DEATH OF SIR J. BRUNNER.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 September 1919, Page 5

DEATH OF SIR J. BRUNNER.

—— BIG BUSINESS AND LITTLE NAVY ’ MAN. { Sir John Brunner, founder with Dr Ludufig Mond of Messrs Brunncrz Mend, and Co., the largest firm of alkali IllflllUf'3Ctlll'C‘l§l‘l‘ll-tile World, died at his residence, Silverlands, Chertsey Born in Liverpool, the son of a. Swiss minister who came to England to open chemiclal firm when he met Dr. Mond, and they became partners in a business that was afterwards floated with a capiiii] of over half a. million. “Everything -that could explod exploded; everythin that could break’ broke in the first year of the business, until only our credi; was left,” he onf es sedin la. erte yras c- mf W confessed in later years. A firm believed in the application of science to business, he once declared: “Eery penny I have in the world has come from the application of commence to science.” An aggressive and advanced Liberal, he was for 2 years MLP. for Northwich, where his firnl’s largest works are. While president of the National Liberal Federation he, In 1912, called for a. demonstration by British ‘Liberals “such as will convince. the German people that we desire to live in friendship with them,” and eight months before the war asked Mr Asquith to reduce “our boasted military and naval expenditure,” and thus ‘follow ‘the good example set by Germany”iin limitingthe output of battleships.