MUNITIONS AND SUPPLIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 4

MUNITIONS AND SUPPLIES.

— . . 1 The portfolio of Munitions and Supplies is going to prove anything hut a sinecure, says the Wellington Post. The Mimsiei (the Hon. A. M. .Myers) some weeks ago asked question.-; in the House of Representatives which indicated that lie had already given the matter song' thought. He referred cm those occasions to what hud been none in Australia and at Home in icgard to the nationalisation of men and jesonrees ; and he replied to a Post reporter that lie had cabled to both of these sources for any information may he available. Tlie tusk of obtaining complete information about, the eligible fighting manhood in the Dominion will he a heavy one, if the register which is to he compiled is to he of any. use. To justify its eciupd-;

;ition it will have to he convb! , Ted as soon as possible—speed is the thiol essential in this ease. in addition,. ; there will require to he obtained the facts relating to the number pi "men (*inj)loyed in the various industries.! how many are required to keep them going, and how many can he spared This, also, will he no light mule.talcing. There is muck information also wanted in regard to army supplies ol all sorts, so that the country mav he organised to concentrate in the direction in which we can prove ol the greatest assistance to the Krnpire in the present crisis. It seems that with) the creation ol tins portfolio will; spring up a very important and fairly: extensive Department, which will emi-j thine to develop at least till the endof the war, and the usefulness »i which mav continue atterwards.