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Taihape Daily Times, 16 October 1917, Page 5

Mr W. Prime, Ohutu offers a reward for a lost motor car hood cover. Mrs (Dr.) Boyd has received donations to the Nurses' Memorial Fund from Mr Ledward, Mataroa, £5, and Mrs A. K. Overton, Pukeokahu, £2 2f. The Eundschau announces that the Kaiser is making a collection of all the "war books published in or out of Germany. He was already 10,000 volumes. A special section of this war library includes rtfte photographs of himself taken at the front. They numbered 11,000 after five months of war. Lord Henry Bentinck, speaking at Hampstcad Garden Suburb, said that 26 years ago West Africa exported one bag of cocoa value £4. The export now was valued at £4,000,000. Nigeria sent out palm oil and kernels to the amount of 240,000 tons, value £8,000,000. Germany's colonial export of palm oil averaged lib. per acre, ours 141 b. an acre, an advantage due to the humanitarian and statesmanlike system of organising and treating native labour.