ADMIRALTY STAFF
REASON FOR INCREASE
DUTIES MORE COMPLICATED. SECRET ARiY’S JUST! FJCATION. BY CABLE —TRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRi...H'i LONDON, Jan. 17. Substantial reductions in the Admiralty staff tan be made without impairing tlie navy’s efficiency, declares the select committee on the Estimates. WluLe the personnel of the Navy had decreased from 151,000 in 1914 to 102,275, and the .number of ships in commission or in reserve from 618 to 394, the Admiralty staff had increased, from 1900 to. 3026. .
Sir Oswyn Murray, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty, in reply, says that the Navy, though smaller, is very much more complicated. The labour entailed in making a contented navy and by the elaboration of the equipment of modern shijxs of war is bevond all comparison greater tlian in 1914.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 7
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