/"'TROOPER HAROLD BIRCH, Westralian Contingent in South Africa. The gallant trooper who took two Kaffirs and two Germans prisoners and drove them to the headquarters of his company, as told in oux war news. Trooper Birch is a Caversham-bdrn young man, whose parents still reside there. For a number of years he served in the Peninsula Navals. " SPOILS OF SUMMEE." Our mild oeaside climate renders it possible to gather roses almost all the year, but it is very different in the gardens in Central Otago, where these roses were grown. It would be impossible to rival the blooms grown there m summer, as our illustration shows, but in winter, with snow lying inches thick, and black frost only alternating with white frost, all vegetation is utterly dormant. The mistress of the rosery has only some such souvenir as this to remind her of the departed " Spoils of Summer."

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 47

/"'TROOPER HAROLD BIRCH, Westralian Contingent in South Africa. The gallant trooper who took two Kaffirs and two Germans prisoners and drove them to the headquarters of his company, as told in oux war news. Trooper Birch is a Caversham-bdrn young man, whose parents still reside there. For a number of years he served in the Peninsula Navals.

" SPOILS OF SUMMEE." Our mild oeaside climate renders it possible to gather roses almost all the year, but it is very different in the gardens in Central Otago, where these roses were grown. It would be impossible to rival the blooms grown there m summer, as our illustration shows, but in winter, with snow lying inches thick, and black frost only alternating with white frost, all vegetation is utterly dormant. The mistress of the rosery has only some such souvenir as this to remind her of the departed " Spoils of Summer."