EXAMINATION OF VOLUNTEERS

Southland Times, Issue 23923, 15 September 1939, Page 8

EXAMINATION OF VOLUNTEERS

Rejections Because Of Dental Trouble

SOME PERMANENTLY UNFIT

STEADY ENLISTMENTS YESTERDAY The medical examination of recruits for the special military force for service within New Zealand or overseas was begun in Invercargill yesterday. Medically, the men were of good physical standard and the percentage of rejections a's permanently unfit was fairly small. A substantial percentage was rejected as temporarily unfit, however, because their teeth require more than six hours’ treatment. Of 87 recruits examined during the morning and afternoon 49 were passed as fit, 24 rejected as temporarily unfit and 14 rejected as permanently unfit. The figures for the evening examinations were not available last night, but it was thought that the proportions would be fairly constant. Medical boards will sit again this morning and this afternoon at Invercargill and on Tuesday of next week; examinations will be held at Riverton, Gore and Milton on Monday. In the Invercargill recruiting office there was a fairly steady stream of enlistments yesterday. Many postal enlistments from the country were received and the total enlistments for the Southland area was brought up to 355. A fairly busy day is expected today as many country men will probably be in the city and many enrolment forms posted to the country have still to be returned. FAR SHORT OF QUOTA The Southland quota has been fixed at 395 officers and men, so that the enlistments are still far short of the required number. Because of the number of permanent and temporary rejections more than 500 enlistments will be necessary to fill the quota. Several of the men who have enrolled are outside the age limits and the enlistments include a small percentage of married men. If sufficient enlistments can be obtained, it is not intended to accept married men, so that the present total of enlistments may be reduced for this reason. . , . , The Gore quota for the special military force is 60, but because some of the men may not come up to the required physical standard, a total of approximately 90 enlistments is required. So far only about half of this number has enlisted. An urgent appeal has been made by the authorities. for 1 eligible young men to enlist. Forms of attestation may be obtained at the Gore Post Office, the Gore Returned Soldiers’ As-

sociation, and from Major T. Fyfe. These should be forwarded to Army Headquarters, Invercargill, as soon as possible to give the staff sufficient time to notify the recruit when to appear before the medical board for examination.

Four enlistments for the special force were made at Winton last night during a parade of the Winton unit of the Territorial Force. About 60 men paraded, including several members of Class 1 of the National Military Reserve.

Enrolments in Invercargill in the National Military Reserve reached a total of 1989 yesterday, an increase of 465 for this week. Of this number 600 are returned soldiers. NAMES OF RECRUITS The names of men whose enlistments for the special force were received yesterday are given below. Where no address is given the recruits are residents of Invercargill. Harry Samuel Adam, Douglas Hamilton Allison (Gore), Paul Amos. Joseph Brown (Gore), Thomas George Black (Gore), William Ewart Baldwin (Tuatapere), Albert Arthur Butson, lan William Brayshaw, Hugh Hunter Buchanan.

Lindsay Russell Christie, Arthur Peter Carter (Milton), Charles Watson Calder (Tuatapere), Andrew Henry Francis “Carr (Gore), George Edward Ellis Cleveland (Tuatapere). Gordon Christie Dunn, George William Davis (Waipounamu). John Donald George, William Lloyd George (Roxburgh), Harold Gilchrist (Roxburgh), Thomas Going (Winton), Onsley Bernard Green (Otara), Thomas David Gaudion (Tuatapere). James Wallace Horn (Gore), Leslie Wilfred Hinkley (Bluff), Roy Hancock (Lawrerfte), John Leslie Humphries. David Sutherland Jenkins (Tuatapere), Douglas Mervin Jordan (Otahuti).

Eric George William Ludke (Tuatapere). > John Norrie Mills (Milton), Robert Henry McLean, Stewart Walker Miles (Tuatapere), James Elliott Matheson, Francis Edward Malone (Lumsden), Robert William Milne (Wyndham), John Daniel McKenzie (Tuatapere), John Alexander Mclntyre (Tuatapere), Ernest James Mclntyre (Tuatapere;, Thomas Watson McGill, Charles Stuart Mclntyre (Tuatapere), Noel Alphonse Murphy, David Maurice Morgan, William George Mills. James Malcolm Napier (Kelso), Richard Wilkes Nicol (Winton), William Abraham Newman (Beaumont). Edward Connel O’Halloran, John Matthew, O’Sullivan.

George Bambery Purdue, Thomas Henry Phillips (Beaumont). Thomas Rolfe (Edendale), Melville Clark Rice (Wyndham), William August Robertson. Raymond Henry Crawford Stuck (Lumsden), Richard Currie Smith (Te Wae Wae), Charles Leonard Stubbs, James Patrick Scully (Tisbury), Caleb Small (Glencoe), William James Strang, George. Victor Smith. (Wyndham), William Thomas Small (Lumsden), Lloyd Hastings Small (Lumsden), Charles Henry Smith. . William Lewis Giffen Tilson (Tuatapere), Stephen Henry Joseph Turnbull (Gore), John Albert Edward Thomson, Geoffrey George Thomson (Milton), Wilfred Stuart Taylor. / John George Watson (Orepuki), Reggie Wyber (Milton), John Walker (Gore),’ Anthony Ken Worthington (Pukerau), Sydney William George Watson (Dinton), Stanley Gordon Watson, ‘

Stanley Ernest Young. (Tuatapere).