Page 8 Advertisements Column 2

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3507, 9 June 1920, Page 8

itand 724 Acres, Lnaiti E The cheapest snip in the Bay of Plenty. Don’t miss this chance of buying in a climate were snows and mud are unknown. This fine block containing 724 acre freehold is practically all heavy solid silt swamp, and at present being drained.‘ There is a good fall and the land must double its value within :1 very short time. Remember this is country when broken in will fatten a. bullock per acre. Glover and English grassed as well by simply surface sowing. The rapidly growing town of Whakatane is only four miles away, and [only two miles to the East Coast [Freezing Works and Railway Station close by_._also school, factory and sale ’yards. This block faces the main jroad and is suitable for cutting up in‘to 50 acre sections. ‘ Price only £3O per acre for quick sale. £2OOO cash down; balance arrangeci at 53 per cent. Apply quickly. % 77$ ACRES on the famous Rangita.-N iki sl.\‘:’«.n::g. This handy little farm is all in grass and crops. Four roomed house, cowshed and outbuildings. .°»ituatio‘n on main road, close to fac—tory and school. Price £56 per acre. £IOOO cash; balance easy terms. A 9 Lo 'l‘£lFl BUSY FARM AND LAND ‘AGENT. Postal Addreszs Awakeri (near Wlxakatane), via Rotorua. Telegrams: LUKE, Whakatane.

3 33%-'*," ‘~ ?f? ‘ 1; ' 3+ a.‘!AR3‘%!55/555. “-~*a‘_ ‘.*‘s;, W: : '.4‘'’w. ' . - V 3 J ’.=" % .i:3£i) Waligapers F We have just landed ex V§:.s'{.‘7“'(‘)'i‘—z§'rim"’ Hr: ver_v large shipment. of Exclusive Dssigns, which We shall sell at the OLD PRlCES——having L-ought before the recent thirty per cent. rise. 1 NOW ON VIEW IN OUR Sl-now’. ROOMS. FULL STOCKS OF PAINT SCRIM, . ETC.. ALWAYS TJARRIED. I-cl-6-3 3M3. fliéiéfiifiii, 7: DIRECT IMPORTER. MAIN STREET, TAIHAPE, ’PHONE 116. PO. BOX 60. E PUBLIG NOTICE. My Studio is now re-opened for? business as usual. In addition to the‘ usual equipment I have purchased :1’ new camera SPECIALLY ADAPTED‘ FOR TAKING CHILDREN. 8. LADELLE. PHOTOGRAPHER. STATION STREET, TAIHAPE. ~‘DAME BLONDE’ OF THE WAR. I -—-—-o—-- ; BEAUTIFUL WOMAN CHIEF or t GERMAN ‘ SPIES.

‘ The military authorities at Lille are iuvestiga.ting an extraordinary and inysterioiis affair of German espionage, the details of which Would furnish a thrilling cinema play. It is said that during ihe war the centre of German espionage was at a chateau near Antwerp, where the chief was a German. woman known only as {“i,.;i Dame Blonde,)” who is said to be th<- d:-uighfor, or niece, of a general. ’l‘ho whole affair on which the authorities have been able to obtain any iiifoi-rnation of value, came to light reC:onH_\‘. when a Frenchman of sixtyt?r:u.r, named Blanqusnrt, was art.-est-oil on :1 c.-hat-ge of having been an agent in tlie pay of the German allthoriliies. When questioned, he declared that -he never gave information to the Ger~ mans. and he went on to tell oi‘ an amazing story of the “Fair L:1(ly." He admitted having been several ltiznes to the mysterious chateau near ‘Antwerp, where, he said, all the German is-DY services were centralised, and u.-‘net-e “La Dame ißlonde’.’ was tffe big "ho-:s_” According to his story, he was faker! t-here each time in a closed automobile, his eyes being bandaged, an?! it Was only when inside the chateau tlizitthey were nncoveretl. '.l‘here were many German officers there, but the head of the whole organisation was “La Dame Bloncleg’ a ‘beautiful young woman, tall, thin, with ciwrming manners. and with a well-W’-H1 purse. T’;:9n he told the investigating Ollicer. that on his first day at the chateau he was taken into the luxuriouslyf'~“'«’”l*‘hEfT Private oifice of the Ill'y’Sl(‘-I” ions woman. Before her was -a. Bag f“‘~l 0? gold. She had it emptied upon the czu-pet inorder to impress the visiting spy, The authorities are, indeed, very suspicious about his curious story. But, on the other hand, investigations made h:: the military police at Grenoble, in the cases of several «ieserters from the El74‘:-‘T7531 I‘-F7-715’ now in pl‘lson cliarged ‘~‘4'7l‘-'-"- SP!/151.‘; FOUL‘ GBl‘marly, would seem to confirm. it.