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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 25 August 1915, Page 5

It is r.ot often the interest of digging the flower garden in New Zealand is augmented by the discovery of a cannon ball (states the Akafoa Mail). Th'is. however, was the fortune of Constable "Boyle, of Akaroa, the other day. The cannon ball is a 24-pounder, and it is almost certainly one from the French magazine, which, about the year IS4O, was situated close by on the site of the Aharon Courthouse. The respirators served out to the Belgian Army aTe much smaller and neater than ours, consisting merely of" 10 thicknesses of gauae, eight of therowhitc and medicated and the outer layers pale khaki. The colour ig>sensible, but the double par of tapes strikes one ss an awkward means of attachment. Thv whole is contaisod.Ja a ?rel!*BMuffr waterproof bag,