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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 10

Sir Joseph Ward made a statement in the House of R«presenatives yesterday about the taxation of companies with headquarters in England operating in New Zealand. He denied that these companies were escaping income tax. Very searching inquiries were made by the Taxing Department, and the companies had to pay taxes on nil their profits, with the exception of that on which they eliad paid income tax in England. The Remuera school teaohers, in a telegram to Mr. J. S. Dickson, M.P., make an emphatic protest against thd exemption of school teachers from' miliIniT service. They regard exemption as unfair to those who are serving, as slighting the memory of those who have fallen, and as unworthy of those who are training tho youth of this country in the highest ideals of patriotism and civic duly.

An inquest was held yesterday .afternoon by Mr. W. Gt. Kiddell, S.M., touching the* death of William Salter, 50 years of ase, who fell through the glass roof of a pantry at the Trccadero private Hotel- from his bedroom on the Hiird floor, end died at tho Hospital on Wednesday. Salter recently came from Dunedin, and his mother resides at 39 Driver Street, St. Kilda. After hearing the evidence the Coroner returned a verdict that death was duo to shock from injuries accidentally received by falling from a window in the Trocadero Hotel. The deceased fell a distanco of about 50 feet. Tho N.Z. Natives' Association Band will play at Lyull Bay to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock.

A Center message of September 15 to th'o South African papers states thai Mr. Churchill, Minister of Munitions, has ordered tho building of a thousand nouses at Barrow. T>iis drastic step has beeu brought about by revelations of the scandalous conditions of overcrowding -which have, prevailed at this munitions centra for 6oms time. There have been cases where births and deaths havo occurred in a common family room, and in one instance a family actually ate meals from, a table on -which lay a corpse.