WAR PROFITS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11508, 2 October 1915, Page 9

WAR PROFITS.

NIW ZEALAND'S SHARE. How much New Zealand has benefited financially from the war may never be known, but the figures would be startling. A table of the increased value ol exports a lone for n.ne months of war has been prepared by the Employers' Association, the figures being based cn a parliamentary return showing the dtlferejieo in quantity and value of the exports for the nine months ended iiay 1. 1914, and the nine months ended ->! ay 1, 1915. The 1915 quantities were reckoned at 1914 rates, and the additi< nal value received for them was then ascertained. The table shows the 1915 quantity, v-he peremtage of' huTOH.*ed value, and the aggregate increased value, as follows (the total increase being nearly two a-uJ aUK Millions):

tin. addition to the export.-, ihe extra value eollec'i rl on anicic.-- ')•' local eon.S'lmption lias been roughly iwo million:.-, sterling.) Discos ing the figures from the point of view ol the Dominion's ahilitv to help in the war. "\lr J. R- liaywardi, president of the Employers' Assoeiaiioii, teniai-ked yesterday that whether the farming community or the dealer was getting the increase he could not say, but the country was benefiting by it, and should be in a position to assist financially a great; deal more than had been the ca c e

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