“A PERFECT FARCE.”

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 27, 9 April 1918, Page 3

“A PERFECT FARCE.”

MILITAEY MEDICAL EE-EXAM-INATION. In some respects, at least, the methods adopted by Military Medical Boards apparently do not meet with the unqualified approval of the Chief Justice of the Dominion (Sir Eobert Stout).

In the Wellington Supreme Court the other day, council mentioned to His Honour, says the Post, that his client, a young man guilty of theft, had volunteered for service several times, and had been rejected on each occasion.

Probation was granted to the prisoner, and then council raised a further point in regard to the terms of probation, stating that the prisoner was under notice to present himself for fur-

ther medical examination. If accepted he would be unable to comply with the customary probation condition. “I don’t understand this re-examina-tion at all, ’ ’ exclaimed his Honour. “Doctors ought to be able to tell whether a man is fit or not on one examination It is very difficult to understand what it all means. I think the whole thing is a perfect farce; an absolute farce, that is what it is."