REORGANISATION OF SERVICES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14638, 6 April 1948, Page 2

REORGANISATION OF SERVICES

IMPORTANCE^ 'Q SCIENCE. F Closer Ag^t ionw Armed s m^% Establishment Of \a .' Committee; H (Special To The Ti m ! Provision f/ftfeJL of a Defence Science mittee composed 0 f eminent scientists in. v J k '% drawn both from G 0 l"° Us 5 partments.and the ufe nt l contained m the mion's defence policy ~t he% day by the Minister § 's&& Hon. F. Jones. °. Def encel "Success in any f u \ Ura well depend upoj * science," adds the defence policy. ''The 2?' integrating scientific r§SS the armed f orces - has b ? 4 fully demonstrated-in t£ n «S the course of which sciS tactics arid very powerfu the strategy of. the S'N The need for a closer aS> the armed forces S science has been recognk JS of the most important S»«i the services m their riw&H organisation. It has continuing study by ment and the Chiefs'oAS% the end of the war. with ft that a Defence Science tion has been approved' are being taken to attrS % New Zealand scientists' to L? work having a bias towaiSiW science. s "%$

Link With Other Countries "The Defence Sciencp iiCommittee is linked with S committees in other Britirf !; monwealth countries L % charged with advising th* pH ment and the Chiefs ofStT* erally on all scientifi • f affecting defence. The L& this committee will beSS* later. In addition, the re S? departmental organisation ft ensures that the activities of ? tnree services and the DenaK of Scientific.and Industrial are adequately co-ordinated H field of defence science and * yides machinery for the eiff tion and prosecution of ?g science projects. v. ™

"The Government have also t proved proposals for the estahlif ment of a Defence Scientific!B the members of which would HI cruited from University gl ,d a with high qualifications 2 would be appointed for a period five years and while in the cor W i^L d b £ ? m P lQ y e d on the advi of the Defence Science Advisory Committee on defence science m. jects within the Commonweal "Members of the Defence Scien-

tific Corps will have unique- importunities of gaining academic qualifications at overseas institute within the Commonwealth.' At fit conclusion of the initial of engagement, they will be* eligible for permanent commissions in t| technical branches of-• the "-Eegute Forces, although it is anticipate! that the bulk cf such-scientii: officers will accept employment at Universities, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research or w industry. The precise term? a conditions of employment in I corps will be notified later.-'. Annual Cost of £25,000

"The estimated annual cost of I Defence Scientific Corps is jW but this amount will not be expended until about the'fifth year* its, establishment," adds the Minister of Defence. "No precise es • mate is available at this juncture J the sum that will be expended annually on defence science projf-j but it is our intention to contriP on a substantial basis to this wJ particularly on problems of m cance to the New Zealand Jor Our work in this field wilfcPjg for the continuation of the arlgj ments under which selected <WJ are seconded to defence, gg work in other British Comm wealth countries. At the BJfB arrangements are being maa e two New Zealand scientists to F ceed to Australia for work- QJJ rocket project. It should'bef? that. New Zealand, undeig special radar survey in y n *L m , which I believe yielded if °H j, tion of value not only WJi other British Commonweal countries." '._•