MILITARY ORGANISATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 6

MILITARY ORGANISATION

ITS VALUE IN PEACE In times of stress there is a comfortable feeling of confidence in rhe ability of military experts as organ isers. This was proved at Tuesday’s meeting convened by the Mayor (Mr N. G. Armstrong) to discuss means of alleviating distress likely to accrue as the result of the suspension of the No. 5 Unemployment Scheme. He said that the military had a special knowledge of organisation in these matters and he had asked Captain ID. T. Maxwell as to whether members of his staff would be available to help the cause and whether the Drill Hall could be used as a depot. Captain Maxwell replied that he had communicated with his superior officers in tho matter. The hall could be used in the meantime, but he did not know whether the staff’s service would beat the committee’s disposal. Personally, he would be glad of the opportunity to assist. Whatever else the war did, it taught the value of time-table organisation and when these matters were raised memories were recalled of cookers on the march—steaming ovens and cauldrons, drawn by horses, preparing the meals as the army moved—and of the smooth efficiency of the Quartermasters’ department that supplied the wants of the inner man at the appoint ed time and place. Mr Armstrong’s reminder of the value of the military in such a time of need as the present was not an idle boast.