Told in a smoking room lie competition : —“ Deafest man 1 ever knew was my grandfather ; couldn’t hear a sound. So we took him down to Woolwich, where tqey were going to test the 100 ton. Never told the old gentleman a. word, but enticed him behind a screen about ten feet off and lie never knew there was a gun near till it went off, and the. report knocked all the gunners as flat as pancakes. They found the old geutleman pleased and smiling, ‘ Dear me*’ he said, ‘that is the fist robin 1 have heard this spring. ’ A movement is on foot at Wanganui 1 to com mem ovate. ; the Coronation year by correcting the too-long , prevalent misspelling of the name Whanganui.
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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 107, 22 August 1902, Page 5
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