AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS AND DEFENCE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13056, 16 March 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS AND DEFENCE.

THE COUNCIL'S RECOMMENDA-

TIONS,

(Received March 16, 0.25 a.m.) Sydney, March 15

Tha report of tho Railway and War Council makes tho following recommendations :—

That the Council should have a definite military constitution; the creation of an engineer and railway staff corps; that the proceedings of the Council be reworded, as recommendations to the Minister of Defence; the Council's duties generally to be to furnish advice on such railway matters as are referred to it by the Minister, to suggest regulations for the transportation of troops; and to. advise local military authorities on the capacity and possibilities of the railways.