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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 218, 29 August 1927, Page 7

A few years since a New Plymouth resident had with much toil and tribulation cross-cut and split two or three large macrocarpo trees (writes M.A.T. in the Auckland “Star”). He carted some home, and the rest lav in lovely piles ready for further carting. He returned to the scene of his labours, and.found that some nefarious person hud carted much of what was left, leaving merely half a ton. The hard worker bored a hole in a log. filled !i with blasting nowder. nnd plugged it with day Next day the pill was gone. An explosion that blew the mantelpiece to bits in the house of a pious Taranaki resident left no doubt ns to the destination of that log. Happily the mmis one is still spared to te:". h Ill's fellow men to walls the h ir ;l i,>l’t and m>rrT,s