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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1915, Page 2

The Chancellors decision to take 50 per cent, of war profits is one of the most interesting and most widely approved features of the British Budget. It is understood that the calculation of such profits will be carefully"made, and with due regard to the increased responsibility of manufacturers, but even so a return just issued in respect of certain businesses suggests the enormous financial possibilities of war work. Spiller and Bakers, flour millers, hail an average profit, during the three years previous to the war, of £140,000. Their profit last year was £.307.000. The Powell Dufi'rvii Colliery Company, with £21)2,000 as its average profit, last year totalled a result for one year of £422,000. Lambert's, coal exporters, almost doubled their returns last year with a. profit of £142,000, while other (inns in the coal business, with a year's profit varying from £IOI,OOO to '£21!),500, in all eases leaped to those results in the year of war from totals that were tens of thousands of pounds below them. Wonrds, poisoned by the deadly gwsscs used in the bombs of the belligerents in Kurope. have caused the greatest mortality in the presi Merrill Foote. i land, who has r, according to Dr. iard Hill, r,ong Isicd home to New Dr. Foote, in the thrives and spreads rapidly. An hour or so after being wounded it may be necessary to amputate the wounded fnan's leg at the ankle to prevent the deadly bacillus from making headway. Death has frequently been due to the spread of the bacillus, and not to the wound itself. I saw one man who had been shot in the lis liver showed the presence of gas bacillus. An incision was made in the organ and the liver washed with sodium hypociloride, The man recovsred,"