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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 7

Various stories have been told of soldiers' Hveß having been saved by bullets striking hard substances which have broken the force of the missiles! The Otaki Mail reports that Pte. David Drewitt, of Parnparaumn, who was very badly -wounded in the head and chest during tho fighting at Messines, undoubtedly owes his life to a steel mirror, which he was wearing in his breast pocket at tlio time •ho was wounded. The doctor who attended Pte. Drewitt at Brockenhurst says- that the mirror I certainly saved his life. As our readers | will remember, Pte. Drewitt, affcqr being for several months seriously ill in Knglnnd, was invalided home to New Zealand. i The orchards and gardens in the j Wairarapa a,vo reported to bo badly [affected withl various forms of blight,