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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 252, 16 July 1915, Page 5

Professor A. P. W. Thomas, .who has just returned to Auckland from England, remarked that if New Zealand paid the same proportion of the cost of the war as Britain, having regard to population, the Dominion's annual expenditure would be, not £4,000,000, but something like £27,000,006. It is generally recognised In England/ * he said, “that there was too much optimism at the beginning of the war; nobody realised the extest of the proparatons made by the Gemanu. Thsre is not the slghtest despondency; there is the maple feeling that we must win through whatever it may oo«t. The eoDstnuytioai of artillery ,is going on at a.-splom did pace, end it Is believed that | powerful guns than those possessed, py * the being madr>/'