MR. VICTORIA'S BIG GUN.
A REMINISCENCE
Mr W. H. Bowater, of Sandon, writes us as follows: —"Sir, iu reading your paper of Tuesday I noticed you refered to the big gun on Mount Victoria, Wellington. It is about 38 years since I had the honour of helping to place the gun on Mount Victoria. Perhaps you did not know who placed the gun on the hill top. It was done by the' old members of the D Battery Artillery, and I can say it was not a very easy task, but the old members of the D Battery Artillery Volunteers could uot be beat in their day. lam sure they, with me, will be quite pleased with your reference to the subject as to wheu it was made. Not only that, but it brings old times back again." It is a real pleasure to publish the above fact from one of the "old boys,” and old Wellingtonions remember with pride, the sterling old members of the D Battery, whose ranks have been thinned by “ Father Time. 1 ”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1067, 22 February 1913, Page 3
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177MR. VICTORIA'S BIG GUN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1067, 22 February 1913, Page 3
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