ARMS INQUIRY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1936, Page 6

ARMS INQUIRY

.. - - - ■- - Pft'ESS WELCOMES REPO'RT . (British Official Wireless.) \ RUGBY; November 2. ; ‘‘The Times’’ welcomes The report] of the Royal Commission on arms j manufacture, the background otj which is the fact that the main requirement of the nation at . present! is the completion of its defence pro-j gramma a't'JiTe >Wi j'&it' possible j speed, (and with the least possible; , waste. '■■■. ■ { ■ The “Daily Telegraph” describes? the report as eminently fair ahuj candid. ] The “Morning Post,” endorsing] the proposal, 'says the report is ‘at cdgent document, weighted with the] authority df an exceptionally strdiigf and thoroughly non-partisan commission. •] 1 The “Manchester Guardian” agrees j I 'that many Of the suggestiohs to f|-, j 'move tlie evils inse'pafable froin' private manufacture by adopting strict control by the Government are] excellent, especially that of taking? the points out of war;: but Ttf regrets] that the commission has not 'rfe-j ported against 1 private hianufacture., The “News-Chronicle” also, cypresses disappointment that the report- has not gone further, oucj waii'inly welcomes ’tfie positive vs- ! commendations, and Urges the Gov-j ernment to enact them into law at ] the earliest moment. k ll The “Daily Herald,” ,in regretting] the rejection of 'nationalisation, says; the recommendations of the comnus-j sipn are well worth having, and t should ‘be effectively acted on. They] cut deep into the existing evil. \