SAFEGUARDS FOR SHIPPING.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 4

SAFEGUARDS FOR SHIPPING.

O one is likely to find any fault with the decision , f the C> i-.m.:-' of Inquiry set up to investigate alleged leakage? of inform .m n regarding shipping movements to hold m proceedings in camera The chairman, .Mr Justice Callan. obviously was on thru ground when lie ...<1 that while the public are entitled to know that the questions raised unbeing taken seriously, ''then 1 can bo no doubt whatever that a considerable part of this inquiry ought, in the public interest. to be in camera" An inquiry held partly in public and partly in camera b< ode hi mg dangerous, might easily have done more to mislead than to inform the community in general In any case the object to be aimed at r that • f ensuring that the highest possible standard?: < f efficiency are set m measures to safeguard ships trading to and front this country, Sop-,-.. <>f course, is just as necessary where these safeguards are concerned as in regard, for example, to the plans of the next battle to be fought by the British forces in Libya or in any other theatre of war. Of necessity, the people of the Dominion must rely upon the commission to carry out its task faithfully am! there should be every reason to hope and believe that the inquiry will serve a valuable purp« e According to the Solicitor-Genera! -Mr H H Cornish. KC>: The Government invites the <-omnm.-.:0.n to consider all the measure l : it takes for the protection of the Dominion. particularly ■..» far as the movement of ship-: concerned, to subject them to the most searching inquiry arid to take nothin;’ for gr.u ted. ami. :f are possibilities of leakages or gaps, to say I-. the eour ■■ ervi.'m m Mr Cornish sugg.-ted '.list M.n-.e of lie.- ■ -nt . that have been made ma', have : cllcc'.ed N.i.'i tccLmquv There .. h< aid. the ibihty of boasting :uid vamgl ry 11 ih< motives ths', actuated th • ?.<• who made tile atcmvnt.': These, of Course are que , t:■ be dctvrmmrt! in accord.mce with ‘lie evide:.l <■ Whs’ the public will desire ?o know :• whether in forma: tum in-; b-en pa- ■■mg ■O the v.'mch it 'hoilld have peer: J :b ’ e v. , I!ih. •:d ~;o* ,f !■.; ■- 1;...j-j-eru-d. ,->•-nirai'.ces will be demanded actio:; been ‘.men tmw-e-p .0 h.ai ng henceforth