SIX RECRUITS ENLIST
Busy Day At Defence Office MEDICAL BOARD SITS ON THURSDAY Six recruits enlisted for service at the Invercargill Defence headquarters yesterday. This brings the total from the Southland area up to 959 in the special force. The Defence Department’s staff had quite a busy day answering many inquiries. This is the biggest number of recruits in any one day for some time. The enlistments, only five of which were available for publication last night, were as follows:— Rabbidge, Thomas Parnell, storeman, South Wyndham. Henry, Norman Lindsay Gordon, construction worker, Criterion Hotel, Don street. Robertson, Stuart Karetai, fisherman, Stewart Island. Baird, Peter Barker, labourer, Ben-more-Dipton R.D. Edwards, William Mervyn, iron machinist, Greenhills. The medical board sits on Thursday at one o’clock and as the Army’s standard of dental requirements has been lowered a little, a greater percentage of those examined may be passed as fit. Those who pass the examination, together with those already passed and waiting, will be drafted into the first batch for the second echelon.
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Southland Times, Issue 24003, 19 December 1939, Page 4
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170SIX RECRUITS ENLIST Southland Times, Issue 24003, 19 December 1939, Page 4
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