DEFENCE FORCES
ARMY, NAVY AND AIR. AMALGAMATION SUGGESTED. London, June 13. The report drawn up in January, 1923, by the committee on amalgamation of services common to the Navy, Army and Air Force has been issued as a Blue Book. The committee was appointed for the purpose of making definite proposals for amalgamating as far as possible common services such as intelligence, supply, transport and education of medical officers and chaplains. The report says—“We are of opinion that amalgamation of the common services would only be practicable if it formed part of a comprehensive scheme of reorganisation providing for the establishment of a Ministry to control the defence force in which the identity of the Navy, Army and Air Force would be merged. So far as we are aware such a revolutionary idea as merging has never been contemplated.” The report urges closer co-operation between the three departments on all matters of common interest, but generally it declares the amalgamation of the services above-mentioned inadvisable in the present circumstances.—Reuter.
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Southland Times, Issue 19896, 15 June 1926, Page 7
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