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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3663, 29 December 1920, Page 5

Thirty-seven years ago a prisoner at the Mount Cook gaol relieved the tedium of brickmaking toy neatly inscribing one brick: "In memory of J.H.C., who departed this 'gaol with. out a tear, 30th June, 1883." Lafet June, while the big kiln chimney stack was being taken down, brick by brick, another prisoner discovered the "memorial," and handed it over to the gaol officials. Other bricks from the stack have been placed on the but that been placed on the gaol office mantelpiece. J.H.C., apparently, departed and did not return, for the police records contain no reference to him after his d'scbarge in June, 1883.