CALLING UP MORE MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16502, 30 March 1917, Page 4

CALLING UP MORE MEN.

only one eligible in F0lll) ; MORE UNFIT BY NEW TB jj [K »««,, OTMtsp ' CHBISTTHURCH r nn J 4 A STAThJißvi' was made bv the Jt' M for Defence, Sir James Allen to kt j he has had to modify his eHi ma t I time_ that could elap, e befo ro ft, of Aw . | division will be exhausted He fits & ' | now that i, would last at j, J TOn " de tti ; j tuber, and probably i.-, n^ T , % " I tremely difficult t,. arrive at anvfv* * - J an accurate estimate " ' ln * like ! 1,10 Minister said th, medical . tion had recently been mao strJ this would prnbal.lv have , d T ,an 4' 'effect in shortening the pen.j^S. second division uas r-.Uk rj ~r p for . th» tl,« British p,,u,,. in « ? r,0 131y ness had been followed S ' ? L m fit. medical boards, but a, X,, w 7 e .,. y . % ») far from the ba*e, this D ,S t ? d *«• to be discontinued. As a reselt f stricter examination, probably the tlla tion of men called -.V in each ffiT ' the number required would be f our ' to ; instead of three to one. a- was th ° 0!l4 ' ■ previously. It wa ., hoped by this toS »' ■ duce to a minimum th« number of J®" rejected in cam p. and to have no .ected in England. Of course, there i be rejected men even after the most ra | !ui examination, as no doctor could d,/ 8 ! ! weaknesses which were disclosed only ff ; a period of training. r ; Ine calling up of a Ure. r proportion „l j men in the ballots and an increase in rejections would mean, the Mining added, that more who might not beg' for military would be available {« service in New Zealand.