THE NAVY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 65, 17 March 1903, Page 3

THE NAVY.

.+. UTILISING RESEKVES. COLONIAL ABSISTANOE AND RRBKKVS:fc>. PER TBESS ASSOCIATION. i Received 17, 0.40 a.m. London, March 16. The Naval Re.erves Committee recommends that wh'n ex r ra ebipa are commissioned, beyond the usual proportion of thoie htl'J in reserve during peace time, a p»rt of the complement would b« mace up of r eervists volunteering for a year, their emoluments 'o be equiw.leist to tho emergency, and tlius thH p<:p:r'ion of crews for active . lam vie*'for reset ve ships would not be reduced, I Th; Commit eo fuither recommend i mod fi aticu of tie restrictions as fucb a cpuri-e wou'd result in better eniolra< W of ssamen. The Committee proposes thet the mil imum shall be 61,250, and adds thit it is desirable those Colonies in a position to do (o, fhould give the Navy in war time similar assistance to that, given to the army. It suggefits that in tho tvect of colonial Laval reserves a Urge portion of the c mptemnn 1 , every ship on fcrring statims shall always desist of coloiial reserve men, but the need of a reserve of Culouial Ptokc-18 is far moro prising than tuat of a reserve of seamen. The reserves should be at tho disposal of the Admira's commanding in the wafers of ;he Pacific. Ihe Committee concludes by sta>irg tba' tha Colotiis easily by I ship* statioied in the Pacific, shou'd I I specially ba encouraged to establish reserves.