The figures relating to the profits over arncl above inWrest on. capital invested and wording expenses at Nauru J a? do^ ol5 lilB islands for the year ended 80th. June last were not~ yet available, according to Senator Millen Leader of the iederal Government! Ihe past financial year, he informed the senate, was the first year of control by the British Phosphate Commission. But satisfactory results were expected. Su»h profits could not, as nad been suggested, be earmarked and sat apart to find work for unemployed returned soldiers. The Commonwealth (xovernment had paid the sum of £1 - 483,230 for Its interest in the phosphate deposits of Nauru and Ocean Island. Particulars .of the cost of working the phosphate deposits in those islands were not yet available. The quantity of phosphates carried last year was 365,000 tons. It was coni sidered prejudicial to the interests, of I the Phosphate Commission to disclose i information as to the value of the deposits. I It is fairly generally known that severe influenza epidemics are periodic, invading the world at intervals of, roughly, 30 years. Thus there was a severe epidemic in 1890 and the following- years, in which New Zealand suffered to some extent, and 29 years later came the scourge whose marks are not yet effaced. The epidemic preceding that of the 'nineties occurred in the 'fifties, but was not very severe. Probably few reports of its having touched New Zealand are easily available, but one came to light recently in an old weather record which is now in the hands of Mr D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist. The record is from Dunedin, and was kept by Dr Burns. In October, 1857, Dr I Burns wrote that the weather was cold and the season backward. There was much sickness, colds, and shivering—influenza, accompanied with vomiting and bleeding at the nose, and a number of sudden deaths. ! The operations of the Taranaki Producers' Freezing Works Company, Ltd., during the past season are set out in the annual report, which will be presented to the annual meeting at New Plymouth on Friday, August 26. The report states: "We commenced the year with a balance in store of 23,747 boxes of butter and 43,321 , crates of cheese. Of butter there were received during the year 153,210 boxes (being an increase on the previous year of 73,233 boxes). There were shipped overseas 134,667 boxes, and 27,178 boxes were disposed of within the Dominion, leaving in store on June 30, 1921, 15,112 boxes. Of cheese I there were received during the twelve | months 121,632 crates (being a deI crease of 40,117 crates on the previous year). There were shipped overseas i 156,576 crates, and 464 crates were disposed of locally,' leaving in store lon June 30, 1921, 7913 crates'. The profit and loss account shows a credit of £2931 9s 6d. Your directors recommend that a dividend of 5 per cent, be paid on shares fully paid up on June 30, 1920, and that the balance be carried forward.''
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 August 1921, Page 4
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