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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

\ I'Yon Ii soldier v it!i a t.i-li' for -t.HNtii ■- lias i a!< ulatod the amount nt Mill that has heon moved in the work of ttc'iirh-tiiakiiii!. Thoro are ahout -ViO mde i of first—lino treinh-e> stretMiint! from tlii- Ninth Sea to Switzerland. .Viiil i hoi i- :ir«> fixe or s : \- liii's (if trenches upon each silk". A total of ten linos of trenches on tlio two sides wool.l civo a li'iiLih nf .VMiO miles, mid this h is j n . volved a t "*]< of e\i aval in:.: t"h e as -real :,.-, that of the I'-ai-ima. f'anal. And it h.N all Ixvn done 1 v hand lahnnr with military shovels, and much of it lu.s horn dune under fire and hy men who have to work whir, lyiei; Oil th< ir ■ ho-H