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Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1741, 18 April 1916, Page 5

\\ lien war was declared, flic officers ol the N'aw thought the writing of rej"uts would cease, hut a chaplain of l!ie (hand Fleet, says in the "Westminster Gazette,” that "if wo arc not ail o( us turned into literary exports l»y the end of the war it will not be the fault of our betters. He tells the story of a certain officer in command of a AVest Coast gunboat, whose books were in arroar. Having procured a tin-lined <‘ase, he bored several tiny holes in it, and placed there' u the blank books and papers. Lastly in, placed inside a couple of Own wv West African /■ . i imu lie.-.. And alien the box arriv:i; Av*,!!i| iiii response to perempfoi ,■ demand; mere wri some small I) agmenis "I 'earlier, a r.iss of infinit-se.-,“i ,; of paper. tv iry-three h-'i roaches the sffie of »rugs, ae . ;i;e who had beer at oh in ffis p;’:;ie by devouring a hy.diur Oved with arsenical green. Tin 'nontenant was of course absolved from all blame..