DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.
SOME POSSIBLE ECONOMIES. (By •Telesraph.—'Press Association.; PALMERSTOX XORTH, this day. At to-day's eitting of the Defence Expenditure Commission evidence was given by Captain Cask (paymaster), Sergeant Instructor W. Alinnell. Sergeant Instructor 11. H. Daries. acd Captain McDonnell (commander of No. 0 Group). The latter 6tated that he considered all men called up for service should be dealt ■with by the group officers, instead of beinjr under the dual control of the group officer and director-General of recruitmp. He thought the group commander should be the military representative in each district before the Appeal Board. He drew attention to the fact that in some districts majors who were area officers were drawing a higher rate of pay than a group commander, who ■was a captain, and who wae over the area officer.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 46, 22 February 1918, Page 3
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