The original "six pack".

[Warren]

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[Warren]

and now to double up!!!
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[Peter Laidler]

We had lines and lines of these unopened crates stood up on end at the huge Ordnance Depot at Ngaruawahia on the N-Island in NZ in the mid to late 60's but I don't remember the markings except that the serial numbers were stencilled on the outward faces so that they could be checked off. As they were being put up for disposal and being opened for probably the first time, inside the rifles were just rust encrusted heaps and the expanding rust had blown the wood and bands. Just a mass of rusting almost unidentifiable steel as they'd come over as deck cargo in the war. I always remember that they were stacked tip to toe, exactly as shown in Warrens pics.

I have a funny feeling that due to their nil value, Sgt Frank Skelly oversaw the project and they were just pushed into the tip over the road where the old 25 metre range used to be. ASM Leo Francis was the boss and a very attractive girl clerk called Susanne Munns used to come and see us to do the tidying up of the paperwork as the rifles were still accountable until her paperwork was cleared