DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.
POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS.
[BT TELEGRAPH- OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
WELLINGTON. Sunday. Ihe report of the Defence Expenditure Commission has been forwarded to the Governor-General. It will probably not be available for publication until next week.
One of the recommendations of the commission is expected to be the separation of the administrative branch of the Defence Department from the purely military branch. The commission he'd the view that the business side of Defence activities should be wholly under the control of a business head, leaving training, and matters pei taining thereto, to be dealt with hv expert soldiers. At present administrative duties are performed in the districts by men who are not under the control of the chief administrative officers at general headquarters. Ihe chairman of the commission, iS:r Robert Anderson, said on more than one occasion, when the commission was sitting, that soldiers were very rarely good businessmen, and that he thought they should bo relieved of responsibility for the business side of the Department. In the report there is also exported to ho referen. o to manv faults, hut the chairman, nevertheless, found much to admire in the Defence Department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16872, 10 June 1918, Page 4
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