"SPIKED AND FORCOTTEN."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 9

"SPIKED AND FORCOTTEN."

! Sir, —Permit mo to make tion to your article oil "The Gun-ou 'tlio Hill." .-

Lioutenant Fox took no active part in the iwork, being opposed to; having; ■ tho funds of. tho battory augmented by the £'20 which was paid by 'the"Corporation for placing the-gun in position','7 Tli'o Whblo of 1 the credit for the successful'.issue 6f"'tlie' undertaking is due to Sergeant-Major Mo-' watt, It.A., then Instructor to" the Bat'tery,' and now on the staff of, the Wellington Harbour Board. Ho had solo control of the' operations, but was ably assisted by Sergts. M Oredio (later 0.C.), 10. Gell, A.'P.'Mason, and others. Under Sergeant-Major Mowatt all grades worked together, and distinctions' of rank were practically hold • inabeyancetill, on a bright Saturday " afternoon, the work was completed, and a salute' of three rounds was fired to. celebrate the; achievement. For' a few weeks tho gun was fired but an economical City Council, ap-, palled at tho cost of tho cartridges (some lOd. each), and not then having an electrical tramway service to boost the, revenuo and reduce tho city rates,, decided : to,"jfiro it only once a week, then once a::nipntl|,. and then—'-'spiked and ■ forgotten."—l am, etc., • i . ■' i • . W.'R. BOCK; . . : Late Sergt.-Major D: Battery. , ; August 18. •' ••• ■■■■•