SPECIAL FORCE
MEN TO BE IN CAMP BY OCTOBER 6. NOTICES ALREADY RECEIVED BY OFFICERS & N.C.O’s. RESULTS OF MEDICAL EXAMINATION. (By- Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. All of lhe 6,000 officers and men comprising the special military force for service in New Zealand or overseas will, in accordance with present arrangements, be in camp by October 6. Officers and N.C.O’s. have already received notices.
A selection of other ranks is being macle and the men will receive notices this week instructing them when they are to enter camp. The units will proceed to various camps in the Dominion from October 3 to October 6.
tip to Saturday night, the total enrolments were 13,078, of whom 10,015 had been medically examined. Of this total 5,968 had been declared fit, 2758 temporarily unfit and 1289 permanently unfit. , Many of the temporarily unfit men have since been classed as fit after dental treatment. It is anticipated that at least three-quarters of the temporarily unfit recruits will eventually qualify for the fit class for a similar reason.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1939, Page 6
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173SPECIAL FORCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1939, Page 6
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