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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 18 October 1923, Page 3

A yarn that 5s %pical of the Jrarmaur off the "Silent tfMrision," as the ISfew. Zealand Expeditionary ' Force -was ca'HetS, was told ■among a. group of so'l-i dier stories on a reoent- evening at Gis-1 borne <says the Pcv^rty Bay Herald).! A regi-iaent of New \2iealanders were marching into the line to. launch an attack, and passed a "point at which rations yveve* to be dumped. The spot was marked, by a. tangled heap of1 twisted "elephant iron," beams, and j shattered masonry, and have the euphonious namei of "Bankse's Farm.'*! Down the line rent the identifying message-, until it came to the ear of one big dry man front the backblocks. "Bankse's farm!" j^e. repeated."Gripes! Won't Banl?& go1 crook when Jie sees it."