LOST LEGION
INCIDENT IN BRITAIN CONVICT DEPORTING LAW After Japan entered the war members of Australian forestry units working in Britain founds this notice: — “Persons throwing stones in this pond will be transported to Australia.” yhey threw stones until their arms ached, but it was no go! The notice was over 100 years old, and the law was mute. But most of this “Lost Legion” is back now, after three years’ absence. Superb axemen, they dominated the competitive wood-chops organised over there by the British Ministry of plyAfter a week’s chopping their weekend relaxation was. commando training. Now they are longing to get their axes into some really decent Australian timber after so much spruce, ash, larch, Scottish pine and beech.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32310, 8 September 1943, Page 3
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121LOST LEGION Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32310, 8 September 1943, Page 3
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