WAR PROFITS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1787, 9 February 1918, Page 2

WAR PROFITS.

MR. HOLLAND, the Laliour candiclate fox’ the Wellington North seat, in a speech at Wellington on Thursday night, dealing with war profits, said: “I will tell you how the Government is winning the war. Wool was required to win the Avar; and when Sir Joseph Ward and Mr Massey went Home to win the war they joined with the avool kings and said, ‘We Avon’t let England have the avoo! unless the Government gives us 55 per cent, increase on pre-Avar prices.’ If the Avorkei’s had said, ‘We won’t let the Massey-Ward Government have our labour unless at a 55 per cent, advance, on pre-Avar rates,’ Avhat Avould have happened to them 1 ? He kneAv. He had studied the Year Books and the published and secret abstracts of statistics —did they luioav about those secret abstracts? —and he found that up to last year the Avar profits on avool had been approximately fourteen millions sterling. The Avar profits on butter had been nearly £2,(100,000; on cheese, three and three-quarter millions; on beef, seven and a-half millions; on mutton, eight millions; and" on lamb, three and three-quarter millions; and there were also the Avar profits on flax, etc.”