MOTHER COUNTRY.
COMPANY'S PROFITS. 6d SHAKES BOUND TO £l4 10sReceived 9, 7.55 p.m. London, August 8. Tlie report of the Select Committee on the Swiss Cellulose Company (registered is a British Company) reveals that there baa been no supervision, that the Company has also been relieved of taxation, and finally got the State to pay the eapital expenditure. The Company secured a monopoly of cellulose acetate, the principal of the varnish for aeroplane wings, and received a contract of the value of three million. The Company's capital consisted of 160,C00 sixpenny shares. Subsequently the shareholders received 141 pound shares for each sixpenny share. The chief shareholders are Doctor Dreyfus, of Basle, Vickera Limited and the Plundenneal Trust, of Montreal. WOMEN INELIGIBLE FOR PARLIAMENT. Received August 9, 5.5 p.m. London, August 8. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar I«w said that the law officers in England. Scotland and Ireland were unanimously of opinion that women were ineligible to iecome candidates for Parliament.—Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1918, Page 5
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162MOTHER COUNTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1918, Page 5
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