The Canterbury Jockey Club's New Zealand Cup Meeting at Christchurch.

Otago Witness, Issue 3270, 15 November 1916, Page 30 (Supplement)

The Canterbury Jockey Club's New Zealand Cup Meeting at Christchurch.

Photo by Central News,

BY FRENCH AIRMEN. The aviators of France are demons of the air, and seldom a day passes without some rreat event being recorded to their credit. General Joffre's appreciation was shown during an inspection of the enemy aircraft brought down, when he congratulated the brave men responsible.

An official Headquarters despatch of September 5 stated: "After severe fighting, the whole of the enemy's strong system of defence on a front of 1000 yards in and around Falfemont has fallen into our hands"; and later on the same day: "In spite of heavy hostile artillery-fire end indifferent weather conditions, our troops are still pushing forward and are in possession of all the ground between Falfemont Farm and Leuze Wood, and between that wood and the outskirts of Ginchy." The above drawing shows the taking of Falfemont Farm, the rectangular bit of ground (formerly the farmyard) in the middle with only a few tree-stumps standing. No farm, buildings were left, only a heap of earth and bricks seen at the right-hand side of the site. On the extreme left of the drawing in the middle distance is a corner of "W'tdge Wood, and then from left to right, in the middle distance and foreground, may be noted —-men carrying stretchers, British infantry advancing along a white chalk trench, wounded returning, British troops entering the left-hand corner of the farm, German 5.9 shells bursting, and (to the right of and beyond the farm) Germans in retreat. In the background, from left to right, we see a "orner of Guillemont (on the extreme left), Ginchy (in the distance further to the right), shrapnel bursting, Leuze Wood, with 9.2 shell bursting in, front of it, Bouleaux Wood (the right-hand end of the clump of trees), and, on the extreme right, the church of Morval.—From Illustrated London News.

Those in the foreground are Sir Thos. MacKonzie, Colonel Brown, D.S.O. (in charge of camp). General Birdwood. and Private Allen Findlay, N.Z.M’.C. (Westport).

The aibove is a photograph of a large lemon grown under glass by Mr Robert Somervillo at the mouth of Lansey's Pass, between Xaseby and Oamaru. It is of the American Wonder variety, weighs 18-loz, and is l.'Um in circumference near the top.

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