DEFENCE EXPENDITURE COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1918, Page 5

DEFENCE EXPENDITURE COMMISSION.

iJORK WASTE DISCLOSES* f/Jj By Telegraph,—Press Association.' V jr Duncdin, March IX;* Jg Captain Stevens, group commander/!? Soutli Otago, was the first witness 15"Ai fore the Defence ExpenditiiKainn to-day. Ho gave evidenco of waifti Vj by hiring typewriting machines, gave as an illustration a payment €ls, represented by a monthly of ->Es for the hire of a machine, whto'lfij a 3ijw one could have ibcon purchase''Sal rot £7 10a or £lO. ) FURTHER EVIDENCE. JiM Dunodin, Last Night. rj At the Defence Expenditure aion, Captain Stevens said ho !$S what the chairman had Raid to Calanift l< M Maedonald, at Palmerston North, tiu|t officers giving evidence would not fcß'SiiS victimised. The chairman said that Colonel 'MdOjJ'p donald feared he might be a marked or something of that kind, this remtikM arising from a statement by a bvotMcnfil officer commanding. The commission wailjfi anxious to elicit all the available ittM-'®! mation, and it seemed very unlikely trouble of any sort would occur to "rffip man giving evidence. ' jE In reply to the chairman, Capiat, M Stevens said that before the EdwatJcdC'Spa Commission in 11)12, an v officer of the partment was called on to refute *" tack by a higher officer, and, aa a rawifc'Jl he was relegated to a position carryimiS £IOO per year less, though there rniaili suggestion that -the raan's> evidence 4 WMifS false. _ . ' i iwj" Captain Stevens expressed that the training given the TerritorMul ~M in camp could not bo reduced. raj Lieutenant Grifl'en, command paymai* 'iS ter, said the regulations did not half the necessary expenditure, and a® had to use discretion about such items fuel and hire of horses for the tional staff. Witness referred *to USB discrepancy in Uio pay of a sttlf geant nt instructional \vork, and thftji-ifft of the homo service men of the Bant# '~J, rank. Maintenance money for capitaliqpji 'j should be administered by the i*. instead of boing paid into the bank to • the credit of the officer commanding, ajxfc,' » lying idle. A Lieutenant Shelley, Assistant Proratfe J,'® Marshal, said he had represented to tlyj/. . Department that by putting a j: round the docks and repairing woiss 'fHy' HS a cost oi £l7O the guard could' m duced. ■ - <• ?. ■ i};»M