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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 6

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MEDICAL BOARD AT TE AWAMUTU. GOOD PERCENTAGE OF FIT MEN A sitting of the Military Medical Board was held at the local Town Hall this morning, when a total of 27 volunteers were dealt with. The men who passed fit totalled 19, while there were 6 partially fit, these requiring minor attention medically or dentally. The names of the fit men are:— E. C. Adams W. J. E. Ashby R. Berry W. R. L. Christie W. G. Clarke R. A*. Cooper V. S. Hawkins A. J. Keenan D. E. Macdonald F. A. P. Mathews R. A. Mclntyre A. Quinn A.'J. Rae R. G. Snowden W. J. L. Scott P. N. Stephens T. W. Taylor I. S. Thomas

L. A. Thompson At last week’s Medical Board one young volunteer was passed fit, but as he could not satisfy the authorities that he was of military age his application to enlist was, it is understood, deferred. .

Commenting on to-day’s recruits, an experienced observer remarked that when the first batch of volunteers was before the Medical Board there was a noticeably high percentage of men just eligible under the age scale. The next batch had almost as high a percentage of men of mature age, while to-day’s batch was a fine stamp of man of the best military age.