The New Zealand Dental Services
4. TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
4. TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
The fourth group, the standard required for men to be temporarily employed in New Zealand, was covered by an amendment of 26 September 1939, which, under ‘Dental treatment required (‘T’)’ added the following:
(3) In considering nine points as a minimum of masticatory efficiency the physical condition of the recruit, his vocation in life, combined with the length of time the loss of efficiency has been existent, must not be overlooked. If a man can do a hard day's work, eat three meals a day and be physically fit with only six incisors, a molar on one side and a premolar on the other side, all occluding, he can carry on in a mobilisation camp until the deficiency is remedied in camp, if found necessary.