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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2762, 4 May 1916, Page 4

Building pernii fcs to the vauie of £S6l v.ero granted b) r Jlasterton Borough Council during thiJ month of April. Mr. John Leyd< h, of Auckland, has just received a . Ample of interesting Gallipoli relics fiiani his grandson, Warrant Officer B'■ J- Keates, of the Australian forces the Auckland "Star"). Tliev are \a Turkish slirapnel shell and a Turkii w bayonet. Tha shell, which weigh is) about 161b., fell within a few feet pi: Warrant Officer Keates, but failed ti >1 explode, and lie was able to dig it outof the ground. T construction, it is all tiost identical tvj, the British IS-pound( sr shrapnel she except that- tho time 1 rase is of brass : stead of aluminium; U'lie bayonet is truly formidable weapo'li, rather light V the'blade', and fully 1 pin- long, noi counting the hilt. So' far _as sliapo goes, it might easily 110 mistaken for tho bayonet used upon the new British short rifle. Like the isliell,_ it bears various inscriptions in .Arabic, and, in addition, the Sultan's m tomogram is inscribed on the blade. A (close examina* tion, howevw, fails to re \> cal the words "Jlado in Germany," or ? anything to that effect. A suggestion has been j made by an experienced prospector at; Petone that the' Tarawa llango be prospected for minerals of economic valuethat might lie used in tho manufacture \ of ammunition. He alleges that on arecent visit to tho ranges he discovered} ono of th* minerals at present in reaii est at th» munition works-