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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13384, 6 April 1912, Page 3

\ There aro more pleasant things for children to eat than cordite (says a Sydney paper). At the Ballarat school a boy handed round what he called ,i<?lly bars, and his benchmates ate them with avidity. After a, few minutes they were troubled like Titwillow, having a pain in their little insides, ami ihnll.v .- dozen, of them became seriously indisposed ; Then it was discovered.that the juvenile host had extracted a quantity of cordite from some cartridges ho had found. Jelly bars will not find ready takers at the Ballarat school for some little time.