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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16628, 23 April 1928, Page 7

The extraordinary strength of a mushillustrated by one that was found in the yard of Messrs. Hollis and Brown, in London street, Lyttelton. This mushroom made its appearance through 3in. of solid asphalt, laid six years ago. For two or three days a bulge, increasing in size daily, was noticed in the asphalt. One morning it was found that the asphalt had broken away, and the head of the mushroom appeared. Although it measured only about 4in. across, the stem of the mushroom was as thick as a man's wrist, bavin" apapparently kept increasing in thickness until it was strong enough to break the asphalt. A question which presents itself is bow did the mushroom, without injury to its delicate head, push itself through the solid asphalt, a feat which must have necessitated a pressure of many hundreds of pounds? A second bulge alongside the first indicated that another mushroom was coming through. Stoneham's 30/- Jewelled Lever Watc* beatß everything at even 10/- more Guaranteed solendid ti>aeß«ep6r.—Stone hurt, .Ifflrtlto't. Oiaborw.*