Mount Victoria Gun
Sir, —In to-day’s “Dominion” a correspondent refers to the old gun on Mount Victoria, and states that it was fired once and afiked. This is not correct. I heard it fired many times at 12 o’clock noon bn Saturdays and as a time signal. It was fired, I think, when Cardinal Moran visited Wellington many years ago. On that occasion some one rammed lumps of rock on top of the ‘.charge” which had been put in over-night for early-morning firing. Some of the rock landed in a shed up about Majoribanks Street. The late Mr. W. R. Bock, who was an old member of D Battery, told me that he was one of the crew who helped to haul the old piece up the hill. Perhaps “haul” is not the correct term, for the process was “parbuckling.” The gun was spiked by the defence authorities. —I am, etc., H.M.C. Wellington, March 11.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 13
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155Mount Victoria Gun Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 13
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