REPAIRING THE WINDOWS.
WON DON, April 29. Among other things, the war smashed a good manly windows. The excessive profits made by the glass producers of Belgium are ult*ncting a great deal of unfavourable attention in that country. There is a threat ol special legislation in order to relieve some of the manufacturers of their recently and quickly acquired wealth. It lias boon calculated that, while each window-glass furnace cost only 500,000 francs to construct, the average profits they have been making per month for some time amount to at least 800,000. At present there are 17 or 18 of these furnaces in Franco but the erection of others is contemplated. The total Belgian output of window glass is about two million square feet, and the sales of this material in Belgium are said to have netted the producers about 15,000,000 francs per month during the present year. Considerable feeling has been aroused in France and Belgium by this profiteering out of the ravages of the war.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1920, Page 4
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167REPAIRING THE WINDOWS. Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1920, Page 4
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