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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 1, 12 April 1919, Page 6

Japan's exports for 1918 amounted to '£196,800,000 and her imports to £166.----800.000.

, An Italian decree authorises the issue of iron and nickel coins in substitution for copper coinß.

A. New Zealander writing from Cologne in regard to the wooden nailefeudded statues in Germany says: You liave, of course, read about this novel way of rinsing money for war purposes. The charge on this one had been 10 pfennigs per nail, and the job had been completed and the statue entirely covered. I got a false impression of these statues, chiefly from illustrations, cartoons, papers, and similar things which always depicted the nails as being driven in haphazard and anyhow, making the whole statue unsightly, but in reality the nails are very carefully driven, close up to each other, and as a round-headed nail is used, and care is exercised in the driving, the effect when all the nails rust is that of .bronzej and from a short distance one could not tell that it was ■otherwise. This one that^l saw was of a war god, the full mail-clad figure resting on his sword. It was rather maseive, but the nails had not destroyed any of the outlines of the carving, and the whole thing really looked well It was erected under a masonry cupola on pillars, and though not illuminated at now, the electric light is stiU there and it can be readily conceived that it was originally a blaze of light ni, laigat time. -