DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 May 1918, Page 4

DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.

COMMISSION ADJOURNED

3** TE[_GRAPH -PKESS ASSOCIATION,

WELLINGTON, May 14. At the Defence Commission, Major Bartlett, Deputy-Director of Base Records, gave evidence on the subject of the conduct sheet, made up and given a man on discharge. Under the regulations a man had to have two and a half years' service to entitle him to a very good character, and with less service he could only get good charac-

The chairman: Do you think that fair ?

Witness: Not entirely. The chairman said the trouble was a man who went to the front got shot in a couple of months, and, coming back could only get a "good" certificate' while a man who served on a soft job tor two and a half years could get a "very good" certificate. The Commission adjourned sine die.