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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 17

Twenty op thirty yean ago the boy* of Mount Cook School of ten.played game* with .the old solid, rubber balls not'of ten. acHsxj nowadays, end they served -for football, cricket, end Other games. Next to the school were the barracks, where stood one'of the -old cannons of the Crimean War or Indian Mutiny. Close by was a triangular stack of laid iron cannon balls, about the same sixe as the rubber ball*, and much the same in colour. One day. a couple of lads, for want of a rubber ball, secured ' t cannon hall and rolled it to ; each other across’ the playground, On one occasion-It was short-pitched and came to a stop in front of the school door. As luck would have it Mr Hardy, the master, was just leaving, and seeing the ball on the ground he remarked: «| was young myself once,” and took a firing kick at If. " The: tjro lads scooted fop their liye%'* and one of them says that when he . last saw Mr Hardy that day he was hoppi** .boot on one leg, holding hi* other foot in his hand, aUd groaning.