THE ADMIRALTY STAFF
COULD WELL BE REDUCED. SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT, rpres» Association—By Telegraph—Oopyrighl.) LONDON, January 17. (Received Jan. 18, at 0.15 a.m.) Substantial reductions in the Admiralty staff can be made without impairing the navy’s efficiency, declares the Select Committee on the Estimates. After pointing out that, while the personnel of the navy decreased from 151,000 in 1914 to 102,275, and the number of ships in commission or on the reserve, from 618 to 394, the Admiralty staff increased from 1900 to 3026. Sir Oswyn Murray, permanent secretary to the Admiralty, in reply, says that tne 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 ships of war is beyond all comparison, greater than it was in 1914.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20309, 18 January 1928, Page 7
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