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GUARANTEE OF PHYSICAL FETNESS SOUGHT. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, January 15. A deputation from the Second Diri« eion League interviewed the Prime Minister (the Right, Hon. W. F. Massey), asking for a guarantee that any men sent to camp should bo medically fit. The deputation pointed out that It was a great hardship for a reservist to dispose of his business and perhaps, when he got to camp, he turned down as unfit. Mr Massey said that he could say at once that he would be very glad to lay the request before Cabinet. It was the desire of the Government that every possible care should be taken to avoid hardships to reseivists. and such care had been and would be taken.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9870, 16 January 1918, Page 4
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