MEN IN ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES

Camp News, Volume 4, Issue 158, 22 January 1943, Page 4

MEN IN ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES

patients called her the “Florence Nightingale of Morseby.” In course of time other arrangements were made for continuing the home, and Mrs. Morton returned to Australia. That might have ended what was really a heroic episode, but the troops have not allowed it to end. A movement was started in Port Moresby for the presentation of an illuminated address to Matron Morton, and it was not long before every soldier who had passed through her hands had signed it. The' address has since been presented /at the Queensland Division’s annual meeting by the Governor, Sir Leslie Wilson.

Fittest To Go In Army REPLACEMENT WITH LESS FIT SOLDIERS Grade I men whose military service has been postponed because they are engaged in essential industries are to be replaced in their civilian occupations, wherever possible, by men of lower medical grading already serving in the Army, according to a statement by Mr. E. D. Thompson, secretary to the Christchurch No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board. ‘Mr. Thompson said a start had been made with the work, but it would probably be a fairly long process. The appeal boards, which understood the Army position, were cooperating with the manpower officers, who had full information about industrial needs. x In accordance with a plan to replace Grade 1 men in the farming industry with Grade 2 and Grade 3 men, appropriate lists are now being prepared by the National Service Department for the information of armed forces appeal boards. The Christchurch No. 1 armed forces appeal board is now engaged in reviewingall appeals for or by Grade 1 men, and it is expected that when lists of suitable Grade 2 and Grade 3 men have been completed by the National Service Department, Grade 1 men on farms whose appeals have been adjourned will, in many cases, be released from the industry and transferred to the Army. At the same time men in the Grade 2 and Grade 3 categories- who will be required for farm labour will be released from the Army. This procedure is likely to take some time, pending the compilation of the necessary lists by the National Service Department.