MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16663, 7 April 1916, Page 93

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS

Thirty-nine men .were presented for medical examination on Wednesday, with the following result:— • Fit 21 Teeth 3 Sight 4 -Deferred ..; 2 Unfit : 7 Operation 2 The most recent batch of recruits to bo passed as fit for active service is asi follows: — Allan Marshall, railway fireman, Carey's Bay. , . John Stewart Alexander, clerk, Dunedin. • Henry Anderson, labourer, North-East Valley. Leslie Bertram Barrow, watchmaker, Dunedin. Chiles. Brown, shearer, Pino Hill. John Craig, farmer PaJmc-rston. Henry Francis Edgcombe, surveyor, Dunedin. , Andrew Green, engineer, Green Island. August Morrison, guard, Dunedin. undrew Miller, labourer, Mornington. James Michie, labourer, Mornington. ' Ralph Cargill M'Master, clerk, Dunedin. David James M'Nab, plumber, Belle-, knowes. Edward Edwin Philp, plasterer, Dunedin. alter Reid, carpenter, Dunedin. . Charles Edward Smith, carpenter, Caversham. Aubrey Counaell Stephens, solicitor, Dunedin. ■■ Norman Sutherland, clerk, Dunedin. Magnus James White, coppersmith, Dunedin. Alexander James Walker, labourer, Dunedin.

NEW RECRUITING SCHEME

MEETING AT WAREPA. A public meeting was held at Warepa on Tuijsday night to consider the Government's recruiting schcmo. Mr W. Nicol (member fo'r Richardson Riding, of the Clutha County Council) presided, and there was an attendance of 18, including three ladies and four visitors. The Chairman expressed disappointment at the very poor attendance, and stated that ho had been requested by tho conference which met at Bafciutha recently to ■ organise recruiting in his riding. He had written to six local bodies, and had received answers from only two, and those two had declined to give assistance. The Sfjeaker stated that as far as his own towiiship (Kaihiku) was concerned, there was only one eligible man left, tho others having all enlisted. Mr Malcolm, M.P.. paid a tributo to the men from Warepa who had. volunteered so fr,eely, and said that it was thci duty of every eligible man to offer his servicea The speaker suggested that a committee of three be formed, and stated that if these gentlemen could not see their way clear to undertake a personal- canvass, the Dunedin Recruiting Committee might assist by sending them two or three returned soldiers to attend to this department of the Government's recruiting scheme/ Several other speakers urged the necessity of an organsaticn in the district to further the interests of recruiting, and a committee was appointed for this purposo, consisting of Messrs R. Ayson, _ Callender, and Shearing to act'.'in conjunction with tho local school conHJjittce. '