POSSILE EMERGENCIES
GOVERNMENT LOOKING AHEAD COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL SECURITY PROPOSED [Special to the 1 Staii.’l WELLINGTON, August 4 % An important indication of the Government’s defence policy was given by tho Prime Minister, when he was asked if it was intended to revive the old defence council as a means of securing co-ordination. “ Tho organisation will he much broader than that,” said Mr Savage. “ It will ho a Committee of National Security to 00-ordinatc not only the branches of defence, but organisations for all sorts of national emergency. There was a time when wo had earthquakes. We might experience epidemics, hut wo do not want to run around in the middle of crisis to find someone to deal with it. We must be able to set an organisation at work immediately in any form of crisis. We are going to look into things before they happen. Of course, if there was a declaration of war everybody would have some idea of what would happen, but apart from the consequence of war we have also to take steps to maintain the economic life of New Zealand.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 8
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184POSSILE EMERGENCIES Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 8
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