Official YVar Photo. Members of the Royal Scots Fusiliers training ivith the up-to-date iveapons of today — the Bren gun and the "Tommy" gun. Even a small squad of soldiers can become a dangerous foree on the strength of its arms only.
At least half a million feet of timber can be cut from the stand of pinus insignis on the eastern slopes above the Karori reservoir. The pines, are sixty years old and are beginning to deteriorate; in a few more years they would begin to die back and become valueless: Pines ivere cut from the ivestern hillside seven or eight years ago, but already the cut areas are densely clothed With, native groivth.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 9
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114Official YVar Photo. Members of the Royal Scots Fusiliers training ivith the up-to-date iveapons of today—the Bren gun and the "Tommy" gun. Even a small squad of soldiers can become a dangerous foree on the strength of its arms only. At least half a million feet of timber can be cut from the stand of pinus insignis on the eastern slopes above the Karori reservoir. The pines, are sixty years old and are beginning to deteriorate; in a few more years they would begin to die back and become valueless: Pines ivere cut from the ivestern hillside seven or eight years ago, but already the cut areas are densely clothed With, native groivth. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 9
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