Minister's assistance , against : tho unjustice of passing a man as fit and then ordering a operation directly he was in • camp. : ;>v,; ; Mr. Parr received from ; James ; Allen a reply to the effect, that j tho question of . medical examination had \ been under re/ view during the last fortnight, and'that the Minister .'was giving his own personal attention to the matter.