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Nelson Evening Mail, 23 September 1916, Page 5

A chapter of accidents occurred in Napier the other day. At 5.30 a.m. a fire 'broke out in the main business block, and destroyed a- shop and £2OOO worth of goods. At 10.30 a.m. J. Peach, a' small storekeeper at Port Ahuriri, was thrown out of his cart, and his skull fractured. At 2.30 p!m., D. Grant, an employee of Messrs 'Barry Brothers, broke bis leg in a coal. yard. At 3.30 p.m. a married woman, laden with parcels, was passing -under'a new buildinga picture theatre—when she was struck oil the head 'with a- bucket of cement from a scaffolding, and sustained a. fracture of the skull. The new regulation regarding payment of excess war profits was. brought to bear 1 upon Mr Allen Doone on Monday before the company left Auckland by the mail steamer. His books were taken possession of by representatives of the Government, and the result was (saysi the Star) that Mr Doone was called upon to pay £3OO as excess • war profit. Some of the members of the company were also charged certain sums where' their salaries were held to be excess taxable under the same Act. Mr Boone stated to a friend that tliis was his first experience of an excess war 7 profit, and as he had to pay £75 upon coming into New Zealand he has contributed £375 to the revenue. •Last month, Mr Balfour, in addressing a delegation which had been on. a visit to the Fleet and bases, said :—"There is not a man in, this room who has' been in this delegation who has not seen a great dteal more than sc?.v Minister of the •Crown. I have been Ftia'st Lord of the Admiralty for. over 14 months, and I have not visited Rosyth since I have occupied that I have never seen munition works. T have not been over the Tyae or the Olyd'e under war conditions, and (t have not,, snnce I have been,in. office, been at the front. rYp»V. gentleman, have .seen all those .things. I wish I had been" in. your place;" ,

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