DEFENCE EXPENDITURE
MINISTER COURTS INQUIRY,
The Defence Minister referred in the House of Representatives-yesterday to a published statement to the effect that the Defence Department had under-, estimated expenditure seriously. Hedejiied that any miscalculation, had been made, and insisted that the estimate* were good estimates in 1 the light of all the information then in the possession of the Department.' Later information °V to charges' made by 'the -Imperial Government required .that .the estimates should!* increased. The figures and the facts had'been,' lie said, very fairly -and fully Presented to the House some-days P "^perfectly. true, saidlh^ Ministe'r that he was. responsible for^the- Defence expenditure,'and would be move delighte<rthan'he if the Government would serup. .'*»r. ?»«?!?" excouimission to inquire into .Defence exSinre! ; He' had .watehell it person!aU T , and he denied that there vras any preventable .waste .or «traTß»nce. .t waV probably impossible to avoid .1 ev-friva«ance-in war expenditure, biu.-he t "nteed to W that" It had been' avoidII n New Zealahd better than in-some Mh r Countries. There had been » p* Mil n f tlie Defence -accounts tor a.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 6
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179DEFENCE EXPENDITURE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 6
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