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Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 47, 10 August 1907, Page 3

It may be said that it is too late now to dispute the question of the actual cost of the Exhibition to the colony, but we see no use in painting the results in too roseate hues. It would he interesting to have an exact return made of the actual cost to the various departments and the actual direct receipts. — New Plymouth Herald.

The Native Land Department has been aptly described as " the asylum of absurdity," .and, notwithstanding the fact that it has become an object of contempt and ridicule, it still pursues the even-tenor of its way, cursed by its knowledge of the meaning of but one word — " Taihoa." --± Clyde Gtuifdian.